Christopher Meloni Buys Famous (Maybe Haunted) TV Home

Christopher Meloni, Hollywood hot stuff best known for playing Detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU, is Tinseltown’s newest homeowner. Many happy returns, Chris! I’m always interested in a good “celeb buys/sells/rents/lists a home” story, but this one is particularly fascinating… thanks to a supernatural element, as well as a particularly notable connection to the Golden Age of classic TV.

Looks normal from the outside, but who knows what supernatural mysteries lie within?

Meloni just bought the “Ozzie and Harriet house,” located in Western Hollywood. The Colonial-Revival style home was not only the real-life residence of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, but it was used for exterior footage on their eponymous television show. The two-story, ten-room home was first built in 1916, and features five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Later in its life, it was also used for exterior shots of character Ari Gold’s home on the HBO hit Entourage. As per the listing, the home contains “a wood-paneled screening room, a garage that has been converted to production offices, a gym, 3 fireplaces, numerous outdoor entertaining areas, parking for multiple cars & a bright sunny pool.”

The most compelling feature of the house, though, is the host of ghosts said to inhabit it. Since the Nelsons left, all the home’s owners have reported strings of unexplainable phenomenon, including phantom children playing in the front yard, doors opening and closing on their own, the sound of footsteps, and a model train stopping and starting itself in the rec room. A female guest was reportedly also fondled by an unseen entity while lying in bed one night.

If there’s anyone equipped to play Ghostbusters in his new home, it’s Detective Stabler, though. I mean, have you seen SVU? The guy is tough. Meloni scooped the recently-renovated home up for $5.25 million, a good chunk higher than the listed asking price of $4,995,500.