Bela Lugosi's mirror

A mirror in Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum that Bagans says hung in a house once lived in by Bela Lugosi and later by Frank Saletri. Skeptical Inquirer reports that Saletri's body was found in his master bedroom in 1982.

Zak Bagans keeps the mirror in The Haunted Museum. He told Mental Floss it is documented that Bela Lugosi's former house was later Frank Saletri's home, and that the mirror hung on its wall there. Bagans said Saletri's niece, Cindy, believed the mirror took in some bad energy from his murder, and he connected it to the practice of scrying. Bagans examined the mirror in an episode of Deadly Possessions.

Skeptical Inquirer reports that Saletri's body was found in his master bedroom on 12 July 1982, bound and shot once in the back of his head. Many reports called it an execution-style killing. The murder has never been solved.

Kenny Biddle questioned the Lugosi link in Skeptical Inquirer in 2019. He checked the house's address against BelaLugosi.com, which lists 27 homes Lugosi lived in, covering 1921 to his death in 1956, and found the house missing from that list. Wikipedia notes that the mirror's provenance has been called dubious. Visitors to the museum sign waivers that protect it against claims from spiritual or paranormal encounters.