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THE DETROI T J EWISH NE WS

BY ELEABETH APPLEBAUM
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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(Above)
Sarah Bernhardt: Is
she still singing at
the Grand Opera
House?

(Right)
Harry Houdini:
Magically
appearing in New
Yolk and L.A.

ord had it the Sebring home was
jinxed. Sharon Tate would come to be-
lieve it.
The 23-year-old actress was close
friends with Hollywood hair stylist Jay Se-
bring, whose clients included Frank Sinatra
and Paul Newman. When Sebring went out of town
one evening in 1966, Sharon went to stay at his home
on Easton Drive in Los Angeles.
Late that night, Sharon saw a "creepy little man"
enter her bedroom. He walked around, as though
looking for something.
Sharon grabbed her robe and ran downstairs.
Halfway down, she stopped. At the base of the steps
was a figure whose throat had been cut.
Some say Sharon, killed in 1969 by followers of
Charles Manson, was seeing her own future that
night. And her guide — the creepy little man — was
a Jewish ghost named Paul Bern.
Judaism puts no credence in ghosts, spirits or oth-
erworldly beings — yet the vast majority of Ameri-
cans believe in them.
According to a 1990 Gallup poll, 93 percent of all
Americans think ghosts (or other paranormal phe-