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.
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Haunted place
1418 Lakeside Dr, Oakland, CA 94612
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…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
1440 29th Ave, Oakland, CA 94601
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…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
2960 Peralta Oaks Ct, Oakland, CA 94605
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…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
48 Webster St, Oakland, CA 94607
Open to the public (bar).
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 …
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
3450 Joaquin Miller Rd, Oakland, CA 94602
Open to the public (city park; free).
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…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613
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…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.