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Adelaida - Adelaida Cemetery - A ghost
wearing a long white nightgown makes her appearance in this old
cemetery every Friday night, between 10PM and midnight. This Mennonite
ghost lays flowers on the grave on one of her children that died in the
Diphtheria epidemic. She may have also committed suicide in her own
life. - February 2004 Update/Correction: Was
formerly posted under Palo Altos – It is actually located 20 miles
outside of Paso Robles - A ghost researcher visited this cemetery in
August 17, 2001 and even though they did not see any ghosts while
taking photos, an apparition which may have been "Charlotte" showed up
on their film/negative, along with another one of a large orb. They had
three witnesses with them that particular day and night, to verify that
there was no one else in that cemetery, except of course, the spirits.
We are awaiting the link to the pictures they are referring to. This
sounds fascinating.
Agoura - 101 Freeway Near
Las Virgines Road - Young man killed by drunk
driver on that road. Driver was convicted and committed suicide.
Accident appears to recreate itself, most strongly on the anniversary
of the accident. CHP has had reports of accidents at that area, caused
by people swerving to miss the white car, although later investigations
show that the white car was never there.
Alameda - Haunted Insane
Asylum - October 2007 Warning: as with every
haunted place on this site, make sure you get permission to
investigate. Trespassing is a crime. You could get arrested or worse,
hurt. Be smart, courtious, and be legal.- At the
intersection of Marina Village Pkwy and Mariner Square Dr, turn left
and go straight. Take the first right into an industrial parking lot
and you'll see the asylum straight ahead. Patients used to be tortured
and killed there, and it's abandoned now. At nighttime, stand out in
the front and look at the fifth window from the right on the second
story. The blinds open and close themselves. Sometimes when you walk
inside, you'll hear a loud scream the second you enter the door. Also,
you get the chills and have the feeling that someone's behind you. When
you're inside, you will hear screaming coming from a distant room in
the house. Down in the basement there are ropes that people used to
hang themselves with. Even during the day, if you take pictures
occasionally there will be orbs or even a glowing, ghostly figure in
the picture.
Alameda - Kaufman
Auditorium - You can hear noises, and people
have sighted a female ghost walking around backstage.
Alameda - USS Hornet - Many ghosts reported being seen by those who are
caretakers of the old aircraft carrier. Ghosts of sailors who perished
on board are well documented.
Alameda - Washington
Elementary School - There are reports that when
people are alone in there they get cold chills, and hear knocking and
scratching when no one was around. There is a ghosts of a young boy
about 13 years old walking the halls at night.
Alhambra - Alhambra High
School - A few years ago, a girl hung herself on
the bridge. At night, people hear and see people running around the
track, even though there is nobody there.
Alhambra - Phoenix Inn - It’s said that there is a female ghost that walks in
and out of the kitchen, goes around the tables, watches what people
order, sits there and admires what you eat.
Alhambra - Ramona Convent
Secondary School - Students have reported seeing
a "white nun" roaming the library. Many girls have claimed to have
heard the piano in one of the school buildings being played, while no
one was in the building. After a student drowned in the school, pool
stories surfaced of the victim tugging at the swimmers legs.
Alhambra - Scripps
Kensington - This is a retirement home with its
own church, cemetery and about 200 residents. A former employee who
used to work in the kitchen as one of three supervisors. Reports in the
three years that they worked their they saw all types of unexplainable
things. At one point seven of many of the staff saw what looked like a
hazy white long sleeve shirt, with no head or legs, wondering around in
the library as if looking for a book. When they turned the lights on it
just disappeared and a few minutes after the lights were turned off it
came back. But the scariest encounter they had was when they saw a 10
lb frying pan come off its hook and get thrown towards them, with no
one anywhere near. Many there have stories with ghosts or things that
they just couldn't explain.
Alhambra - The Turner
& Stevens Mortuary - The employees have
already concluded a somewhat accurate story to what is going on there.
An old woman, a little boy and a man haunt it. The story goes that the
old woman is mean, and is after the little boy. But she can't get to
him, because the man is protecting the boy from her. The haunts
consists of doors slamming, books flying across the room barely missing
people, and sounds of foot steps. As people pass a hallway that has
mirrors on both sides of the wall, they have seen the old woman or man
in the reflection. Then, they suddenly disappear.
Alhambra - Ultrazone - Workers have reported hearing whistling in the arena
after closing. The arena has also been reported to fill up with fog,
long after the fog machines have been shut off. The light located near
the back exit has been seen to mysteriously change colors.
Altadena - Angeles
National Forest/The Haunted Forest (Cobb Estate) - Screams can be heard from these people, and strange
lights can be seen from the flashlights they once carried.
Altadena - Loma Alta
Street - Gravity Hill - On this hill, if you are
facing downhill in your car, stop, and place the car in neutral, you
will go backwards up the hill. Fingerprints are reported to be found as
well. According to legend, a girl took her parents’ car for a wild ride
with friends and lost control on this hill. The car spun out of control
and killed herself and her three friends. Now they try to push you back
up the hill.
Altadena - Zane Grey
Mansion - Owners noticed that the house had very
cold spots near the fireplaces, library, kitchen and pantry. The
kitchen clock would cease working when certain people entered the
kitchen. From time to time you can hear someone walking across the
butler's pantry floor, to the formal dining room.
Amboy - Amboy School - The teachers and students have experienced someone
coming in the front door, but when they look out into the hall from the
classroom, there is no one there. Also, on windless days, the swings
out on the back playground would swing on their own. Down in the gym at
night, when students play basketball, items would relocate themselves.
A broom standing against the wall would be seen standing against
another wall. This, of course, went unseen by the students, until they
looked to see the broom was in a new location. The teacher, working
down in the school at night, on numerous occasions, experienced
something watching her. One night she had to abandon her lesson
preparations and hurry out of the classroom. It was said that several
Indians working on the nearby railroad (1868) died, and that their
ghosts roam the town. The school was closed in 1999.
Anaheim - Anaheim
Fairfield Inn By Marriott - This motel is right
next to a freeway, and it is said to be haunted by a couple that died
in a car accident that took place on the freeway.
Anaheim - Anaheim High
School - There's a bomb shelter under the school
from World War 2. You could here constant banging on the old, locked
steel door on certain nights, usually after football games.
Anaheim - Anaheim High
School - Theatre/Auditorium - Voices
have been heard in the auditorium and deep laughter is heard on the
balcony. Erratic footsteps have been heard on the roof.
Anaheim - Chain Reaction -
Employees report talking and laughing late at
night in the back alley and in bathrooms. Upon investigation, no one is
there. A bum was found dead in the back alley. Since then, the venue
was converted from a Mexican restaurant to a club. It was formerly a
biker bar, where there were many reported stabbings.
Anaheim - House of Blues -
The area behind the mosh pit on the first floor
is where the hot spot is. People have been brushed against, touched,
and pushed by something, but when they look there is no one there. It
happens so casually that you don't even realize it the first time.
Anaheim - Kmart on Euclid
- Employees have reported things falling off of
shelves after closing. Some report seeing a girl. Her name is
supposedly Isa or Isabel.
Anaheim - Performing Arts
Building (Formerly a senior home)- Reports
of feeling a presence, the feelings of being followed, cold spots,
& hearing footsteps & whistles can be experienced on the second
floor.
Anaheim - Red Cross House - It is said that it is haunted by the original
caretaker. When you get to the room where the children lived you feel a
strange presence. In the first room at the entrance if you look at the
picture while your going up the stairs you see the eyeballs on the
picture of the caretaker you see them watching you. Also when you go up
to the second story people mostly females get pushed at a male if they
seem to be a perfect couple.
Anaheim Hills - Esperanza
High School - June 2008 Removed. No Murder has
happened here. A teacher was, however, dragged out of a classroom and
taken away in a straight jacket in 1978 or 1979 after having a mental
breakdown, climbing up a wall shouting "There're going to kill me..."
Antelope Acres - Rosmond -
Burnt down insane asylum - Strange feelings,
weird occurrences, burnt rubbish, human remains, human sacrifice
materials, and extreme temperature difference from outside.
Anderson - City Hall - The Anderson City Hall used to be a dance hall during
the 1800's. An Indian woman and her child were murdered on the site.
Workers have heard sounds of dance music and the cries of a child late
at night.
Antioch - Black Diamond
Mines - These mines are haunted by the White
Witch. In life, her name was Mary. She was a nanny in the 1800's when
there was still coal mining in the mines. All of the children died of
illnesses and she was accused of Witchcraft, then executed. She guards
the mines and when people see her, she is all white.
Antioch - Black Diamond
Mines - The Rosehill Cemetery - haunted by Sarah
Norton, also known as the "White Witch". She was a midwife and on her
way to deliver a baby her carriage fell over and she was crushed. She
is seen in the graveyard floating around the tombstones.
Antioch - Black Diamond
Mines - Somersville - Sarah Norton - Sarah
Norton was a midwife who died on the way to deliver a baby when her
carriage over turned and killed her. Sarah was not a religious woman
and told her kids that she did not want a funeral. So when she died the
town s people of Somersville wanted to give her a funeral. The first
time they went to give her a funeral a fierce storm struck up and cause
the towns people to delay the funeral till the next day, the next time
they tried to give her a funeral another storm came out of no where and
the live stock started charging thru town, at that point the towns
people stopped trying to give her a funeral and just brought her to
Rosehill Cemetery, From that day her sprit has been seen around
Somersville and the other locations where the mining towns use to be
know as The Black Diamond Mines in eastern Contra Costa County and
other locations off of m arsh creek rd. Her ghost has been known to be
called the White Witch.
Antioch - Brentwood -
Gravity Hill - In the 1950's a school bus was
driving kids home from a field trip. It skidded into a wash and all the
kids drowned. If you go there, put your car in neutral around the turn,
you get pushed up the hill. It's supposedly by the kids who died in the
bus crash and they want to keep you from the same fate.
Antioch - Empire Mine Road
- Gates of Hell - Fair warning - no trespassing
you will get fined or arrested. Possibly torn down - In the middle of Empire Mine road, there is a Stuckko
wall with a bunch of spray paint on it. If you like to take hikes, this
is the place to go. There is a rumor of an old Insane Asylum at the
very end of this road. You will come to another gate then behind their
lies this old decrepit Structure of a hospital. Many people were killed
brutally in this place, and it is VERY haunted by not so nice spirits.
Things have been thrown at people, they have been pushed and screams
have been heard from the people being tortured by themselves or
another. - October 2003 update: Reports of it
being a golf course now.
Antioch - Empire Mine Road
- Rail Road Mine - Fair warning - no trespassing
you will get fined or arrested. Possibly torn down - At the end of Empire mine road, there is an old
railroad track tunnel that is pretty spooky inside. There are bats
inside it and you can hear voices at the end of the tunnel.
Antioch - Empire Mine Road
- Slaughterhouse -Fair warning - no trespassing
you will get fined or arrested. - An old
slaughterhouse stands in the corner of the road after the first bend.
It is haunted by an old man who walks the grounds and makes sure that
everything is ok, and that no one gets hurt while there. Strange noises
are heard inside the first building where they chopped up the meat.
Clanking inside of the circle figured tubes towards the back of the
property. Chains clank all around and you can hear footsteps behind you
like someone is watching over you. Just remember to watch your step!
Antioch - St. James
Presbyterian Church - This old church, located
on Leland Avenue in San Francisco has a history of hauntings. Late at
night, footsteps can be heard walking up the stairs, doors shut, etc.
Also, on more than one occasion, late at night, doors that normally
open easily will be impossible to open, as if a ton of bricks is on the
other side of the door. Later, the doors will be found wide open.
Antioch - Vasco road - you can hear people if you get out of your car running
around. breathing and invisible people is also reported. if you don't
feel like getting out of your car, it is scary just to drive through in
the dark.
Apple Valley - The
Neurology Rehab Clinic - Used to be the old
Apple Valley Inn. Reported to have 3 ghosts, The man hung himself, one
woman was murdered and no one really knows what happened to the third
one. She is always dressed in white and is seen only at a certain part
of the old building. The man is sometimes seen walking across the
parking lot, but then he disappears. None of the ghosts are harmful.
The rehab center is now a private school for the mentally challenged.
And there is a soil company there and an old barbershop. - November 2005 update: Apple Valley Inn is no longer a
Rehab facility. It was sold in the last year and now has a nice
restaurant and lounge. There are several other businesses on the
property as well including an insurance firm, beauty salon, and others.
Note: Apple Valley is where Dale Evans and Roy Rogers made there home
for decades. Bother passed a way in the last couple years here. They
still have a family ranch locally, as well as the family home in Apple
Valley near the Apple Valley Country Club. The house has big iron gates
with 2 "R"'s on it.
Apple Valley - Jicarilla
Rd. - Witnesses have seen a shape of a man run
across the street super fast and it starts chasing you then it
disappears at a certain point.
Arcadia - 5 W Live Oak Ave
- Every Business that is built here starts off
good but eventually goes down and they are forced to go out of
business! It doesn't matter what business it is, it will go under! The
land is small, at the corner of the street, and surrounded by a brick
wall all around! The source of the curses power is this brick wall! It
is rumored but not proven that the curse will be lifted once the wall
comes down!! But no one is certain! There was once a gas station, then
a Walgreen’s pharmacy and now a Famima food mart!
Arcadia - Arboretum - 301
N. Baldwin Avenue Arcadia, CA 91006. This once
was the home of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, a 1930's actor. He
claimed to be a Native American, but he was exposed by a reporter to be
an African American, this drove him to suicide. His ghost has been seen
by many including Aaron Spelling. The house was used as Mr. Roark's
house on the TV show Fantasy Island.
Arcadia - Arcadia High
School - Said to be haunted by a janitor who
walks the kitchen and indoor cafeteria- Says students who have actually
encountered the ghost. It said late at night if you're in the foyer you
can hear him walk up and down the kitchen and cafeteria pushing a
squeaky cart with cleaning tools rattling in it.
Arcadia - The Arcadia
Poltergeist - In May 1976 on a memorial night
Rocks of all sizes started lifting off the ground and hitting places,
people, and breaking windows to cars and houses. No-one was able to
explain it. It was happening off and on for three months. It happened
in Arcadia, California and was investigated by Duke University and was
written up in the LA Times, (apparently a six week series) there is not
much info on this event. There was no explanation given to the people
who were attacked by this strange occurrence. It was merely Covered up
and forgotten.
Arcadia - THE DERBY - 233
E. Huntington - George Woolf, also known as "The
Iceman" bought the Derby Restaurant in 1938. The famous jockey died
eight years later after suffering fatal injuries when he was thrown off
a horse at the Santa Anita Raceway. Employees are convinced he is still
looking over his old restaurant. Footsteps can be heard going up the
stairs to his old living quarters, above the restaurant and his
presence is felt throughout the building.
Arcadia - First Avenue
Middle School - The school used to have a pool,
but someone drowned in it and they covered it over. Teachers said
they've heard footsteps at night through the halls, even after they've
set the alarm, and if anyone was in the halls the alarm would go off.
Loud banging on the lockers and girl's locker room doors have also been
heard, and water goes on and off by itself, the toilets also flush by
themselves. Lockers with locks on them are closed one minute and open
the next even when there's no one else in the room. Some students have
seen a figure of a little boy wondering through the halls late at night
with a "green glow" to him.
Arcadia - Santa Anita Mall
(Westfield Shopping Mall) - The KB toy store
inside the Santa Anita Mall is said by employees to be haunted by a
little boy in early 1930s clothing. An employee was closing the store
at night when they spotted a little boy in knickers in one of the
aisles playing with one of the toys. The employee was shocked and
thought he was left behind by a parent and when she approached the
little boy to ask him where his parents were he appeared to be
transparent and disappeared the closer she got. Another sighting of the
little boy was again after hours when two male employees of the mall
were inside Macy's and happened to spot a little boy standing with his
back to them by the escalator to go down as though in awe of the
escalator. When they started to walk up to him to tap him on the back
the little boy ran down the escalator without actually having touched
the steps and vanished on ce at the bottom.
Arcadia - Taco Lita - (on second and Duarte) Men's restroom said to be
haunted by an elderly man wearing a yellow sweater says a few witnesses
on web. Many have seen him walk in the bathroom but haven't actually
seen him in there.
Arcata - Humboldt Brewery
- The original proprietor of the building (and
several others nearby) is known to haunt the pub and periodically cause
it to be known. Employees report moving furniture, dishes etc. during
their shifts and the ghost is well known to established patrons.
Armagosa - Armagosa hotel
and opera house - haunted by several ghosts who
were residents during the borax mining. The hotel workers have pictures
of orbs and many stories as well as some documentaries have been filmed
on the hauntings.
Arroyo Garnde - Rose
Victorian Inn - The Tower Room - Although
it is no longer a hotel, but a wedding/special events business, the
building is still the same. The tower room of this three-story pink
mansion is thought to be inhabited by the ghost of a 9-year-old girl
named Alice. She has been spotted on more than one occasion and guests
of the inn have heard the girl laughing, according to Ghosts of the
Haunted Coast, by Richard L. Senate. In his book, Senate said that a
psychic was taken to the inn, not knowing of the rumored ghost, and
spotted her as she walked up the staircase. She said the girl had
pigtails and was wearing a long dress with a small apron. Apparently
the ghost likes cats.. The owners told the psychic later that they had
discovered a number of cats sleeping near the window in the tower.
Arroyo Grande - Rose
Victorian Inn - The nursery - It is
said that a young girl "Alice" haunts the old children's nursery in the
Inn. Some say she died of pneumonia, others say that she died of
allergies to bee stings, because when they tore down a wall in one of
the bedrooms there was a bee hive covering the whole wall. One
eyewitness and Neighbor to the Inn for the last 20 years said she saw
birds vortexing into the chimney. They say Alice is friendly and loved
cats, they often find cats rest in the windowsill of the Nursery.
Artesia - The Red House - a couple that where to be wed had a fight and the
bride was pushed down the stairs to her death. It is said that if you
walk past her grave you will se her floating around.
Atwater - Castle Air
Museum - Formerly part of Castle Air Force Base,
it houses one of the nation's largest collections of aircraft. One
particular craft, an old B-29, is said to be haunted by a former
crewmember who died when a bomb exploded in the aircraft while on a
mission. He's said to turn the landing lights on and off and is known
to make the propellers turn, though they are locked into place. Don't
worry, he's friendly.
Azusa - Railroad Overpass
Bridge - Haunted by a transient and his dog seen
walking the tracks at night.
Baja - Hospital del
Sagrado Corazón - About in the seventies,
it is told by former nurses and employees that in the fourth floor of
the Hospital del Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart Hospital)a young
girl possessed by the devil was interned for several weeks, until she
dies there. It is also said that an exorcism took place in her room,
which was about the middle of the corridor to the east. The hospital
was owned by a local company that sold the building, which is located
in Reforma Avenue in downtown Mexicali, and it is now a hotel. The
floor where it's supposed to have taken place the possessed case is
often colder tan the actual weather and the spot near the door of the
room is darker than others places. But the local church and the
companies involved denied the case.
Bakersfield - Bakersfield
Californian Newspaper Building - This old
building is haunted by a few ghosts. A German Shepard Dog who can be
seen, waiting patiently for his master to come and pick him up. An old
security guard who can sometimes be seen in the lunchroom. Finally, the
former editor of the Californian can be seen walking through the
hallways of the building.
Bakersfield - Bakersfield
High School - Reports of apparitions of a young
couple, they look to be 16 to 18 years old. The girl is wearing a prom
dress and the guy is wearing a football jacket with "BHS" embroidered
on the back. The area has a strange chill to it, and a feeling of being
watched. Where they are seen is up near the top of the bleachers.
Bakersfield - Bakersfield
High School - Harvey Auditorium - Supposedly,
while they were building Harvey Auditorium, a worker fell from the
rafters all the way into the basement. They say that the Auditorium is
haunted by his ghost, as well as some others.
Bakersfield - Bakersfield
High School - the Quad - The Quad is
supposed to be very haunted. There used to be a hospital on the grounds
of BHS and they would bury body parts from the operations in the area
of the quad.
Bakersfield - Central Park
- A lady with the flowing robe seen wafting
along the canal at dawn. A lifelong resident of this city was told the
ghost belongs to a woman believed murdered. Her bones were found buried
in the old foundry across from the park. The bones, discovered when the
foundry's floor was torn up, had bullet holes in them.
Bakersfield - Club
Paradise - Reports of apparitions, locked
employees in the storeroom from the inside, pushed people in the bar
room hallway, grabbed, groped customers, objects move.
Bakersfield - East
Bakersfield High School (auditorium) - it is
believed that years ago a janitor stayed after hours to fix some lights
up on the ceiling, he fell of the ladder and broke his neck. if you go
really early in the morning before school you can sometimes hear
someone hammering something or something fall instantly.
Bakersfield - Garces
Circle - People have reported that right before
a major car accident at the circle (there's been quite a few) people
can either see the hands of the statue moving or they hear him
muttering in prayer for them.
Bakersfield - Highland
High school Theater - Westley Anderson Hall - There is a spirit of an older man that likes to play
tricks on people. He will turn the stage lights off when people are on
the stage but never during a performance where he just sits and
observes. He also likes to whispers in peoples ears and rummage through
the costumes in the costume loft. Also reported the figure of a 16/17
year old girl walking around the stage dressed in a '50s style outfit.
Bakersfield - The
Kern Realty Group Building - House built
in 1911 has had numerous experiences. Three spirits are said to be in
residence. One young man seen hammering is believed to be a young man
who fell to his death during construction. The second is an elderly
woman who stands and watches. The third is a man always described as
"angry". He is believed to be one of the former owners. Lights are
switched on and off, doors and windows open or close by themselves.
Doorknobs rattle, voices can be heard, and the sounds of footsteps on
the staircase occur quite often. The present owners of the property,
who operate the real estate company, say they have never felt afraid or
in danger, and are now quite used to the "other agents" and their
nightly actions.
Bakersfield - Melodrama
Musical Theatre - The theatre is located
at the northern most end of the city in an area called Oildale, a
community grown out of the oil industry. The building was constructed
in the early 1970's, originally as a toy store. The owner went bankrupt
around 1975, and having lost everything he owned trying to keep his
business afloat in this impoverished area, closed the doors for a final
time. Haunted by Harry. He has been felt passing people in the
stairwell. He has been seen breaking mirrors. His apparition seen
crossing the stage during performances. Also, the women's dressing room
seems to have strange occurrences: the sequin dresses on the clothes
racks "rattle" on their own violation, and shadows can be seen where no
one is standing.
Bakersfield - Norris
School built in 1882 - now Kern County
Museum - Witnesses report hearing the
tapping of chalk on the chalkboard, but saw nothing.
Bakersfield - The
Padre Hotel - one of the city's landmark
buildings is so haunted you can feel it the moment you walk thru the
foyer doors. You should contact the owner for specific details. - March 2004 update: they might tear it down but as of
now they are just remodeling to open up a new building there.
- April 2007 update: It has been turned
into office buildings and condos.
Bakersfield - Pioneer
Village - Reportedly, someone witnessed a
ghostly birthday party in the Weill house. Others have seen children in
front of the 1882 Norris School Building.
Bakersfield - Standard
Middle School - a man has been seen
hanging from the top of the auditorium... ghost was caught in one of
the 8th grade graduation photos through a window..
Baldwin Park - Baldwin Park High - Early
in the morning strange sounds can be heard in the basketball gym. Also
footsteps and thumping noises can be heard behind the stage. It is said
to be the ghost of Gary Cooper.
Banning - Payless
Shoe Source - There are reports of a
little boy that appears in the break room at the back of the store.
Legend says that the little boy came into the store with his mother and
wanted a pair of shoes really bad. His mother didn't buy it for him and
he was quite upset. Ran out the store and was hit by a car. This store
has not kept employees for long because each time a new employee sees
the apparition, they just quit without telling anyone. It is said that
the boy appears right before the store opens and right before it closes
at night.
Banta (Tracy) - The Banta Inn - Haunted
by the former owner who died of a heart attack behind the bar in 1967.
He likes to knock things off walls, stack the coins inside the cash
register, open and close doors.
Bay Point - Riverview
Middle School - A jogger reported a
hanging kid after running a few laps. He told officers that a kid was
hanging from the basketball hoop. He said he saw it from the top right
corner on the bleachers. Officers say that the kids name was Ryan that
hung himself in 1978 when the school was once a high school(Pacifica
high).more reports of the hanging kid from other students who walk home
late at night.
Beaumont - Sunnyslope
Cemetery - There are various types of
encounters. Some are cold spots, noises, and eerie feelings, also
sometimes you can feel a hand touch you. The cemetery is not visited
heavily and sometimes when alone you can see a groundskeeper walking
around. However when you try to approach him, he walks into one of the
sheds and disappears. When you approach the shed, the door is open and
you can knock or call out and you get no response. On one occasion 2
witnesses to this stepped inside to find nobody there. Also, if going
at night be sure to go in groups, the residents see to be more forward
then. The cemetery is located at the south end of Pennsylvania street,
past the railroad tracks. - As we always
state, please have respect for the cemeteries, and the families that
visit them, check with local authorities for permission before
investigating.
Bell Gardens - Bell Gardens Park - In
1972 their was a men with a little girl at 12 at night and the guy kill
her and took her head out and he dig a hole by the baseball field and
he put it their.She actually described the location were the bodies
were to be found and mentioned that there was something wrong with one
of the victims left foot, after locating the bodies in a shallow grave
it was found that one of the boys feet had been partially eaten by
coyotes.
Bell Gardens - John Anson Ford Park - the small forest - Sometime between 1972 & 1973, two boys from Cudahy
were killed in the park. Apparently, they had gone night fishing at the
pond that was located in the park and were murdered by someone who was
never caught. They were found in the morning by the pond with their
throats slashed. It was told by word of mouth and in the newspapers
that is was a grisly scene straight out of hell. It could be the ghosts
of the two boys that haunt the park. - June
2008 Correction/Additional Information: A Police officer in Bell
Gardens reports the boys bodies were recovered with the help of a local
psychic; the bodies were recovered in the Whittier Narrows area not at
the park and a suspect was arrested, tried and convicted of the crime.
The real story here is that there were no leads at all until the
psychic was contacted as a last resort by one of the detectives.
Bell Gardens - Suva Elementary School - People
have reported there names being called in one of the bathrooms, also
they say you can see a little girl riding on one swing always the same
one once a person got thrown off the swing and crashed in the fence
behind him.
Bell Gardens - Suva Intermediate - A
janitor committed suicide on the third floor of the big building he has
been see roaming the school and mostly the top floor.
Bellflower - Bellflower
High School - Its reported that back in
the '60's in room B-1 on the West side of the campus, a Female student
named Kaytlin killed a skinny boy in the class after he called her
"Chicken Head". She made him drink a soda filled with rat poison. After
he passed out she tied him to a desk and started to cut up his body so
she could stuff him in a cabinet in the room. At that time the room was
used for storage and his body rotted in there over the long hot summer
break. When the next school year started his body was found by a
custodian that was cleaning the room. The hauntings that have been
reported include the overwhelming smell of rotting flesh and blood
stains appearing and disappearing on the floor. Some of the Teachers
that have used this room, that is now a classroom, have reported seeing
body parts in the cabinets, that also disappear.
Bellflower - Bellflower
High School - Theater - A girl
killed herself because her boyfriend broke up with her and she didn't
make the play she tried out for. She hung herself over the stage. A
prop phone would ring when unplugged. When students are rehearsing
spotlights would flicker on and off. When the radio would be unplugged
it would turn on, but the station would be changed.
Bellflower - Kmart
- A woman has been seen on several
occasions in the stockroom areas. She always appears to be working. As
of this date she has not been identified.
Bellflower - St.
John Bosco High School - A boy named
Tyler was a student in the 1960's, and he was kicked out of Bosco for
personal reasons. He later then died of a drug overdose. It is said
that he roams the campus (mainly the senior square) searching for a
senior whom he can borrow a lighter from. - June 2008 Correction - St John Bosco is not haunted as
well there were many boys kicked out of Bosco in the 60's but none that
haunt the senior square again they are stories to scare the incoming
freshman during welcome week.
Belmont - Waterdog
Lake - One day a little boy was walking
up on Waterdog, alone, unprotected. He never returned home. People say
the ghost of Waterdog killed him, others say the ghost is bogus. The
story posted in the newspapers is a 12 year old boy was killed by a man
that was convicted of the act and his body was dumped here. (the boy's
name is withheld out of respect for the family). When they go on
Waterdog to prove it...they don't return either. Now people say they
here screams & gun shots, they don't return
Benicia - Benicia
Old Town Theater/ Portuguese Hall - Reports
of footsteps on the back stairs, a ball of fire that flies around,
lights flashing, cold spots, & an apparition of an old woman.
Benicia - Captain
Blythers - This is a very old home now a
restaurant. The former owners have had picture jump off of the walls
and alarms go off. The town's police have even experienced this
happening.
Benicia - The
Union Hotel - During the 1800's, a young
woman hanged herself in one of the rooms of this hotel. To this day,
people report seeing her apparition in the window that faces the
street. Other guests claim to see lights going on and off and someone
talking or crying when no one is around.
Berkeley - Faculty
Club - room 219 is haunted by a ghost of
an elderly man.
Beverly Hills - Barrymore Estate - ghosts
of John, Lionel and Ethyl haunted the estate.
Beverly Hills - Doheny Mansion - Night-shift
groundskeepers will not stay employed, due to sounds, and screams
inside the house. There are some sections that are gated and padlocked
that have not been kept up in the home due to this.
Beverly Hills - Pickfair Mansion - According
to the previous owners, there were at least two other ghosts who
haunted the place as well. In the beautiful entry way was often seen a
ghost who was thought to be Douglas Fairbanks.
Bloomington - Bloomington
High School - Rumors that Late at night
in the Auditorium, Screams, footsteps can be heard. Also that Janitors
would get pushed down stairs Unexpectedly. The story behind this is
that a Drama Teacher working alone(supposedly) fell into the pit area
and died(a mere 5 feet drop). Police said it was accidental. But her
wrist's were broken, indicated she'd been pushed. The Auditorium is now
dedicated to that Drama Teacher.
Bloomington - Green
Acres Cemetery- Its been reported that on
Halloween every year there is said to be blood on the table found
between the three marble chairs in the southeast part of the cemetery.
Bodie - Bodie
State Park - Reports of walking up and
down stairs in any building there. Curse on Bodie if anyone takes
anything as a souvenir.
Bodega Bay -
- Reports of a Vortex here, strange unexplainable things happen to
people as well as animals.
Boulder Creek - Brookdale Lodge - A girl
in a formal dress runs across the lobby, then disappears into thin air.
In an empty Mermaid Room, voices and music are softly heard. Hidden
rooms and secret passages are mysterious vestiges of Brookdale Lodge's
rich past.
Boyle Heights - Linda Vista Community Hospital - It is an abandon hospital there is green light that is
always on. the reason they shut down the hospital was because the
doctors would kill their patients and there is a very strong order that
comes from the 3rd floor.
Brea - Breas
Best - Employees have reported that
during late hours, frozen food would get launched across the kitchen.
After about 15 minutes, a loud laughter would come about scaring the
employees. One night, the refrigerator door flew open and someone or
something threw out all the food on to the floor and also weird shadows
were seen on the walls.
Brea - Brea
Olinda High School - Performing Arts Center - one student had been sweeping under the seats and by
the time she had finished a row the two end seats would be down, and
this happened in every row. Also one student said when she had been
there late one night with only 3 other students that there had been a
figure of a man standing on the stage staring at them. Many strange
noises come about also during the later parts of the night, especially
after a rehearsal or performance.
Brea Canyon Road - Diamond Bar - Since the
road is very dark at least 4 deaths are known of. You can see two
crosses next to each other, if you go further there is another cross,
and as you continue you see a tombstone. The 3 crosses were of people
that died there from car accidents because it's so dark and the
tombstone. It is said that at night you can see hikers trying to get a
ride. When you look back they are gone. Another freaky thing is that
there are many cars that have been on the side for who knows how long.
They appeared to have been broken down there for a while. And if you
stop by the crosses there is a spine tingling feeling that makes you
want to scream.
Brentwood - Mount
Saint Mary's - Brady Hall - there
have been students "oppressed" by spirits. Doors open by themselves.
With a whole English class present, the poem "the Living Hand" was
being read. During the poem, the door open and then slammed. The
teacher checked and no one was there. The doors are designed so that
you have to turn the knob to open them and they are difficult to slam.
Brentwood - Mount
Saint Mary's - Carondelet dormitory - there are nuns seen walking and doors open
mysteriously.
Brookdale - Brookdale
Lodge/Brook Room - There is the story of
a little girl who drowned in the brook that runs through the
restaurant. She comes back to the Brookedale Lodge and sits by the
fireplace in the lounge and roams the grounds. A wonderful place to
dine and stay, mysterious, but friendly and beautiful. (near Santa
Cruz, Felton area)
Buena Park - Knott's
Berry Farm - Many employees have claimed
to have heard noises and cries inside the "Peanuts Playhouse" in Camp
Snoopy. The employees feel chills on their arms and shoulders and
upstairs they hear voices and someone following them. Also claim to
have lights go on and off, even when the power is off. Also the
"kingdom of the Dinosaurs " ride is claimed to be haunted by a former
male maintenance employee who fell to his death in a fire many years
ago and a young boy is seen in several areas of the attraction,
especially the ice-age area, many employees are afraid to be in
position there. - December 2006
Additional information: In the early 80's, a young man, distraught over
a recent heart break, Jumped to his death from the top of the parachute
ride. The ride is since gone, but the structure still stands. On
several occasions, employees have had the experience of some thing
large slamming into the ground, "as if someone were to drop a sack of
potatoes from high above on the structure" only to find nothing.
Buena Park - Knott's
Berry Farm - Virginia's Gift Shop - While up on the 2nd floor (employee break
Room),noises, cold air and breezes, and closet doors opening up by
themselves.
Burbank - Woodbury
University - This previous monastery is
now a college. Mother Cabrini now haunts the campus. She was once one
of the nuns that resided here. Her face is even sculpted into one of
the buildings. The bell in the bell tower has been known to ring late
in the night.
Burney - Black
Ranch Road. - A little girl dressed in
white will walk in front of a moving car if the driver has been
drinking. Bartle House - roof glows green at night (check with the
local fire department, they have responded to numerous calls of the
house being on fire), cabinet doors open by themselves, lights and
heaters turn on, figure of Mr. Bartle is seen in the hallway.
Byron - Hot
Springs Hotel - This hotel is located on
the right hand side of the road about a quarter of a mile back down a
long drive way. There is an old orange hotel from the late 1800's that
remains are still intact. Legend says that this place is haunted by
many who lost their lives in there. So far all that has been seen is an
old man wearing white rags, and a young boy who runs up and down the
halls. dragging noises have been heard on the first floor towards the
main entrance. Dark shadows were seen from a distance and then
disappeared after seen. Very active spots. You could tell this wasn't a
happy house.
Cabazon - Morongo
Indian Reservation - there's a road where
you can park your car at the bottom and it rolls uphill steadily.
Calabasas - Leonis
Adobe - an old house/ranch from the1800's
is said to be haunted by the original owner/builder of the house.
Calavares County - Murphys - Murphys Historical Hotel - Instant feeling of something different there as soon
as you walk in. It is said that a bookkeeper was shot and thrown over
the balcony. the ghost is still there and roams the second floor.
Feelings of being watched, and feeling a presence.
Calico - Calico
mines - Behind the actual "ghost town"
the pitted landscape of tunnels and pits, there is a small road that
ends at an open area. On the Winter solstice (Dec 21 or 22 depending on
the year} a bizarre collection of ghosts, animal and human act out what
seems to be a ritual of some kind. First a slowly moving bear crosses
the length of the open area, to seemingly clear the stage for the
others to come.
Calico - School
House - Apparition of an old school
teacher has been encountered.
Calexico - Calexico
High School - At night there are noises
heard, and things seen. People have reported to see a girl walk around
at different hours of the night. A group of teachers reported to have
seen her at a pep rally in the 80's at the football field. Another
claim was made by construction workers who were building the new gym,
they saw a girl walking to the football field early in the morning,
when they called out to her it was as if she didn't hear them. Other
encounters are doors slamming, windows shutting, lights flickering and
turning off. The story is of a girl who was killed in a car accident
coming back from an away football game, she was a cheerleader and now
apparently it is said that it is her that haunts the school.
Calexico - El
Charro - Old burned down restaurant.
Ghostly apparitions have been sighted.
Camarillo - Old
Camarillo State Hospital - now Channel Islands University This large enclave of buildings in Camarillo is now a
university, but were originally built in the 1920s as a state mental
hospital. They changed over to a school in the mid 90s. There have been
many stories of ghosts over the years of all kinds due to the fact that
patients previously lived and died there. Some of the buildings are in
the process of being turned into dorms and some students have
experienced all kinds of unexplained events. The sounds of children's
voices at the children's center, by the Bell tower an old woman walking
and asking for directions to the chapel and old woman wearing white
wondering the hallways in the daytime. In the restrooms the voice of
someone saying, "SSSHHHHH" in parking lot A figure that looks like a
man spinning around until it disappears near one of the street lights.
objects seen with t he corner of the eye and then when people turn they
disappear. Many people have had encounters with ghost at this site,
during the day and at night the ghost don't have a preferred time. Some
complaints from students and staff are headaches, nausea, feeling of
being watched, feeling unsafe, threatened, and extreme tiredness. Also,
there have been numerous sightings of at least a dozen different
entities in the Bell Tower, Police Station region. (Currently, only
very few buildings at the site are used- most are abandoned.) Entities
seen range from a beautiful woman in white who wanders both night and
day in the hallways in and around the Bell Tower, a man by the bus
stop, and a rather nervous entity in one of the women's restrooms in
the Bell Tower who not only chatters but makes some kind of rustling
sound.
Camarillo - Scary
Dairy - Scary Dairy is located near
California State University of Channel Islands, which was formally
Camarillo State Hospital, a mental institution. Scary Dairy is tagged
by gangsters, and it is rumored to have had murders taken place in the
area. We are unsure if the Scary Dairy was a slaughterhouse or a dairy,
but there are a lot of rooms in the building. Most of the walls are
fallen down, and there seems to be lot of dumping in the area. Scary
Dairy gives of a very bad vibe, and you can almost feel the ghostly
activity. Scary Dairy is a cool place to check in the day, but when
night falls it is probably the scariest place to be, considering the
amount of rooms and gang activity
Cameron Park - Bass Lake Road - girl in
white gown near the reservoir at the bend where the water sometimes
over flows onto the road. - November 2005
Update: At the actual lake by a bench it was dedicated to an old man he
can be seen sitting on the bench smiling at you.
Camp Pendleton - 41 Area - Second story
room in one of the barracks is haunted by the ghost of a Marine. He
shot himself after finding out his fiancé left him. The ghost
moves furniture, hums the song to "Jeopardy", and has struck another
Marine sleeping in the room. People in the room feel the ghost is there
watching them.
Campbell - Securitas
Security - Feeling of not being alone in
the building after hours. Out of the corner of your eyes at night, you
see something run down the hall and around the corner. Sometimes in the
hallway where you see the figure, you get major chills and your hair
stands on end. Also you can hear doors slamming in different areas of
the first floor after it been closed.
Canoga Park - A
Jack in The Box on Topanga Cyn, - Numerous
sightings of a man standing at the drive through window, wearing all
red, the milkshake machines turning on for no reason, and furniture in
the dinning area moving by themselves at night and the frozen food on
the floor.
Canoga Park - Canoga
High School - Reports of a ghost who
messes with the lights and audience.
Canoga Park - Old
Earth Island Manufacturing Facility - (now empty) - This spot is a small industrial business strip on
Alabama Ave. across from the large self storage building and behind the
wheel and tire and dirt bike gear shop. In the warehouse late at night
you could hear the ghost of a woman screaming as it passed you from the
back to the front. Reports of seeing the apparition and greeting them
as a person and realizing no one was there have happened. One account
was a repairman working on the water heating system he was at work
after hours and his tool chest was on his left side, as he was working
the tool chest was slammed down on his right side hard enough to
startle him and send him running out of the building. Additionally, the
ghost was said to live in the attic area of the walk in refrigerator.
the walk-ins ceiling was later removed to increase space and a storage
area was walled off above th e kitchen. Every day before work started,
the door to the room would be open even if it was locked the night
before Take Caution. The building is locked and it is doubtful that the
present occupants will allow access.
Canyon Lake - The
Condos on Indian Beach - The sinks in
every bathroom would turn on by themselves at the same time. Also when
in the shower, sometimes the shower curtain would open up.
Capitola - The
Capitola Theater - Reports of hearing
voices and all kinds of racket going on in the theater as if there were
a theater-going crowd.
Capitola - Soquel
Drive - This old house marked "20" on the
entrance is extremely haunted. There are lots of active orbs and sounds
being heard inside of the house while venturing around the exterior of.
Upon getting inside of the house things had been moved after going from
room to room and noises heard in down below quarters of the house. On
the balcony there is a ghost of an old man who stands on the balcony
and guards the home from the 3rd story. The only way into this place
was to climb.
Carmel - Blue
Sky Lodge - The upper suites, very cold
at night and feeling very uneasy in the master bedroom of the two
bedrooms.
Carlsbad - Plaza
Cinema 4 - In theater 3 a female usher
was scared out by a rolling trashcan rolling up the hall way while
cleaning. The girl also heard a name being whispered in the theater.
when she came out to see if it was another employee doing the
whispering everyone else was busy. She then started crying and then
quit the next day. In theater 4 (the big theater) an usher was cleaning
the theater when a large piece of ceiling almost hit him and fell a
couple feet from him.
Carson - Alameda/Wilmington
Blvd. - A Spirit of a man who is dressed
in the style of the 1800's has been seen in the area of Alameda and
Wilmington/Del Amo Blvd. It has been rumored that when the Dominguez
Ranch house was used as a Stage Coach stop over after the Civil War,
the man was beaten and killed on that area where those streets connect.
Carson - Carson
High School - at the track field at
midnight you can see a boy running around the track and if you get
close to it, it'll disappear.. or right before the sun comes up it'll
disappear.
Carson - Del
Amo Blvd. and Wilmington Blvd. -haunted by
a man who had been hanged and robbed. It's also been told that he's
dressed in the style of the 19th century.
Carson - Dominguez
Ranch House - The Rancho Dominguez Adobe
Ranch House is now a museum. This house was one time used as a stop
over for people coming to the San Pedro seaport to Los Angeles back in
the late 1800's. The site of the house is also know as "the battle of
Rancho Dominguez" of the Mexican-American War back in the 1840's. Rumor
has is that you can see "orbs" or flashes of small lights moving very
quickly around the park site late at night where the house sits. Also
rumor has it that a man was beaten and robbed and left to die just
about 100 yards from where this historical and supposedly "haunted"
site is located. The ghost of the man is rumored to be a "guest" that
stayed at the house when it was used as a stop over for travelers.
Carson - NW
corner of Pacific St. and Banning Blvd. - a
man that was stabbed to death around his mobile home, is said to be
seen walking around between 10:00 & before midnight.
Castro Valley - Chabot Theater - Employees
have heard a mans laughing and have seen shadows moving up and down the
isle late at night
Castro Valley - Redwood Rd. - Almost at
the very end of Redwood Rd., there's a haunted preschool. In the early
1980s, a man, with a knife, killed all the kids at the preschool. The
building no longer remains. All that remains is a swing set and the
foundation of the building. From time to time, you can hear the
children playing or running around and you can see the swings actually
moving by themselves
Catalina Island - Two Harbors - The Banning Inn - A specter dubbed the "White Lady" has been seen here
as well as the smell of tobacco and fish from the spirit of a
fisherman. Rumors of Natalie Wood's ghost have also been talked about
in the area where she drowned.
Cerro Gordo - Belshaw
House - Beautiful semi-ghost town in the
Inyo Mountains east of Lone Pine. The Belshaw House has shapes that are
seen out of the corner of the eye and electrical effects like TVs,
lights flickering, etc.
Cerro Gordo - Bunkhouse
- said to have a ghost that appears as a
glowing mass in last room on the left. Main kitchen has ghost/lights
and there are photos on display of this.
Cerritos - Cerritos
High School - Many janitors have heard
strange banging noises in the Girls locker room. Also, it has been said
that at night you can see a group of kids near the track, but as you
move closer they disappear.
Cherokee - Cherokee
Cemetery - It is history that the town
sweetheart was murdered in the 1800 and her murderer burned alive in
his home across the street from the cemetery. If you visit the cemetery
during the evening hours, you can hear stomping in this extremely
deserted area. Also there grave of a child that passed the same day as
his father. If you place flowers on that tombstone, locals say he will
visit you that evening and thank you.
Chico - California
State University Chico - Laxson Auditorium - supposedly the spirit of an older woman has been seen
by performers on stage, sitting in one of the balcony seats. She always
sits in the same seat but of course is gone when anyone goes to
investigate.
Chino - Chino
Hills - Story is a man who escaped prison
stalked a family killing the mother, father and sister and just cut the
boy's ears. They say if you go to the house you will see blood prints
and the ghosts of the family. - July 2005
Update: recently the sole survivor made a statement recounting the
murder. You can read it here http://lang.dailybulletin.com/projects/cooperwatch/news/042305_joshua_statement.asp
Warning this article is a bit graphic.
Chowchilla - Chowchilla
library - bowling alley - A few years
back the Bowling Alley of Chowchilla caught on fire. It started in the
kitchen, and spread through out the building. Unfortunately the cook
never made it out in time. He was burned to death, and soon after it
was turned into the Chowchilla library. there has been many reports of
this man and you can see a flash of flames and the man run by. The
check out center is over where the kitchen used to be and you can
sometimes feel the heat of the fire, and see the man standing there
with his spatula and apron on.
Chowchilla - Chowchilla
Union High School - Chowchilla Union High
school has had many students in the past years who have passed away.
There have been reports of the students who have passed away still
roaming the halls, at the lockers, in the gym, the cafeteria, and in
the classrooms. You always get the feeling that someone is watching you
in the classrooms. Some students have said that a girl with long blonde
hair will ask them what time it is then disappear, and some say the
girl goes by "Michelle".
Chowchilla - Minturn
Cemetery - Reports of ghostly apparitions
chasing cars down the dirt road, A woman screaming, children crying or
laughing, and a man ghost picking up trash around the graves.
Chowchilla - Save-Mart
Supermarkets - Staff of Save Mart
Supermarkets in Chowchilla California have reported A woman who used to
work the Graveyard shift for janitorial stated that on the nights that
she was alone with the night stockers that she would feel a presence
through out the aisles, or in the upstairs break room. One young man
who used to work there stated that he had the same feeling, but he
worked the swing shift and only felt the presence in the break room.
The young man said that every Saturday was when no one worked the grave
yard shift and the store is totally empty....well, not all the time.
Some people have said they would see someone walking around the store
on Saturday nights, around 2:00am. They would also see shadows from a
distance as if there is someone walking around inside.
Chualar - The
End Of Chualar Road - Many times a night
when you drive home you can see a woman walking on the side of the
road. When you pass her she disappears. One report states,
“One time I was at the end of my road (which is at the End of Chualr
road) I was riding my motorcycle and I was masterly thrown off by
something. When I hit the ground I passed out and when I woke up I saw
a black hair woman above me staring at me. I blinked and she was gone.
I am almost positive it was the lady on the side of the road.”
Chula Vista - Hilltop
Road - You can hear screams at night,
children crying, and playing. Allegedly A sailor Came home from seas
crazy and killed his wife, son, and daughter. When near the property
you feel chills and a sense of dread. The house burnt down a few years
back but the haunting is still there. All you can see now is the
chimney standing in the middle of the fenced in yard.
City of Industry - The Sheraton Hotel - Please
do not attempt to trespass. Security guards that patrol the grounds in
the late night hours have reported seeing two shadowy figures running
through the golf course. Noises can be heard in the back end of these
apartments where a wall separates the complex from the forest.
Claremont - Botanical
Garden Girl - there is said to be a small
girl, maybe five to six years of age, who sits by a pond and watches
the fish while crying. She is said to be wearing Native American
clothing, most likely she is a Cauhillan, (pronounced Kaheeya), a tribe
of Native Americans who once lived on that land. Incidences include,
cold spots, sudden strong gusts of wind, and crying sounds.
Claremont - Claremont
High School - In the old gym of CHS, many
have heard legends of the spirit of a former student. Some stories
involve numerous reports of "troubled/desperate whispering", one entire
P.E. class claims to have heard prolonged screaming from under the
bleachers, but finding no source, and some students have been
physically pinned by the ghost. There is a name burned into the floor
of the gym, students believe it is the name of the ghosts.
Claremont - Griswold's
old school house - there are several
ghosts that haunt this old school house, several people have heard
children's voices when no one is around and others have seen a white
mist walking around. Doors fly open by themselves. Also there is always
a feeling of being watched.
Claremont - Thompson
Creek Trail (east path) - while walking
this path in the late evening hours, strange noises that sound like
scratching and footsteps coming from bushes on the sides of the trail
have been heard. Also there have been reports of cloud formations
forming skull-like shapes. Also, when no one is around you, sometimes
shadowy figures can be seen walking behind you, sometimes hiding behind
bushes. The crackling sounds from the power lines overhead don't help
the experience too much, adding a deeper eeriness to this location.
Claremont - Thompson
Creek Woods - reports of, "levitating
boulders, invisible walls, short hideous visions of violence, and
flying people that follow you until you leave." Also reported, There is
also strange symbols on the trees and cabin which are said to bleed,
and there are even reports of invisible walls which sometimes block
entrance to certain parts of the forest.
Clayton - Contra
Costa - Pioneer Inn - The Pioneer Inn has
been around since the 1860's and is known to be haunted by the ghost of
the past. The Pioneer Inn has Gone thru a lot over the years from
having the second floor collapsing then having it rebuilt and having it
burn down. The Ghost have been know to carry things around and touch
occupants on there shoulders and hands.
Clayton - Eagle
Saloon / Clayton Club - The Eagle Saloon
(now the Clayton Club) was a Building that was brought up river from
San Francisco to the town of Clayton back in the 1860's at that time
this was one of the 5 saloons in the Town of Clayton and it was one of
the places that holds the most history of hauntings in Clayton. Things
have been know to move about, cold spots, glasses moving, and the
lights to go on and off on there own.
Clayton - Keller
Mansion - The Keller house is a house
built in the early 1920's and was one of California oldest cattle
ranches up to the 1970 s the house was built on a old Indian Grave
yard. to this day you can still find bones if you are to dig around in
the basement of the old house. It is said that the ghost of the Indians
still haunt the old house and tend to move things around. the house is
now Property of the city of Clayton in down town Clayton behind the
library
Clayton - La
Croquett Restaurant - The Restaurant has
been around since the time the town was founded in 1857. The story goes
is that during the day a miner from the black diamond mine area of
Somersville was in Clayton and got into a argument in the old Eagle
Saloon across the street. The argument turned into a shoot out and one
of the bullets went thru the window and stuck a little girl on the
street. The people on the street brought the little girl in to the
restaurant where she died. In a pool of blood on the floor. to this day
her sprit can be seen from time to time playing in the street, and the
Blood stain can not be removed from the floor of the restaurant.
Everything they do to remove it does not work and the stain returns to
this day it is still there under the carpet.
Clayton - Morgan
Territory Rd - Morgan Territory Rd is a
old logging road that was built back in the 1800's to bring wood from
Santa Cruz to the Eastern Contra Costa County, the road cut thru
between Livermore and Clayton, since this is a very isolated road there
has been a lot that has happen on this road. one of the Legends is of
Joaquin Murrieta California Bandit El Dorado, it is believed that
Joaquin has buried his loot some where in the Morgan Territory area
under a oak tree. and in the 1950's a woman and her husband were on
there way home from Livermore when they saw a spirit standing next to a
oak tree off the side of the road, not knowing the story about the loot
at the tree they just thought that they were just seeing things. Due to
the darkens of the road and being tired. once they started letting the
story out to there friends and family they found out the story about
the loot of Joaquin Murri eta, from time to time people still report
seeing the ghost on Morgan Territory Rd. but they can never find the
spot again when they go back to look for the loot that is believed to
be buried there.
Clear Lake - Modoc
County - Fiddler's Green - A pioneer
woman who was said to have lived there was killed by thieves while her
husband was away. They threw her body down the well that is still
there. At night you can see her apparition walking along the shore of
the lake with a lantern. Also, you can hear her playing her fiddle
faintly in the night wind.
Clovis - Andleberry
Estate - This was a mansion with an
adjacent asylum for woman in the 1800's. Many horrible experiments were
performed on the patients, so the ghosts are frightened and angry,
you'll get feelings of fear and dread if you venture near the house.
The mansion is on Clovis Avenue, almost across the street from Sierra
Vista Mall, the asylum is in the back. At Halloween, the owner runs a
Haunted House attraction; this is an opportune time to visit.
Coachella Valley - Coachella Valley High School - The backstage of the auditorium is known for its
strange noises of pages being flipped and books being knocked down
which are stared behind the stage so reported from drama students.
Coloma - Bell's
General Store - Built in 1849, the brick
building was the center of activity for the large community of gold
miners that settled around Sutter's Mill. Modern visitors have reported
hearing the ringing of a nonexistent bell as the ghosts of former
customers walk through the doorway.
Coloma - Marshall's
Monument - On June 24, 1848 James
Marshall found 2 nuggets. They were caught in the tailrace of the
waterwheel at the logging Mill operated by him and his partner John
Sutter. It was the beginning of the California Gold Rush. Between 1847
& 1860, the population of Ca. grew from 15,000 to 380,000 largely
because of that single event. Fanatical gold seekers followed Marshall
wherever he went, thinking that he had a magical gift for finding gold.
He died broken and destitute August 10, 1885 and was buried here. His
restless ghost has been seen as an indistinct shadow following visitors
to his monument.
Coloma - Pioneer
Cemetery - 8 miles No. of Placerville/hwy
49 to Coldsprings Rd, turn left, the cemetery is up the hill on the
left across from the Vineyard House. The Phantom of a lady in burgundy
watches over the Schieffer family plot in the old settlers graveyard.
According to the markers, William Schieffer died 1861 at age 2, Charles
Schieffer died 1864 at age 42 and May Schieffer died 1890 at age 27.
The ghost is a woman whose hair is parted in the middle and pulled
tightly into a bun. She is wearing a long, flowing, burgundy dress and
can be seen from the roadside beckoning passersby to come up to the
grave site and visit with her.
Coloma - Sheridan
- Lincoln - Manzanita Cemetery - Reported
by a local firefighter while fighting a wild land fire, the fire had
burned up to the back of the cemetery. Appeared to stop at the back
fencing, then parted going around the cemetery and continued around the
perimeter of the site with no logical explanation. Also strange sounds
can be heard coming from the site from about dusk late into the early
hours of the morning as well as seeing blackened shadows moving across
the grounds. The locals do not frequent this 1800s cemetery. Perhaps
that's the reason the cemetery is so active.
Coloma - Sierra
Nevada House - A mischievous spirit
inhabits this hotel which was established in 1850. Co owner Gail Masi
says her employees named the ghost Christopher and blames him for
moving pots and pans, hiding knives and forks, and turning off the
teakettles and other harmless pranks. A malevolent spirit named Mark
haunted room 4 according to psychic Jeanne Smith. He shot his
girlfriend in that room.
Coloma - The
Vineyard House - In Coloma, CA, there is
a famous Victorian house called the Vineyard House, which has been
reputed to be haunted by its original owners for many years. The house
was built some time in the late 1800s, and was used over the years as a
jail, an inn and restaurant, and, as its name implies, a winery. It was
also at one time supposedly the site of where some executions took
place. According to records, the original owners who built the house
suffered one tragedy after another. Several of their young children
died, their winery was eventually ruined because of a blight, and the
husband contracted syphilis, which over time caused blindness and
mental illness. Because he became violent from being mentally ill, his
wife had him chained to a wall in the basement of the house, where he
reportedly died. The entire family is buried directly across the street
in a graveyard that overlooks the house. Reports of seeing ghosts in
the graveyard have also come forth in the past, but most of the stories
took place inside the house. Ghost stories of the encounters where told
by employees and guests of Vineyard House. One intriguing story was
told by a couple who were staying in one of the upstairs bedrooms. It
was late at night and all was quiet, when suddenly the couple was
awakened by the sound of drunken men coming into the hallway
downstairs. They were very loud and were singing and laughing and
making a general raucous, so the husband upstairs stuck his head out
the bedroom door to tell the loud men to quiet down. But upon doing so,
he saw three men dressed in Victorian clothing ascending the stairs,
and then they faded right before his eyes. Another story from a
different couple who decided to stay at the inn was that something
frightened them so badly that they packed up and left in the middle of
the night. They reportedly refused to say what had happened that scared
them so badly. The basement was used as a bar, and it was late at night
after closing hours. The owner was cleaning up and wiping down he bar.
He said that there was one last glass at the far end of the bar, and as
he was cleaning, the glass suddenly began to shake, and then it slid
all the way across until it finally stopped right in front of him. He
admitted that he had no rational explanation for what he'd seen. It is
believed that the things that go on in the bar are the original owner
who died down there while chained to a wall. Other things that have
been reported are sounds of rustling skirts, and there is apparently an
area near the kitchen that is constantly cold. A woman having dinner in
the restaurant claimed that she was approached by a young child who
asked her to mash his peas and carrots for him. Another scary incident
occurred in the restaurant when a large chandelier suddenly came
crashing down, barely missing some of the guests. It used to be that
when the restaurant and inn were still in operation, you could pick up
a pamphlet that gave information about the hauntings. It was a famous
place because it had been there since the Gold Rush, and there were
pictures of famous people, such as John Wayne and Dudley Moore, hanging
on the walls. The hauntings were so well-known that the house was
featured on That's Incredible! and Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Sadly,
the house has been closed to the public for quite a few years. If you
are ever visiting old Coloma, the site of the famous Gold Rush, be sure
to drive by the old Vineyard House, and know that you are seeing a
house that has been famous for its hauntings for many years.
Coloma - Wah
Lee Store/Museum - Eerie waves of
murmuring voices have been heard inside this general store. The ghostly
sounds of years gone by seeming to rise and fall like the ocean waves.
Chattering by the sound of hitting a meat cleaver on a butchers block..
Colton - Agua
Mansa Road/Cemetery - a woman walks the
road in search of her children.
Colton - Carrows
Rest - hunting of a little boy and 5
other girls in the 'BIG' room.
Columbia - Fallon
House Theater & Hotel - Years and
years ago it burned down. They rebuilt it into replica of the old one.
Now there has been many reports of noises, voices, overwhelming stench
of smoke, in one room you can smell whiskey, and in room 9 and 13 a
female ghost is seen quite often. In the theater lights go on and off,
and shadows of people are seen.
Commerce - Veterans
Park - Place is known to be haunted by a
man name Martin who once worked as janitor at this park. People have
claimed to talked to a Martin when they have called the park office
before it has even opened. Lights go off and on for no reason doors
will open and close and the radio will change on its own to a local
Spanish station.
Concord - Brendan
Theaters 14 - in theater 12 you can her
little kids talking and laughing in the middle of a movie.
Concord - Clayton
Valley High School - B hall - A
few years ago four students met in a freshman English class and they
all shared a love for music and formed a band. In their senior year the
band was going to tour southern California. Heading south on I-5 the
driver fell asleep and veered off road which resulted in the death of
all band members. The band can now be heard on the first day of school
at night where they met when they were freshman. The band plays on.
Concord - Mount
Diablo High School - Reports of the
apparition of a male teenager hanging by a noose from the roof, over a
balcony from the second floor part of the English Building. Supposedly
a depressed student who committed suicide there a long time ago. Also
cold spots and voices and noises at night near the balcony and
staircase where the student committed suicide.
Corona - Gravity
Hill - A girl got dumped by her boyfriend
and was driving real fast. There is a big bump in the street and she
hit it and crashed into a tree and died. If you turn around and stop on
the bump her spirit pushes you UPHILL. Handprints can be seen if your
car is dirty. - June 2008 Update: Gravity
hill is an optical illusion. Bring a carpenter's balance: it will
measure the street going downhill. The reason you feel like you're
going uphill is because of the angle of the slopes on each side of the
road. in reality your vehicle is rolling downhill.
Corona - Horse
thieves Canyon Road - Reports of eyes
burning, dizziness, and the feeling of being pulled to a wooded area
where reports of black floating apparitions. A trail goes past water
towers after an hour of walking a place for campfire is found a circle
of trees is present when all lights are off black apparitions can be
seen going from tree to tree. They do not like bright flashlights,
those who possess the brightest are pushed, kicked, dust is kicked up,
other noises are heard. Going in a small group is recommended due to
long walk. on other parts of the trail a blonde woman can be seen run
between the trails, it never happens in same place twice. Extremely
cold breezes flow past you at certain points.
Corona - J J
Live Oak Steakhouse - February 2004
Update: formerly listed as El Cerrito - Live Oak Inn - As the story goes, back in 1988, a young waitress
named Michelle was strangled to death and left in the trunk of an old
car behind the back patio of the inn. Rumor has it that although the
dishwasher is still doing time for her murder, it was actually the cook
that committed the crime. Regardless of who killed Michelle and why,
she still haunts Live Oak. The new owner doesn't mind and comments
that, "People say she is a really nice girl and even shy." He has never
seen her, but has had many complaints from customers that she
continually flushes toilets close to closing time. Perhaps even more
spine tingling than Michelle's story is the fact that in the Inn's
earlier days, people were often hung from the twisted oak tree in
front. If you look closely, you can see the tree growing arou nd an old
noose!!!- February 2004 additional info –
a bartender / waitress reports she is a witness to the rumors of
Michelle the ghost, and of the old owner "Larry" who shot himself in
the office. She has worked there for almost a year and Michelle has
stopped flushing the toilet and started ringing the food bell
constantly during all hours. She has seen shadows of her out of the
corner of her eye when she is there alone. one of the cooks son's talks
to the ghost but it is supposed to be a secret and he can't tell us who
he is talking to. he also sees a man in black who walks around. the
noose is visible in the tree and she says she has touched it to see
what it was made of. it was almost rope like wire and it is grown into
the tree.
Corona - Marie
Callender's - There are many stories, one
night in the kitchen area a few of the workers were doing side work and
a few others were in the bar after closing and a big metal pie cutter
flew off a shelf onto the counter on the opposite side of the room a
few feet away. There were now many witnesses who believed that strange
things were occurring at our store. Servers reported trays flying at
their heads in the dishwasher's area and salt and peppershakers once
empty were full. The spookiest always happened to the vendors who
cleaned the restaurant. The carpets would be cleaned on a monthly basis
and they would always come in pairs. Something would always happen,
strange sounds, floating balloons, TV's being turned on, etc. All of
these things could be explained by scientific methods: electric
currents and helium filled balloons losing air. Whatever was going on
in that building after the emplo yees left was bad enough that the
carpet cleaners would never come alone. On the occasions that they
would come alone, they would come right at closing and be done before
we would finish closing the store. On one occasion a lone carpet
cleaner decided he would do it by himself after the employees left the
building, saying that all the stories were hogwash. The next morning
the opening manager found him in his truck in the parking lot with all
of his carpet cleaning materials left inside of the building. He
refused to step foot into the restaurant and complete the job. He
wanted to get his equipment and get out. Seems while he was in the
building the entities played with him more than they played with any
one else. As he was shampooing the carpets things were being written by
a nonexistent finger in the soap, chairs were moved in the dining room
and salt and peppershakers flew at him. The carpet guys from then on
always came promptly at closing and no one was left alone in th e
building.
Coronado - Hotel
Del Coronado - Various hauntings occur in
this hotel and has been depicted on famous hauntings programming
Costa Mesa - Back
Bay High School - there is a woman in the
back of the school who screeches at night no one is there.
Costa Mesa - Estancia
High School - Faculty has reported
strange smells and being touched when no one else is in the room in the
early morning. Night cleaning crews have told of flashlights beams
being restricted to only a few feet in front of them in seemingly clear
hallways.
Covina - Zelda's
Lagend - In the Early 1900's a young girl
around 15 was kidnapped and taken to an underground tunnel by a cult.
The cult sacrificed her latter that night in the end of the tunnel.
No-one has ever made it to the end of the tunnel and if they have they
never came out. The legend is of you make it to the end the girl Zelda
will sacrifice you to.
Covina - Covina High School -Reports of an odd moaning sound in the boys locker room, Late at night after a soccer game the whole team was chased out by a mysterious shadow like figure a soccer player reported that after the event he was experiencing weird events 24/7
Crescent
City - Sutter Coast Hospital
Old site and new ICU
ward - The old site of the hospital always
gives passer-bys eerie feeling now a hotel is being constructed right
on the site,(that is sure to be haunted) but the new hospital's ICU
ward is definitely haunted. A worker at the hospital was in ICU when it
was closed down due to lack of patients, so therefore it was empty.
They were minding their own business when the patient call light and
buzzer went off when they walked to the empty room the buzzer stopped
and the buzzer in the room two doors down went off, so they walked back
to the nurses station and the buzzer stopped. (The buzzers can only be
turned off from the nurse's station) They thought someone was playing a
trick on them but when they investigated the whole place was empty.
Crescent City - Tsunami Lanes - old
family owned bowling center was sold. new owners report during
remodeling they could here footsteps on wooden walk space behind
pin-setters.
Crockett - Old
road between Rodeo and Crockett - Every
summer if you are driving on this Rodeo / Crockett old road late at
night a woman in a white dress runs out into the middle of the road and
tries to wave you down. But when you go to look in your rear view
mirror, she is no longer there. It is said that her car broke down and
she got hit by a car while trying to wave someone down.
Cypress - Cypress
College Photo Department - A benevolent
wraith called "Photy" lives in the main darkroom most often seen
standing by the northern-western-most enlarger. Usually the most
sensitive students see his outline, which appears lighter than the
surroundings. Sometimes moving into the photo-finishing room after
closing and violently shaking the pictures hanging from the wall.
Students report a feeling of calm and well-being during sightings. A
marked change from the early days of the apparition when meter readings
would be thrown off and equipment would explode in the studio. Students
reported have also reported wildly unlikely results in the color and
black and white darkrooms. It all began in the late 80s when a student
brought in a human skull with a bullet hole in it to photograph in
studio 3. One night the chair of the department was alone late at night
and heard pounding on the stockroom d oor when there was no one there
to pound
Cypress - Cypress
High School - Performing Arts Building - In the Performing Arts building in the attic use to be
where they stored the play outfits. It was said that a high school
student was up there getting something and fell through the floor
boards to her death.(which was not a very big fall). Whenever you went
up there you could feel that someone is watching you. There was also a
prop that was use in most of out plays and whenever you looked into it
you could see her. She would look at you like she was mad. Because of
what was going on up there they had to move everything down to another
room and sealed off the attic so no one else can go up there. There was
a time that someone was pushed and almost fell down the ladder (which
was used to get up to the attic) and cause of this no one likes to be
left alone in the Performing arts building.
Daly City - San
Mateo -intersection of Skylin blvd and Hickey blvd - There are stories that a lady in white is seen at the
intersection in their view mirrors when foggy.
Davis - Old
City Hall/Police Station - Davis PD moved
to a new building recently, after having been in the old City Hall that
was built in 1938 or so. Downstairs, after it was vacated, in the
Women's restroom, there was seen a wild haired redheaded woman rushing
toward the 2nd stall door in an 'attack' posture with outstretched arms
and claw-like hands towards a person's face.
Death Valley Junction - Amargosa hotel - Anomalies
such as ecto-mist and orbs recorded on film.
Del Rey - Del
Rey Cemetery - Reports of cold spots,
moaning heard, the third tomb in light up at night, EMF detector was
used and it went off like crazy
Delano - Browning
Road - browning road in Delano is known
to have "ghost hitchhikers"
Devoure - Gravity
Point - You take a road called Glen Helen
until you pass a 2 consecutive train tracks. When you pass a 3rd set or
tracks you will have a stop sign about 100 hundred feet in front of
you. You have to go passed to the stop sign and stop on the line. When
the car is in neutral it will roll up hill increasing in speed.
Devour - Treehouse
Fun Ranch - the place was being cleaned
because of new owners. A worker decided to stay the night to get a very
early start in the morning. That night he heard noises, the fire pit
turned on all by itself, the lights flickered and shook, he decided to
stay outside on the cement. the next day the other workers heard the
story when they where cleaning up and in the bar and they found an urn
of an old truck driver who visited frequently.
Diamond Bar - Diamond
Bar High School - Many students feel that
when you walk through the hallways alone you will feel someone's hand
on your shoulder but when you look back, nothing is there and when you
look back you'll see a girl in your face whose eyes are not there.
Legend says that this girl was once a cheerleader in this school and
her boyfriend and some friends raped and killed her.
Dinuba - Dinuba
high school -auditorium - teachers
have heard doors closing by themselves lights turn on and off by
themselves, being watched while walking down the halls, and feelings of
being forced down stairs. Stories have been told that a janitor had
been electrocuted many years ago.
Dinuba - Dinuba
High School - Football Field - Years
ago a young girl broke up with her boyfriend and he began to stalk her.
They decided to meet and he strangled her and left her under the
bleachers. At that time the bleachers had black plastic around the back
because they stored equipment there. The girl's ex-boyfriend left her
body there and it wasn't found for a week or so because it was mixed up
with all the equipment. It's said that at night you can see her running
across the football field.
Disneyland - The
Christmas Shop - Some of the stock crew
has reported an strange feeling when alone stocking the store for the
morning. There is an old photo from the 19th century of a young woman
up on one of the shelves. It has been documented several different
times that a stock person will noticed the photo frowning (her photo is
taken with a straight face) at them along with a strange wind in the
room.
Disneyland - The
Disney Gallery - which is above the
Pirates of the Caribbean. Workers have reported that after park closing
and in the early morning, they see a figure of a tall man walking
around in the Gallery. He is believed to be the spirit of Walt himself.
Cold spots are also reported by numerous visitors.
Disneyland - Fire
Station - some employees heard foot steps
at 2nd floor at night and someone knocked the door. The 2nd floor is
not open for public and it's been an empty room for several years. - January 2006 Additional Information: The room above
the Disneyland fire station was built as a place for Walt Disney to
stay in while he inspected the park or did park business. It has all
the amenities as an functional apartment for him.
Disneyland - Haunted
Mansion - There are 3 spirits that are in
the place all the time, elderly man (who died of a heart attack in Aug.
of 1970 before there was a first aid station on the west side of the
park), an elderly woman and a young man who has quite a sense of humor.
There is also something nasty in the attic just before the omni-movers
exit into the graveyard. Witnesses report having hair pulled in the
crypt (exit) area with no one in sight, touched on the back by a hand
in a car that ended up having no one in the car, seen people walk up
the portrait hall or grand staircase, stop and vanish, faces peer from
behind the corner at the top of the grand staircase, heard footsteps on
the false floor behind the load area when there is no one else there,
been touched on the face by unseen hands, seen a man in the exit
mirror.
Disneyland - It's
a Small World - Lights have turned
themselves off/on by themselves, as well as the all the dolls moving
without power.
Disneyland - Matterhorn
Mountain - The ghost of a woman named
Dolly, she was crushed to death after she fell out of her sled and was
hit by the sled behind her.
Disneyland - Pirates
of the Caribbean - The story goes that a
young boy and his mom loved the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. The boy
got cancer and his last wishes was that his ashes be spread over the
Pirates ride. Disneyland rejected that for health reasons but his
mother did it anyway. At night the ride operators can sometimes see a
lone boy riding one of the boats on the video monitors, but when they
check it out there is no one.
Disneyland - Space
Mountain - both the ride itself and the
women's (employee) locker rooms are haunted by the ghost of "Mr.
One-Way", a guest who died on the Space Mountain ride back in the
1970's. On the ride, he is described as a large man with reddish hair
and a red face, and has been seen by guests getting into a car with a
lone rider, but he vanishes before the end of the ride.
Disneyland - The
Star Trader (4th floor stock room) - Cast
members have felt a cold, eerie wind on the 4th floor of the stock
room, when there are no doors, vents, or windows up there.
Disneyland - the
old "People Mover Ride" - Reports of
operating, girls (especially those with long blonde hair) would
sometimes feel an unseen someone pull viciously at their hair. The boy
died a few years ago on a Grad Night when he jumped out of the cabin of
the People Mover, got caught and dragged underneath the car. He grabbed
desperately at his girlfriends long blond hair to save himself.
Disneyland - Tom
Sawyers Island - The ghost (s) of one or
two people have been seen on Tom Sawyers Island. At least three boys
(all Grad night victims) have drowned in the Rivers of America.
Disneyland - Tomorrow
Land - Reports of a menacing presence
accompanied by cold spots.
Dorrington - Dorrington
Hotel - The original owner, Rebecca
Dorrington Gardner can be seen walking through the dining room. She
frequently rings the motion detector. One year the owner decorated the
rooms with fake Christmas trees and Rebecca knocked them over every
night. She once warned the owner of a gas leak in the kitchen. There
are also several other ghosts including those of children. There are a
lot of very curious customers at the restaurant and wait staff
encourages it by turning off lights when customers go to the restroom.
Downey - Hollydale
- Metal Hospital - In Downey behind the
court house there is an abandoned metal hospital, but for some reason
there is light shining thru, When all the power has been shut off for
years now. When you pass by, you see one curtain closed but then there
is also one curtain that will close when you pass by. There has been
People who have gone inside and gone down stairs, when they went down
stairs it was pitch dark, and suddenly books where being thrown at
everyone there.
Downey - West
Middle School - Noises heard in boys
locker room. You can hear locker doors slamming when all the boys leave
to physical education, and showers turning on and off. Every once in a
while you can hear the bathroom stalls flushing when no one is a round.
Downey - Rio
Hondo Hospital - This building was closed
down about 5-7 years ago. Extreme hot and cold spots felt, screams
heard, doors seem to open and close on their own accord, and
apparitions of people. - September 2005
Update: The hospital has been torn down and houses are being built on
this site.
Downieville - Downieville
River Inn Resort - Room #1 - is
supposedly haunted by one of the former boarders from when the Inn was
a boarding house. Reports of the water turning off and on by its self.
Others have reported someone getting into bed with them, or laying on
top of them, only to find no one there.
Duarte - Spaghetti
Factory - Employees of the Spaghetti
Factory claim to hear children playing in the rest room areas in the
basement, dishes also fall to the floor, said to be the children
playing games. - September 2004 Update -
emblem on the entrance that reads “Duarte High School 1904.” It was
originally built in the early 1900's as a High School and in the 60's
it was abandoned because Duarte high school was built and everyone was
sent there instead.
Dublin - Microdental
Laboratories - the door at the reception
desk keeps unlocking it self when a button behind the front desk is
needed to unlock it. The door also appears to have someone push against
it trying to get in even when no body is there.
Dublin - The
Outback Steakhouse - Cold spots reported.
There is a report of a police officer being killed there; possibly
either right before the restaurant opened or right after the grand
opening, there was a botched robbery and shootout. - March 2004 addition: The Dublin police officer that
was shot there on the night of Dec. 11, 1998 was named John Paul
Monego. Please visit his memorial page.
Three men from the San Joaquin valley, which is just over the Altamont
hills to the east of the Tri-Valley where Dublin is located, robbed the
newly-opened Outback Steakhouse and held patrons and employees hostage.
Monego was responding to a 911 call made from employees at the Outback
when he was shot several times by one of the three men upon entering
the restaurant. A short while later he died on the scene. His murderers
were arrested and tried for murder.
Dunlap - Dunlap
Cemetery - Cold spots felt around some
unmarked graves. Footsteps heard behind witnesses while walking through
middle of cemetery towards entrance. Three tall shadowy figures of
people seen standing by some big oak trees within the cemetery.
Witnesses have recorded a strange voice chanting something over and
over and another voice that sound like an elderly man telling them
"'Leave us alone' all of these activities happened all in one night,
the voices were only heard on a tape recorder.” Reported the witnesses.
Echo Park - Charlie
Chaplin Mansion - This affluent house
sits upon a hill overlooking Echo Park. It resides a neighborhood
called Hathaway Hills. The story behind the house is that Charlie
Chaplin used to own the house and sold it for whatever reason? In any
case, a man moved in with his family. And soon after the house would
lead to his and his family's demise. He came home from work one
afternoon and killed his mother, his wife and children. People describe
the house as a spooky and haunting location. Curious kids went to the
house and saw the same Mercedes Benz crashed into the garage with
"police tape" stuck to the side of the house and front porch. It has
been reported that one can see a mirage of the grandmother and hear the
children screaming. There have been other reports of eerie sounds and
sightings of wild animals, for example, a lion. Lastly, the house has a
dark side and lighter sid e. Today one can see a single window with a
table lamp on shining noticeably. The house is an old Victorian style,
also it looks like the Psycho house used in the actual film.
East Highland - The Bethany House - The
Bethany House is an old abandoned Insane Asylum. Since it is far back
in the orange groves, many teenagers used to use it as a place to party
around the asylum but never inside. There have been many stories of
hauntings there. One high school boy once went in to explore the asylum
by himself & never came back out. A ghost of a middle-aged woman
has been seen on numerous occasions. She is extremely violent &
known to do harm to people that cross her path inside the insane
asylum.
East Los Angeles - 4th St. School Elementary - There was a ten year old boy who got locked in the
little boys room and left there over night, found the next day
strangled. His unexplained death still haunts till this day. There have
been sightings of him playing in the monkey bars late at night. You can
also hear him in the restrooms (boys & Girls) crying, screaming
trying to open the doors, screaming "please let me out".
East Los Angeles - Calvary Cemetery - Basement
of Mausoleum four slabs of marble create demonic vision please
research.
East Los Angeles - Casa Del Mexicano - care
taker of the place tells that there are nine ghost ,and at nights when
he stays at his room up in the second floor he hears somebody knocking
at the door, foot steps coming up from the bottom and that lights turn
on by themselves. Two people in a Christmas play saw a Mexican man with
jeans, boots and a squared shirt sitting on top of one of there play
house looking at them, they said that it felt cold in that part of
stage but that they continued with the play.
East Los Angeles - Evergreen Cemetery - Witnesses
say that things moving around at night and voices.
East Los Angeles - across from Evergreen Cemetery - it was a apartment now its reconstructed, but
apartment is still there. Chairs move TV, radio turns on by it self
water does also. You can hear footsteps as if you were jumping off a
bunk bed you can see a black shadow with red eyes it changes figures,
you can feel things its a scary unwanted feeling you feel a lot of cold
spots.
East Los Angeles - Humphreys Elementary school - in the lunch are restrooms in the second floor when
you are in the restroom alone you can hear the toilet in the left
corner flush by itself the when you look at the toilet to see blood
coming out of the toilet an then the lights go off and on, and then you
look again and there's nothing there - like if it never happen.
East Los Angeles - Linda Vista Hospital - Old
abandoned hospital across from Hollenbeck park on Chicago St. People
who go there have reported seeing lights and hearing a little girl
laughing and playing around in there. Screams, cold spats, noises,
cries, moaning, lights coming on and off, noises could even be heard
from the street at night with no one inside. Hospital is sometimes used
for filming by production companies. A doctor has been seen on the main
building, corner window, top floor looking out through the window. He
was wearing a doctor's suit and a tie. Lights go on and off throughout
the whole building. There is a room full of cages and a group of people
claimed seeing a mentally ill patient(ghost) roaming inside a cage in
that room. Strange noises are heard around the buildings. Cold and warm
spots are felt in certain places.
East San Jose - Mt. Hamilton View Restaurant- This restaurant over look the entire Silicon Valley
and has been known to light up on its own when nobody is there. Guest
and employees have seen lights flicker on and off in the dining area
and known to see a young girl standing out on the look out balcony.
East San Jose - Quimby Road - This road
is haunted by the Quimby Jogger. He is said to be the ghost of a jogger
that only runs at midnight.
Eastlake - Chula Vista - Proctor Valley Road - Haunted
by a ghostly figure of a woman wearing a long white dress is
occasionally seen walking along the side of the road. People who have
pulled over to offer a ride, look back to discover she has disappeared.
Edwards Air Force Base - Chapel 2 - There was a
sighting of a slow moving flying black apparition, above Chapel 2 on
Edwards AFB. 2 witnesses claim that the object was hovering 20 feet
above the steeple of the chapel, and it changed direction following the
2 eye witnesses, Once the witnesses arrived at work they told 2 others
about the flying object and went outside to see that it was still
slowly making it's way towards the flight line. It never changed
altitude during the entire sighting and seemed to be on a direct
course. The object made its way to the flight line and went out of
sight as it worked it's way away from the hangar where the witnesses
were watching. This all happened on an early Sunday morning in May of
2007.
El Cajon - Chase
- Balls of light strange smoke smells.
This is so real ghost hunters will flock. The pictures the submitter
recorded may not amaze you but they invite you to see what they see
every night. The balls of light show every night.
El Centro - Central
Union High School - Gymnasium - Witnesses
have reported that the High School's gym is haunted. Many times after
school, a basketball being bounced as if someone was playing, and
accompanied by the sounds of fans cheering. No one really knows the
origin of the basketball game.
El Centro - Central
Union High School - Library and Library basement - Inside the actual library building itself it is almost
impossible to go a night without hearing doors slamming, soft to hard
footsteps, and people talking in the rows in the back of the library.
Also, the basement of the library is a dark, damp, maze of rooms and
hallways that was once used for detention back in the early and late
80's. It was affectionately called the dungeon for footsteps, crying,
and laughing were often heard.
El Centro - Crest
Theatre - at night the employees would be
spooked by voices talking to them. some nights when the sound system
would be turned off they would become alarmed by the sound system
blasting music. There would also be many cold spots felt in this
theatre.
El Centro - Dogwood
Rd. - It is said that if you drive along
this road after midnight occasionally you will see a girl walking
alongside the road. If you stop to give her a ride she will get in, sit
down, remain silent and eventually dissipate. However, it is also said
that if you do not give her a ride, she will sit on top of your hood
and try to make you crash. Stories say she died in a grisly accident
along that road.
El Centro - Imperial
Valley Arts Council - The Imperial Arts
council formerly the old Post office Pavilion now head of the Imperial
Valley Arts Council. This building is located on the center of the city
of El Centro between the 5th and Brighton streets. The building has a
beautiful architectural baroque Italian renaissance construction style
built back in 1920 housing the valleys local cultural events. A wide
800 square foot basement is found underneath housing possibly a ghost
or unexplained disturbance according to the buildings employees whom
claim at that at early evenings loud noises are heard from the basement
like slamming of doors regardless they are fastened with heavy sand
bags impossible to be "opened" and scratching noises on walls. It is
claimed also that these disturbances may be the cause of hearing the
tapping sound of an old typewriter as well. This would be a interesting
story to inv estigate to prove its authenticity and determine if there
is a haunting or if it is a poltergeist. The building is recorded as
one of the most historical buildings in the state to be served. For
more information it is recommended to get in contact the local El
Centro Chamber of Commerce or City of El Centro Business Council.
El Centro - Old
Fox Theatre - it was said that a man had
died there and when you would walk down the aisle you could feel cold
spots at about aisle 8
El Dorado - El
Dorado Cemetery - After dark you can SEE
orbs, ectoplasm, etc. There is a child's voice that is frequently
heard. One report is of a teen couple who were just " trying to get
scared." The young man looked in the rear view mirror of his car and
saw a elderly man leaning on the car looking in. The young man sped off
stopping later to find handprints drug across the trunk of his car
El Monte - El
Monte High - it is said that a young man
hung himself in the schools auditorium in the early 1900's, late at
night it is also said that the piano plays in the band room, in the day
time strange happenings occur during drama practice.
El Monte - Lambert
Park-Gymnasium - There have been numerous
accounts from employees and other people of a ghostly little girl in
the attic of the gymnasium. Also, reports of an apparition of a man in
the locker room.
El Monte - Mountain
View High School - Late at night people
see shadowy figures running the track, and playing football and if you
look carefully their is a figure hanging from the goal post in the
football field.
Elk Grove - Old
Downtown Elk Grove Blvd - There are
sightings of a woman dressed in white walking the streets but when you
turn back to look at her face, you see nothing but darkness or no face
at all. People have said that she is seen walking up to the railroad
tracks then disappearing.
Encino - Bagel
Nosh Restaurant - Formerly L.A. Cabaret -
When it was the comedy club, 2 ghosts were
reported. One was a pretty woman, dressed in the 50s era, sitting in a
corner booth in the back of the main showroom. She always seemed happy
& fun loving. The other was a man, usually in the kitchen area
& the control room. One employee working late one night closing the
bar & felt a presence which they associated with the male ghost.
The sensation of impending danger grew in intensity within seconds, so
that they ran out the front door. It is not known if he meant harm or
was instead warning them of something, but they had never felt the
feeling of being cold the very core like they did then.
Eureka - Eureka
High School Auditorium - stories have
been told of a two restless ghosts that wander the auditorium. The
first is of a man who fell from the balcony during the buildings
construction during the 20's and was decapitated. The second is of a
young girl, who after losing the leading role in the school play of
1954, hung herself in the lighting booth in full view of the actress on
stage. The actress took no notice of the wide eyed corpse in the
balcony, and continued the show.
Eureka - Fort
Humboldt - Large, heavy objects moved
across floor overnight. Sighting of former post commander who died of
malaria in 1859 looking out window of old hospital building. Lights
going off, objects falling. Occurrences regularly during 1993 and have
been reported sporadically since 1950's.
Fair Oaks - Sailor
Bar - American River - A drowning victim,
in wet clothing, approaches visitors. Many drownings have occurred
here. Park Ranger was locking the restroom for the night when this
ghost Appeared, wearing wet fishing clothes, then vanished.
Fairfax - Camp
Both in - It used to be an Indian
reservation, then early in the 1920s, became a hospital for
tuberculosis patients. Now it is used as a Girl Scout camp, but it
still has the original sinks from the hospital. You can hear a ghost of
a nurse pushing her cart up and down the halls, moaning, screaming,
appearances and disappearances and some ancient Indians spirits too.
Fallbrook - De
Luz - Santa Margarita River Bridge - Many
Stories haunt the bridge, during the California Gold Rush, a small
wagon train was killed at the river near the new bridge. In the early
1900's, the same year Fallbrook Union High School was first
established. On the first Prom night three pairs of teens disappeared
and were later found in the river. More than a dozen strange
occurrences are in police reports regarding that area of the river.
Once the sun drops below the mountains there, your life is in danger.
Fallbrook - The
Enterprise Newspaper Press Room - Back in
1962, in the press room, a sick daughter of one of the press workers
was pushed into the presses by an unknown force. To this day an
apparition of a small girl will pull on your pants if you get to close
to the presses.
Fallbrook - Jack
in the Box - its said that back in the
60s a bunch of hippies went crazy and brutally attacked and killed the
workers. Now when the store closes you can hear the hippie's music and
also the workers. Then really late at night when no one is there you
can hear and smell the burgers grilling. Also the bathroom door open
and shuts forcefully. When you look out the window you can see an
appropriation of a worker cleaning the windows. If you pass by at 4:34
am the lights go on and you can see the people who died there.
Fallbrook - Fallbrook
High School - Recently Fallbrook Union
High School weft through a thorough remodeling. Guess what made the
front page news? A gravesite of what is believed to be a native Indian
Chiefs grave was uncovered just to the right of the new library
building. This happened in September 1999. Since then at night there
have been numerous sightings of an orb, or orbs, howls in the wind, the
sight of a pack of coyotes running from the area towards the ditch just
past the portable buildings, even sightings of a teepee. In 2002, there
were 14 reports of smoke on campus. Never was there a fire. No one has
been hurt by anything, a couple was shaken up by a pack of coyotes one
night after the 2004 Sadie Hawkins dance though.
Fallbrook - Live
Oak Park - In the park there is a couple
of large boulders that were used by Indians to grind acorns. The acorns
were then used to make a sort of bread. The many years of grinding made
indentations into the rocks. The Police department has over 2 dozen
reports of an Indian girl Grinding acorns on these rocks. The reports
all very in time of day but the description of the little girl is
always similar.
Fallbrook - Masonic
Cemetery - People have reported to touch
some of the trees in the cemetery and they get "a strong surge of
heated energy" as they put it.
Fallbrook - Silvergate
Retirement Center - During construction
of a new wing in the center, along w/ voices of children there were a
few minor occurrences. There were also reports from guards of a
powerful being, presumed to be male. This spirit was very violent. One
guard reported that it tried to force him over an opening from the
second floor to the first floor that now houses a fountain.
Ferndale - The
Hart Theatre - The ghost that haunts Hart
Theatre is called Bertha and is often seen late at night. One report
claims she takes the form of a phantom cat who strolls down the aisles
during performances. Bertha also performs other tricks such as locking
the bathroom door from the inside and answering the phone at night when
no one is there.
Fillmore - Sycamore
Tree - while driving at night around
midnight; a woman dressed in white floats right next to you for about
1/4 of a mile right when you're driving by the sycamore tree. Legend
has it she was hung there during the Mexican-American war.
Fontana - A.B.
Miller High School Theater - Strange blue
lights and many other occurrences. Sometimes there is banging from
within the walls and tools ending up in weird places and no one knows
how they got there. Many people say they have seen figures disappear
and re-appear and voices in the catwalk when no one is up there. Legend
says that a teenage actress went up into the catwalk trying to fix a
light (for a tech buddy) and fell off the ladder and died instantly.
Fontana - BIG
LOT'S - formerly Pic "N" Save stores - This is the BIG LOT'S store located off Sierra and
Foothill Blvd. this store is haunted by several ghost or spirits. Many
employees claim to have experienced hearing noises in the men's and
women's restrooms things like something falling on the floor while
being inside the one toilet stall and no one else inside the restroom
and also the lights being flicked off by them selves inside the
restroom while in use. There have also been noises and voices heard
coming from the break room when the lights are off and no one is in
there. Another area which is considered to be the area with the most
activity is the stock room or warehouse in there several voices have
been heard and noises of things falling inside and things like a former
employee who was taking the trash to the back claims she walked into
the warehouse and the light was turned off and as she was walking back
out she felt something or someone pull her hair out of the bun when she
walked out of there her hair was all messed up and her face was pale
that was her last night working there. Several employees claim to be
scared or nervous of walking into the warehouse at night. All these
things happen at night when the store is closed and employees are
cleaning up or late at night when graveyard employees are there. Non
of the managers will support these accusations.
Fontana - Etiwanda
Intermediate School - In the old
auditorium, next to what is now a cafeteria, there is a narrow
staircase leading up to an upstairs dressing room. The room contains
one window and you will sometimes catch a glimpse of a young Indian
girl standing at that window. The story states that this young girl of
the 70's committed suicide by hanging herself and was found when
someone of the staff spotted a body hanging through the window.
Fontana - Foothill
Boulevard - Formerly part of Route 66 - Between the cross streets Cherry and Citrus, a young
man will appear wearing a striped shirt and carrying a long stick. He
then crosses the street right as cars approach. When the car hits its
breaks, the man disappears. Witnesses also claim to see the ghost
walking along the right side of the road. He has a black dog at his
side.
Fontana - Mango
Elementary School - They say in back of
the school there was a little girl who would go on a tree(it supposedly
had a tree house before) and would go on top of the tree when her
parents would fight. That tree they said she would call her best friend
until one day it was a windy day and she fell to her death. They say at
night you can hear her crying for help and sometimes you can see her
fall of the tree. She wears a little white dress and straight hair.
Fontana - maple
elementary - maple elementary is haunted
by this man who stays at the school in the boys bathroom and messes
with the students and teachers during class time.
Fontana - Mary
B. Lewis Elementary - the hauntings take
place between 11pm and 4am. You can hear footsteps when there is nobody
there and in the bathrooms for both boys and girls you can hear the
distinct sound of a toilets overflowing and even a conversation going
on when both the bathrooms are locked. There are loud bangs in the
night and the whispering and the strange feeling of another presence is
felt.
Fontana - Tokay
Elementary - Sounds of construction work
at the school. Rumor is that a construction worker died when it was
built.
Fontana - Sequoia
Middle School - In the quad by the lunch
tables there sits a little girl crying bouncing a ball. She'll ask you
to play with her and if you say no she will cry blood and start to
follow you. This happens at sun set when there are no employees.
Forest Falls - Fallsvale Elementary School - Many sightings of the "Ghost Children" have occurred
over the years in the forest that surrounds the school and the fenced
old school that remains on the same property. Most children who attend
the school seem to accept their presence. It's not uncommon to hear the
children address them by name. The old school a great historical
landmark, is securely fenced and prohibits any public admission.
Fort Bragg - The
Entire Area - supposedly haunted. Custer
was supposedly to have passed through Fort Bragg and they say that he
and his army traveled up a steep cliff at pudding creek there's been
sightings of he and his army to have been seen going up the cliff at
Pudding Creek and there is a path that leads to wood walkways head
towards the ocean that you can walk to MacKerricker State Park. That
has claimed be have seen a young lady in medieval clothing walking
about searching for her lost lover who died in the civil war and they
say she's been seen wandering around asking if anyone has seen her
lover.
Fort Bragg - Glassbeach
Inn - has a chair that has had eerie
happenings the lady that owns the inn has said that people had died
mysteriously and not long after they had sat in the chair.
Fort Bragg - Green
Acres Park - Witnesses report hearing
humming like a person was singing they kept humming the same verse over
and over several times on different nights They felt a strange chill.
Fort Bragg - The
Gold Coast Hotel - has a ghost 3 the
people who work in the hotels bar area say that things like glasses
have moved by themselves mysteriously.
Fort Bragg - The
Grey Whale Inn - Formerly the Redwood
Hospital - is said to be haunted by a
lady she is often seen roaming around in their garden areas and there
has been the sightings of a man who apparently appears in one of the
windows.
Foster City - Foster
City Levee - About a year ago a man was
being chased by the police because he had just shot his co-worker and
then he stopped at the levee, probably the area across from Beachpark
Plaza. He shat himself and died there. Cold winds have been known to
brush past people, leaving the area around you absolutely clear.
Gunshots have been heard late at night and strange shapes and shadows
have been seen in all parts of the levee.
Fountain Valley - Fountain Valley High School - Sometimes at night in the 100 building. Screams of
children are heard. Also, some days when opening the doors, the
janitors find lockers open and all the students belongings on the
ground. 5 teachers have left the school since the poltergeist. Many
students have seen apparitions of mutilated dead students in the
bathrooms.
Freedom - Hawthorne
Lane - Back in the 1950's a man murdered
his wife, and then supposedly disposed her body in Pinto Lake.
Authorities never found her body and the house she was murdered in
remained an untouched murder scene well into the late 1970's. The piano
would play itself and while inside the house you could hear a door or
trunk slam and a car start but when you went outside there was nothing
except the two cars there since the murder, which could not possibly
run as grass was even growing up through the floorboards. The house had
cold spots near the closets where the woman's clothing still hung.
Fremont - Bay
Street Salon - When two of the stylist
were the only ones in the salon, the bathroom door would lock somehow,
and they would have to retrieve the key and unlock the door. The toilet
would also flush automatically, and it is not an auto flush toilet.
salon was previously a fire station, and a slaughter house.
Fremont - Lord
Bradley's Bed & Breakfast Inn - Noises
in the dead of night, heavy footsteps and apparitions. The former
owner's daughter would see figures wearing Victorian style clothing.
Fremont - Morison
Canyon Road - When you go down The Canyon
road you will find an off ramp that will lead you down to a creek...
That is if you can drive all the way down the road... As you go down
the road you begin to hear knocking and at about half way down the road
you will start to hear a small boy laughing... Story tells that a young
boy was killed in the basement of a cottage at the end of the road...he
was found by his parents hanging from the rafters, when his parents
called the cops they told them that there was no body in the house but
mass amounts of blood washing up at the creek banks... Legend tells
that if you make it down the canyon you can still see blood washing up
on the creek banks and hear a young boy laughing...No Trespassing
Fremont - Mission
San Jose - Built in the late 1700's,
Mission San Jose has had a lot of curious history. A fire destroyed the
original Mission, and the 1906 earthquake leveled the old church. Both
have been rebuilt, the church about 12 years ago and the mission in the
1800's. There are cold spots and mists in the mission itself, uncanny
feelings and mists in the courtyard by the fountain. An old cemetery
adjacent to the church is the site of many disturbances, including
unexplained whispers and crying (several Fremont pioneers are buried
here, as well as countless Natives). Also in the church itself, where
there are graves in the floor in the Sanctuary and in front of the
altar. Severe cold spits are felt near the graves. Across the street
from the mission sits an historic tavern, where witnesses say they have
seen several Native looking people in old clothing cross the street and
disappear as soon as th ey enter the courtyard of the mission.
Fremont - Ohlone
Burial Grounds - You can't enter the
grounds because it is fenced off but you can read a large plaque
designating it as an Ohlone Burial ground. Orbs have been photographed.
It is down the road from Mission San Jose, which is very haunted. The
Ohlone Indians who died at the Mission are buried here.
Fremont - Ohlone
College - In the women's bathroom in
building 3 there is the ghost of a woman wearing a blue '60s style
dress. She appears in the mirror.
Fremont - Washington
High School - old Senior Hall - the
rest of the school was recently rebuilt, but the senior hall is part of
the original plan. Students in there at night including myself have
reported hearing more than one set of footsteps in the hall, even
though they are the only ones in the hall.
Fresno - Adorable
Poodle Salon - This shop had a lot of
poltergeist activity when she was there. Large heavy plants that needed
two people to move would be moved when the owner arrived in the
morning, when no one but her had access to the shop. She hired a young
woman to wash dogs for her and the "entity" really took a liking to
her. One day my mother was taking a break when she noticed this girl
working on a dog and periodically brushing her hand away from her neck
as if shooing away a pesty fly. The owner watched for a while as she
continued to do this, not seeing anything there, when suddenly, quite
annoyed, this girl said, "would you please knock it off?!" The owner
asked her what was wrong and she replied, "Your damn ghost won't stop
kissing me on the neck!" It stopped kissing her after that. The owner
reported cold spots, lights on and off, doors opening and closing by
themselves and a general feeling of being watched when alone in the
building.
Fresno - Muex
Home - This museum is claimed to be
haunted by several spirits. It is believed that most of the haunting is
done by the Meux family. There are others whom state different.
Fresno - Pindale
Ave - This street is haunted by the
SANDLADY of Pindale who has been seen at night and believe to for no
apparent reason throw sand in the eyes of people walking by. When they
clear their eyes they see that she has vanished. The spirit is believed
to look like an old Spanish lady carrying a small tote bag.
Fresno - Raymond
- There is a haunted (seasonal) fire
station in the town. The station was closed and lights came on inside.
A door that would constantly come open.
Fresno - San
Juaquin River - This ghost pretty much
have been sighted along the whole river but mostly the highway 99
overpass by Herndon. A lady and her 2 kids were swimming in the river
back in the 1950's when her kids were kidnapped. Not too long after she
died of allegedly died of sadness. Now her brightly white colored
spirit can be seen walking on top of the water in the river calling for
her children. Some say she has the voice of the wind and the Mexican
American community named her the IBRONA.
Fresno - St.
John Hall - The basement is haunted By A
Nun, who appears a numerous of times.
Fresno - the
Vendo Company - this is a building that
has existed for at least one hundred years. Before it was Vendo it was
Pinedale military base and before that it was a lumberyard and in the
beginning it was Japanese concentration camp. In the mezzanine you get
the feeling of someone putting their hands on you grabbing you ankles,
near the cooling tower a Japanese woman with half of her face rotted
off has been seen sitting on a green bench that is by a plant entrance,
the main building is where they were held and tortured. In what now is
receiving is were they were processed and killed there are many body's
buried in the ground that were never removed. Sounds of choking
whispering calling out for help. there is a bathroom up stairs that a
Vendo employee hung himself in 7 years ago is still there as a ghost
till this day no one will use the restroom.
Fresno - Roosevelt
High School - This school has 2 ghost,
one boy committed suicide in the boys restroom in the east hall. Then a
boy felt to his death in the auditorium while doing a presentation.
These two boys haunt the school.
Fresno - Tyler
Street House - This modest home has been
the seen of terrifying poltergeist activity since the mid 80's and
continues to this day. This house has had over 22 different occupants
since the phenomenon started. Some have reported seeing red eyes peer
out through closets and darkened bedrooms. Objects fly off countertops
and there has been a bludgeoned body of a cat has been found time after
time in the upstairs closet found by each resident that has lived here
even if they do not own a cat or any animals.
Fullerton - Albertsons
- Sometimes, when all workers leave, cans
of food come flying off the shelves leaving a huge mess for the workers
to clean up. Also there has been sightings of a old man with a cane who
moans and groans. As it stares you in the face, it fades away.
Fullerton - Cal
State Fullerton dorm - Saw small green
glowing balls around 2am sometimes. Heard tapping on the wall adjoining
to the room next door when everyone in the apartment was gone. Heard
noises (such as dishes clattering, taps/knocks, "voices") when nobody
else was home. Always had the feeling that someone was watching you
from behind but nobody was ever there.
Fullerton - Melody
Inn - On the southeast corner of Harbor
and Commonwealth where the old Melody Inn was destroyed by fire in the
80’s an image of the former owner’s father appears with a box of
matches. The ghost of Mr. Melody has actually been known to provide a
light of a smoke to customers outside the new businesses and then
smiles and vanishes.
Fullerton - The
Fox Theater Building - the old Fox
Theatre building is rumored to have Michael O’Donnell’s ghost guarding
the kids in the neighborhood from violence. Michael O’Donnell was the
son of travel agency founder Dorothy O’Donnell who had a troubled life
with substance and drink but a genuine love people, especially kids in
a rough area. He is said to be seen in the lobby of the theatre and
sometimes leaning against a wall reading a book.
Fullerton - Phi
Kappa Tau Fraternity House - The spirit
of a little girl who was murdered in the ravine next to the house has
been said to wander the house at night, sometimes turning on water
taps, turning on and off lights, opening and shutting cabinets.
Sometimes her laughter is heard in summer afternoons.
Fullerton - Plummer
Auditorium - The tunnels that run
underneath Fullerton are accessible from Plummer Auditorium as well as
other spots in Fullerton. Many people will tell you of the "Tunnel
Ghosts". These people are from many different eras. One gentleman from
WWII is said to follow visitors towards the exits, when they reach the
final exit lights, he vanishes.
Fullerton - Ralph's
store - A former worker reports boxes
moving on their own & old spots.
Fullerton - Stadium
Tavern - A "ghost" inhabits the basement
/ cellar, often calling names of workers cleaning up after hours, and
has been seen/ reported by many.
Garden Grove - Garden Grove High School - Rumor has it that the ghost of a girl named Lizzy
haunt the Heritage Hall in the E building. It was reported that in 1933
while Lizzy was exiting from the building, the Long Beach earthquake
took place and pieces of the building fell on top of her. Lizzy was
crushed and died instantly. Janitors and teachers of the school
reported hearing voices, doors slamming, even apparition of a girl in a
dress while working there at night.
Garden Grove - Garden Grove High School - E Building -
Believed to be haunted by Lizzy. Reports say she
has turned on the alarms and has also tripped and pushed people down
the hall. When they opened up the trap door underneath the building,
they could see foot prints in the 2 inch thick dust walking into the
dark. After the earthquake it's now just a 1 story building. Where the
2 former stairwells used to be are just blacked out skylights. Rumor is
that the bottom halves or the original doors are still attached too.
Garden Grove - Midnight Adult Books - Supposedly
a man was stabbed during a bad drug deal back when the property
belonged to a nightclub. Three Adult bookstores all owned by one
company sit next to each other where that club used to be. Employees
have reported sightings of a man in a cowboy hat who has a tendency of
entering occupied video booths and not being there when the clerks
react, since no more than one person is allowed in a booth at a time.
Also the stores experience odd noises at night and have the odd object
fall off of shelves as well as shadowy shapes moving about every now
and again.
Georgetown - American
River Inn - haunted by the ghost of an
old miner.
Georgetown - Georgetown
Fire Department Station 61 - A man from
the Mining Days of Georgetown was captured on digital camera, standing
near the historic Fire Department building. He smiled happily and
pointed at the map on the buildings side while volunteer fire fighters
practiced ladder drills.
Georgetown - Georgetown
Hotel - Woman who lost her lover
committed suicide in the miner days and jumped from the upstairs
balcony. She is still reported to be seen in the upstairs rooms.
Geyserville - Warm
Springs Fish Hatchery - Reports of an
elderly Indian couple roaming the grounds. The main building was
haunted by a ghost (woman) who called the employees names and changed
the radio station. four houses there had their own encounters with
ghosts. The shower came on all times day or night in one house. One of
the other houses reportedly had a spirit of a child that climbed in the
bed them.
Gilroy - Bonfante
Gardens - At night after the park is
closed, workers have seen a small carousel in Claudia's Garden turn on
all by itself. Lights, music, everything.
Gilroy - Chictactac-Adams
Interpretive Park - Chitactac-Adams
Interpretive Center, on Watsonville Road, is the site of an Indian
burial grounds now buried under the asphalt parking lot, drivers have
reported that at night while driving by, that their air conditioners in
their cars will suddenly turn on & blast cold air upon them. There
are trails to take through the park to see ancient rock carvings made
by the once native Ohlone tribe. This was once the main village for the
area.
Gilroy - hwy
152 (blood alley) - There have been
numerous sightings of a woman searching for her child, hearing the
sound of a stage coach and the snorting and breathing of horses, and a
rumor that a woman was killed by a truck driver and she appears in the
passenger seat of the truck, screams" and then vanishes.
Gilroy - Mt.
Madonna State Park - Mansion ruins and
surrounding area are Haunted by Former owner Henry Miller and Daughter,
Daughter has been seen in open fields riding a horse, She was killed on
site while riding a horse, she fell and broke her neck. There has been
ghostly visions on horse back in mist seen floating in Hills for
decades. Also reported, an unidentified man called the kiask at the
park to report this strange sighting to park employees. He stated that
he and a companion were driving down Pole Line rode which runs through
the park at about midnight, along side the wooded road a girl in a long
white prom dress was walking.
Gilroy - Old
Gilroy Hotel - There are 2 ghosts that
haunt this building. A woman in her 20's and a little girl. Story goes,
when the building was a hotel a man went in and raped and killed 2
people. The woman is seen at the top of the stairs, and the little girl
is seen in the hallway. footsteps are heard, the electric piano's keys
are struck when it is not plugged in, lights go on and off, the little
girl is sometimes seen looking out the window, one employee recalls
being touched on the back of the neck by one of the ghosts. Doors
rattle as though someone is locked inside and can't get out.
Gilroy - South
Valley Jr. High School - Inside old ROP
building in the hallway footsteps were heard by the nightshift
employees. Upon investigation no one was located in or around the area.
Glen Ellen - Wolf
House - Jack London's House - The feeling
of the place was one of dread. Visions of seeing the house in flames
and hearing cries for help.
Glen Ellen - rail
road crossing - It's said that in Glen
Helen by the rail road tracks if you put your car in neutral with your
car not facing the rail road tracks and wait two through three minutes
it is said that the ghosts of six kids will start to push your car
slowly at first, then with a rapid speed they will try to get you to
the tracks, if you try to stop, it is difficult if they have gained
their full speed! You can verify this by driving to the nearest gas
station and if you look closely you can see their little hand prints!
Glendale - Brand
Park - The park used to be the estate of
the brand family, with the library having been the mansion they lived
in. There is a trail behind the house leading up in to the hills. If
you follow it, it will take you to the family cemetery. Mr. Brand's
tomb is a large pyramid where occult activity is pretty common. Also,
further up in the hills is what looks to be a 3-foot tall stone
watchtower.
Glendora - Bennett
Home - It belongs to the Daughters of the
American Revolution and after having purchased the residence in 1982 at
their first monthly tea, they all reported having seen the apparition
of a lady whom was a former resident, in the early 1910s'.
Glendora - Glendora
High School - a boy student in the mid
90's left a suicide note to his parents early in the morning and he
brought a gun with him. On a foggy morning the boy shot him self on the
black top straight across from the boys locker room where the portable
class rooms are. One teacher who used to teach in one of those class
rooms said from the corner of his eye he saw a boy sitting in the desks
and when he looked up the boy was not there. When the teacher went on
brake the teacher who was in the class next to his asked, "what was all
that banging in your class room?" after that the teacher knew that
something was up and found out his old class room is on the location
were the boy shot him self.
Glendora - Wal-Mart
- This Wal-Mart is said to be built on an
Indian burial ground, and the story appeared in the local newspaper. An
employees working in the garden center heard the door alarm went off
about ten times and felt cold gusts of air through the room. There were
only three workers there with the doors closed and all of them
experienced the same thing at the same time.
Gorman - Gorman
School - Rumors that a little girl had
died on the land some time ago. When they built the school, they built
the cafeteria over where she was buried. The exact spot where she was
buried, it is said that the cement never dried and is always wet. She
also has fun with the kids and teachers there. Sometimes she has been
seen running around the school.
Granada Hills - 118 Freeway eastbound - Apparitions
of a family of 4 (mom, dad, 2 kids) standing at the side of the
freeway, all looking lost and forlorn, but with no broken-down car in
sight. When you pull up to help they are gone.
Grass Valley - The Holbrooke Hotel - The
downstairs reception hall is said to be haunted by spirits that drag
chairs across the floor, turn lights on and off and voices are heard
when no one is down there. The hotel was built in the 1800's and has
hosted presidents, actors and was at one time a brothel. Arletta
Douglas supposedly haunts the dining room named after her. Many of the
hotel rooms are haunted by former guests who made the hotel a second
home.
Grass Valley - Jack in the Box - People
that had worked there for years say that odd things happened at night
there, but the submitter to the haunted place passed it off as "hazing
the new girl." There's one ghost they call the "Miner". He liked to
turn off the soda fountain at the drive through during busy times. They
have also heard children's laughter in the lobby after the doors are
locked. Offerings of toys left on the tables are moved or disappear.
They also looked up one night and saw their reflection in the window,
along with the indistinct reflection of someone standing behind them,
but no one was there when they turned around. - February 2004 Update: The Jack in the Box has been
leveled and rebuilt.
Grass Valley - North Star Mine Lodge - Was
converted into a Christian boarding school in the 1960's. It was shut
down in the mid 80's. Doors opened and closed by themselves drastic
temperature changes pictures flew off walls windows opening and
shutting these events were witnessed by quite a few of the other
students often by groups of us at one time the temperature changes and
things flying off the walls seem to occur at the same time. - September 2004 update: Someone has bought this lodge
and is planning to restore it and open it as a lodge again, but it is
heavily guarded now and its not a good idea to go up there anymore.
Grass Valley - the Round Room - proceed
past the fairgrounds 5 miles to the dump, left on next road (Wolf
Mountain) and take it to a 1/4 mile before you see it dead end at the
top of the mountain, sharp left on short dirt driveway, you will reach
the round room. Supposedly an old water tank, this place has been a
local legend for many years. Cold spots and apparitions reported. The
acoustics inside will amaze you. Story goes that Dr. Anton LaVey
(founder of church of Satan) moved his commune here in the late
sixties, and held séances and rituals in this room for several
years. All inquiries made by the submitter of this haunted place to
validate this through the church of Satan were denied, and was told
they had no knowledge of such events. However, the locals that have
been here forever swear it to be true. Whatever the veracity of its
history may be, the round room has a deep and pervading negative prese
nce, and be careful, there have been several murders there over the
years, reportedly by people in white robes. Blood found but no bodies.
Truth taken to the grave. please be safe.
Groveland - The
Groveland Hotel - The Bed & Breakfast
is haunted by the ghost of an old miner named "Lyle". Lyle died in his
sleep in his own room and hasn't left since. You can stay in "Lyle's
room" at the Groveland and possibly have your makeup thrown off the
dresser or the water faucet turning off & on mysteriously. Lyle
does not like people, especially women, in his room. - March 2005 Correction: Lyle does really like people
and loves to play with them. He just abhors women's cosmetics on his
dresser and will move them over to the sink. He wanders all around the
hotel and can be found watching over the chef and popping open the
convection oven doors when the bread is perfect (the chef forgot to set
the timer). He will take a shower when no one is watching, but the
water is running, he watches over guests as they are falling asleep and
checks to make sure everything is ok (repor ted by guests in Room 9),
created a hair-raising experience for a group of 18 guests on a FAM
trip from the UK by dimming the lights in the dining room several
times, then sending a sharp chill from the ceiling, causing everyone in
the room to gasp.
Guerneville -
Mays Canyon Road- The stories began
around June of 1991. One night a young man was driving along Mays
Canyon Road when he thought he spotted a woman standing in the middle
of the road. She appeared suddenly; at first he believed he'd hit her,
but later realized he'd passed through her figure with his vehicle. Not
long after -- perhaps a few months -- a girl (who had no knowledge of
the previous sighting) was walking along the road at twilight when she
encountered a woman walking the opposite direction. The woman asked the
girl if she knew some of the other boys who took walks down Mays at
nighttime, and the girl replied that she did. They chatted briefly and
parted ways. Later, it was discovered that her description of the woman
matched that of the woman who had been "run over." Because so many
people have described dangerous or frightening experiences on Mays
Canyon Road, many of the detai ls where chosen to be left out. - The submitter realizes this is frustrating, but they
believe Mays can be a dangerous place and don't want to cause anyone
else to become hurt by visiting the site and playing with the energies
that are present. Always use extreme caution.
Half Moon Bay - Highway 92 - When
driving up 92(near Skyline Cemetery) at around 3:00 A.M you will feel a
cold hand on your shoulder. When you look in your rearview mirror
you'll see a woman sitting in your back seat. It is said that she was
killed in a automobile accident in the 70's. They say she's looking for
a ride home.
Hanford - Bastille
- Now a bar, used to be a jail. People
died in there and now tend to haunt the bar and frighten the cooks in
the kitchen. New stairs leading to the bathroom become old and frail on
occasions.
Hanford - Calvary
Cemetery - there is a mausoleum in that
cemetery that opens up every Friday people and tourists come to see
this strange building they come to visit friends family and to look
around the building there has been some feelings of strange entities in
the mausoleum some people claim to hear voices and others claim to see
strange sightings of spirits that have been there for over 47 years
there has been a strange lady in a white dress circling the building
since the early sixties if someone can come and check it out and take a
picture you wont know what you will catch.
Hanford - Hanford
Civic Auditorium - When first entering
the Civic Auditorium, there can be felt very cold breezes that pass by
even when all windows are closed. In the boys bathroom, there can be
heard men talking about legal issues when no one is around and
occasionally, a lawyer in a older style brown suit and rugged briefcase
can be seen on Christmas day. Windows with latches come undone by
themselves, and the windows will open and close and re-latch on its
own. Within the Auditorium itself, ghosts can be seen on the upper
balcony watching an invisible show. The most noted person was a man in
a black suit with a white shirt on; he has dark brown hair and brown
eyes, with a black mustache. He is often seen applauding for an
invisible show, and once done applauding he vanishes.
Hanford - the
old Hanford Sentinel Building - not much
is known about the old Hanford sentinel building now but it is said
that a ghost inhabits the building people said they sometimes hear
noise in the building.
Hanford - Irwin
Inn - Now a restaurant, the Irwin Street
Inn is home to at least 3 ghosts. There are occasional slamming of
windows, moving of bed sheets, switching on and off lamps. Sometimes
ghosts can be seen in the dining area and on the second floor.
Hanford - Irwin
and Bush intersection- sights of an old
man in a chair back in the hallway booming and laughing sounds and
flickering lights creaking on stairs when your not around them. If you
go to the second floor you will see and hear ghost and feel cool winds.
Hanford - Kings
River Bank - A ghost has been seen by the
workers.
Hanford - Old
Mental Hospital on Irwin St. - The ghost
of the head nurse can be seen pacing on the front porch. If you sit on
the front steps, she will come out and talk to you and then ask you to
leave. There is no power going into the house, but a white light can be
seen thru the front window and a red light thru the back porch window
(these windows are not aligned, so it is not the same light).
Harbor City - Harbor
Park - aka Duck Pond - Its been said that at this park you can sell your soul
to the devil and as a matter of fact its been also said that there was
a "rap singer" that sold his soul and became real famous. They say that
the devil comes to you in the best of manner and has a very pleasant
smell.
Hawthorne - Hawthorne
High school - In Nyman Hall you sometimes
see an old woman in black wandering around there. And also lights go
off an on mysteriously. In the girls bathroom by building seventeen you
can hear the sounds of a girl weeping. In the same bathroom the toilets
flush and the water turns on and off.
Hawthorne Blvd - Redondo Beach - General Cinema Theater I - It is no longer used. The stock room could not be
kept clean; boxes would always be opened, overturned, and/or dumped on
the floor. The faucet would turn on and off by itself. Behind the
concession stand, you could feel someone brush past you and bump into
you as you were working and the cabinets would be padlocked at night
and would be open in the morning, with the contents disheveled and
strewn about.
Hayward - Cal
State University - Ghosts are seen near
Robinson Hall around 10pm. A male & female who are not shy. The
female is said to wear a "little bo peep" costume.
Hayward - General
Cinema Southland - The theater is haunted
by George. He haunts theatre 4 and 5 and the upstairs. - March 2008 update: has been torn down. 3 restaurants
have recently been built on that location across from the mall.
Hayward - Hayward
Plunge - In the late 1960's a swim coach
who taught at the indoor pool next to the memorial park kidnapped all
of his kids that he was teaching and led them to this creek that is
along side the trail in the back of this park and left them there, told
them to wait that he'd be back. The kids stayed there all night until
there were no more people around. The swim coach returned and murdered
them in the woods and left their bodies in the creek. It is said that
if you walk through the park at nighttime up the trail about 200 yards,
you will witness many strange things. Mini- rockslides will occur in
strange spots, you will find yourself in cold spots and see dark
shadows, as you reach the circle clearing, stop and listen for a few
minutes. You will hear the children's footsteps all around you, some
laughing and running, some crying and pleading for your help.
Hayward - Lone
Tree Cemetery - Faces have been seen in
the bushes. Strange noises heard inside the graveyard. Things have been
moved from headstones to unexplainable places. Whispering and thumps
heard when walking through the main part of the cemetery. Lights flash
and bells chime. Strange movements and dark shadows in the distance. A
few orbs have been seen with the naked eye. Many came out on the
camera. Strange noises heard on the video when played back.
Hayward - Southland
General Cinema - A former employee named
George is said to haunt the upstairs and theaters 4 and 5. Children
sometimes come out crying saying they saw someone when there was no one
there. The theater is no longer Open.
Hayward - Vic
Hubbards - An Employee was killed by a
dropped engine block, some employee's say he haunts the warehouse
behind the shop. Haunting includes "clowning on ricers", "stealing
altezza lights"
Healdsburg - Madrona
Manor - This Victorian era hotel is the
home of a ghost that lives in one of the ground floor rooms. A little
girl does no harm and her history is unknown.
Heber - Old
Heber School House - Noises such as
stomping and eraser banging are heard especially at night. Before the
windows were completely broken off, there was one front window that was
broken in the shape of a women.
Hemet - Hemet
High School Theatre - The resident ghost
of the theatre, Christine, has left messages on the walls and on the
roof. She has also been seen onstage and in the backstage areas.
Usually she is personified as a white blurry figure that people see
wandering the stage.
Hemet/San Jacinto - Entire Valley - In the
late 1800s the San Jacinto Valley (Hemet & San Jacinto) was the
home of Ramona and Alessandro (Helen Hunt Jackson). When Alessandro was
shot and killed Ramona cursed the valley saying that no one born here
would ever be able to leave. There were only three routes out of the
valley back then. A fourth was added in later years. To this day anyone
born and raised in the valley that has left by way of one of the
original three "exits" has said to experienced an irresistible urge to
return and once they do they end up in a financial position preventing
them from leaving again. But those who have left by way of the fourth
route manage to stay gone.
Hemet - Santa
Fe Menlo Cemetery - Strange lights have
been seen accompanied by strange electrical feelings.
Hermosa Beach - Prospect Street School - Now
used as storage for the city, witness have reported hearing little
children's voices but the school has longed been closed
Highland Park - Franklin high school - Reports
of the apparition of a girl in white.
Hollywood - Laurel
Canyon - There have been numerous reports
over the years regarding an intersection on Laurel Canyon. on several
occasions at the intersection of Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain Dr.
people have witnessed an old carriage pulled by white horses that seems
to dart out onto the canyon road from Lookout Mountain as though the
horses are at a full speed gallop only to disappear causing car
accidents.
Hollywood - All
Star Cafe - There have been many
sightings of sprits in the All Star Cafe. In the Ladies Vanity Room,
there have been cold spots and lights flashing out of no where. There
were also a few sightings of a little girl and boy running around the
cafe and suddenly disappearing.
Hollywood - Beachwood
Drive Apartments - Ghost of an old man is
seen walking the central staircase.
Hollywood - Chateau
Marmont - Famous hotel from the 20's that
has been home to every legend from Howard Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, Boris
Karloff, Jim Morrison and of course is famous for site of John
Belushi's death. Every kind of phenomena has been witnessed here.
Hollywood - El
Capitan Theater - suicide in balcony
seats...energy from suicide seat felt. Weird evil feeling in downstairs
lobby at night, old manager died in office (now gone) Disney cannot get
rid of sighting of ghost of manager...so they walled off window where
ghost was seen from the street, above entry way doors. Projectionist
died...ghost seen.
Hollywood - El
Compadre Restaurant - There have been
sightings of two ghosts who walk near the piano after closing. The bar
is also haunted by some unknown presence by the large mirror in the
wall.
Hollywood - Hollywood
Forever Cemetery - This cemetery is
mainly used to bury old stars of the silver screen. One such star,
Valentino, is visited by a "lady in black." She has been reported to
take Valentino, the heartthrob actor of the silent 20's era, exactly 2
long-stemmed red roses. She is never disturbed and walks into the
mausoleum at night, every night. This is one ghost that can be counted
upon to be seen.
Hollywood - Hollywood
High School - A young boy that goes by
the name of Toby committed suicide after his girlfriend left him for
someone else. Many teachers and students have reported hearing doors
open and close by them selves, loud hammering, objects moved from one
place to another, a shadow roaming around the auditorium (where he hung
himself from) and unexplained sounds coming from the second floor.
Another young man reportedly drowned in the pool and has been seen
walking around the gym hall and pool.
Hollywood - Hollywood
Mann's Chinese Theatre - Noises heard
near the employees locker room, flickering lights. People believe it to
be the spirit of a worker that hung himself in the early 1900's.
Hollywood - Hollywood
sign and Griffith observatory - Two
people have committed suicide of the Hollywood sign and there have been
many sightings of weird looking figures and lights by the sign late at
night. From the Griffith observatory, you can see the sign very well
and employees there have reported sightings of ghosts by the sign.
Hollywood - Immaculate
Heart High School - Sometimes individual
students see the shadow of the nun when the closet's open In the drama
room. The sound of footsteps on the stage has been reported. One
technician has claimed to feel a cold breeze sweep across his neck
while on the cat walk.
Hollywood - KCET
studio - It has been said that a woman
and two children haunt one of the studios. My father used to work
there. He would come back for lunch and things would be moved. For
example the big rolls? of heavy wire that cannot be moved by even one
or two people. They came back one time to find a of wooden beam props
moved from one side of the studio to the next - impossible. He also
said things would drop dangerously close to his head.
Hollywood - Mann's
Chinese Theater - The Ghost of actor
Victor Killian, roams the sidewalk here, looking for the man who
murdered him. There were odd things that happened in the main theatre.
Between shows when workers would be cleaning the auditorium, they would
often see out of the corner of their eyes black shapes that would
"fall" from the ceiling. Upon investigation there would be nothing
there. Also random times women and employees wouldn't want to go down
into the women's restroom. They would begin to feel odd and then change
their minds about going down the stairs.
Hollywood - Mullholand
Drive - Errol Flynn's Former Estate - Residents
in the neighboring homes have reported lights of all shapes and colors
on the property. And noises of that of a social gathering or gala party
going on. The most active month is usually August, when these noises
are heard on almost a nightly basis. Very amusing considering that all
that is left of the home is the foundation and a tennis court.
Hollywood - Roosevelt
Hotel - A stop at the Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel is a must, as at least two famous, and several not so famous
ghosts reside there. The hotel's most famous haunting concerns a mirror
which sits outside the elevators on the hotel's lower level. The mirror
originally was part of the furnishings in a room which was frequently
used by Marilyn Monroe. Several people have reported seeing the tragic
actress' image reflected in the glass of this particular mirror.
Hollywood - The
Comedy Store - Was once a famous
nightclub and restaurant in the 30's/40's and the basement is said to
be haunted with an evil entity.
Hollywood - Todd
A/O building - Apparently a worker back
in the 70's committed suicide in the building. Lights turn on and off.
Things move on desks sometimes even disappearing when no one is
watching and chairs roll around on their own. Security guards for the
facility confirm that some nights a figure can be seen roaming the
halls and a quiet mumbling voice is often heard through out the
facility. Todd A/O is a final dub stage for the film industry and has
been around since the 60's
Hollywood - Universal
Studios - Lon Chaney Sr.'s ghost is often
seen running in the catwalks above the stage, he is often wearing a
phantom-like cape. He usually lets his presence be known by opening and
closing doors, flickering lights off and on. One strange event that
happens is the tinkling of a chandelier that was removed from the set
years ago, one of the original props from the movie.
Hollywood - Universal
Studios - Back to the future ride - Employees will clean the area and close doors to the
ride rooms. A few minutes later they will go back to find candy
wrappers on the floor and doors opened. Employees also experienced cold
spots. An employee stated a little girl died on the ride due to an
illness.
Hollywood - Vogue
Theater - Built in 1935 and opened as an
800 seat movie theatre in 1936. Nine entities have been documented
since August of 1997. Six children, an adult female and two adult
males. Entities are extremely active and communicative. allegedly
including one particular spirit identified as "Fritz," a projectionist
at the theater, who died in the projection booth. Other ghosts here
include a maintenance engineer, as well as a school teacher and her
students who were killed almost a century ago when Prospect Elementary
School (which used to stand on the site) burned down. The Vogue has
been featured on numerous network TV broadcasts, and it is claimed that
most film crews have had paranormal experiences inside the Vogue. (6675
Hollywood Blvd., east of Highland.)
Hollywood - Wattles
Mansion - There used to be a bus stop
right in front of the property, but it had to be moved because there
were many complaints of screaming, and mysterious sounds of horses
galloping and whinnying all night long. An apparition of a woman has
also been seen on the grounds at night.
Hollywood - Wax
Museum - during a trip to the museum,
there were people there that were saying that they felt cold spots,
lights going off and on and voices, right by the last supper.
Humboldt - Eureka
- Granada convalescing hospital - October
2007: this submission has been removed
Huntington Beach - Bolsa Chica Wetlands - An
apparition of a boy about 11 to 13 years old dressed in all white has
been seen around a bomb shelter, and when spotted he will run around a
corner and disappear.
Huntington Beach - Edison High School - At
night when driving by the Edison track on Magnolia Street strange
lights can be seen dancing around the baseball field. As well
apparitions of what to appear to be people on the back soccer field. In
the boy's locker room in the early morning showers turn on and off on
their own plus lockers rattle and bang.
Huntington Beach - Ethel Dwyer Middle School - is said to be haunted by the ghost of Ethel Dwyer, a
woman who went to school there as a girl and was then a teacher there
as well. When one drives by the school they can often see lights on in
various rooms where none should be on and strange, paranormal sounds
are sometimes heard coming from the school boiler room.
Huntington Beach - Huntington Beach High School - Young man named George hung himself in the middle of a
play in the auditorium. If he doesn't know you will be performing, he
will play tricks on you or hurt you. Performers must sign a paper and
put it where his rope is. If the rope is removed, the next play will be
ruined. Sets have fallen, been broken, and disappeared with no way to
take them out in the first place. People forget lines, lose their
voice, are hit with falling sets or lights (never fatal). Nooses used
in a play will undo themselves.
Huntington Park - St. Mathias Mission House - it use to be the home of an elderly couple who also
died in here many years ago. Many people have seen an old person at the
mirror in where their living room use to be. A lot of people have herd
footsteps, weird moans and sounds, things fall and lights turn on and
off when no one is in the room.
Idyllwild - Idyllwild
Arts Academy - McNeale Hall - The
main boys dorm at Idyllwild Arts Academy has been reported to be
haunted. Some of the occurrences have been: hearing running in the hall
after lights out, hearing strange voices, items being moved, as well as
being touched by something when no ones there.
Imperial - Imperial
Historic Cemetery - If you go out there
late at night, you get the feeling of being watched, It Feels so much
colder once you enter the grounds, there are really weird warm and cold
spots in the graveyard, seems kind of unnatural. It makes you want to
leave right away. Stories of people taking photo's out there and
getting weird lights in them. Also of a monk like figure by the
entrance. Sometimes 1 to 3 shadow hooded figures, are seen late at
night by the front entrance to the left by the brick triangle, there
are cold spots in the same area. You get a eerie feeling of impending
doom and of being watched and not being welcomed. Weird lights have
been seen there floating across the graveyard from greenish blue to
fire like red. A flame like mist has been seen coming out of grave
sights and then going back into the ground. Camcorders sometimes turn
off even though fully charged. It is ve ry unsettling.
Imperial - Sunset
Ranch Estates - Cemetery - A light from
the cemetery is seen every night. At some angles it is green, others
its orange. It looks like its moving - like someone is carrying it.
Imperial Valley - Along the canals and streams - The canals of the Imperial Valley are said to be the
home of La Llorona, which in English means The Crying Lady. She was
said to be Malinche, the wife of the Spanish conquistador Cortez. An
Indian maiden who was taken by lust during his stay, who also bore him
2 children. It was when Cortez was to return to Spain and told Malinche
that he would take the children and not her back to Spain that she
temporarily went insane and killed her own 2 children to prevent Cortez
from taking them. She then disposed of their bodies in a nearby river.
It is said, that after death she is supposed to walk along the canals
and rivers crying looking for her lost dead children. Reports describe
her as a long slender ethereal woman dressed in a white tattered dress.
Reports have come from all over the Imperial Valley.
Indio - Indio
High School - Indio High has been around
since the early 60's. A former caretaker reports many experiences. One
occurred late one rainy night in the front entrance of the school, it
is an open space with a once fountain turned garden in the 90's. One
Rainy night he was out doing his job cleaning up classrooms and campus
when from the corner of his eyes he saw two figures in the distance
sitting at the fountain talking and kissing. He thought this was odd
considering its near midnight, it's raining, and at the time the school
was practically in the middle of the desert. So with out taking his
eyes off of them he began to approach them to ask them if they might
need a ride or shelter from the rain. As he got half way near the
fountain the male figure wearing a varsity jacket turned to him, the
girl wearing a pretty prom like dress stood up and turned towards the
caretaker, that's when he realiz ed they hadn't been affected by the
rain... there clothes were completely dried and puffy! They faded away
and disappeared. In the late 1970's or early 80's a group of students
were returning home from prom night, the driver didn't see a ditch in
the road and hit it, the car flipped killing 2 girls, 2 boys, and
leaving the fifth person in the car in coma for several years when she
finally came-to she was left a vegetable. Later she died at the age of
27 in her home. If you want to research this info your welcomed to do
so at the Indio Library, and Indio High School library.
Inglewood - Inglewood
Park Cemetery - sightings of supernatural
beings and noises heard throughout the large cemetery. Employees have
seen strange and somewhat supernatural occurrences. One such incident
occurred when an employee tried to approach a woman who seemed lost but
disappeared before he could approach her.
Ione - Youth
Prison - an eerie feeling has been
reported. An old abandoned youth prison has been closed since 1960. It
used to house youth offenders. - February
2007 Additional Information: this place is currently under construction
and is technically not abandoned the current youth prison was moved
down the hill...but is under the same owner ownership. - Preston Castle
the current youth prison Division
Board
Irvine - BlackStar
Canyon - It's located behind Irvine park
and the signs that say "no authorities will help you beyond this point"
is a main reason why people don't go in. It's supposed to be home of
the "KKK" and strange sightings and noises are heard such as running
and screaming. Also lion type figures are said to be walking on the
mountain tops. "Warning" If you do plan to go take flashlights because
it's is freakishly dark (a sort of weapon would also be a good idea)
Irvine - Irvine
High School Theatre - A very talented
drama student died suddenly back in the 1970's. To this day, people
working in the theatre at night say that the friendly spirit often sits
in the center of the house and can sometimes be seen as a green faintly
glowing region of the seating.
Irvine - Orange
Tree patio homes - Oriental Man walking
his dog, and practicing his golf swings walks by the pool areas almost
every night at 10:30pm.
Irvine - University
of California Irvine - Campus Dr. - when driving alone at night your car will stall and a
woman will stand at your window. she asks you for help to find her
daughter but for some odd reason, her mouth doesn't move, you just hear
her subconsciously. you cant refuse because well, she ends up in the
passenger seat anyway. the story behind it is that a woman was looking
for her child after being kidnapped and she found out that her daughter
was raped and killed. she was in denial about it so she kept looking
for her. she was walking along campus dr. and went down to the ditch
and never came back up.
Irvine - Woodbridge
High School - there has been sightings of
a large black apparition roaming the school sometimes if you see it you
must get far away from it sometimes the apparition will get mad and
throw school trashcans around.
Jamestown - The
Willow Steak House - The Willow Hotel
reportedly has been haunted since the 1800s. Under the Hotel an old
gold mine caved in and killed 23 miners, and now the hotel is haunted
by these miners.
Joshua Tree - Joshua
Tree Inn- Objects shake, move by
themselves and sometimes disappear only to reappear later.
Keddie - Keddie
Resort - The unsolved murder of a family
took place in cabin #28, and that writing appears on the walls of the
cabin, along with chairs moving and other phenomenon. The once deserted
resort is being renovated by a new owner, although cabin #28 has
supposedly been demolished after being condemned. A reader reports
being there on Jan.24, 2003 and cabin #28 still stands.
Keene - Keene
Hospital - The old abandoned hospital can
be found off dirt roads in the back of the small town of Keene. It was
once a huge TB hospital that housed so many victims that it was
eventually forced to close. Legend has it, that in the children's ward
you can hear kids laughing and talking. In the rest of the building,
strange voices and noises can be heard.
Kelso - Kelso
Depot - when the place was abandoned and
closed down you could see a man walking upstairs. It has been told that
many of years ago a man hung himself in room #6 and to this day is a
strange stain on the wall in that room.
Kerman - Kerney
Mansion - In this small town there is a
historical place called Kerney Mansion. Built around 100 years ago Mr.
Kerneys mansion is surrounded by trees. Railroad tracks near this
mansion are definitely haunted. Seen by many eye witnesses, if you
cross over these railroad tracks at night you will definitely see the
Kerney witch who lives near by wearing all white pleading for the cars
to stop. Legend has it that she will follow your car or you as you pass
her, and if you look into her eyes, you'll die.
Kerman - Kerney
Park - Witnesses have heard the laughter
of children as if they were playing when none are present at 1:30am.
Kern - Arvin
- Arvin Mortuary - There's a ghost in the
mortuary that they refer to as the white lady, She has been seen many
times, there's also been many sightings of a white light, there's been
many times when the PA system was off, and you could still hear choir
music clearly.
Kern county - Lone
Pine - Recreation park off hwy 395 - a
little girl sliding down the slide wearing a pink jacket and a white
shirt with pig tails small maybe 3 or 4 years old scene at night
12/05/03
Kern County/ Bakersfield - Lerdo Highway - A woman
dressed in a flowing gown, somewhat like the ones from the thirties or
forties, can be seen floating about a foot off the road from East to
West on Lerdo Highway between Freeway 99 and State Route 43. She has
been seen there for years and years. Legend has it that she was on her
way to her wedding and was killed in a car accident.
Keyes - Single
T Canal - A mysterious lady with a bluish
glow has been seen roaming the banks of this canal. She has even been
known to chase people until they get off the canal bank. Legend has it
that the woman died trying to save one of her children caught in one of
the irrigation pipes. She is known to locals as The Blue Lady.
Kingsburg - Bangor
St. - The old church on the north side of
Bangor St. has been the place of many unnatural occurrences. Lights
have been seen in the building even though it has no power. Doors lock
and unlock on their own. People have been seen in the windows at night,
but during the day the building was boarded up. An old man could be
seen on the porch standing against the wall. He would turn and walk
through the front doors of the church. Humanoid figures with wings and
tails would stand on top of the roof. Something would swing from a rope
in the bell tower. You could hear the bell in the bell tower, even
though the bell was removed years ago. Windows that were nailed shut
would open and close on their own. Children have been seen playing in
front of the old building. Glowing orbs have been seen, and strange
figures with no faces and no legs below the knee have chased people off
the property many time s. - NOTE: the
building was torn down about four years ago and a house built on the
property. The house took an extremely long time to build, much longer
than it should have taken.
La Habra - Estelli/
the hills - when going back sometimes you
can hear voices yelling. some foot prints of animals that have 7 claws,
and loud whooshing noises when getting close to the hills, but goes
away when u get a little bit farther away, creatures that move
incredibly fast and make high pitched growls, with spikes on their
backs and dark clouds gather above and follow you back to estelli. you
get feelings of fear and the feeling your not welcomed
La Habra - Friendly
Hills Medical Group - building is now
abandoned from bankruptcy. Reports by security people of cold spats,
toilets flushing by themselves. Voices in hallways. Heart monitor heard
in cardiac room. Some EVP phenomena recorded. Feeling of not being
welcomed. - UPDATE: The building is now
torn down.
La Habra - La
Habra Depot Theater - Loud footsteps in
theater. - Amtrak train (used as a dressing room): Loud banging noises,
vision of young girl peeking around wall, vision of couple in Victorian
couple walking (seen in mirror).
La Habra - Serria
Vista school - people have seen ghostly
things up around the class room areas and on the street right next to
the back of the school, people run away from the school and when they
look back there is something chasing them ( sounds like a lie but it
has happened to many people) when you are there by your self the swings
starts to swing and there are creaking sounds all around the school
many sightings of a little girl in one of the girls restrooms
La Habra Heights - Hacienda Golf Club - This
80 year-old golf club has many elderly members and a lot of these
members passed away while at the club. Strange occurrences at the club
include noises, lights that come on by themselves, and especially,
there are dark shadows that move in the corridors and on the golf
course.
La Jolla - Muirlands
Middle School - As you walk down the
halls you can sometimes hear people talking behind you an when you turn
you find that there is no one. In the auditorium you can sometimes the
lights turn on and off by themselves.
La Mirada - Bristol
Drive - June 2008 update: there is no
longer an abandoned house some one has moved in and changed it up.
La Mirada - Creek
Park - Across the bridge to the right
there is a stair case up a hill in between bushes. at the top of the
stairs there is whitish grey figure standing there. it looks like a
statue or a person with a hood on. Late at night when you are walking
down the stairs by the horse trail or on the horse trail, people have
heard a little girl screaming for her mom. If you walk by the opening
in the trees closest to the stairs people claim to see the little girl
looking at them
La Mirada - Taco
Bell/Pizza Hut - Roscrances Ave - Some
reports say in the bathroom you hear voices in your ear and lights
flicker when you are alone next to the window, Reports has seen a man
next to you on the table in the back
La Puente - Hurley
Elementary School - Tetherball courts - They
said two kids were playing tetherball after school around 7p.m one of
the kids hit the ball and the chains wrapped around one of the kids
throat. The other one didn't know what to do while his/her friend was
choking. So the kid ran home. They said the kid choked on the chains.
Late nights residents say you could here a chain hitting the pole on
the court and a sound of someone choking.
La Puente - Nogales
burgers - the father of the owner walks
around at night there have been many accounts of this happening. the
owner has seen it many times. so have security guards. this man died
many years ago in a grease fire. where he burned to death. there's also
a wall with photo's that was once throws across the restaurant.
La Puente - Nogales
High School - Nogales is haunted by a
spirit that wanders the quad late at night. It is said to be the spirit
of a young student who was killed on the near by train tracks.
La Puente - Puente
Hills Mall AMC - workers claim to see
little kids running around the theater and then they suddenly vanish
into thin air. - Update & a little
background info: The Puente Hills Mall
AMC theater was attached to the mall until 1996 The Broadway Department
Store was known by employees to be very haunted. On the third floor,
stock workers were frightened by music coming from a locked and empty
stockroom, and the area of the freight elevator was quite simply a
terrifying place for me to work in. Workers had feelings of panic and
chills. On the second floor, employees heard their names called by
someone unseen (this was a very common occurrence, experienced even by
non-believers), clothing would swing on racks as though someone were
walking between the racks, cool breezes and the sound of breathing were
felt and heard in the stockrooms of the Children 's Department, and
several times before the store opened employees heard the sounds of
someone straightening the racks in the Lingerie department, and see two
legs wearing black pants standing behind a tall fixture (on which were
hung bathrobes, etc.), but the sounds and legs disappeared when they
went to see who was working. All of this occurred both before, during,
and after store hours. Also, in the second floor freight area, they
would see people passing the door of the room in which they were
working, but no one was present when they checked the hallway. This,
too, was a common activity. The first floor had similar activities, but
employees working after hours in the freight dock would see what we
thought were customers passing the windows of the dock doors, but when
investigated, the store was empty. One dock guy quit after he
experienced this a couple of times. The store was closed and torn down
in 1996, and the theater was built. Reportedly only one person ever
died on the store property: a manager had a heart attack while at work,
and died while they were loading her into the ambulance. A child was
severely injured once while playing on the escalator from the second to
the first floor, and his blood stains had soaked into the tile at the
foot of the escalator and remained until the store was destroyed.
La Quinta - Wal-Mart
- Employees claim to hear a little girls
laughter late at night when the stores closed and they've also heard
toys falling off the shelves.
La Selva Beach - Tyler House - What is
now a teenage recovery house is the site of the Leonard House were a
family lived during the gold rush in the mid 1800s, but moved to Aptos
after a while. There was also a Jesuit Mission in the area, both have
since been torn down and the Tyler House stands in it's place. The
beach near by is also haunted by a boy who drowned there in the 1960s.
The Tyler House residents have experienced noises and objects moving as
well as reports of windows opening and closing on their own, a very
haunted house.
La Verne - Damien
High School - Towards dusk a large, fast
moving white mist-like cloud can be seen moving across campus in the
direction of the football field. It has also been observed moving
across the football field. The 400 building towards the south of the
school nearby by the gym is rumored to be haunted by an unknown spirit.
Late at night, it's rumored you can see the hallway lights turn on by
themselves and then see a shadow walking the hallway, but there's
nobody there when one tries to look.
Lafayette - Lafayette
Park Hotel - Guests complain about a
little girl calling for her mommy and jumps on the beds. Apparitions,
Pictures fall of the walls vending machines dispense soda on their own,
cold spots & doors slam.
Laguna Hills - Top of the World - Story
is that a little girl that ran away from home to her school because her
parents where fighting. She sat on the swing crying. The next morning
the custodian found her, evidently she had died of hypothermia. Reports
of hearing and seeing a little girl in the play ground at night.
Laguna Woods - formerly Laguna Hills - Leisure World - Theater - Footsteps
are heard in the booth by staff in the offices below, especially when
there is no one in the building. Technicians have reported someone
looking over their shoulders during shows. Opinion has it that this is
'Bud', a former printer who moved to Leisure World in the mid 60's and
worked in the theater as its first tech.
Lake Balboa - Birmingham
High School - Before a high school,
Birmingham High School, named after General Birmingham, was a World War
II hospital for amputees and other injured soldiers. Many soldiers died
during their stay at the hospital. After WWII, the hospital was
renovated into present day Birmingham High School. At night you can
hear rusty squeaking noises on while standing on the quad. Strange
feelings of another presence can also be felt along the front steps of
the Performing Arts Building and the in the front entrance area.
Lake Elsinore - The Abandoned Country Club - burned down -
Reports of an eerie feeling of not being welcome
there. The place is in shambles on the inside and is always unusually
cold in the hallway to the right of the foyer. Strange things are said
to happen here frequently. **Update - has
recently burned down. very negative place it was when it was standing
and the land and ruins that are now left have not changed that cold
place one bit... on one interesting note... the country club burned
down in a huge fire and didn't so much as singe the properties
surrounding it.
Lake Elsinore - Divider Field (reflections) - Supposedly, 3 or 4 workers plowing out the area for
construction, were accidentally killed by some of the machinery.
Strange hot and cold spots have been recorded.
Lake Elsinore - - Elsinore Middle School - March 2008 update/correction: Formerly posted as
Elsinore High School - In the early 50's,
a freshman hung herself in the back of the stage in the theater. She
had been hurt and embarrassed in a hazing by the Soccer team. On
several occasions, people have claimed to hear a girl choking when
there is no one in the theater.
Lake Elsinore - The Home Interiors Of Mrs. 144 - Formerly known as The Chimes - People have said that they have felt cold spots where
the china dolls are located. The spirit of the person who drowned in
the pool has been seen roaming around in the basement area. - December 2006. It's finished being restored. In
certain areas it is cold and creepy. It's been transformed into a gift
shop/tea house/spa.
Lake Elsinore - Main Street abandoned Hotel - On Saturday nights, It has been said by many and also
the mechanics shop that they often hear screaming inside the hotel. The
whole place is boarded up. Also they see a man in a janitors suit
looking down off the roof at about 1 am in the morning.
Lake Forrest - Best Western Hotel - Employees
have felt uneasy around the bottom floor rooms. EVP has been recorded
and Photos have been taken in one of the rooms. Cold spots in the
kitchen area of the room.
Lake Hughes - Willowbrook
Estates - Owner of the estate hosts
weddings, to include a nightly stay at an on-grounds guesthouse. While
staying at the guesthouse, doors opened and closed, lights went on and
off, and rustling noises went on throughout the night(1997).
Lake Tahoe - Periodically
there are reports that a young woman has been seen floating below the
surface of the lake. She is dressed in fine clothing from the late
1800s.
Lakewood - Lakewood
High School - It is known to be said that
in the pool area the light will go on and off and there will be
invisible footsteps of water on the side. It is said too be haunted by
a swim coach who blew a blood vessel while screaming at his team.
Lakewood - Saint
Joseph high school - June 2008
Correction: Has been removed. Story was untrue
Lancaster - Antelope
Valley Hospital - Staff on 5th floor
report hearing noises and seeing doors move, eerie feeling when on 4th
and 5th floors.
Lancaster - Cemetery
- You can see a little girl dressed in
old fashioned cloths looking at you if you walk through the cemetery at
night.
Lancaster - Demolished
Insane Asylum - (I & 90th) - Concrete
slabs of cells still remain. Voices can be heard late at night, along
with screaming, and banging noises on metal. People have even
complained of being chased.
Lancaster - Lancaster
High School - In the theater the house
light will randomly turn off or on well you can clearly see that no one
is by light box. There are also rumors that if you sit in the seats and
you have the lights off you will see a white figure walk across the
stage and towards you.
Lancaster - The
Lancaster Hotel - Its the oldest building
in the city, and is so haunted that employees are warned that if they
talk about the ghosts to anyone, they will be fired. At random times,
you can hear footsteps on the wooden floors on both levels, music from
an old scratchy record and you can smell vanilla and old flowers in
certain areas. It's open to the public and is across the street from
the LPAC.
Lancaster - Lancaster
Performing Arts Center (Lancaster Blvd) - It
is said that when the theater was first being built, an elderly woman
was standing on the stage during construction, and accidentally stepped
back into the orchestra pit. She landed on her head, breaking her neck,
dying instantly. Actors who have performed at the theater claim to have
seen her ghost downstairs in the green room and stairwell. Many see a
black figure, other feel a strange sensation causing them to want to
get out of there immediately. No one has ever seen her upstairs, they
believe it's because there's nowhere to fall downstairs and she feels
safer there.
Lancaster - Shamrock
Carpet Cleaners - Footsteps have been
heard in the back of the building and a telephone and carpet rolls have
moved them selves a ghost of a man has also been seen he is reportedly
named George
Lathrop - Mossdale
Bridge - A young man is said to have
committed suicide by jumping off the Mossdale bridge into the San
Joaquin river below in the 1970's. His ghost has been seen on the
bridge at dusk wearing blue jeans and a red checkered Flannel.
Lemongrove - Kentucky
Fried Chicken - After an employee named
Rudy died during his shift, strange things started happening are
security backdoor would open by itself after closing. Feeling of not
being alone. Dishes being cleaned when no one was around. Other reports
such as flickering lights, cold spots, and items disappearing then
reappearing somewhere else.
Lemoore - Kings
River on Elgin - It is said that a woman
had two of her kids drown in the river there. She attempted to try and
save them but in turn lost her own life. Since then it is said that she
can be seen walking in the bushes with a lantern calling for her kids
and asking for someone to save her kids, and if anyone enters the water
in an attempt to save them she then takes them under in return.
Lemoore - Lemoore
High School - Auditorium/English Building
- Reports by many students include shadows that move by themselves, two
girls laughing in the fifth row sixth and seventh seat, and the
presence of a man on the balcony wearing a bolo hat.
Lemoore - Lemoore
High Theater - The theater is haunted by
two ghosts. One is an old man who died from a heart attack, he is said
to be sitting in the last row, his seat always stays cold. The other is
a boy about 16 or 17 who fell from the balcony when working spotlights
for a play. People have said that they can hear his screams....
Lemoore - Oddfellows
Lodge - Each year on Halloween the local
Drama Club puts up a haunted house, The Spirits of the family that used
to live there seem not to like this. Since during the haunts People
working there report Sighting Shadow's of people wearing Victorian era
Clothes, Cold Spots, Spots of Extreme Heat, a Hallway that seems to be
Unnaturally Dark, and when in there for long amounts of time you hear
voices call out your names and hands push you. A deep male voice
Telling us to LEAVE US TO REST, and sightings of Strange green, and Red
Lights on the roof. The Spirits are generally Menacing and People would
find themselves with a feeling of deep dread after spending long times
in the building
Lennox - Buford
Elementary school - right when you go
inside the school there's a tombstone of a teacher that died. They say
that they seen her walking around the school into he night. They also
say that people hear voices by the bathrooms. It just happens in the
night.
Lennox - Hawthorne
High School - Nyman Hall - reports
of a former drama teacher seen looking for his students. & there is
a lady that only comes out when you go up to the stage. You can see
here up where the lights are.
Lincoln - Teal
Hallow - Very few people have seen the
ghost of a 4 year old boy on a big wheel.
Livermore - Paterson's
Pass - Supposedly, a class of children
were taking a field trip. On the way, the bus broke down. Everyone got
out of the bus and tried pushing it. The bus then rolled backwards and
crushed all the students. Now, if you go to the marker(157) put your
car in neutral the students try to push you. While they push you their
finger prints appear on your car and you hear footsteps on the gravel
beneath.
Livermore - The
Sanitarium - One night in 1789 a
groundskeeper for the tuberculosis hospital went crazy and shot all the
children. They are screams can be heard constantly.
Loma Linda - Monticito
grave yard - Witnesses report a ghost
dressed in white at 2:00 am and don't look at the gate but you will
hear something behind you like a voice. But if you turn back at the
gate it disappears and at Halloween you see a fog at night.
Lomita - Fleming
Middle School - The students share a
legend of a haunting by saying that one of the bathrooms is haunted.
Someone supposedly died there and now you can see her face in the
mirror. - March 2007 update/correction.
The school was built in the 1920's and it was a six-year school when
the new high school was built it took the name Narbone so the old
school had to come up with a new name. This is probably all urban myth.
There are other stories one is about a elevator that went up to the
third floor, but there is no elevator. One thing is that the school was
built in the 1920's and that the school's name was changed to honor
Alexander Fleming. The submitter does not remember the school's
original name but the name change occurred in the 1940's. The third
floor can only be reached by a rather steep set of stairs. The third
floor was seldom used because of this fact. There is one hallway up
there with about 20 rooms in total, 10 on each side of the hall. Some
classes where held on the third floor but it was mostly unused.
Lompoc - Burger
King - long ago an boy went and hung
himself in the ladies restroom. When the store is about to close, a
seat ends up in the bathroom the very spot where he hung himself, but
tipped over as if he kicked it so he could be hanged. A worker saw a
white ghostly figure standing in and staring at the other workers who
were closing up. When the last person leaves you can hear a loud
banging on the bathroom door, then when check it no one is there. There
is said to be cold spot when you sit at the table behind the straw
despiser.
Lompoc - Mission
La Purisma - The large chapel definitely
has two separate presences. One is of a priest. The other chapel
presence is a young girl. She was more than likely baptized at and
lived at the mission. Her presence is strongest in the back by the
baptismal font. It is one of happiness and a youthful playfulness, she
was possibly a pre-teen.
Lompoc - Tahitian
Village - Supposedly built on an Indian
burial site (Chumash) there have been voices and strange occurrences.
Including hearing a faint voice in one of the apartment closets of a
man playing guitar, two men 'stealing' goods from the pantry, and
scratches on resident's faces in the middle of the night.
Lone Pine - Train
Depot off 395 - Eerie darkness in the
baggage compartment. And reports of a little girl behind the ticket
counter with a doll in her arms.
Long Beach - Brooks
College - The college was built on the
site of an old Navy hospital that existed during WWII. The hospital
took in all the soldiers that were wounded in the Pacific. The hospital
was torn down and the dorms for Cal State Long Beach were built. Many
students report seeing men in Navy garb. A man in a Doctor's coat is
also reported.
Long Beach - Casa
Bonita - Downtown on 6th St. - Casa
Bonita is an extremely old building that's recently been refurbished
and restored in Downtown Long Beach. It used to be a hotel a long time
ago. Residents and visitors share stories of strange noises being heard
in the basement where the laundry room is located. A woman screaming in
the hallway where there was no one there for the screams to have come
from, cold spots in apartments and hallways. Hanging lamps swinging
when there is no breeze.
Long Beach - DeForest
Nature Trail - Black Figures seen
floating around...moaning heard and children laughing...cold spots and
screaming heard. Especially by the end towards the riverbed trail.
Long Beach - Deforest
park - There's cold spots. Voices saying
help me and saying peoples names. Rapid footsteps. Spots where there
are no sounds and then all of a sudden a whoosh of extremely cold air.
Whispering of more than one voice at late night there is thick fog with
in the forest and a beam of light within the fog...
Long Beach - Long
Beach Job Corps - Many people who live on
campus have seen an older woman wearing a white wedding dress walking
the halls of there dorm rooms late at night.
Long Beach - Los
Ceritos Ranchos - Close to 300 people
died there of a plague, and it is haunted by the founder and builder
Don Juan Temple, the bathroom is a hot spot of activity with many cold
spats around it, and a lady in white has been seen in the Men's
bathroom.
Long Beach - Marriott
Hotel - Room 217 - Several tries
more than necessary to turn the television off; on several occasions
while sitting on the bed you can feel something or someone tugging at
the bedspread; the feeling of being touched by someone's hand at the
top of your back as well as the sense of a presence in the room. Very
eerie and experienced by several people on different occasions.
Long Beach - The
Queen Mary - It is said that a male ghost
has been seen in the engine room where he was killed while the ship was
still in service, there have also been reports of the sound of children
playing in the pool; sounds of splashing water in the empty pool area,
accompanied by wet feet prints & apparitions around the surrounding
pool area. The most accessible haunted area is near door 13 in the
engine room, where a young man was crushed trying to escape a fire.
Another haunting area is the front desk of what is now the hotel
portion of the ship. Sightings include a mysterious woman in white
& and a couple walking though the hallway.
Long Beach - The
Queen Mary- Room B340 - This is the room
now closed by management due to unexplained events which occurred to
guests. B340 is located in an abandoned area of the ship's long hallway
corridor. Lights mysteriously flicker and a very cold feeling surrounds
the area. It is also said the door knocks on occasion to those who
knock.
Los Angeles - Ambassador
Hotel - Last year, during the filming of
VH-1's "Random Play" several crewmembers reported seeing a ghostly
figure appear in a fourth story window, lean and out and then
disappear. Also, lights would inexplicably turn on and off. Strange
cold spots were felt and "shooting lights" were seen in hallways.
Los Angeles - Angel
City Brewery - Formerly Pabst Blue
Ribbon, this complex houses one of largest artist colony in the world.
Upon ascending the stairs in the main building leading up to the
rooftop, many voices could be heard. It sounds like a hundred muted
conversations going on at the same time. The sound of trains and
freeway traffic are audible until reaching the rooftop. Once on the
roof, even the visible freeway traffic and rail yard is dead silent.
Los Angeles - Bancroft
Middle school - Late at night or in the
morning, teachers and even some students claim that in the main
building on the third floor they hear whispers and footsteps behind
them and when they look back there is no one there. Also, in the gym
during physical education the lights suddenly go on and off. Besides
that, the janitor claims that all of a sudden the ropes to climb will
move by itself and the volleyball nets outside shake very hard.
Los Angeles - Bell
Gardens - Suva Intermediate School - A
Janitor who committed suicide is said to haunt the 2 story building
also one the art class there are many cold spots and out of the corner
of your eye you can see someone standing
Los Angeles - Belmont
High School - The spirit of a young girl
by the name of "Arabella" haunts the Belmont auditorium. She has
reported to follow actors and crew around the stage during rehearsals,
flickering lights, moving curtains, turning on and off the faucets in
the dressing rooms, and occasionally is heard opening and shutting
doors. Legend has it, she is the spirit of a young girl who attended
the once "Private Belmont School for Girls" during the 1900s and died
there shortly after a fire destroyed the school.
Los Angeles - Birmingham
High School - It was a hospital in WWII.
Reports include voices at night and cold spots.
Los Angeles - Boyle
Heights - Roosevelt High School - R Building - biggest from all the rest and the building is 3
stories high and it long, a couple decades ago the building wasn't 3
stories high it was four and it was to believe that there was a fire
and some student died...here's the story, three students were in a
class room and it was a dance night in Roosevelt and one of the
students was spying on his girlfriend because he believed that she was
cheating on him, so he was just looking out the window down into the
other students, and his other friends the one's inside the classroom
with him left and one of them was smoking a cigarette and when he was
going out the door he threw the cigarette in the trash and the whole
floor burned and one student died the one that was looking out the
window and that's what people believe that cause the fire...now to this
day teachers claim that when they stay late at night in the 3rd floor
of the "R" building they will hear footsteps, doors opening and closing
and TV's turning on and off by themselves and the same with the
auditorium it's apart of the "R" building as well...some students will
say that they'll hear claps and whispers when trying to skip classes
eventually run out of there.
Los Angeles -
Boyle Heights - Our Lady of Talpa Catholic School - In the school's auditorium you can hear footsteps and
movement from behind the stage curtains. In the hallways and bathrooms
you can also hear footsteps like someone is running only to look and no
one is there. It is said that a Nun who was a teacher there died during
one of her classes of heart attack or old age. She played the piano and
sometimes the piano in the auditorium will play on its own.
Los Angeles - Cal
State L.A. Phase II - In the phase two
section of the dorms at CSULA, there is a storage room that is haunted.
Once a room till the year 1999 it is has been known to emanate loud
moans and screams, as well as residents in that dorm and the dorm next
door, being disturbed at all hours of the day and night by persistent
knocking and voices. The ghost of a blonde lady has been seen in the
area and has been known to ask residents of "her" dorm "Do you think I
would not know." The story goes that she came in to find her roommate
sleeping with her boyfriend, distraught and emotionally exhausted from
midterms she hanged herself in the hallway directly outside her
roommates room for an eerie surprise.
Los Angeles - Carson
- ARCO Refinery - Dark figures walking
around, valves turning by themselves. In the early years of the
refinery, when safety was not emphasized and the refinery was a much
more dangerous place to work, many have perished and died.
Los Angeles - Cathedral
High School - The Cold spots near the
senior patio. In the Yearbook/Newspaper room, the staff has heard
noises on floor above them, even though they were the only ones on
campus. The yearbook newspaper room used to be a chapel (still has the
stained glass windows), said to have a negative energy in the room.
School was built over a graveyard. Coffin nails are still being found
in the football field. When it rains, there is a spot on the field that
never gets wet. Strange occurrences during theatre productions held in
the gym have also been reported, including a chair flying across the
floor.
Los Angeles - Chinatown
- Apartment on Centennial St - Footsteps
in the living room -doors opening with out the wind blowing and noises
by the baby's crib and it feels like someone is standing right next to
you when your sleeping in the living room by yourself.
Los Angeles - City
Industry - Puente Hills Mall - Reports of
phenomenon happen inside the corridors. Voices being heard during the
graveyard shifts. Lights flickering on and off during the night hours.
Noises coming from the ceiling like someone was climbing threw the air
shafts. Cold spots inside some of the corridors. A suicide happen in
2004 in the lower level women's restroom by Sears. She shot herself in
the head. Sightings of a dark image inside the corridors and restroom's
mirror where the suicide took place. AMC theaters sightings of children
seen running thru the walls. Robinsons May motion censers security
alarm goes off for no apparent reasons. We thought it was mice or rats
running around. Exterminator was hired. He said there were no signs of
rats or mice inside.
Los Angeles - The
Coliseum - In the 1960s a man fell off
the top floor of the sports complex to his death. Many people thought
that he had been pushed, but the court ruled it an accidental death. On
night games towards the end of the game an apparition of a man is seen
on the top floor of the complex as well as the sounds of screaming and
a loud CRUNCH.
Los Angeles - Cypress
Park Branch Library - This library opened
in 1924,Over the years several ghost sightings have been witnessed by
numerous people. A ex worker there once spotted a translucent male
floating near the old fireplace. Ghostly whispers can sometimes be
heard in the men's room. Cold spots can be felt near the occult section
and fireplace.
Los Angeles - Downtown
- Cabin The First Interstate Bldg. (now called the AON building) - The building on Wilshire burned down on may 4, 1988.
An engineer was riding the elevator when the doors opened on the 12th
floor, the place where the fire was taking place. When they found his
body it was shriveled and burnt. Janitors have reported hearing noises
and lights switching on and off on the eleventh floor as well as the
32nd floor. Also, a couple of people committed suicide by jumping off
the top. One man jumped 'cause his wife left him. Another lady a couple
of years back, in the 90's. Her intestines were hanging off the trees.
But many claim the entire building is damned.
Los Angeles - Elysian
Park - Throughout the park there have
been sightings dating back to before Dodger Stadium and even before the
110 Fwy went through there. Many families lived and died in the hills
and valleys in this green area just north of downtown L.A. The story of
the White Lady is about a woman who drowned her children in the river
and wanders the park crying for them. Other versions of the White Lady
story include visions of headless dogs near the sighting of the White
Lady. Human figures have seen entering the tunnel under the 110 fwy at
Solano Ave., but not emerging on the other side. In the Lodge area
light flicker along the hillsides. Street lights often go on and off
when couples park under them at night and talk about the spirits in the
park. Elysian Park hosts Dodger Stadium which removed many long time
residents whose families dated back to colonial times. The anger of
these forcefully r emoved families or the return of spirits to the
beauty of the area are the fuel for the legends. On the eastside of the
park there was a cemetery that was dug up for the construction of the
110 and Cathedral High School which has its own stories of unexplained
events.
Los Angeles - Fairfax
high School - in the rotunda shadows have
been seen and cold spots have been felt. A number of students felt the
urge to jump off the 3rd floor balcony "when I walked past the entrance
to the 3rd floor balcony, I felt the sudden urge to brake through the
gate and jump off". two people killed by hanging themselves and jumping
off. Cold spots have also been felt and light flicker in the
auditorium. One person died falling off fixing lights.
Los Angeles - Figueroa
hotel - Sometimes the elevator will stop
on certain floors for no reason. When the doors open no one is there.
Strange sounds throughout the hallways and in the rooms. Televisions
turn on in the middle of the night by them selves and will not shut
off.
Los Angeles - Franklin
High School - This school is haunted by a
former student who died when she fell off a balcony on the fourth floor
overlooking the quad. Some students claim that if you go to the balcony
today and look down on the quad, you will feel the presence of someone
standing next to you. If you look over quickly, you will catch a
glimpse of the dead girl staring down--before she disappears.
Los Angeles - Fremont
High School - The stage in the auditorium. - Strange shadows and feelings.
Los Angeles - Griffith
park - this old park known to a lot of
people is known for its tragedy history. History has it that previous
owners of the park were dying mysteriously. Today the parks camp road
has been closed because of strange happenings. Some people report to
see sacrifices and other witch like ceremonies been held there. but
when they go the next day they would find no sign of such happenings.
Los Angeles - Highland
Park - Franklin High School - The ghost
of a deceased student haunts the auditorium and the surrounding
classrooms. The student had died in the 50's and continues to be heard
and seen by faculty and students alike. loud unexplained noises are
heard.
Los Angeles - Houdini's
Mansion - It is a abandoned Mansion of
the magician Houdini. Many people say it is haunted and have heard
footsteps on the large stairs of Houdini's Mansion. Many apparitions of
a man walking also is seen through pictures.
Los Angeles - I.
Magnun/Bullocks building - On Wilshire
Boulevard near Vermont. Now part of the Southwest Law School, the old
department store built in 1929 was converted into a law library. A
security guard working there during its renovation could hear a little
girl's voice crying from the elevator shaft. It was rumored that a man
had pushed the girl into the elevator shaft, killing her back in the
1930's. Other strange happenings observed were lights coming on and
off, windows and shades being open and closed with no one in the
building, and footsteps being heard on the stairway. Some construction
workers reported finding secret passageways that lead from Mr.
Bullock's penthouse in the building. Several construction workers had
quit during remodeling due to unexplained phenomena taking place in the
building's clock tower.
Los Angeles - J.F.K.
Library Third - Floor South - The story
is that some people who had been getting stoned in the third floor
bathroom, experimented with some laced substances. Resulting in a loss
of their sanity and the bludgeoning of one of them and at least one
other. On the evenings near closing time, after hours, and in the early
morning the faucets turn themselves on and off, as well as locked doors
being forced open. There have also been reports of cold spots in the
restroom and in the area surrounding the bathroom. There is an eerie
feeling in that area and sometimes you can hear stoned laughter.
Los Angeles - John
Marshall High School - Students believe
the fourth floor is haunted because of it being restricted. any info
please email Haunted
Places- April 2005 Correction – The rumor is
that a boy was murdered up there in the 4th floor. On the 3rd floor
witnesses would hear noises down the hallway, as if someone was
touching the lockers. Like someone was trying to open the locker type
noise. When the submitter of this update would go to the 3rd floor they
always wondered why the stairs that lead to the 4th floor would be
caged shut. While they attended that school, not once had they ever
seen the stairs that lead to the 4th floor ever cleaned. The 3 yrs they
attended the same filth would be there. The school was built sometime
in 1936.
Los Angeles - Knott's
Berry Farm - Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner
Restaurant a ghost in one of the empty, windowless back dining rooms.
looked like an old woman and the busboy claimed it was simply a fog.
Los Angeles - LA
County - Walnut - City Of Indusry - St. Mary's Catholic School - Since the school doubled as an orphanage, the kids
also lived there. When the school was running, kids played in the small
field behind the school. One night, a couple of kids (unknown how many)
snuck out of their beds and went outside to play. Then the next day the
nuns found the kids dead outside. No one knows how they died (or some
make up stories) But if you go there at night you can hear running
inside the building and the sounds of swings and other children's toys
moving. The are also devil worshipers who write anti-christ slurs on
the walls in blood which can be found through out the school. There is
also a story that someone was killed in the bathroom facilities behind
the school either by gang members or devil worshipers. You can see the
handprints in blood and other stains in side the backrooms.
Los Angeles - LA
County Museum of Arts (LACMA) - According
to security guards, a woman was shot by her husband because she was
sleeping with other men. She is now a very active spirit supposedly
begging men who visit the building that see her to (to put it nicely)
have sex with her as well as playing with the electrical system.
Contractors doing work at the site have left in fear and never come
back.
Los Angeles - Le
Lycee Francias (up hill campus) - in the
uphill campus for the boys locker room is haunted. The lights go on and
of then turn of. The door goes slam and is look but from the inside.
Some times the locker open and close by themselves. Last seen in yr
2001-2002.
Los Angeles - Lincoln
Heights - Lincoln High School - Underneath
the school there are tunnels where they used in case of bombs in the
early 1900's. In the 1960's a mother of one of the black panthers hid
her black panther son there for 3 years. In those tunnels there is an
abandoned shooting range and you hear those guns going off during
school hours. And early in the morning around 6:30 when the hall lights
are off you see student apparitions in the distance of the oldest
building there.
Los Angeles - Los
Angeles Airport Marriott - Many strange
occurrences have been reported over the years. Apparitions of different
beings show up in the lounge on the 18th floor & in the parking
garage accompanied by feelings of terror, strange smells & sounds.
Rumor is that the front office is curse - 6 suicides of people who
worked in the front office since the hotel opened in 1972.
Los Angeles - Los
Angeles City Hall - Security Officers
report of Haunting on the 2,3,4,27 and 28th floors. The 2nd floor is
the scariest; the whole floor is in marble. There are noises coming
from many directions and there always feels like someone is watching
you. Security Officers have reported seeing apparitions in this area.
The 3rd and 4th floor always seem as though someone is with you as you
walk. The 27th floor "Tom Bradley Room" has paintings of all the Former
Mayors of Los Angeles. There is one painting located in the back
Hallway that is really eerie. The painting was done in the late 1800 to
early 1900. This painting looks like a regular photograph and the man
in side the painting seems to watch you with his eyes. This painting is
extremely life like. On the 28th floor, there seems to be lot of
energy. CCTV cameras have picked up human figure images. It has been
believed the at one tim e or another that City Hall housed a morgue.
All occurrences have happened between the hours of 0130-0500 am, but be
advised the building is closed to the public at these hours.
Los Angeles - Los
Angeles Pet Cemetery - The Little
Rascal's dog Petey, Hop along Cassidy's Horse and Mary Pickford's dog
are all interred here. However, the dead animal that does the most
haunting here is Kabar, a Great Dane that belonged to Rudolf Valentino.
The dog died in 1929 but it's playful phantom is still reported panting
or licking people that wander near it's grave.
Los Angeles - Los
Angeles Senior High School - There is a
man who sings to Frank Sinatra songs wandering the theatre, sometimes
he opens and closes the elevator door or sits in the audience section
clapping unexpectedly. Usually he is around, students and teachers have
said to feel his presence moving around.
Los Angeles - Loyola
High School - Reported noises and
movement at night in the field house. A classroom, which used to be a
dormitory for students in the 60's, is haunted by a student who killed
himself in a trap door located on the ceiling of the room. Students and
even the teacher who uses the room report an eerie presence there. The
living quarters for the Jesuits is reportedly visited by an apparition
of a nun. The school itself is over 150 years old.
Los Angeles - Loyola
Marymount University - The Strub Theatre - Said to be haunted by an old lady who sits in the back
of the house watching the stage. Several actors have seen her in the
audience while performing on stage and stage managers, while locking up
the theatre after rehearsals or productions. have reported seeing her
staring intently at the stage.
Los Angeles - Loyola
Marymount University - Rains Hall students
have reported seeing strange apparitions as well as the ghost of a girl
who died there from heart complications in 1998.
Los Angeles - Manual
Arts High School - The school's print
shop believed to be haunted by the ghost of its first print shop
teacher who worked there for over 40 years. Students have felt someone
looking over their shoulder as they worked developing film in the
darkroom. Witnesses have seen a man out of the corner of their eye,
standing outside the darkroom near the film drying area.
Los Angeles - Norwalk
- AMC theater 20 - Little children and
screams have been reported.
Los Angeles - Neutrogena,
Johnson & Johnson Corporation - There
is a total of three ghosts here at Neutrogena. The original founders
wife was shot execution style here and so was his son. Workers and
security officers working late nights will see a woman in a white dress
walking around, a child playing in the factory and running (there are
no children allowed in the buildings due to the hazards), and a strange
growl.
Los Angeles - Occidental
College - Erdman Hall - A room in
the center, front side of the of the 2nd floor of the Erdman Residence
Hall at Occidental College is haunted by two spirits. One of a young
person, who plays friendly tricks on the living in order to solicit
their attention and friendship. The playful spirit has been known to
turn the water faucets on and off (not a plumbing problem - the knobs
have been seen turning on their own), the lights are tuned on and off,
the chain on the door is taken on and off, and written messages are
found on the walls. The other spirit is a dark and heavy presence that
resides in one of the room's two closets. This dark being can be felt
late at night typically when a person is trying to sleep - it has been
described as a large dark man who stands by the door and watches as you
sleep. It is clearly not friendly, but it does no more than make its
presence felt. No explanation has been offered as to the source of
these spirits, but they are accompanied by a few other manifestations
in other parts of the building (but are concentrated in this particular
room).
Los Angeles - Occidental
College - Newcomb Hall - Years
ago, a student who had been having problems being away from home sank
into a deep depression. She hung herself inside the dorm on the second
floor. Strange things setting of alarms and presence felt.
Los Angeles - Our
Lady of Loretto Elementary - There have
been reports of a woman with red heels walking down an empty hall on
the 2nd floor. Students get the urge to climb the roof stairs and jump
off the roof; a 5th grader did this in the 70s. Lights turn on and off
inexplicably, and laughter is heard in the auditorium girls' bathroom.
Los Angeles - Qantas
Freight Warehouse - A warehouse worker
that died while working in the bypass section in the warehouse haunts
Qantas Freight. There have been numerous witnesses that claim to have
seen his ghost working normally and when approached he turns around and
his face and hands are bloody and mangled. The workers report the
stranger to the managers and when they look for him he disappears. Many
graveyard shift workers claim that he appears mostly in the cooler room
checking the human remains section.
Los Angeles - Renaissance
Los Angeles Airport - Mostly strange
sounds in the rooms and the feeling of being followed and watched.
Los Angeles - Roosevelt
High School - "R" Building - Most
of the staff members and student have reported that strange noises can
be heard in the a auditorium and lights go off and on when no one is
there!
Los Angeles - The
Dodger Stadium - Ghost seen sitting in the
seats.
Los Angeles - The
over pass over Pasadena Free way - Reports
of a residual scene of a murder happening - A woman running, a man
running after her, when they reach the edge of the over pass he grabs
her to strangle her and throws her over.
Los Angeles - University
of Judaism - When the school was first
being built, and there, kids and students use to come and hang out at
night on the soccer field that was there. A girl was raped, her tongue
cut out and murdered. It is said on nights in September and October,
she has been seen her wandering the soccer field, trying to scream and
call gut the names of her attackers, and that if any males wander down
to the filed on nights she is out, they will go mute while on the
field.
Los Angeles - Virgil
Jr. High Auditorium - Reports of doors
opening and closing on their own, low moaning sounds emitted from empty
rooms, and ropes hanging from a pipe in a bathroom stall (where a
student allegedly hung himself). There has also been sightings of a
glowing clown like apparition.
Los Angeles - Walnut
- Lemon Ave - The Lady was killed by car
accident you can see her crossing the street by 9:00PM through 3:00 AM.
Los Angeles - Westchester
High School - It is said that 3 ghost
haunt the school. There is a young man believed to be 16-18 haunting
the school. Back in the 70's the boy was playing basketball for his PE
class, as he went up for a shot someone took his legs out from under
him and he crushed his skull and broke his neck. Late at night after
hours you can hear the young man playing and you can encounter a
ghostly figure walk up to you and ask " Do u got game "? then laugh and
disappear. The other two ghosts seem to be a couple. They are seen all
over the school every now and then. They will disappear when see by
other people. The couple will follow and mess with you until you leave.
Los Angeles - Westwood
- Dykstra Hall - Supposedly there
is a lively spirit still hovering over the third floor of the
dormitory, where a couple of years ago a young student (overwhelmed by
life) committed suicide by hanging himself in the dormitory closet. It
is said that the kid killed himself across from one of the restrooms,
where creepy noises can be heard during the night.
Los Angeles - Wilson
High School - A running figure can be
seen along the track of the high school. This person was said to be
running at a time late at night when some gang members saw him, and
chased him with their car, killing him. Now this runner haunts the
track. Another haunting at Wilson is in one of the dark rooms in the
photography class, reports of being pushed around and even locked in
the room. Also, a figure of a football player sitting on the bar near
the docks can be seen, it has been said that after a game, he was
sitting there, and fell back about 8 feet, hitting his head and killing
him. Reports of the apparition of a boy seen sitting from a window he
was pushed from.
Los Angeles - Palace
Theatre - The vaudeville-era Palace at
6th and Broadway is said to be extensively haunted by spectral stage
workers and theatre guests. One of the seats near the front of the
house supposedly is haunted by a man who was shat there when discovered
out on a date with the wrong woman. Two old stage hands bicker in the
wings. When a show stinks, the spirits make their opinion known by
lobbing invisible rotten eggs at the stage. Ghost hunters have
identified nearly two dozen individual hauntings in the building. There
is some mischievous activity, but nothing particularly scary.
Los Angeles - University
of California - Dykstra Hall - Dykstra
10th floor showers turn on by themselves. Not a drip, but a full force
shower, when no one's in the shower area. Residents will turn them off,
and they'll turn back on. RAs have been sent to investigate and the
problems were reported to Facilities who didn't find anything wrong
with the showers.
Los Angeles - Venice
- Venice high school - it has been said
that auditorium lights and sound turn on by themselves sometimes while
events are taking place also screams being heard in the control room
also the place gets very cold sometimes the auditorium and the school
itself has a long past history of many events and the decor itself of
the auditorium is very eerie old style just a weird feeling when you
walk in there when empty it has been said that in fact there is an
entity haunting the place.
Los Angeles - Venice
Beach - Westminster Ave. Apartment Bldg. - Charlie
Chaplin used to own several of the large buildings that sit near or
along the famous Venice Beach Boardwalk in Los Angeles. In the day,
these buildings were commonly used as bath houses or lodging for
wealthy vacationers. Today, these buildings have been converted to
apartment buildings for the local artists, musicians, and other
creative types that now inhabit Venice Beach. Incidentally these
buildings cradle around the famous Building Number 26 on Westminster
Ave. It has been documented in print as well as Chaplin's films that
during the early 1900's he did much of his filming in and around these
properties on Westminster Avenue. In 1915, during the filming of "By
the Sea" Chaplin's stunt double mysteriously disappeared from the film
set. Production was put on hold for three days and a full on man-hunt
was instated. After tur ning up empty-handed, it was assumed that the
long time friend of Chaplin's must have quit and left on his on
recognizance. The studios that were financially backing the film, were
losing money. Under haste, Chaplin was forced to replace his stunt
double and continue production of the film. On the seventh day after
the disappearance, Chaplin returned to his dressing room after a day of
shooting. His dressing room was located in the basement of the now
famous Building number 26 on Westminster. It is documented that
Chaplin, while accompanied by an entourage, entered the room to
discover his stunt double and long time friend lying dead on the floor,
wet and covered in seaweed. The man appeared to have been deceased for
several days. How he had ended up on the floor of Chaplin's dressing
room after missing for almost an entire week, is still to this day a
complete mystery. The "now" inhabitants of the famous building claim to
still hear strange noises emanating from th e walls of somebody walking
through shallow water. Other noises include moaning, and sounds of
someone distantly crying for help. In addition to the assortment of
disturbing sounds, there have been several sightings of what appears to
be an apparition of a man bound by the hands and feet standing in
luminous corners of the large building. Quite possibly the most blood
curdling detail of all these sightings is what the man is seen wearing.
He's dressed the same way he was the day he disappeared. A
Chaplin-esque tuxedo coat with tails and the proverbial black derby
hat.
Los Angeles - Vista
Linda hospital - the elevators, operate
by themselves... there are terrible odors in the third floor, the smell
of sick people. cold spots, and sudden chills. In the crematory there's
lack of air, its very dry and eerie when you walk in.
Los Gatos - Beaux
Cheveaux Hair Salon between North Santa Cruz Ave and Village Lane - Reports of mirrors falling from walls.
Los Gatos - Billy
Jones Wildcat Railroad & Bill Mason Carousel - Noises have often been heard from inside the carousel
building especially after hours. Employees have reported sounds of
doors being shut, gates opening and closing, and lights being turned on
and off. When employees have investigated such noises, no one was
around. Most activity here is pretty docile and friendly however.
Los Gatos - Green
Valley Disposal Company - The ghost that
inhabits this old house where there is now an office is named Julius.
He has played with the electric calculator on one of the desks even
while someone is sitting there. At night you can hear a chair rolling
across a wooden floor upstairs and the upstairs is carpeted. There is
also a cold spot in a room where things were stored and also the office
downstairs was so cold you had to wear a coat and there was nothing
wrong with the heating or cooling system. Also, upstairs, in the cold
storage room the filing cabinets would open and shut very rapidly and
then stop. At one time a new phone system was installed, and within a
week it completely shut down, the engineers could not even explain it
and while calls were being put on hold he would disconnect every call
on hold!
Los Gatos - Hicks
Road - A biker died on the road about 10
years ago and now he haunts the road. The ghost wears a trench coat and
rolls around at night on a bike. The bike has no wheels and you cant
see his face. You can only see him in your mirrors.
Los Gatos - Opera
House - A ghost is known to haunt the
Opera House in downtown Los Gatos. The ghost has been caught on camera
and is known to pull instruments from musicians playing at weddings in
the banquet hall.
Los Gatos - The
summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains - On
Old Santa Cruz highway, going toward Los Gatos, a young woman of about
17 or 18 roams around. She can be seen sitting on the side of the road,
or walking at twilight.
Lynwood - Lyngwood
Park - In the year of 2003, a young man
of the age 20 was brutally killed while he was riding his bicycle, in
the daylight time. During the day and night people have reported seeing
a man riding his bicycle and disappearing in a distance of about 15
feet away from them, also in the same place he was found death people
have seen a young men laying down asking for help suddenly he
disappears.
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