Picnic Table 29: Griffith Park’s Strangest Ghost Story

Deep inside Los Angeles’ Griffith Park sits a picnic table crushed beneath a fallen tree.According to the legend, Picnic Table 29 is where a young couple named Rand and Nancy died on Halloween night in 1976.View The Full Case File Articlehttps://thestatefiles.com/picnic-table-29-the-griffith-park/And supposedly... they never left.Over the years, the story grew stranger.A city worker terrified by voices near the tree.A supervisor who allegedly died trying to remove it.A park ranger confronted by red-eyed figures.Messages warning people to “LEAVE US ALONE” and “NEXT TIME YOU DIE.”There’s just one problem.When we went looking for Rand and Nancy...we found something far stranger than the ghost story.In this State Files Case File, Cooper and Harry investigate the legend of Picnic Table 29, the alleged hauntings surrounding it, the people supposedly connected to the case, and the surprising origin of one of Griffith Park’s most enduring paranormal stories.And once the truth comes out, it raises another question:What happens when people begin having real paranormal experiences connected to ghosts who may never have existed?That might be creepier than the original story.Also featured after the case: Dee’s 2026 Picnic Table 29 Update and post-credit banter with Harry, Dee and Cowboy.If you enjoyed this case, check out our Hollywoodland: The Ghost of Peg Entwistle episode for another strange story from Griffith Park.Subscribe to The State Files for UFOs, paranormal cases, cryptids, unexplained history, high strangeness and the stories hiding in plain sight.#PicnicTable29 #GriffithPark #GhostStories #UrbanLegends #Paranormal #HauntedPlaces #TheStateFilesChapters00:00 Cold Open01:39 Act 1: The Table In The Hills03:05 Act 2: Rand And Nancy05:41 Act 3: Leave Us Alone07:37 Act 4: The Man Who Went Back09:09 Act 5: Next Time You Die10:46 Act 6: Where Are Rand And Nancy?13:32 Act 7: When A Fake Ghost Story Becomes Real15:37 Closing (Cooper's Take)17:25 Picnic Table 29 Update (Dee)18:05 Post Credit Banter (Harry, Dee, Cowboy)20:04 Disclaimer (Duncan)20:29 Pick A Video (Cowboy)