You Boils and Ghouls always asks if you can see a house treatment…well I’m gonna give you the introduction to it so you get the context for this original house. It starts like this…
“The Deville Family Funeral Home has always had its secrets…”
“Founded in the early 1920’s by infamous hotel impresario Maximilian Deville, The Deville Family Funeral Home was the first full-service facility of its kind in Los Angeles County. As the business grew over the ensuing decades, the complex expanded to include a fully functioning morgue, embalming rooms, crematorium, mausoleum and cemetery, all housed within its sprawling grounds.”
“But almost from its inception, “The Deville” was embroiled in scandal! Rumours of missing bodies, improper cremations, organ trafficking and other illicit activities dogged the family business for years! After numerous investigations, legal actions and criminal prosecutions, the facility finally closed its doors in the late 1970’s, right after the mysterious disappearance of its last director Ambrose Deville!"
"Saddled with a mountain of civil litigation and a contested will, the descendants squabbled in court for decades as the shuttered building slowly fell into decay. Abandoned buildings are often the focus of ghost stories and urban legends and “The Deville” was no exception. Amateur sleuths continued to propagate dark tales of what took place behind the imposing stone facade of the building, fuelled by strange new discoveries!"
"Shortly before his disappearance, Ambrose Deville had tried, unsuccessfully, to patent a new drug called “Ambrotox,” which we claimed could restore life like features to the deceased without the laborious cost of embalming. Some even claimed to have seen Ambrose, entering the supposedly abandoned faciliity late at night, while others reported disturbing sounds and eerie lights coming from within the shuttered structure."
“It seems that even after its death, the legend of The Deville Family Funeral Home continues to haunt the living.”