Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles(NOTE LANGUAGE) While the Foo Fighters were wrapping up their tenth studio album, the last thing they expected was to be terrorized by the supernatural.
In an interview with NME, frontman David Grohl opened up about the mysterious spirits that plagued their recording sessions that took place in a 1940s California home. He claims the band knew something was amiss right away.
Explained Grohl, “When we walked into the house in Encino, I knew the vibes were definitely off but the sound was f****** on. We started working there and it wasn’t long before things started happening.”
The biggest giveaway was that, “We would come back to the studio the next day and all of the guitars would be detuned.” The 51-year-old also revealed that, on top of settings being set back to zero on the board, the ghosts would completely mess with what they previously recorded.
“We would open up a Pro Tools session and tracks would be missing,” the frontman continued, saying that’s when things became a little eerie. “There were some tracks that were put on there that we didn’t put on there. But just like weird open mic noises. Nobody playing an instrument or anything like that, just an open mic recording a room.”
Despite saying he and his band didn’t glean “any voices or anything really decipherable” off the tracks they definitely didn’t record, Grohl attests that ,”Something was happening.”
So, the band set up one of his old nest cams to catch the spirits in action, later seeing things “that we couldn’t explain” on it.
That said, the hauntings made the band “finish the album as quickly as we could.”
As for the haunted history of the house the band discovered? The landlord made them sign an NDA because it’s currently on the market.
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