Save Beetle House LA: Keep the Spooky Spirit Alive

For the last 8 1/2 years, we have been a proud part of the Los Angeles restaurant, bar, and club community.

Post-pandemic, post-fires, post-LA tragedies, we have simply run out of money to operate at the level we need to. This wasn’t due to poor planning, and it wasn’t due to just the economic downturn of the city; it was due to third-party theft and broken agreements. We had an investor that did not put in the money they agreed to, which left us with a large hole in our finances. In addition, we had a manager steal over $60,000 from us. These two things happened in a short timeframe, immediately followed by the LA fires and the current chaos going on in Los Angeles that has affected our business greatly.

We have never asked the public for help, not through the pandemic, not at any other time. For us, this is a last-ditch effort to see if we can keep this thing going. Beetle House has always been a labor of love; no one has ever gotten rich from it, no one has ever made millions of dollars from it. It has always been about doing something that we love for the community that we love and for the people that love what we do. We haven’t always gotten it right, but we always give it our best, and we have provided the everyday is Halloween, spooky home for almost a decade in New York and just a little behind that in Los Angeles.

Fortunately, our New York location is stable, but our LA location simply is not. We need to raise a significant amount of money to pay our bills and our rent, etc. We still think we have a lot more to offer, and we want to stay alive, but we just don’t have the options right now. We have over 150,000 followers on our social platforms. If 10,000 people gave $100, all of our troubles would be over. So here we are, putting it out there: if you want this haunted hayride to continue, we will need your help. Otherwise, we will have to close our doors and sail off to the afterlife.