Historic Haunted Buildings in California

Historic civic, commercial, and institutional buildings with reported ghost stories and verifiable local history.

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Berkeley Faculty Club

Berkeley, CA

The Berkeley Faculty Club, a 1902 Bernard Maybeck landmark in a redwood glade on the University of California campus, carries the university's favourite ghost story: a long-resident history professor whose old upstairs room — and gentle, watchful presence — became enduring campus legend.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Amargosa Opera House and Hotel

Death Valley Junction, CA

At lonely Death Valley Junction, California, dancer Marta Becket's Amargosa Opera House — a 1920s borax-company colony she transformed with painted audiences on its walls — pairs one of the desert's strangest artistic stories with hotel corridors long said to be haunted.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Cecil Hotel

Los Angeles, CA

A 1924 hotel on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles whose difficult history — decades of deaths and crime in the neighbourhood's hardest years — made it one of America's most talked-about buildings. Now converted to housing, it is not a visitor attraction, and its stories demand restraint.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Katie Wheeler Library

Irvine, CA

The Katie Wheeler Library in Irvine, California, is a working public library built as a faithful replica of the Irvine family ranch house that burned down in 1965. Staff and visitors have described gentle unexplained happenings, often attributed in local telling to Katie Wheeler herself.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Wolfe Manor

Clovis, CA

The Wolfe Manor of Clovis, California — the old Andrews estate that became a sanitarium — spent decades as one of the state's most argued-over haunted houses, spawning a famous Halloween attraction and television visits before demolition threats and long limbo. Its story now outlives much of its fabric.

0 approved community reports

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About historic haunted buildings in California

California's historic haunted buildings 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.