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Chinese Camp, California
Chinese Camp was a Gold Rush town settled by Chinese miners and later a stage stop, and it is California Historical Landmark 423.…
Gilroy, California
Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park preserves the site of Chitactac, a Mutsun Ohlone village whose name is thought to mean "big dance…
Clayton, California
Staff and drinkers at the Clayton Club report glasses sliding along the bar, objects moved overnight, cold spots and lights that switch…
Los Angeles, California
During night games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, particularly in the closing minutes, spectators have reported a figure on the…
Pasadena, California
The Colorado Street Bridge opened in 1913, carrying Pasadena across the Arroyo Seco on a long curve of Beaux-Arts arches that made it a…
Columbia, California
Columbia was one of the richest Gold Rush towns and is now one of the best-preserved, with more than thirty restored buildings, a…
Hollywood, California
8433 Sunset Boulevard was Ciro's from 1940 to 1957, the nightclub where Hollywood's biggest stars were seen and where gangster Mickey Cohen…
El Centro, California
Staff working nights at the Crest Theatre described voices in the empty house, music coming through a sound system that had already been…
Sacramento, California
Judge Edwin B. Crocker purchased the property in 1868 and, after a stroke in 1869, worked with architect Seth Babson to convert the former…
Darwin, California
Darwin grew after silver and lead strikes in the Coso Range in 1874, with smelters, mines and hundreds of residents, and it stayed active…
Sacramento, California
The Delta King and her identical twin, the Delta Queen, were christened on May 20, 1927, and spent the next decade running overnight…
Arcadia, California
George Woolf — "The Iceman," so called for his composure in a tight finish, and the jockey who rode Seabiscuit past War Admiral in their…
Dorrington, California
John and Rebecca Gardner built the Dorrington Hotel in 1852 as a stage stop on the Big Trees Carson Valley Road, and homesteaded the…
Wilmington, California
Established in January 1862 as Camp San Pedro and soon renamed Camp Drum after Lieutenant Colonel Richard Drum, this post served as Union…
San Diego, California
Drivers and pedestrians report figures crossing the stretch of San Diego Avenue that runs over El Campo Santo at night and vanishing, and…
San Diego, California
El Fandango takes its name from the lavish parties wealthy Californio families threw to mark occasions, and it stands on the site of the…
Manteca, California
Staff and visitors at the former El Rey Theatre describe unexplained hot spots in parts of the building and figures moving through the…
Berkeley, California
The Faculty Club's best-known ghost story centers on Room 219, the old Tower Room, where for years guests and staff have reported a…
Los Angeles, California
The YWCA opened the Hotel Figueroa in 1926 as a safe place for women travelling alone. At 13 storeys, it was built to the city's height…
Rocklin, California
A band that rehearsed on the second floor of Finn Hall in the early hours reported knocking on the doors and walls, running footsteps in…
Los Angeles, California
Janitors and night staff in the First Interstate Bank Building, now the AON Center, have reported unexplained noises and lights switching…
San Pedro, California
Fort MacArthur's museum occupies Battery Osgood-Farley in Angels Gate Park and interprets the coast-defense fort whose gunners fired during…
Randsburg, California
Garlock sprang up in the 1890s after a stamp mill was hauled in to serve nearby gold mines and also supplied water to freighters and…
Santa Paula, California
The Glen Tavern Inn, built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a working hotel in downtown Santa Paula.…