130 places found

Benicia, California
Guests and staff at the Union Hotel have long reported a woman's apparition in the hallways and at a window facing the street after dark,…

Alameda, California
The USS Hornet (CV-12) was commissioned in 1943. She earned nine battle stars in the Pacific, and on 24 July 1969 she recovered the Apollo…

San Diego, California
Villa Montezuma was built in 1887 for Jesse Shepard, a pianist and singer who claimed that the spirits of great composers played through…

Lancaster, California
Visitors and staff at the Western Hotel Museum report footsteps crossing the wooden floors of both storeys, a scratchy record playing with…

San Diego, California
In September 1852, James "Yankee Jim" Robinson was hanged on this ground in Old Town San Diego for stealing a boat. The gallows had been…

Newport Beach, California
The Wild Goose is said to be haunted by John Wayne: within weeks of buying the yacht, the new owner, a local attorney, reported beer…

Jamestown, California
The Willow's reputation comes from fire: in the decade to 1985 the hotel was struck by five fires nobody could explain, one in 1975 nearly…

San Jose, California
Sarah Winchester came to the Santa Clara Valley in 1886 after losing her infant daughter, Annie, and then her husband, William Wirt…

Woodland, California
The Woodland Opera House first opened in 1885 and was destroyed in 1892 by a fire that started in an alley behind it and burned through…

Porterville, California
The 1891 Zalud House in Porterville is a museum with the family's original furnishings. Its haunting centers on a chair in which the…