Two loves, twelve years and what seems like a lifetime ago a girlfriend and I were walking in Old Town in San Diego when she casually mentioned the house we were passing was The Whaley House, dubbed by the Travel Channel as “the most haunted house in America,” and one of the country’s “most terrifying places.”
The house must have been closed by the time we passed it or surely we would have gone in - she did, after I’d left California, and reported being “creeped out” upstairs by the still silence and plastic-wrapped furniture (she’s never have survived the 1960’s. You can read about the house’s history here and why it’s thought to be haunted, but two things to note:
* Just last month a new artifact was discovered in an old book collection gifted to the house by SDSU alumnus Kit Sickels which contained a receipt for a gun signed by Thomas Whaley and dated 1853. You can see a nice big PDF scan of the document here; evidently documents dating back that far in San Diego are quite rare and this one was valued at $750.
* The house is open for regular visits on a daily basis but they also put on monthly Ghost Hunting Tours.
Stephen King fans will notice a place called The Marston House on the Whaley House website. It’s NOT the Marsten House from Salen’s Lot, which is, or was, in Maine nor is it a haunted site so don’t go bugging them about it.
Photo by Joe Mabel from Wikimedia Commons with permission.
HOW DO I GET THERE?: The Whaley House is only 4.2 miles from the San Diego International Airport. The Whaley House Museum is at 2476 San Diego Ave. San Diego, CA, 92110. Click here for Google Maps.
Find flights from your town to San Diego on Orbitz.
HOW MUCH?: House tours are $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $4 for kids 3-12, kids 2 & under free. Ghost tours are $50; check their calendar is here and you can buy tickets online (recommended, since the tours are limited to 20 people and could sell out pretty easily).
No comments:
Post a Comment