
The Whaley House - San Diego, California
N 32° 45.170 W 117° 11.681
11S E 481762 N 3623903
Quick Description: The Whaley House is located in San Diego's Old Town...and is the City's most notoriously haunted site.
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/6/2009 10:19:10 PM
Waymark Code: WM7CZF
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Long Description:The Whaley House is an 1857 Greek Revival building in San Diego's
Old Town, a history museum, a California State Landmark...and
HAUNTED!
An excerpt from
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"According to the Travel Channel's America's Most Haunted, the
house is the number one most haunted house in the United States.
The alleged hauntings of the Whaley House have been reported on
numerous other television programs and been written up in countless
publications and books since the house first opened as a museum in
1960. Although we cannot state positively that the Whaley House is
really haunted, the voluminous documentation of paranormal
occurances at the site makes a compelling case. But, if there are
ghosts at the Whaley House, who are they and why are they here?
The earliest documented ghost at the Whaley House is "Yankee
Jim." James (aka Santiago) Robinson was convicted of attempted
grand larceny in San Diego in 1852, and hanged on a gallows off the
back of a wagon on the site where the house now stands. The local
newspaper reported that he "kept his feet in the wagon as long as
possible, but was finally pulled off. He swung back and forth like
a pendulum until he strangled to death." Although Thomas Whaley had
been a spectator at the execution, he did not let it disuade him
from buying the property a few years later and building a home for
his family there."