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Haunted Hotels in California

Hotels and inns with reported ghost stories, unusual experiences, and a history visitors can explore.

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Editorial basis: cards use each listing's short description and are ordered by haunting level, then views. Approved community reports are counted separately.

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The Queen Mary

Long Beach, CA

A retired ocean liner turned hotel — its WWII history and eerie corridors have made it one of America's most investigated ships.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) High

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Hotel del Coronado

Coronado, CA

A grand seaside Victorian resort near San Diego, California, opened in 1888 and one of the largest surviving wooden hotels in the country. It is long associated with the ghost story of Kate Morgan, a young guest who died there in 1892, with reported activity centred on a particular room. It remains a celebrated luxury hotel.

0 approved community reports

No approved photo available

Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Fensalden Inn

Albion, CA

Fensalden Inn stands above the Mendocino coast at Albion, California — an 1860s stagecoach way station turned bed and breakfast whose name means 'land of mist and sea'. Its lore keeps a bullet hole in the tavern-room ceiling and gentle stories of stage-era figures.

0 approved community reports

No approved photo available

Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Murphys Hotel

Murphys, CA

An 1856 stone hotel in the Gold Rush town of Murphys, California, whose register carried Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant. Still serving travellers on Main Street, the Murphys Hotel keeps its lore of a spectral lady upstairs, saloon figures and Gold Rush footsteps.

0 approved community reports

No approved photo available

Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Glen Tavern Inn

Santa Paula, CA

A 1911 Tudor-style hotel in Santa Paula, California, built for the citrus boom and listed on the National Register. It embraces a busy haunted reputation — headlined by room 307, where Prohibition-era violence is said in legend to have left a lingering guest.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Queen Anne Hotel

San Francisco, CA

The Queen Anne Hotel in San Francisco occupies an ornate 1890 Victorian that began life as a finishing school for girls. Its best-loved story concerns Miss Mary Lake, the school's headmistress, said to tuck guests in and linger kindly in room 410.

0 approved community reports

No approved photo available

Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate
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About haunted hotels in California

California's haunted hotels are compiled from local history, published folklore and visitor reports. Many are open to the public, and several offer tours or overnight stays.

Stories are recorded as accounts rather than established fact. Browse by city above, or open the full map to explore everything near you.