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Haunted Places in Bakersfield, CA

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.

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Bakersfield Fox Theater

Haunted place

2001 H Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Bakersfield Woolworth Building

Haunted place

1400 19th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

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,…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Kern County Museum & Pioneer Village

Haunted place

3801 Chester Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93301

Open to the public (museum; admission charged).

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 …

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Old Downtown Post Office

Haunted place

1730 18th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

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 …

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

The Padre Hotel

Haunted place

1702 18th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.