The Whaley House
2482 San Diego Ave., Old Town - (619) 297-7511
San Diego's Whaley House is listed by the United States Department of Commerce as an authentic haunted house. Built on the site of early San Diego's public gallows, and scene of numerous deaths and angry confrontations, the Whaley House is home to several ghosts and unexplained phenomena. Curtains in many rooms seem to move by themselves. The rocking chair in one upstairs bedroom has been seen to rock on its own.

El Campo Santo Cemetery
San Diego Ave Between Arista and Conde streets., Old Town.
477 bodies were buried here, but not all of them stayed within the walls of the cemetery! One of the graves here is that of Yankee Jim Robinson who was hung at the site of the Whaley House, two blocks away.

La Casa de Estudillo
4001 Mason St., Old Town - (619) 220-5422
Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
This adobe house was built in the early 1800's and is one of Old Town's oldest buildings. Many of the rooms are reportedly haunted by priests among others.

Horton Grand Hotel
311 Island Ave., San Diego - (619) 544-1886
With gunslinger Wyatt Earp as one of the former residents, it's no wonder that this old hotel is supposedly haunted. Guests staying in this hotel built in the 1880's report odd sounds, rapid temperature changes and flickering lights. If you do dare to stay here, you may want to distance yourself from Room 309, where the famous ghost Roger Whitaker resides. However, the Horton Grand attests that all ghosts appear to be very friendly and pose no threat to guests.

Hotel Del Coronado
1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado - 1-800-582-2595.
One of the largest wooden buildings in the United States, the Hotel Del was built in 1888. Before 1900, two tragic women had separately committed suicide, each taking with them the life of an unborn child. Their ghosts remain in two rooms. The ghosts of a little boy and girl have also been reported, as well as a hotel caretaker walking the dining room and a Victorian lady gliding across a dance floor.

The William Heath Davis House
410 Island Ave., San Diego, Ca - (619) 233-4692
Guided Tours: Tues-Sun, 11am-3pm
Built in 1850, the house is the oldest structure in downtown San Diego. Many people have reported lights flickering or turning on or off by themselves. One such report was from the occupants in 1977, well before the house was wired for electricity in 1984, meaning the lights must have been lit with a match! Tour guides have reported sightings of a mysterious Victorian woman in a long white dress, and museum artifacts being misplaced to different rooms when the house is closed for the night.

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