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<\/p>\nPlayboy Bunnies are usually known for their glitz and glamour \u2013 but a former lover of the late Hugh Hefner now earns a living as a ghost hunter.<\/p>\n
Lad mag titan Hefner died in 2017 aged 91. And one of his most prominent exes was Bridget Marquardt, who famously starred in the Girls Next Door TV Series as one of his girlfriends.<\/p>\n
The stunning blonde dated the hedonist between 2002 and 2009 and she has not been shy about publicising their Playboy Mansion romps.<\/p>\n
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Speaking about one of her first sexual encounters with him, she told the Juicy Scoop podcast: \u201cI\u2019d seen what everybody else was doing, so I knew that this was like a ten second thing, I mean definitely no more than a minute\u2026 It\u2019s short.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But her wild life of partying with the Playboy founder is a complete contrast to what she gets up today \u2013 and that\u2019s because she is a paranormal investigator.<\/p>\n
Bridget, 50, even describes herself as a \u201cghost enthusiast\u201d to her almost half a million Instagram followers. But her obsession with the supernatural is not a recent one.<\/p>\n
She told Nylon that her first spooky experience came when she was just a little girl who saw her dead grandad after experimenting with a Ouija board.<\/p>\n
And even when she stayed in the Playboy Mansion she studied paranormal investigations and parapsychology \u2013 and four years ago she started her own Ghost Magnet podcast.<\/p>\n
She also also appeared on Discovery+ show Ghost Adventures where she went to haunted locations to find out more.<\/p>\n
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On her podcast she opened up about hearing the ghost of her dead dog Winnie from inside her home in LA.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cEven though I kept her groomed, her nails would still get stuck in the carpet a little bit and you\u2019d hear it go \u2018click, click, click, click' sometimes like velcro on the carpet when she walked by.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd sometimes I think I\u2019ll hear that and I think \u2018oh it\u2019s just the cat\u2019 and I sit up and the cat\u2019s asleep on the end of the bed, and I\u2019m like \u2018wait no it\u2019s not the cat\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo maybe I\u2019m getting signs but I really want something that\u2019s concrete where I\u2019m like \u2018that\u2019s definitely her.\u201d<\/p>\n
And one of Bridget\u2019s bunny pals discussed whether they had encountered any ghosts roaming the rooms of the lavish Playboy Mansion.<\/p>\n
Holly Maddison claimed that she once saw a ghost wearing a sports bra drifting through the mogul\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
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She told Bridget on their Girls Next Level podcast: \u201cThe first one I had happened very early on for me, it was like right after I moved in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see this girl walk out of the tanning bed room, and walk across to where the weight machines are, so I couldn\u2019t see her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know who she was, but that wasn\u2019t unusual because when women would come out to test for Playmate or shoot different pictorials, they would be flown in from out of town, and they would stay on the grounds in the guest house.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t look old-fashioned or anything, she looked contemporary, she was in regular workout wear, blonde hair\u2026 but I knew I didn\u2019t recognise her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holly, who also dated Hefner, said the ghost then vanished into thin air before she \u201ctripped out\u201d momentarily.<\/p>\n
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Bridget meanwhile said in a separate discussion that she \u201cfelt the nostalgia and the old energy\u201d of the mansion and that sometimes the TV would change channels by itself.<\/p>\n
But her own supernatural happenings became more apparent when she was pregnant but it is not something she fears.<\/p>\n
She told Nylon: \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s something that follows me around. My house in L.A. is almost 100 years old. There\u2019s all kinds of voices and door opening and disembodied voices. I enjoy it, though; I like the entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for whether Hefner ever indulged her about her ghostly sightings, she said he was \u201cnot a believer\u201d.<\/p>\n
He lived in the Gothic-Tudor pad for 43 years and the property, which was built in 1927, was always rumoured to be haunted.<\/p>\n
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The man who built the home was Arthur Letts Jr \u2013 whose wife is said to have died after falling from the balcony, although this has never been confirmed.<\/p>\n
People have theories on whether she jumped, fell or was pushed and some believe this original tale is why the infamous mansion is supposedly haunted to this day.<\/p>\n