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The Haunted Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, CA

The paranormal activity of the haunted Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, California has long been a topic of conversation among locals and paranormal enthusiasts alike. This historic four-story hotel was built in 1928 as a luxurious destination for high-class guests who could escape from everyday life. However, over the years, many people claim to have experienced paranormal activity occurring within its walls.

Paranormal Reports at the Padre Hotel

Witnesses of paranormal phenomena at the Padre Hotel range from employees, guests, paranormal investigators, and local residents. Reports include strange sounds, voices, and music emanating from empty rooms, objects being moved around without explanation, crockery rattling with no one near it, doors opening and closing of their own volition, and more unusual events like furniture flying across the room.

There are even stories that tell of ghostly apparitions appearing in the hallways or stairwells, some more friendly than others such as a tall man dressed in black wearing a stovepipe hat walking through the halls late at night. Other stories tell of a female spirit who is seen peering out of windows or roaming certain areas of the hotel with an ominous presence before disappearing into thin air.

Is the Bakersfield Padre Hotel Haunted?

Some believe that spirits reside in the hotel and may be connected to former guests and employees who once lived there. A few theories suggest that it may also be linked to mysterious deaths that occurred within its walls either during or shortly after construction. It is also speculated that some of the paranormal activity could be from trauma of World War II since the hotel had been used as a temporary housing facility for soldiers.

Whatever the cause may be for this paranormal activity, the reported hauntings seem peaceful, yet spooky, especially at night! If you ever find yourself on a stay here keep an eye out – you never know what might experience.

Bakersfield Living

Often overshadowed by the lights and glamour of Hollywood and Los Angeles, Bakersfield has its own claims to fame. Dubbed “the country music capital of the West Coast,” Bakersfield has made a niche for itself as the home of many recording artists.  FrightFind was recently featured on Redfin’s “Most affordable suburbs of Bakersfield.”  If you find yourself in “Nashville West” stay a night at the old Padre Hotel and see if you find a few lost souls while you’re at it.

Haunted Hotel del Coronado

On November 28, 1892, Kate Morgan was found shot in the head on the beach in front of the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California. At first ruled a suicide, there were inconsistencies which suggested foul play. The biggest discrepancy was found years later and suggests that the bullet didn’t match the gun in her hand. Others say that she committed suicide after having been abandoned by her lover, but there was no note.

Crown Room Hotel del Coronado Circa 1930. The room is reminiscent of something out of The Shining.

What room did Kate Morgan stay in?

Kate Morgan checked into room 302 as Lottie Bernard on Thanksgiving Day in 1892. Room 302 has since been renumbered as room 3327 and is one of the most popular rooms in the hotel. Kate’s ghost has been reported several times in room 3327 where she stayed. Guests note the appliances turning on and off, pipes making unexplained noises, and Kate Morgan’s face was said to appear in hotel room TV screen when it was even unplugged. Watch for the woman in black they say.

Haunted Rooms of the Hotel del Coronado

• Rooms 3327 is where Kate Morgan stayed and the most activity has been witnessed. This is the most requested room.
• The beach where Kate was murdered was found has reported sightings of a woman that quickly vanishes.
• Room 3519 is where a young maid hanged herself and guests have reported strange occurrences.
• Room 3502 is where Elisha Babcock took her life when she was with child. It’s said that in her sadness her spirit never left.
• The hallways of the Hotel del Coronado have seen a woman in old garb.
• The gift shop “Established in 1888” is said to have things falling of the shelves and other activity. Some say that Kate trashes the Marilyn Monroe exhibits.

The Coronado is also where Stephen King was inspired to write his short story 1408 about a paranormal investigator. The investigator stays in the Hotel Dolphin’s most notoriously haunted room 1408.

Whenever a haunted hotel is mentioned, most paranormal enthusiasts are quick to guess that something tragic happened early on during the hotel’s construction. Perhaps it was even built over the old horror trope of “a Native American burial ground”? However, when it comes to the Grey Whale Inn located in Fort Bragg California, neither scenario is correct. Why? Because the Inn is actually a former turn of the century hospital.

Is the Grey Whale Inn haunted?

Originally constructed by the Union Lumber Company in 1915, the Grey Whale Hospital was a beacon of medical hope that treated all sorts of patients. It 1923, the Union Lumber Company sold it and the hospital was renamed the Redwood Hospital. Again all types of patients were treated all the way up until 1971. Shortly thereafter the small hospital ended up closing and the property was suddenly bought up by a pair of owners, determined to make it into a trendy bed and breakfast inn.

Ghosts of the Grey Whale Inn

Reports of activity seemed to have begun to accumulate in the early 1980s. The most common complaint from travelers was seeing an elderly man peeping from behind the curtains in their room, this was reported to happen in both the day and night. Always upon inspection by hotel staff and the travelers themselves, nobody was to be found in the room and the curtains never appeared to have been disturbed.

Other reports are of a middle-aged woman who can be faintly seen at night, behind and beside the Inn, looking at and reaching down in an attempt to touch one of the many flowers bordering the walkways. Another report from a family who stayed when the Inn was nearly vacant, reported hearing the overhead bustle from the floor above them, almost a sound of hospital gurneys going down the hall in the middle of the night!

In a brief interview with an Inn employee, they claimed that not many full manifested visions are reported and instead that it’s mostly guest reports of hearing or feeling unusual sensations within the Inn itself. When asked what could be causing this, we were told, “It was a hospital for over fifty years and there was a lot of life and death going on in here every day. Don’t you think that would have an effect?” And just like that, before I could answer, our phone connection went out completely.