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Adelaida, California
Adelaida was settled in 1859 and grew up around mercury mines, farms and sheep ranches; the cemetery was started by Wesley Burnett in the…
Yosemite, California
Guests and staff at the Ahwahnee have told of the presence of Mary Curry Tresidder, daughter of Camp Curry's founders, on the sixth floor,…
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz operated as a federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963. Its bloodiest episode was the Battle of Alcatraz, from May 2 to 4, 1946: an…
Earlimart, California
Allensworth was founded in 1908 by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth, who was born enslaved and became the highest-ranking Black officer…
Death Valley Junction, California
Guests at the Amargosa Hotel describe a child crying at night in Room 24 when no children are staying, strange activity in Room 22,…
Trona, California
Ballarat was founded in 1896 or 1897 as a supply town for the gold mines of the Panamint Range, and was named by an Australian settler for…
Catalina Island, California
The Banning brothers owned Santa Catalina Island from 1892, and in 1910 built this house as their summer home on the hilltop above Two…
Tracy, California
The Banta Inn was built in 1879 by Frank Gallegos — reputed to have ridden with Joaquín Murrieta — as a two-storey saloon and sporting…
Hanford, California
Built in 1897 to a design by San Francisco's McDougall Brothers, the turreted Kings County Jail and sheriff's office served until 1964,…
San Francisco, California
Construction on the Bay Bridge began in 1933 and it opened in 1936. Its ghost story belongs to the evening of 17 October 1989, when the…
Coloma, California
Visitors to Bell's General Store report hearing a bell ring inside, a bell that is not there and has not been for a very long time; the…
Antioch, California
Five coal-mining towns stood on this ground from the 1860s, and Sarah Norton was midwife to them. A Canadian immigrant, widowed and then…
Bodie, California
Prospector W. S. Bodey found gold here in 1859, and by around 1880 Bodie had become one of the West's roughest boomtowns, with several…
Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach was a 1950s resort town on the Salton Sea that emptied as rising salinity, flooding and fish die-offs drove residents away.…
Lake Arrowhead, California
Bracken Fern Manor and the Tudor House at Lake Arrowhead are the surviving parts of a members-only mountain resort of the Prohibition era…
Glendale, California
Leslie C. Brand — the man usually called the father of modern Glendale — built El Miradero between 1903 and 1904 at the foot of the Verdugo…
Brookdale, California
The ghost of Brookdale Lodge is a little girl named Sarah Logan, said to have drowned in the creek that runs through the Brook Room, and…
Cerro Gordo, California
Cerro Gordo, high in the Inyo Mountains above Owens Valley, was one of California's richest silver camps in the 1870s: a town of saloons…
Yermo, California
Calico was a silver-mining boomtown in the 1880s; Walter Knott restored it and donated it to San Bernardino County, which runs it as a…
San Bernardino, California
Fox West Coast Theatres opened the California Theatre on 15 August 1928, and its original Wurlitzer Style 216 pipe organ is still in the…
Placerville, California
William Cary built the first Cary House in 1857, after fire destroyed his earlier hotel. It became the Placerville office of Wells Fargo…
Atwater, California
Castle Air Museum opened in 1981 beside the former Castle Air Force Base and holds more than eighty aircraft. Its most-reported airframe is…
Castro Valley, California
Staff at the Chabot Theater describe a man's laughter carrying through the empty building and shadows moving up and down the aisles late at…
Hollywood, California
Guests and staff at the Chateau Marmont report windows opening on their own, furniture moved, disembodied voices, noises through the night…