My name is Meggan Anderson. I first heard about the story of Frank Stites when I was first cast in Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights in 2014. I have performed in that show every year since (except the plauge year).
The story of Frank Stites is known to the performers of Terror Tram; the place on the backlot where the giggling was first heard (believed to be Stites). Stites crashed his aeroplane over the present-day Sign Shop on the Universal backlot. The story of his death is told to the cast every Halloween by our Creative Director, John Murdy, who heard the first giggling. Some people have said to have seen a figure walking about the Universal Backlot wearing, "old aviator clothes."
Every year Terror Tram erects a memorial to Stites, out of the cockpit of the Crashed Plane set from War of the Worlds (2005, Universal). Every year on wrap night of Halloween Horror Nights, the memorial to Stites disappears, and is found alive again, to be walking through Terror Tram, leading all of the scareactors.
The ghost of Frank Stites, leading the scareactors of Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights; an annual Terror Tram wrap-night tradition.
I am always looking to add more data to this website. The majority of this information was from Ancestry, the Los Angeles Public Library, Long Beach Public Library, the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institue, UCLA, and my own personal records.
If you have any links that maybe of interest, even if you're not sure, send it my way! Please no links behind paywalls.
MEGGAN AT MEGGANANDERSON DOT COM = my email
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