Vlogs are trendy, aspirational, and tend to be lifestyle goals AF. Not the Creepy & Kooky Cali Vlog! A loose parody of vlogs while being sincere in the content we tackle, Creepy and Kooky goes around to weird, morbid, or Hollywood landmarks each episode. Most episodes take place in a cemetery searching for famous graves, where Lauren-Blair Donovan and a special guest discuss death, how people want to be remembered, and other related “morbid” topics while often getting lost in cemeteries. Other episodes go to non-aspirational places that too cool for school influencers would never venture to, like a flea market or the Brady Bunch House. California has some weird, morbid, and interesting places and Creepy & Kooky is a way to explore all that’s in our backyards while being silly about it.

This series is coming to an end in the fall of 2023, but a) check out all past videos below and b) feel free to follow the show’s TikTok as I will probably keep talking about cemeteries and what I learned on there! Check out all of the links in order of appearance as well as some photo collages below!

Episode Links:

#1 Hollywood Forever with Elizabeth McIrvin. We visit the graves of Judy Garland, Estelle Getty, Mel Blanc, Chris Cornell, Cecil Demille, Hattie McDaniel, Johnny Ramone, Mickey Rooney, Toto, and Anton Yelchin. General discussions about life, death, energy, why dead people aren’t inherently “creepy”, and if it’s even ethical to do burials the way we do are addressed.

#2 Rose Bowl Flea Market with Jen Curcio. Ah, the early days of this vlog, Some experimenting was done in the name of not just having the series be about cemeteries. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn’t, but either or this ended up being a cemetery series at the end of the day. Regardless, we had fun at the Rose Bowl Flea market and hopefully you’ll have fun watching the episode.

#3 Westwood Memorial Park with Lacy Hornick. We visit the graves of Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Jackie Collins, Tim Conway, Rodney Dangerfield, Jason Davis, Kirk Douglas, Dominique Dunn, Peter Falk, Farrah Fawcett, Merry Griffin, Hugh Hefner, Marilyn Monroe, Florence Henderson, Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathaeu, Heather O’Rouke, and Natalie Wood. General chats about life and death occur, and for only time throughout the series I somewhat speak ill of the dead in front of their grave because Marilyn Monroe deserved better than to spend eternity next to Hugh Hefner.

#4 Hillside Memorial Park with Roz Stanley. We visit the graves of DJ AM, Jack Benny, Friz Freling, Sherwood Schwartz, Aaron Spelling, and very possibly Larry King’s very recent grave (as of the timing of filming). We discuss general death plans (burial vs cremation), chat a little about grief from both having lost our dads, and discuss not wanting to lose to your demons.

#5 Holy Cross Cemetery with Clark Canez. We find the graves of John Candy, Bing Crosby, Darby Crash, Bela Lugosi, and Sharon Tate. This was something of a defining episode of the series as we were almost asked to leave until security realized we were filming famous graves. Having your grave on the Internet is a very new phenomenon and the ethics around it are murky. The stuff Clark and I debated got talked about for the rest of the series, so definitely a can’t miss episode!

#6 Mount Sinai Memorial Park with Cozi Orlen. We find the grave of Cass Elliot…and that’s it! We eventually return in a future episode and find more but boy was this a disaster of a day. Thankfully Cozi Orlen is genuinely hilarious and the footage was too fun to not scrap. This episode is a perfect mixture of silliness paired with the seriousness that life and death is about. Even with only one grave found I cannot recommend this episode enough.

#7 Pacific View Cemetery with Greenberry Lucas. With the artist formerly known as Kristen (as I call her in the video but she is now going by a different name) we see the graves of John Wayne, Kevin Dubrow, and (probably not) Kobe and Gianna Bryant. This is a fun episode where discuss if signs and spirit guides are real and we get a little silly about death, but still respect the gravity of its nature.

#8 Forest Lawn Glendale with Kati O’Hearn. In this episode we find the graves of Elizabeth Taylor, Walt Disney, Natalie Cole, Larry Fine, Dorothy Dandridge, Clara Bow, Gracie Allen, and George Burns. This is a bit of a kooky episode because many sections were not available to us and it was miserably hot so we filmed a lot in the car- including discussing some graves that were off limits to film as per a security guard. That said, this is a fun episode because Kati was a wildly entertaining guest, full of charisma, humor, and insight about death and loss.

#9 The Brady Bunch House with Roz Stanley. As I mentioned, I tried a few things before landing on this series being more or less strictly a cemetery series. Return guest and fellow Brady Bunch super fan Roz Stanley joins me for an episode I do not regret, despite that it’s very different than the tone of most of the series!

#10 Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills with Jen Curcio. In this episode we find the graves of John Ritter, Stan Laurel, Liberace, and Betty Davis. There’s a ton of famous internments here, but this was during a heat wave in the Valley so we bailed kind of early. Don’t worry…we return (twice)!

#11 Inglewood Cemetery with Daniel Kuhne. In this episode we find the graves of Ray Charles, Etta James, William “Buckwheat” Thomas, and Johnnie Cochran (although I have since found out we found his father’s grave…whoops). Inglewood is an underrated gem of a cemetery and Daniel made for very fun commentary, being he’s my first (and only?) foreigner to be on the series so his perspective on death and loss was interesting being that he isn’t American.

#12 King’s Hawaiian Bakery and Restaurant with Storm Lorraine. Again y’all, I wanted this series to be silly, ironic, and gothic in the beginning (but not necessarily all at once). The silly locations didn’t stick, but this was a fun excuse to check out the most random (and delicious) restaurant in Southern California. We better explain why we chose to go there in the episode too! So if you need a break from all of the death, this is a nice pallet cleanser.

#13 Return to Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills with Jen Curcio. In this episode we find Brittany Murphy, Ronnie James Dio, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Naya Rivera, Sandra Dee, Lemmy Kilmister, and Rodney King. Lots of death talk per usual, but when you get two eastern Pennsylvania girls together lots of PA things will be brought up too! All death is sad, but there were some extra sad and untimely deaths here so buckle up for some appropriate heaviness.

#14 City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Lawn Cemetery with Lacy Hornick. In this episode we find the graves of Sally Ride, Audra Lindley, E.C. Segar, and Harvey Korman. We also GO INTO IT on this episode, a la should you touch dead bodies to say goodbye or nah? There’s also a wildly depressing but all too real epitaph one of these internments have. Plus how wild is it that Sally Ride his her sexuality until her death? A lot to unpack in this episode!

#15 Return to Hollywood Forever with Clark Canez. In this episode we find the graves of Burt Reynolds, Dee Dee Ramone, revisit Judy Garland, David L. Lander, and Rudolph Valentino. Very in depth talks about a (lack of) belief regarding the afterlife and Clark shares what it’s like to work in property management and have to notify family members that a resident died. Very jam packed and fun episode!

#16 Return to Hillside Memorial Park with Emma Lieberman. In this return episode we find the graves of Leonard Nimoy, Jerry Weintraub, Peggy Lipton, and Nell Carter. We also return to the graves of Jack Benny, Aaron Spelling, and what I believe to be Larry King’s grave. Emma also brings the Jewish perspective to our discussion on death and grief and other parts of Judaism for the living. I also discuss my maybe (likely) Jewish heritage on my mom’s side. Plus tons of interesting talks come from this topic and more.

#17 Home of Peace. I’m sorry to inform you guys that this is now going to be considered a lost episode. For reasons, YouTube took it down. And for other reasons, I will not be re-editing the episode. I may return to film a new episode before officially ending the series. I’m sorry for this missing episode and I apologize that I will not be elaborating on the nature of its take down further. Thank you so much in advance for not asking any further questions.

Top Ten Cemeteries So Far! A bonus episode where I rank all of the cemeteries I had been to up until that point. I add some insight that may not be found in past episodes.

Animation Graves. A bonus episode. All of the graves in animation that I visited in my first dozen or so videos all in one place in this video. Perfect episode if you’re more into the celebrity graves than the death chats.

Is It Okay to Film Non-Famous Graves? Another bonus episode. The opposite of the above episode where we ONLY chat about death, and in this case there’s a montage of the responses people gave when I asked if it’s okay to film non-famous graves after what happened in Holy Cross.

Graves of Television Stars. Another remixed bonus episode featuring the graves of famous television stars in one mash-up episode.

#18 Eden Park with Samantha Jane. In this episode we find the graves of Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce. Samantha Jane added so much candor, humor, and wisdom to this episode being that she’s both a comedian and had recently gone through the loss of her beloved mother. Being that we’re at Lenny Bruce’s grave we talk a lot about censorship in comedy, which neither of us are super for despite that we’re liberal and not the jerks in comedy who claim “we’re just saying what everyone’s thinking.” This is definitely one of the more dynamic episodes!

Comedians Talking About Life After Death. Another montage episode were all of the different thoughts about life after death talks featuring the wonderful comedians who had interesting thoughts on the topic itself!

Graves of Famous Musicians. Another montage bonus episode but this time with all of the famous musicians we had found on the series before the point of editing and releasing this video.

#19 Abandoned Zoo at Griffith Park with Cozi Orlen. The final non-cemetery episode, and yet the most on brand out of the rogue episodes because boy is this place creepy! Cozi helps me explore the ever depressing abandoned zoo and we have quite the humorous time doing so.

#20 Return AGAIN to Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills with Jen Curcio. In the final (maybe? I’m still debating returning for a fourth before closing the series but given how hard it was to find the remaining graves the first three times I can’t say I’m psyched to try…) we find the graves of Melvin Franklin, Andy Gibb, Walter Lantz, Penny Marshall, Garry Marshall, Paul Walker, and Judith Barsi. Plus a maybe ghost helps us find Andy Gibb- kidding…kind of.

#21 Return to Westwood Memorial with Lacy Hornick. In another probable final episode at this cemetery (maybe) we find the graves of Don Knots, Dorothy Stratton, Robert Stack, Doris Roberts, Jim Backus, Carl Wilson, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Janet Leigh, and Bob Crane. We also return to the graves with some updates we didn’t know the first time around of Truman Capote and Joanne Carson’s grave, Ray Bradbury, Farrah Fawcett, and Rodney Dangerfield. Plus we find some graves for sale, discuss some of the rumored unmarked graves in Westwood (Frank Zappa and Roy Orbinson), and have silly fun. Sorry for the weed whackers in advance!

Buried, Cremated, or Green? Another bonus episode with the best of answers to the title question that the comedians shared in past episodes.

#22 Return (Again!) to Hollywood Forever with Samantha Jane. In this episode we visit the graves of Jayne Mansfield, Fay Wray, Anne Heche (we think), and Rust shooting victim Halyna Hutchins. We return to the graves of Mickey Rooney, Chris Cornell, Dee Dee Ramone, Judy Garland, and Mel Blanc. Samantha is also something of a “local” at Hollywood Forever and shows us many secret nooks and very fascinating graves.

#23 Return to Mount Sinai with Cozi Orlen. Cozi and I face our Everest of cemeteries and go back for another attempt at finding more than one grave here. We succeed in finding the graves of Bob Saget, Don Rickles, and Iwao Takamotto. We also plan a double funeral (save the date even though it’s TBA) and I discuss why CPTSD made me take a lot of intermittent breaks from filming this very series.

#24 Return (Again) to Hillside Memorial Park with Kurt Deion. For the first time ever, I have a non show business friend on the show! Kurt is a historian, author, and CSPAN guest who joined me for the next two episodes (along with his lovely dad, Paul). In this episode we find the graves of Al Jolson, Moe Howard, Larry King (Find a Grave seems to believe we did in fact find THE Larry King’s grave in the earlier episodes here), Stan Winston, Vic Morrow, Julius J & Phillip Epstein, Dinah Shore, and Hank Greenberg. Kurt brings some much needed historical perspective to this series.

#25 Return to Holy Cross Cemetery with Kurt Deion. Kurt and Paul join us again for what ended up being a mini episode due to time constraints. We find a few new graves not included in the first Holy Cross episode and we return to a few from the first episode: Ray Bolger, Fred MacMurray, John Candy, Jimmy Durante, Rita Hayworth, Bela Lugosi, Jackie Coogan, and Loretta Young. Also security ignored the selfie stick and dog this time around…which is good but why did we have to be hassled the first time if they don’t always care?

#26 Valhalla Memorial Park with Jordan Kurtzman. In this episode we find the graves of Oliver Hardy and Ken Weatherwax. There was a LOT going on at the cemetery when filming - including but not limited to a fairy tale like horse drawn carriage funeral procession - making it hard to film in a respectful way so a few internments were missed. But we discuss the afterlife a bit and marvel at the cemetery’s aviation theming. I also discuss part of my decision to start wrapping up the series as this was the first episode I filmed knowing I was going to be ending the series..

#27 Valley Oaks Memorial Park with Brian O’Hara. In this episode we find the graves of Karen Carpenter, Ron Goldman, Jack Kirby, and Artie Shaw. While I’ve had a lot of half orphans on the show, Brian is my first fellow full orphaned guest so we share perspective on why losing both parents is different than other loses and how that brings out your inner child. Plus we find some other cool graves and talk about how much life has been changing the past 20-30 years in relationship to some of these notable internments.

#28 Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary with Winston Carter. COMING AUGUST 28, 2023

#29 Calvery Cemetery and Mortuary with the Cemetery Seeker from Instagram. (FILMING NEXT AND WILL BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2023.

COMING UP: I’m still debating which cemeteries to return to and which ones are super worth going to for the first time. I’ve only missed a few local ones and will be going to them for sure, however there’s a few more a little outside of Los Angeles that I may go to depending on both my and any hypothetical guest’s availability/schedule. But there’s a handful if not two handfuls of episodes left so please subscribe so you do not miss out!