Ghosts in Old town San Diego, California

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History of Whaley House

    The Whaley was found at 1857 with the Greek Revival style residence, is a California landmark Historical. The cost of the house was $10,000. It was made from bricks created in Whaley's own brickyard on Conde Street.The house was furnished with mahogany and rosewood furniture, Brussels carpets, damask drapes and was considered a mansion for its time and place. Besides being the Whaley family home, it was also San Diego's first commercial theater, the county courthouse, and a general store.  The new house was known as the finest in Southern California. This building is a museum which located in old town, San diego, California. Now, the museum is managed by  Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) in America.

According the source... Before this building became Museum, this building was used by Thomas Whaley to his family"s home...

what's the story????

Thomas Whaley family....

    Thomas Whaley was born on October 5, 1823 in New York City. He is Scots-Irish origin. Originally, he lived in New york City with his parents, his 4 sisters and  his 5 sisters . Thomas Whaley was the seventh child of 10 children. After taking over his father's successful business relations, Thomas Whaley left New York on January 1, 1849. He left the city alone. he left all of his family there.
    After 5 days he tripped, he arrived in San fransisco. He began his carrier there. He bussiness with many client there. I think he want lived there, but it is not right...... Then, he left this city and arrived in Peublo San Diego in September, 1851. in there, he began his bussiness again. After 2 years, he back to New York for married with his girlfriend named Anna Eloise Delaunay at August,14, 1853. few months after their marriage, they left new York again and lived in California on december, 1853. he lived in the rented house during 4 years. On August 22, 1857 The Whaleys moved into their finely built home, called The Whaley House .

   On December 28, 1854 Thomas and Anna Whalley's first child was born. His name is Francis Hinton. Francis suffered Scarlet fever at 18 onths and he was died on January 29, 1854 in The Whinley House. His parents was very sad. Anna trauma because her child was died. After the death of baby Thomas and the fire of their wooden store, Thomas and Anna decided to move to San Francisco, California. And then, Anna whalley birth the second child, his cild is a girl. she gave her child name is Anna Amelia whalley on June, 1858. 
     In January 1859, Thomas Whaley turned his affairs in Old Town over to Frank Ames , the Wells Fargo agent. On November 5, 1860, George Hay Ringgold Whaley was the thirt child was born. Then,  On October 14, 1862, Violet Eloise was the fourth baby was born to Thomas and Anna. Corinne Lillian, youngest of five children, was born on September 4, 1864. Thomas, his wife and their children lived very happy there. With his carrier,  in the summer of 1868, Thomas invested some of his new capitol of stock in merchandise and headed back to San Diego.  It was not long after Thomas fixed up the old Whaley House that Anna and the rest of the family arrived back home to San Diego on December 12, 1868.
     On January 5, 1882, Violet Whaley and Anna Amelia Whaley married in Old San Diego. Violet married with George T. Bertolacci and Anna Amelia married with her first cousin,  John T. Whaley , son of  Henry Hurst Whaley . But few years laters, they divorced. After Violet and George divorced, Violet never recovered from the humiliation and suffered from depression. Violet  suicide by fired her self  in the heart with Thomas's calibre. This happen occured on August 18, 1885. After this event, Thomas Whaley built a single story frame home for his family at 933 State Street in Downtown San Diego.

       On December 14, 1890, Thomas Whaley died due to ill health at his home. and his second child,  Anna Amelia Whaley died at Modesto, California on December 12, 1905.  Meanwhile, the old Whaley House remained vacant and fell into disrepair until late 1909, George Whaley undertook the restoration of the building, which greatly improved its appearance. George turned the home into a tourist attraction where he posted signs outside promoting its historicity and entertained visitors with his guitar. Anna Whaley, Thomas's widow, Corinne Lillian and George lived in the old Whaley House in 1912.  On February 24, 1913 Anna died in 80th. A years later, George Whaley died on November 19, 1914 in San Diego and Corinne Lillian Whaley was died in the house until her death in 1953. After all this family history of success and deaths the Whaley House remains well known as a haunted house. It is said that guests and the staff, from time to time, will catch a glimpse of the ghost of a Whaley family member who died inside the house such as: baby Thomas Jr., Violet, Anna, Francis, George and Corinne Lillian Whaley. 
  
 
How the history of The Whaley Museum???   
       This historic house was opened as museum on may 25,1960. Now, Whaley House is a one of famous atraction in Southern California.

Ghost in Whaley house.....

       In 1960, The Whaley House was designated as an official Haunted House by the United States Commerce Department. The only other official haunted house in California is the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. According to the Travel Channel 's show America's Most Haunted , one of all the haunted houses in the United States, the Whaley House is the number one most haunted .The Whaley House grounds was reportedly haunted even before the house was built and the family moved in. The first ghost to be reported was the ghost of James "Yankee Jim" Robinson who was hanged in 1852. He was hanged on the property that was the site of a gallows before Thomas Whaley purchased the property and built the house. Moreover, four members of the Whaley family died in the house, including Anna Whaley. The ghost of Anna Whaley has been reported by visitors in the garden or in the rooms located downstairs. Furthermore, some visitors claimed that they have seen an apparition of a woman in the courtroom, but the description of her did not fit any of the Whaleys. In the 1960s, psychic, Sybil Leek, felt a presence of a girl. She was described as the great grand-daughter of Thomas Whaley, Marion Reynolds, who ingested ant poison. She is known to grab people's arms. Not only is the Whaley House a home for the family even after they had died, it is also a home for their dog. A spirit of a dog was captured; the apparition of the dog was caught running into the dining room in the house. The Whaley family used to own a terrier named Dolly Varden. The dog died of natural causes and is said to lick the bare legs of women and is mostly seen by children.

     Every last weekend of the month, The Whaley House Museum offers a late night paranormal investigation tour co-hosted by The San Diego Ghost Hunters (sdGH), San Diego's premier paranormal investigation team, who specialize in assisting historical landmark owners in discovering or confirming paranormal activity at their locations. The tour is limited to a small number of guests who are allowed to bring cameras (still and video) and audio recorders. During the tour, guest investigators are educated on the history behind the legendary spirits that are said to haunt the house and are instructed on how to operate and utilize basic paranormal investigation tools for searching out the house's mysterious residents. The tools used by most paranormal investigators consist of camcorders and still cameras, audio recorders, Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Detectors/Meters, Thermometers (Digital or Infrared), a thermal imaging camera, and other various odds and ends that assist the investigators in their search. Tools like these can be seen used by The Atlantic Paranormal Society, or T.A.P.S., on the popular SyFy TV series Ghost Hunters.

Also, Mega64 used this location for a skit about the video game Luigi's Mansion, where Derrick Acosta acted as if he were vacuuming ghosts similar to much of Luigi's Mansion's gameplay.

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