Ghosthunting Southern California. Sally Richards
any of the locations, and carry out your investigations without the use of flammables (candles, etc.)—Southern California is one big tinderbox. Many of these locations have survived a hundred years; all it takes is one investigator scratching up antiques or a wooden floor with his or her equipment to ruin it for the rest of us, so please tread lightly upon history. Above all, please listen to your intuition.
Enjoy your investigation, but please be responsible!
Thank you,
Sally Richards
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome to America’s Haunted Road Trip
Introduction: What Came Before, What Comes After
CHAPTER 1 Four Winds Trading Company Old Town San Diego
CHAPTER 2 Creole Café Old Town San Diego
CHAPTER 3 El Campo Santo Cemetery Old Town San Diego
CHAPTER 4 The Whaley House Old Town San Diego
Spotlight On: What Are Ghosts?
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO AND SURROUNDING AREA
CHAPTER 5 Calvary Cemetery/Pioneer Park San Diego
CHAPTER 6 Mount Hope Cemetery San Diego
CHAPTER 7 Cabrillo Bridge San Diego
CHAPTER 8 Proctor Valley Road Chula Vista
NORTHERN AND EASTERN SAN DIEGO
CHAPTER 9 San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park San Pasqual Valley
CHAPTER 10 San Pasqual Cemetery San Pasqual Valley
CHAPTER 11 Ghost Rider of State Route 67 Lakeside
CHAPTER 12 Los Peñasquitos Creek Arch Bridge Poway
Spotlight On: Communicating with the Dead—ITC and IVP
THE ANZA-BORREGO DESERT AND SURROUNDING AREA
CHAPTER 13 Warner Springs Warner Springs
Spotlight On: The Curse of Warner Springs
CHAPTER 15 Blair Valley and Pictograph Trail Anza-Borrego Desert
CHAPTER 16 Vallecito County Park Vallecito
CHAPTER 17 Hunter Steakhouse Oceanside
CHAPTER 18 Star of India San Diego Harbor
CHAPTER 19 Hotel del Coronado Coronado
CHAPTER 20 Santa Catalina Island Santa Catalina Island
CHAPTER 21 Summerland Summerland
ORANGE AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES
CHAPTER 22 Queen Mary Long Beach
CHAPTER 23 Warner Grand Theatre San Pedro
CHAPTER 24 Linda Vista Hospital Los Angeles
CHAPTER 25 Heritage Square Museum: Hale and Octagon Houses Los Angeles
CHAPTER 26 Cobb Estate and White City Resort Altadena
SANTA BARBARA, VENTURA, AND SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES
CHAPTER 27 Rancho Camulos Piru
CHAPTER 28 Glen Tavern Inn Santa Paula
CHAPTER 29 Mission Park Jail Santa Barbara
CHAPTER 30 James Dean Memorial Junction Cholame
Spotlight On: Mediums and Psychics
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A GREAT DEAL OF THANKS goes out to Marie D. Jones, who didn’t have time to write this book and suggested that America’s Haunted Road Trip series editor John B. Kachuba contact me to write it. The rest is history. And a special thank-you to Molly Merkle, chief operating officer at Keen Communications, for straightening out the details. Thanks, John and Molly, for bringing me into the Clerisy stable of writers. Also BIG thank-yous go out to editor Donna Poehner, graphic designer Scott McGrew, and cartographer Steve Jones. This has been a fabulous book to write—filled with adventures, meeting new people, and getting to know the people I already knew so much better. Thanks to the members of Roadside Paranormal and Ghosts Happen: Jennifer Donohue, Anne Marie, Eugenia Swingle,