Among the guests staying at Murnau's house in Tahiti during the 1930's was Douglas Fairbanks, who rented it while on location for Il signor Robinson Crosuè (1932), just months after Murnau's death. Fairbanks did not stay long, after his Tahitian housekeeper frequently ran through the house screaming about ghosts and swearing that she saw an ancient chief holding Murnau's skeletal remains on an ironwood spear. Fairbanks soon packed his bags and booked a room at a hotel in Papeete. The Tahitian owner of the property Murnau's house was built on died in his sleep in 1937 and at the coroner's inquest in Papeete, his family and friends attested that he had always been active and healthy, but they were shocked by the frozen expression of terror on the face of his corpse.

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