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Ione, California
Visitors and staff at Preston Castle describe a watched feeling throughout the building, concentrated in the basement where the head…
San Francisco, California
Guests at the Queen Anne Hotel describe the gentle presence of Mary Lake, with reports centred on Room 410, which was her office and is now…
Long Beach, California
The Queen Mary's most-reported spot is watertight door 13, in Shaft Alley — a narrow corridor deep on D Deck running beside the propeller…
Randsburg, California
Randsburg grew from the 1895 gold strike in the Rand Mountains and was named for the Witwatersrand district of South Africa; by 1900 it had…
Monterey, California
The adobe was built around 1836 for Don Rafael Gonzales, customs administrator at the Port of Monterey, and later became a boarding house…
Hollywood, California
The Hollywood Roosevelt opened in 1927 on Hollywood Boulevard and hosted the very first Academy Awards in its Blossom Ballroom in 1929.…
Sacramento, California
Visitors to Sacramento City Cemetery have described a couple dressed in black, a little girl seen playing near the headstone of a child,…
Mission Hills, California
Father Fermín Lasuén founded Mission San Fernando Rey de España on 8 September 1797, the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions in…
San Francisco, California
Visitors to the San Francisco Columbarium describe being touched by unseen hands, and one reported turning to find no one behind her and a…
San Juan Capistrano, California
Founded in 1775 and famous for the swallows that return to the mission every March, San Juan Capistrano carries a heavier history after…
San Miguel, California
Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded in 1797. After secularization it was sold, and by 1848 William Reed was running it as an inn and…
San Francisco, California
A. P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of America, put this hotel up in North Beach in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and…
Santa Maria, California
Frank J. McCoy opened the Santa Maria Inn on 16 May 1917 with twenty-four rooms, each with its own bath. McCoy was a master innkeeper and a…
Scotia, California
Built in 1923–24 as the Mowatoc Hotel to house workers and visitors in the Pacific Lumber Company's company town, this redwood hotel took…
Death Valley, California
Skidoo was a gold camp in the Panamint Range, active from 1906 to 1917, whose mill ran largely on water piped many miles from Telescope…
San Diego, California
The Star of India, launched in 1863, is the oldest active sailing ship in the world and the flagship of the San Diego Maritime Museum.…
Salinas, California
The 1897 Victorian where John Steinbeck was born is now a lunch restaurant run by volunteers. Steinbeck is said to have written to a friend…
Goleta, California
The Carpenter Gothic Stow House was the headquarters of Rancho La Patera and is now home to the Goleta Valley Historical Society beside…
Sutter Creek, California
Guests and owners at the Sutter Creek Inn describe Edward Voorheis pacing the upstairs rooms and his wife Clara in the hallway, and the…
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Tor House and Hawk Tower were built by the poet Robinson Jeffers and are now preserved by the Tor House Foundation. Jeffers wrote that his…
San Francisco, California
Trinity was founded in 1849, the oldest Episcopal congregation on the Pacific Coast, and has occupied its building at Bush and Gough…
Truckee, California
Staff and guests at the Truckee Hotel describe bedding disturbed in rooms freshly made up, a chandelier that swings with nothing to move…
Whittier, California
Turnbull Canyon Road winds through the Puente Hills above Whittier, and the canyon's reputation rests on a real, well-documented disaster.…
San Diego, California
Ulysses S. Grant Jr., son of the president, built this hotel in his father's name, and it opened on October 15, 1910. His wife, Fannie…