Historic haunted places in Bakersfield, CA. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open for ticketed shows; seasonal ghost tours (usually October).
Guides on the 1930 movie palace's own ghost tours introduce a presence they call Vilmos, linked in tour material to the Fox theater chain. Other local tellings put an apparition up…
Open to the public (antique mall and soda fountain; free to browse).
The old Woolworth's, now an antique mall, is said to have a resident ghost nicknamed Arnold. The usual complaint is that merchandise and displays turn up rearranged in the morning,…
Much of this open-air museum's ghost lore centers on the Norris Schoolhouse, a one-room school from around 1882, where staff say they hear chalk scraping a blackboard in the empty …
Lobby open during postal business hours; basement not open to the public.
The story here starts in the Prohibition-era basement, where a bootlegger is said to have died while federal agents questioned him. Postal workers over the years have described an …
Open to the public (hotel; lobby, restaurant and bars open to non-guests).
Local tradition ties the Padre's ghosts to a 1950s fire on the seventh floor and to falls from the roof in the hotel's early years. Guests describe children's voices and giggling o…