Haunted Places in California

Keddie Resort

Keddie Resort Road, Quincy, CA 95971, USA

The Keddie Resort Murders A truly ominous place that is known for “The Keddie Murders.” In 1981, a quadruple murder took place in cabin 28 on April 11, 1981 and has remained unsolved ever since. Keddie, a former railroad town sits under the Sierra Nevada mountains and the area has been forever marred by the gruesome crime that took place. Haunted Cabin 28 at Keddie Resort Cabin 28 was reported to have been haunted. Items move by themselves, chairs moving, writing on walls, and more. Cabin 28 has since been demolished but the dark impressions remain on this eerie place. Read more…

The Whaley House

(619) 297-7511

2476 San Diego Avenue, San Diego, CA 92110, United States

The Haunted Whaley House Bad omens had been following the Whaley family for years. Long before the tragic deaths of Thomas Jr. and young Violet, who took her own life in the parlor of the home. It seemed a curse had fallen on the Whaley House and even after moving 500 miles away, Thomas Whaley and his family could not escape its torment. The Haunting of Whaley House In 1857, Whaley began construction on a home in which he and his wife Anna would raise their children. Read more…

The Oman House

424-284-8687

Cielo Dr, Beverly Hills, California, United States

Fri Oct 13th and Sat Oct 14th from 8 pm to 3 am

The Haunted Oman House and the ghosts of the Manson Family murders In the summer of August 1969, popular actress Sharon Tate and three of her closest and most personal friends were brutally murdered in a senseless killing from the notorious Manson Family. The home eventually changed hands with different owners and infamous renters over the years before being totally demolished and rebuilt with a completely new address change in 1994. Read more…

The Hollywood Sign

Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA

Easily one of the most recognizable images anywhere, located in Griffith Park the Hollywood Sign is a beacon for those yearning to be a part of the entertainment industry. Perhaps nobody yearned more for celebrity than aspiring Golden Age stage actress Peg Entwistle. Is the Hollywood Sign Haunted? Originally from Wales, Peg Entwistle turned her sights on Hollywood to catch her big break in show-business. Having made a previous stopover in New York City on Broadway, Entwistle traveled to the Los Angeles area and was making a huge name for herself as a talented stage actress in the area. Read more…

Ahwahnee Hotel

(888) 413-8869

1 Ahwahnee Drive, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CA 95389, USA

The Haunted Ahwahnee Hotel Thousands of people visit Yosemite National Park every year, but most don’t come for the ghosts. While checking out all of the majestic waterfalls and mountainous mountains, you might as well stay somewhere with some excitement. The Ahwahnee Hotel was built in 1927 to serve as a luxury hotel to all of the park’s visitors. The name was changed to The Majestic Yosemite Hotel in 2016, due to a legal dispute with the government, but the ghosts haven’t gone anywhere. Read more…

The Real Entity House

11547 Braddock Drive, Culver City, California, USA

The Real Entity House from the 1980’s Movie There are paranormal and supernatural hauntings where the events are manifested in a myriad of ways. Objects may move, fly across the room, or disappear altogether. Standing in one area of a haunted location, a person can experience cold spots or a feeling of great disorientation and even dread. Physically, people have been harmed and are not immune. Bitings, scratchings, beatings of malicious nature can occur to anyone at any time in these paranormally manifested areas. Read more…

Winchester Mystery House

(408) 247-2101

525 South Winchester Boulevard, San Jose, CA 95128, USA

The Winchester House, (AKA the Winchester Mystery House) is probably one of the most well known private residences in the United States. The elaborate mansion located at 525 South Winchester Blvd. in San Jose, CA is renowned for its massive size and structural oddities, even landing a spot on the National Register of Historic Places and being officially designated a historical landmark in California. This structure is perhaps most impressive as it was built almost completely without blueprints. Read more…

Barton Mansion

20 Nevada St, Redlands, CA 92373

The Haunted Barton Mansion in Redlands, CA Lying just one hour east of Los Angeles, the Barton Mansion is one of the most active paranormal locations in all of California. The West Redlands area home has been subjected to chilling and very dark accounts of shapes, shadows, pestilence, and Satanic rituals. How did a seemingly picturesque home become so supernaturally ill-fated? Is the Barton Mansion Haunted? Beginning in 1859, Dr. Benjamin Barton and his family purchased 640 acres of San Bernardino land for the most reasonable sum of only five hundred dollars. Read more…

Drum Barracks Civil War Museum

310-548-7509

1052 N Banning Blvd, Wilmington, CA 90744, USA

It is hard to imagine that the Civil War reached far and away from the battleground states in the Deep South, all the way to California. Secessionist and southern transplant John C. Breckenridge had relocated to the newly founded Golden State and in the shocking 1860 Presidential Election, had actually received more than double the votes Abraham Lincoln did in this particular area. In a panic, Union enthusiasts boosted their efforts to have a presence in California, and in particular the Los Angeles area. Read more…

The Prison on Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA, USA

Prison escapes are one of the rarest events to occur inside correctional institutions across the world. But what if there was a way to ultimately prevent escapes? It should come as no surprise that in 1934, a maximum-security federal prison called Alcatraz was opened on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. To authorities then, if inmates escaped, the raging waters would drown them. If the thrashing waves didn’t kill them, then the sharks surely would. Decades after closing, Alcatraz remains one of the top haunted prisons in all of North America. Read more…

Real Murder House from American Horror Story in LA, California

AHS Murder House

1120 Westchester Place, Los Angeles, CA 90019, USA

The Murder House from American Horror Story Season 1 The famous house that put American Horror Story on the map is the Rosenheim Mansion in Los Angeles. The mansion was built by famous architect Alfred Rosenheim in 1908 for his family home. The house is now better known as Murder House thanks to American Horror Story. Murder House Inspiration While this is the house used for the exterior shots for AHS season 1 in Los Angeles, rumors are that the inspiration for the Murder House was the Bailey Mansion. Read more…

Haunted Places in California