While he was putting out food for his shindig, Oman says he heard a loud, persistent knocking at his front door. During his housewarming party, a number of unexplainable and very creepy things occurred. Things got weird as soon as he settled in. Oman moved into his nearby property eight years after that demolition, in 2002. Even the street address was changed from 10050 to 10066 Cielo Drive in the hope of erasing the lot’s brutal history. The original property, rented by director Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon in the year prior to her death, was demolished in 1994 and a new home built in it’s place. But the house at 10050 Cielo Drive, where the Manson Family murders were committed, had been torn down long before Oman moved next door. No doubt the fact that it was in spitting distance from the site of one of the most notorious and brutal mass murders in America’s history didn’t help. Heavy footsteps thudded across the floor boards in empty rooms. Cold air would dance upon the back of their necks on warm days. The “haunting” at Oman’s property began immediately during construction, he says, with workers claiming they’d heard voices when no one was there. He may have got a bargain but he also got more than he bargained for. Oman hoped to build his dream home on the land, and felt he had gotten a bargain when he was only charged $40,000 USD ($53,000 AUD) for what appeared to be an idyllic plot in a prime location not far from ritzy Beverly Hills. More specifically, he believes the victims of the Manson family are haunting his home.Īlmost twenty years ago, the Los Angeles private investigator bought a vacant lot in Benedict Canyon, California, just 45 metres from 10050 Cielo Drive.Ĭielo Drive is where on August 9, 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four others, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring and Steven Parent, lost their lives at the hands of a deranged cult led by Charles Manson. The gunshots killed Parent, and Watson left him lying on the ground as the members made their way inside the home.David Oman believes in ghosts. Watson stabbed Parent before shooting him several times with a 22-caliber revolver. Watson instructed the other members to hide in the bushes as he stepped out to stop Stephen Parent, a man visiting the property caretaker, who happened to be driving by at the wrong time. Watson climbed a telephone pole and cut the wires to ensure no one in the home would be able to call for help. The family members, identified as Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Tex Watson, scaled an embankment by the fence of the upscale home, and snuck in through the back area of the house. Tate was 9 months pregnant at the time, and was hosting a get together with friends at the Los Angeles home, located at 10050 Cielo Drive. Although it’s been over 40 years since the grotesque incident happened, the memory of the victims still linger in the hearts of many, and the people responsible for taking their lives will likely forever be remembered as vicious monsters.Īccording to court documents, on August 8-9, 1969, four members of the hippie cult known as the “Manson Family” broke into the former home of film director, Roman Polanski, and his wife, Sharon Tate. The Cielo Drive murders, also known as the “Manson Family Murders,” were some of the most notorious and shocking killings to have ever occurred.