Historic haunted places in Monterey, 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.
Part of Monterey State Historic Park; exterior viewable, interior per park schedule.
Ghost tours say Jack Swan, the sailor who built this adobe in the 1840s and died in 1896, never quite left his playhouse. Guides and visitors talk of objects shifting with no one n…
Most of the reports at Colton Hall come from the old jail wing, where visitors describe moaning and choking sounds in the cell block, cold spots in particular cells and a sense of …
Open to the public (guided tours on select days; free admission).
The figure most often described at this 1835 landmark is a woman thought to be Rachel Holmes Larkin, who lived here until the house was sold in 1849. Docents and visitors mention c…
Open to the public (guided tours on select days; free admission).
Visitors and even the building's curator have reported a woman in a black dress moving through the nursery and nearby rooms, usually identified as Manuela Girardin, who died here a…
People report a man in period clothes near the staircase and on the second-floor balcony, and a woman believed to be Josefa Stokes in the dining rooms. Restaurant staff talk of thi…