HAUNTED PLACES IN CALIFORNIA: ADELAIDA - AZUSA

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 were 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 - 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 - Reports when people are alone in there they get cold chills, 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 and at night people hear and see people running around the track at night even though there is nobody there

Alhambra - Phoenix Inn - Its is said that there is a woman figure ghost walks in and out of the kitchen and goes around the tables and watches what people order and 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 is in the building. After a student drowned in the school pool stories surfaced of the victim tugging at the swimmers legs.

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 mysteriosly 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 you are facing downhill and if you stop and you place the car on neutral you will go backwards up the hill. finger prints are reported to be found (According to legend... a girl took her parents car for a wild ride with friends and on this hill lost control and spun out of control and killed herself and her 3 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 Teacher and students, K-8 , have experienced someone coming in the front door but when looking 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 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 and one night has to abandon her lesson preparations and beeline it out of there pronto...is 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.... there is the Amboy Cemetery located down by the tracks with approximately 15 souls buried there. Amboy currently is up for sale.

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 in the balcony , erratic footsteps have been heard on the roof.

Anaheim - chain reaction - employees report talking and laughing late at night in back alley and in bathrooms upon investigation no one is there also. A bum was found dead in the back alley and the venue was converted to a club from a Mexican restaurant which was formerly a biker bar where their were many reported stabbings.

Anaheim - Disneyland - The Disney Gallery - which is above the Pirates of the Caribbean, use to be Walt Disney's in park apartment. 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.

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 - whenever on campus, if you look, spit, stand next to a certain teachers door, you are determined to have a bad day, suicidal feelings are common. In 1978 a teacher died in that class room. Rumor is He was brutally murdered by some other teachers, including the current head football coach. Every so often you hear screams during the day, and pounding in the empty classroom.

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 marsh 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.

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 - 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.

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.

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