Historic haunted places in Oakland, 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 to the public (house museum tours; admission charged).
Three members of this Lake Merritt household died inside the Victorian between 1877 and 1891, among them the Camrons' two-year-old daughter. Staff and visitors talk of presences fe…
Open for scheduled tours and ticketed Paranormal Nights.
Investigators have visited this Victorian for roughly two decades, and the staircase between the first and second floors comes up most often: shadow figures, footsteps on empty tre…
Open for public tours and events (admission varies).
Josephine Dunsmuir waited seventeen years to marry Alexander Dunsmuir, then outlived him by only ten months in a house she had barely moved into. Tour staff say a lavender scent dr…
Built from reclaimed ship timber and running for more than 140 years, this tilted little bar has an owner who speaks openly about its oddities. He has described footsteps overhead …
The woman seen in this hillside park is said to appear only after dark when fog rolls in off the bay. Legend makes her the victim of a crash in dense fog on a nearby road, still wa…
Campus grounds open to the public; residence hall interiors restricted.
The campus newspaper has collected Mills ghost stories since 1933, and a history professor led ghost tours here for decades. Most of them center on Ethel Moore Hall, where resident…