Inside The Whaley House -America’s Most Haunted Home / Ghost & Gravestones Night Tour Of Old Town SD

0:02 welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a

0:02 recording of this Sunday June 18th June

0:06 18th 2023 Father's Day it is Father's

0:10 day has the recording of this and

0:12 nothing says Father's Day better than

0:15 some haunted Old Town goodness in San

0:18 Diego are you familiar with this area I

0:20 am good old classic Old Town

0:23 with haunted stuff around here some of

0:25 the most haunted hotels so they say in

0:29 the world right yes right up here right

0:33 up here we're gonna hit the main one uh

0:35 with Jewel this one is one of them the

0:37 Cosmopolitan yeah uh supposedly haunted

0:40 up in that second floor up there for you

0:43 right right around where my fingers at

0:44 right there right about there what about

0:45 there follow the finger for the ghosts

0:48 yes

0:49 also this is cinestalker Danny how's it

0:52 going

0:54 but we are not going into Cosmopolitan

0:56 we are going in the Whaley House yeah

0:58 and we also have signed up for a

1:00 nighttime ghost engraveyard gravestones

1:04 gross gravestones tour the tongue

1:06 twister I don't think you've ever done

1:08 that either I've never done that so

1:09 that's really cool he's like let's go do

1:11 that I'm like you know what I always

1:12 want to check it out never had a chance

1:13 but now we do with the woo and we're

1:15 gonna do it up like that you got a

1:17 little cool little ghost tour around

1:18 town the sunglasses I need now but soon

1:20 I will not need them when Nightfall

1:22 rears its head yes why do I always do an

1:24 extra long intro with you that's how

1:26 that's how we do it let's do it brother

1:28 Let's Go full on ghosts goblins

1:33 I don't know what the tour is called

1:34 join me

1:37 oh there's some ghosts oh sorry

1:39 neverminds are shadows oh I got a little

1:41 startle for a minute they're having a

1:43 bath no apparitions of bicycles scooters

1:46 and skateboards there's another guy

1:48 wearing a race shirt right there oh yeah

1:50 oh yeah the Rays lost it I was at the

1:52 game I didn't want to film it but yeah

1:53 so the Cosmopolitan which you said this

1:56 has been closed for a while but there

1:58 have been some paranormal folks who have

2:00 gone up in what room is it I don't know

2:02 exactly but one of the top rooms up

2:04 there I think like one of the corner

2:06 ones and some activity goes on up there

2:08 supposedly like different ghost hunting

2:10 shows and other investigators went up

2:13 there and smoke rude activity like that

2:15 the water would turn on and weird oh man

2:17 sounds and things were like to be a grab

2:20 you your hair baby so stop speaking of

2:22 weird noises and sounds

2:25 we're gonna have some Mexican food in a

2:27 little bit oh yeah and after later this

2:29 evening I might have some weird noises

2:31 being a minute

2:33 that's true

2:37 so we're just going to kind of stroll

2:38 around here it's time until it's our

2:40 time for our appointment at the Whaley

2:42 House we have booked a tour which I

2:44 believe starts at seven and then the

2:46 grave area starts at eight this is like

2:49 something you would see out of like you

2:51 know like a like a building in like

2:53 Dukes of Hazzard or The Waltons it's all

2:55 told so you can see Boss Hog walking out

2:57 there talking about his business this is

3:00 kind of it's like a Town Square totally

3:02 yeah let's see like Doc Brown riding

3:04 through here Buford Mad Dog tan I done

3:06 shot that horse yeah coming through here

3:09 how's that look man it has the Hill

3:11 Valley 1885 vibe to it that's rad yeah

3:14 it definitely does there's a 10 Smith

3:16 right there you go right over there I

3:18 think there's a blacksmith around

3:19 anywhere like dog Brown was it he's like

3:21 a black suit he was a blacksmith yeah so

3:22 he might be in there Buford was looking

3:24 for him I'm looking for that no good

3:26 cheating blacksmith I don't know why I'm

3:28 talking like ba baracus right then I was

3:30 like yeah my Buford Mad Dog Tannen a

3:33 little bit

3:50 reverse inflation yeah take a look at

3:50 how many people have carved their names

3:52 into this cacti right here wow

3:55 I'm serious uh tattoos is going on right

3:59 wow that's crazy so they're everywhere I

4:03 know they have just carved their names

4:05 in the cactus what how old some of these

4:08 ones are that's what I'm wondering too

4:09 like does it grow out like does DNH stay

4:12 in there for the lifetime of the plant

4:14 it looks old like that looks old it's

4:16 not really nice to like carve into a

4:19 live plant yeah it's like messed up a

4:21 bit too right kind of a bit messed up I

4:24 don't know if they have the saloon doors

4:26 but they do have cigars pipes they have

4:29 the flag out front

4:31 cigar store Indian this is great look at

4:35 this

4:36 so he's holding the cigars here these

4:39 were created as advertisements for

4:42 people to go in and buy cigars that's

4:44 awesome and his nose

4:50 been shipped away yeah I can smell it

4:50 get that nice tobacco kind of smell it

4:52 could totally smell it

4:54 yeah

4:55 look at all these oh man

4:57 old cigarettes man the smell is here and

5:00 it is permeating

5:02 look at that there's like some uh

5:05 Penguins

5:06 Chesterfields Lucky Strikes those are

5:09 old schools those old Marlboros and this

5:12 is just uh wow I don't even smoke and it

5:14 really smells really good in here no no

5:16 is this yeah I don't smoke either but I

5:18 always like that I don't like cigarettes

5:20 I don't like cigarette smoke but like

5:21 cigar smell smells pretty good

5:25 like the smell this smell

5:29 they're dressed up in traditional

5:30 clothing too

5:32 oh they sure are the guy's smoke in a

5:34 stogie over there with a top hat on yeah

5:36 take a look at this and even smoking the

5:38 cigar behind the counter they got there

5:41 in full

5:42 garb from the the era that's awesome

5:46 good afternoon how's it going that's a

5:48 great job to have you're working in

5:49 there are you wearing the top hat you're

5:51 wearing the cowboy clothes you're

5:52 smoking a stove all day long yeah cool

5:56 if you like that that's like the job you

5:57 want yeah you've got discounts too right

6:00 right and I feel like that they want to

6:02 be on camera yeah they're dressed for

6:04 the to promote the place yep or maybe

6:08 they are for back in time and they don't

6:10 even work there maybe they're just Time

6:12 Travelers maybe it could be ghosts maybe

6:14 they're ghosts

6:15 space time continuing smoother from yeah

6:17 space robbers too who knows

6:19 space traveling ghosts has that ever

6:21 been done I don't know it's a new thing

6:23 Mark that down right now right now

6:25 nobody's still that idea

6:28 space traveling cups you get some candy

6:30 treats here from the cousins

6:32 threads of the past up here I can dip my

6:36 own candle oh hey you think you can yeah

6:39 I could dip my welcome and dip my own

6:41 candle yeah right inside there former

6:45 Milton session Nursery according to that

6:48 placard now Toby's candle and soap shop

6:52 now we just have an effervescent flow of

6:55 good sensory overload to the nostrils

6:57 because we had first we had the really

6:59 good smell of the cigars and now we got

7:01 the good smell of the candles that we

7:03 just went by I have not had so many

7:06 delicious flavors up my nose in a long

7:09 time so good so good like boom bam like

7:11 back to back amazing

7:13 that was a hard sentence for me to get

7:14 out and describe I don't think anyone

7:16 else would have described what just

7:19 saying oh it smelled really good I could

7:20 have just said you know what it smelled

7:22 good this is is more than this this is

7:24 more than that it was effervescent it

7:27 was an experience there you go it was

7:29 experience of smells and scents I really

7:32 thought this was a real person over here

7:34 I was like oh there's someone sitting in

7:35 a carriage but it's not it is like a

7:38 either a mannequin or a sculpture of

7:41 some sort of this uh farmer here he's

7:43 got the fruits and veggies says San

7:46 Diego Old Town Market located on the

7:48 corner of San Diego Ave and Harney

7:51 Street is America's

7:55 most haunted house and I'm not making

7:59 that up that is historically correct

8:02 based on the sign that is right here the

8:05 Whaley House Museum that's a bold

8:07 statement that is you go to some places

8:10 and you'll say yeah the

8:11 certain towns coldest beer in town or

8:14 the best coffee or the best taco stand

8:17 it's hard to really say which one has it

8:19 but this is America's most haunted house

8:23 I mean this that's a big deal that is it

8:26 is I've been to a lot of places that

8:28 claim to be like scary spots and haunted

8:30 spots

8:31 this one is the most haunted in America

8:33 they say I said in the world but not

8:35 it's not the world just in America look

8:37 down here oh there's this Haley Street

8:39 1850 s

8:44 I don't even do that until now I never

8:44 noticed that before I never know

8:46 something all right just checking in the

8:47 tour check out this professional colon

8:49 cleaner right there I need your colon

8:52 cleaned so I have this is the souvenir

8:54 shop for the Whaley House they have all

8:57 different kinds yeah some of this stuff

8:59 we're gonna get some good information

9:00 America's most haunted house right there

9:03 it's a merchandise all through here

9:05 there's a black cat a book of spells

9:08 herbs for spells it was a little

9:11 baseball cap right here you get some

9:13 merchandise for the wavy house ghost

9:16 fever Yankee gym original brand okay

9:19 they were very accommodating to switch

9:21 our tour back 20 minutes so we didn't

9:22 want to rush over to the trolley tour at

9:25 eight they said it's got a 45 minute

9:27 tour so if we started at seven we'd

9:28 really be cutting it really close and I

9:31 don't think I brought an adequate camera

9:33 evidently my camera pales a comparison

9:35 he has got the so there's a lot of Ghost

9:38 Hunters out here I can never I can never

9:41 say ghost Norma I'd say go

9:48 yeah you've even vlogged bro

9:58 6 40 tour I wonder if he's going in

9:58 by the time we get out of here it's

10:00 going to be dark we're going to go in

10:01 and come out here's our tour guide his

10:05 name is honey

10:06 he is the one that uh got us on the 640

10:10 tour so yeah

10:11 I got here

10:13 okay we're going into the courtroom

10:16 with the juries over there 12 Angry Men

10:19 I love that film obviously

10:22 that's the first movie I'm thinking of

10:24 other than Paulie Shores jury duty

10:30 Ernest Scared Stupid I think it was or

10:30 no Earnest goes to jail

10:40 he's got the flashlight out

10:40 it's got the flashlight

10:47 all right

10:49 this year we're San Diego's second

10:52 Courthouse of 1869 to 1871 but this room

10:55 was a lot of other things as well

10:57 originally going to be in Granary they

10:59 stored grains in here this room has also

11:01 been a Sunday school polling place Dairy

11:04 Bar Courthouse fitting Hall dance hall

11:07 restaurants are in here School houses

11:08 museums there's a Billiards tomorrow yes

11:11 that's right around here right now we

11:13 can't guarantee that you will have a

11:14 paranormal experience here in the home

11:15 but I do have a few tips for you want to

11:18 make sure you give Romano into it if you

11:20 feel anything odd if you're physically

11:21 or emotionally don't just write it off

11:23 also use your sentences you hear

11:26 anything see anything taste knock it out

11:30 seating here but the smell of Sir can

11:32 you go to sleep smells so with that in

11:34 mind this room here is a courtroom after

11:37 all so

11:41 so you guys are going to head on into

11:43 that next room over here

11:47 I wonder who has tried

11:51 guilty or innocent in this room

11:54 it's Mr Whaley right there the General

11:56 Store

11:58 um again just want to turn the

11:59 flashlight off it's a little bit bright

12:00 but yeah uh that this was Thomas

12:03 Whaley's General Store owns many

12:05 business Dentures here in San Diego but

12:07 he wasn't originally from San Diego

12:09 right he actually comes from New York

12:10 that's where his family's from uh but

12:12 didn't want to just ride on his family's

12:14 coattail so on New Year's Day 1849 he

12:16 set sail from New York sails all the way

12:19 around the horde of South America and

12:22 ends up in San Diego San Francisco not

12:25 here yet not here yet uh it's 1849 right

12:28 it's the Gold Rush it's it's uh it's San

12:30 Francisco it's really the place to be

12:32 but he's not near to find gold he's

12:34 actually there to uh sell stuff too I

12:36 think Thomas Whaley decides he's going

12:38 to move down here to San Diego attracted

12:40 here by all the cheap land they say

12:43 yeah in San Diego hasn't been that way

12:45 in a while right

12:46 the import house here complete

12:56 lived upstairs with his family and had

12:56 his General Store down here selling all

12:59 sorts of stuff to the locals right would

13:01 have been settling fabric to the ladies

13:02 tobacco to the men liquor to the judge

13:05 Dry Goods liquor to the judge yes

13:08 Courthouse right next door this year's

13:10 legal grounds right we know that the

13:13 judge who worked next door was quite

13:14 friendly of the spirits Minds you ends

13:16 up riding that permit on the wall over

13:18 there for it it's like Anna at knife

13:20 points and they take those documents

13:22 back Thomas mainly gets back to town

13:25 sees his wife's been threatened Seasons

13:27 homes have smashed up he's Furious he's

13:29 livid he demands that the county pay him

13:31 back for damages but they refuse they

13:34 say sorry this was not an estate

13:35 sanction Posse not our problem

13:38 now Thomas Whaley is a man who respects

13:41 business thus he needs a few Sons after

13:43 business associates myself I'm going to

13:45 name my kids after Transformers Optimus

13:48 Prime Schmidt maybe who knows yeah but

13:51 Francis Hinton Whaley here Frank becomes

13:54 a very well respected manager here in

13:56 the community he uh we ran the newspaper

13:58 here

14:38 this is the real thing they would have

14:40 shared their meals in during their life

14:42 and a lot of meals who would have shared

14:43 Anna Whaley the luxurious year over

14:45 there is a younger woman and Central in

14:47 this black frame here's a great

14:49 grandmother okay cool four generations

14:51 of family members in that photo there

14:53 she had six kids in her own three sons

14:55 who saw them in the last room with three

14:57 daughters as well my Lord that's a lot

14:59 of kids six kids leave this woman alone

15:01 I say let her sleep you have a Anna

15:04 Emilia the first daughter over there she

15:07 is notable because though there are six

15:08 kids she yourself is the only one man

15:10 and Eagles miles north of here in the

15:12 town of Oceanside but they often made

15:13 the journey down here to visit the way

15:15 let's hear the way to the house keep in

15:17 mind didn't have the five freeway there

15:19 back then so it's a little bit more of

15:20 an adventure to get out here horses and

15:22 carriages and dirt roads so they just

15:25 spent a lot of time here when they visit

15:26 want to make the most of that Journey

15:27 but very sadly Marion is a child has a

15:30 bit of an incident she's playing in the

15:32 yard and she stumbles across small glass

15:35 bottle with a rattling down to a kid

15:38 seems like a toy as this rattling sound

15:40 which an adult at a time would have

15:42 denoted that there's actually poison in

15:44 the bottle

15:45 playing with it the cabinet pops off

15:47 very sweet smell amazed from a bottle

15:49 what's inside it tastes quite sweet as

15:51 well got an example of it right here

15:53 there's Kellogg's ant base Kellogg's

15:56 hand paste was a very deadly mixture of

15:58 honey and arsenic it's an ant poison and

16:01 uh because this red tastes like candy

16:03 sounds like a koi she's quite a bit of

16:05 it into passing away just 10 days shy

16:07 for third drift today because of this

16:09 yeah very young when she goes so that's

16:12 why we say many uh they report feeling

16:14 her presence here in the dining room

16:16 these days say that you might feel a tug

16:19 in your pants or your skirts maybe a

16:21 small hand reach up and grab onto yours

16:23 Miss I see you of course don't want any

16:25 ghost babies

16:27 but don't fear right if Marion does

16:30 three shots wait I promise it's very uh

16:32 positive thing just means that she feels

16:34 safe with the uncomfortable she spent a

16:36 lot of time

16:47 a 12x8 space

16:47 adjacent to the dining room window is

16:49 where the workers were worked over here

17:02 so he said he's not tell us more about

17:02 Violet when we get upstairs there's a

17:04 couple people he said they're going to

17:05 go into more detail when we get to the

17:07 upstairs which I believe

17:09 it's the

17:11 According to some of the most haunted

17:13 area

17:15 with this little girl

17:16 spent a lot of her time right in here

17:20 going upstairs

18:42 welcome to San Diego's very first

18:42 commercial theater yes first theater in

18:44 San Diego here in the house here in this

18:46 room Thomas mealy rents a space here on

18:49 surveilling Thomas Tanner and Tanner and

18:51 his theater troop they're the ones who

18:53 do the renovations and they turn this

18:54 room their symptoms and prevailments

18:56 that he act right most notably he had

18:58 consumption which was tuberculosis as

19:00 well as syphilis they said

19:03 yes did say you don't lick anything in

19:05 here right yeah but even so Thomas

19:08 Tanner and believe her that theater true

19:09 he's not the only one that we believe

19:10 Hans the second floor

19:13 1858 that is when Thomas Whaley and his

19:15 family they move into their grand

19:16 two-story Britney State brand new home

19:19 at the time but even so it's not soon

19:21 after that tragedy of strikes they're

19:24 like a son of the time Tommy Jr he's

19:26 just 17 months old they catch the Fatal

19:28 case of scarlet fever he ends up passing

19:31 away in the nursery instead swimming

19:35 devastating for the family but

19:36 especially the mother animal

19:38 close the piece of her Hearts when this

19:40 boy dies I swore this reason that many

19:42 as they gaze into that room they still

19:44 feel that residual and sorrow that

19:46 helplessness the mother Anna would have

19:48 felt losing her child's son enough but

19:51 keep in mind this is just the beginning

19:53 of the tragedy doctor says to this girl

19:56 Violet physically not harmed in any way

19:58 not even a scratch Hunter but mentally

20:00 he suspects That She's suffering from

20:02 extreme bounce

20:05 depression right that's what we call it

20:07 now they keep her on careful watch

20:09 suicide watch in the master bedroom

20:12 there so we've been around the clock

20:14 supervision from her mother Anna and her

20:16 down and sister Lily but though they

20:18 watch her they don't really help her she

20:21 continues to spiral continues to get

20:22 worse

20:24 um and uh but she has to get better

20:25 hiding so she hides her emotions gets

20:28 better at at least her family tragically

20:31 they drop their guard because of us

20:33 she's able to then slip away and get a

20:35 hold of her father's revolver takes that

20:38 gun with her out to the Outhouse still

20:40 in places she should have in privacy and

20:42 she ends up turning it upon herself

20:45 it's 6 30 in the morning Thomas Whaley's

20:47 family they're in the dining room

20:48 downstairs preparing breakfast we hear

20:50 that gunshot just ring out the community

20:53 he panics not knowing where his daughter

20:55 Violet is he runs outside searching for

20:57 her

21:03 finds the door locked he keeps it in

21:03 and he finds young Violet bleedings down

21:05 inside

21:06 these goose is dying daughter up in his

21:09 arms and he brings her into the Parlor

21:12 downstairs

21:14 still alive

21:15 it's barely paying off

21:17 now we will be headed downstairs into

21:19 that part of their next if you guys like

21:21 to follow me

21:31 so much tragedy in here I had no idea

21:33 this is the room Thomas Whaley in

21:36 1858 is 17 months passed away

21:40 family Rhythm the tragedy

22:37 this tour is really awesome and the tour

22:37 guide is really informative

22:56 oh my gosh look at this chair steak

22:56 nightmare fuel

23:19 it's about this painful day Thomas

23:19 whaling he finds his daughter Violet

23:21 leading to death outside he Scoops

23:24 dropping his arms brings her into the

23:26 Parlor here and he lays her down on the

23:28 set seat that would have been here

23:31 they say that young Violet she's not

23:33 Crown pain she does not make a sound

23:40 she simply Slips Away in about 10

23:40 minutes not enough time to get a hold of

23:43 a doctor right she has shot herself

23:44 pretty much square in the chest nicked

23:46 the lung ends up drowning to death in

23:47 her own blood there's nothing they can

23:49 do decades all the tragedies the way in

23:52 the family but keep in mind there's a

23:54 little bit more to the tail Thomas

23:55 Whaley does actually build this home

23:57 here on the original hanging grounds for

23:59 San Diego

24:01 yes he used to do executions here before

24:03 The Homeschool and he knew this is he

24:05 witness that last execution September

24:08 18th of 1852 about 170 years ago now a

24:12 little bit more yeah they they hanged a

24:14 man known as Yankee Channel Robbins and

24:17 Yankee gym he is hanged for stealing a

24:20 row boat

24:21 wow he's got a sphere right where they

24:23 used to hang people here in San Diego

24:30 I'm Sorry Miss it's too late it's too

24:30 late now you might feel an odd sensation

24:32 of some kind Maybe

24:34 you can go into the chest some heat in

24:35 your head feel like you can't catch a

24:37 full Brother Bear that sort of thing

24:38 there's also an old police Legend here

24:41 they say that if an officer of the law

24:43 especially San Diego police officers

24:44 call to the grounds and he walks beneath

24:47 this Archway here he'll step away with

24:49 red rope marks around a snack

24:52 a little bit of Yankee Jim's Revenge

24:54 right not too happy about getting hanged

24:55 for stealing that row boat I think he

24:57 likes to take his anger out on San Diego

24:59 State

25:01 now Yankee Jamie's a little bit scary

25:03 but even so we think that the strongest

25:05 entity in the house is actually out of

25:06 and Away the mother

25:08 it's Anna Whalen her husband Thomas

25:10 often away on business gallivanting

25:13 doing whatever he does while he's gone

25:14 but Anna laley she really holds her home

25:16 together keeps things going also is

25:19 quite well renowned for her parties here

25:21 in the home pretty amazing this was the

25:23 Parlor where she had Soiree is the

25:25 mother yeah and there was before he was

25:28 saying it's before recorded music so she

25:30 would play the school again over here

25:33 right there for her guess this is the

25:35 one that she brought in from New York

25:40 that

25:40 he built the house he got the house

25:42 cheap because it was used it's like a

25:45 hanging ground wow wow and The Gallows

25:47 were right where this Archway was built

25:51 don't stand under there Danny

26:07 do you really think this is where it was

26:07 like it's exactly like inch by inch I

26:10 mean right here probably roughly it

26:11 sounds good it sounds like a gun store

26:24 it's a really great tour again the guy

26:24 it's like really good

26:32 Yankee gym he was six foot five so when

26:32 it happened

26:33 his feet barely even touched the ground

26:36 he just kind of was there in pain

26:43 here's the oldest known color view of

26:43 San Diego 1856.

26:50 let's come here and tell us that they'll

26:50 see a woman in all Victorian dress

26:52 looking at that far window there one of

26:54 the more common ghost sightings here on

26:55 the grounds think that that Spirit of

26:57 young Violet Whaley that people are

26:58 encountering Joyce kept on suicide watch

27:01 in that room for the last month and a

27:02 half of her life

27:04 also keep in mind that room is blocked

27:06 off of the railing day and night nobody

27:08 goes in there so if you guys see anybody

27:09 up there promise you it's probably not

27:11 one of us

27:12 probably

27:14 now the whales you had a few uh pets as

27:16 well three of which we know by name

27:17 there was Dolly the terrier show me the

27:20 Pug and dude the mutts they're fun names

27:23 they're good at naming pets here if

27:26 you're lucky here on the ground she

27:27 might feel something brush up against

27:28 your leg hold those upon your ankle I

27:31 promise you it's not me scrub is one of

27:34 those Whaley family pets try to give you

27:35 a little bit of ghostly puppy love lots

27:37 of fun if it happens right now the

27:40 Paranormal is quite fun but it's not the

27:41 only Legacy that the whaleys have left

27:43 us

27:44 here has stood for over 165 years now

27:47 this is the oldest example of a

27:49 two-story brick home in all of Southern

27:51 California it stands The Testament to

27:54 the tenacious businessman that Thomas

27:55 really was as well as The Monuments the

27:57 mothers and animals it's really the

27:59 reason that the home still stands she's

28:01 the one that keeps it together keeps you

28:02 going also if you look around here on

28:04 the grounds the number of amazing pepper

28:07 trees yes all these here were plants by

28:09 the Whaley's they're all over a century

28:11 and a half old now so it's very cool

28:13 living links to the past that we have

28:14 these days but one of these trees in

28:16 particular is quite special indeed got

28:19 one closest to the wagon there over by

28:20 the road we know it was planted by Young

28:22 Violet Whaley herself I've had a number

28:25 of guests now come here and tell me that

28:27 they'll feel a very strong presence near

28:28 that tree there nothing malicious

28:30 nothing scary just feels like somebody's

28:32 there greeting them saying hello

28:38 this is a girl who uh loved the Arts

28:38 loved culture really wanted to see the

28:41 world but never really gets the chance

28:42 because she ends up dying so young

28:45 but they're all the wonderful guests

28:46 such as yourselves who come to visit the

28:49 Whaley family home literally all over

28:51 the world these days she gets to live

28:53 vicariously through you through all of

28:55 you already live

29:01 about it it's about the tour

29:01 well let me give you these parting words

29:02 do hope I didn't scare you too much with

29:05 all my pianos slamming and such the only

29:08 reason that you'd have to hide is of

29:10 course if you for gods

29:12 to Tim your guy

29:14 hope you guys had fun my name is honey

29:16 if you hated it my name is Tim or Bob

29:18 and if you guys did really like it I

29:20 also have a stacked these blue comment

29:22 cards those really do help us out and

29:23 film one of these out and drop them off

29:24 the shop right and uh yeah if you guys

29:27 have any questions I think I'll hang out

29:28 here now okay the guy who's just

29:30 informing us that the well used to be

29:32 right over here it was filled in

29:35 foreign

29:44 gravestones super informative very

29:47 informative he was a really good guide

29:57 come here I guess you could probably ask

29:57 for a certain guy he was good

30:03 I said one of the one of the windows

30:03 no one is ever in so if you see it might

30:07 have been this one I don't know if you

30:09 see anyone up in there it's not an

30:11 employee buy that maybe yeah

30:19 here we go on the 18th of September 1859

30:19 James Yankee Jim Robinson

30:21 was the last man on the site you know

30:23 that you see you know what happened here

30:25 Gala consisted a two posts horizontal

30:27 beam and a mule drawn wagon and the

30:30 house was built

30:32 where Yankee Jim Robinson

30:43 I've been by here six or seven years ago

30:43 I came to Old Town but I did not do the

30:45 tour and it was really good

30:47 and the daughter the daughter Whaley I

30:50 believe her name was Anna yeah is it

30:52 Anna she planted this tree

30:55 I've been there ever since it's crazy

30:58 you put the seeds down here and the tree

30:59 has grown up I was checking the gift

31:01 shop maybe and then uh and then we got

31:03 the the other tour to go awesomeness and

31:06 then still Mexican food at some point

31:07 another wavy house even has their own

31:09 socks with ghoulish ghosts

31:12 coming out of there this one doesn't

31:14 have any ghoulish creatures of the night

31:16 but it just says Whaley House San Diego

31:18 California and you can get Crocs as well

31:21 oh this is kind of neat this is like

31:23 something out of Hocus Pocus holy you

31:26 got the book of secret love spells and

31:29 ooh that might help anyone that's

31:32 looking for some Secret Love

31:34 Gypsy witch fortune telling tarot cards

31:39 sorceress Witch of the Season which of

31:42 the Oracle the Sam Hayne

31:44 all right uh Ouija board for the

31:47 mushrooms you don't mess around with

31:48 that don't miss out now so I got the

31:50 balcony up top there that'd be great

31:52 imagine sitting on top of it it is cool

31:55 though because there was a general store

31:56 that he had inside there yeah the Whaley

31:59 House over there so over in this corner

32:01 just to give you like a little kind of

32:02 heads up of where we were you got the

32:04 upstairs living quarters and then you

32:06 got the main house hallway there you got

32:09 the living room over there which is

32:11 where the piano was Whaley had a general

32:14 store here where he had his goods for

32:15 sale and adjacent to that was the

32:18 courthouse so you had a courthouse

32:20 General Store hallway

32:23 living room and then all the quarters

32:25 where all the tragedy happened upstairs

32:28 and you had a moment here you saw an orb

32:30 here you said yeah I was telling you

32:32 like right by this doorway like a long

32:34 time ago yeah or 10 years ago I was just

32:36 there I ran random day kind of like

32:39 today or whatever and I was talking with

32:41 the workers there and in my peripheral

32:43 vision I saw like a grayish like orb

32:45 like the size of a golf ball because

32:46 like a fuzzy golf ball you were inside

32:48 there outside the house yeah

32:50 no one else was there being the worker

32:53 stuff like that the ex-girlfriend I was

32:56 with him again and uh and I saw like a

32:59 warp right here and I saw that it's like

33:01 right there something touched my

33:03 forehead I felt like a fingertip like a

33:05 warm fingertips get out I don't know if

33:07 something poked my forehead and the girl

33:09 was with the time but something she saw

33:10 the same thing and touched it right it

33:12 was freaky that is freaky freaky it was

33:14 not that it wasn't a bug it was

33:15 something oh I've heard a lot of stories

33:16 about this place I didn't feel anything

33:18 in there no I didn't feel good but it

33:20 was also we had a very large group I

33:22 think that's what it is I think it's the

33:23 larger the group maybe you're not

33:24 getting the Vibes no because I was there

33:26 when I felt that was me and like two

33:28 people a couple other people so

33:30 America's Most Haunted House really cool

33:34 though very cool there it is oh there it

33:36 is look at this wow maybe we can hitch a

33:38 ride we're actually going that way

33:40 oh a fright-seeing tour that looks

33:43 awesome looking though oh we can do that

33:45 hitchhiking ghosts going our way

33:50 there's room for a thousand any

33:54 volunteers and the darker side of San

33:57 Diego with you I'd like to set the tone

34:00 for the evening with a poem

34:02 thy Soul shall find itself alone

34:06 mid dark thoughts of the great tombstone

34:09 not one of the crowd to cry and design

34:11 our secrecy

34:13 be silent in that Solitude which is not

34:16 loneliness

34:17 or then the spirits of the Dead

34:19 that stood in life before thee shall

34:22 once again in death surround thee

34:24 their will shall overshadow thee be

34:27 still

34:28 when Edgar Allan Poe wrote those words

34:31 in 1827

34:33 he captured an experience that we all

34:35 might have felt at one time or another

34:37 in our lives

34:38 to be alone on a dark quiet night one is

34:41 such a naturalization is it a reaction

34:44 to an unpleasant thought or is it

34:46 actually someone trying to reach out to

34:48 you from Beyond the Veil

34:49 now I know you all come here tonight

34:51 with your life's experiences

34:53 and your own superstitions

34:56 but it show times how many of you

34:57 believe in ghosts arms and legs inside

35:00 you don't fall out the window

35:03 especially the real God and finally

35:08 smoking an alcoholic beverages are

35:11 strictly for the birds

35:14 through the birthplace of California the

35:18 property master who the figure was with

35:19 the top hat in the outer window she goes

35:22 that spirit I was alone all evening but

35:24 it felt as if someone were breathing

35:25 down my neck she decided she would never

35:27 close or work nights again Robinson Rose

35:30 house the two-story White House there

35:32 and then closer to us this is the McCoy

35:35 house James McCoy was an Irish immigrant

35:39 who's the sheriff here in early San

35:41 Diego for about 10 years

35:43 now the street we're coming up to now

35:46 was the original path of the San Diego

35:48 River

35:49 a found out that the soldier had sent

35:53 for another woman from Spain

35:55 and in her fearing

35:57 we took the children

35:59 down to the river and she drowned

36:03 now the soldier was reset

36:06 and he tried to have her arrested but

36:09 they say that she went crazy

36:12 sure if we've seen wandering down by the

36:14 river calling for the children

36:20 Park

36:20 people come here to walk the dogs do

36:22 their wealth it's right next to the

36:24 elementary school named after Ulysses

36:26 best friend

36:27 this park is in honor of the pioneers

36:30 the people that helped settled the

36:31 original San Diego

36:48 now the big cross you see here is in

36:48 honor of Reverend Antonio ubach he's

36:51 known as the last of the Padres

36:54 he was born in Barcelona it was in the

36:57 1850s that he made his way through the

37:00 Southwest as River dubark made his way

37:02 he became acquainted with the different

37:03 Indian tribes now we settled here to San

37:06 Diego in 1862.

37:09 he did many key things he sets the

37:11 founding stone for the Church of the

37:12 Immaculate Conception that was the

37:15 chapel across the street from where we

37:16 just met

37:21 now this headstone is in honor of Cape

37:24 Johnston's house

37:25 but I use the word honor lightly

37:28 because this man had feet on both sides

37:30 of the law

37:31 on one side of it he'd be presiding over

37:33 a court case on the other side of it

37:36 you'd be tweaking into the ordinance to

37:37 his own economic or Arvest aristic

37:41 radical the name whatever politic

37:43 whatever

37:45 he um was born in Tennessee in 1821

37:49 graduated from West Point with Ulysses S

37:52 Grant

37:53 was the Mexican-American war that

37:55 brought him out to San Diego house

37:57 across the park there with the string of

37:59 lights on it

38:00 that house belonged to Peter and Mary

38:02 O'Malley they were members of the

38:04 Mission Hills Community

38:06 for many years

38:09 in fact

38:11 Peter O'Malley was the Undertaker for

38:13 the Calvary Cemetery it was common that

38:16 the Undertaker would live close to take

38:17 care of any immediate needs now this

38:20 begs the question do any of you remember

38:23 the movie Poltergeist yes do you

38:26 remember what the reveal was at the end

38:27 of the movie

38:33 that's right the headstones have been

38:33 moved right but the body said that

38:36 well those headstones have been moved

38:40 the bodies have not you're all standing

38:43 in Calvary Cemetery

38:45 Calvary Cemetery operated from 1865 to

38:49 1964.

38:50 but in 1964 the cemetery come to a great

38:54 state of disrepair

38:56 some headstones have been vandalized

38:58 some have been pitched into a RV

39:02 others had even been stolen

39:04 so eminent domain was declared the park

39:07 and rec department came in

39:09 they put in sidewalks they planted grass

39:11 they put in restrooms

39:13 the headstones were moved but the bodies

39:15 were not oh something else to share with

39:17 you come this way

39:35 now the plaque in the middle here reads

39:35 dedicated to the memory of those

39:37 interred within this park

39:46 but the language is vague for a reason

39:46 these flags have the names of 2 000

39:48 people that are known to be here

39:50 some projections have it there are 3 400

39:53 people buried at Calvary Cemetery wow

39:55 wow that really is quite a beautiful

39:57 sunset over there

39:59 so he's taking us back

40:02 to the ghost coach

40:11 is that Craig T Nelson you think it is

40:11 it's getting out of here

40:13 my motorcycle

40:14 just scurrying through the park oh you

40:17 almost hit that car oh my God you did

40:19 wow

40:22 great cemetery

40:28 ring around the Rosia

40:28 Isn't it nice to know the Nightmare on

40:30 Elm Street jump rope girls are still

40:32 cutting it up after all this time

40:39 when we were riding the store we came

40:39 across it's a fun song but it's a dark

40:41 song it's called The Hurt song

40:43 okay so it goes something like this

40:50 did you ever think it's a hershroll spy

40:50 the sooner or later you're going to die

40:53 with your boots this weekend from the

40:55 back of the road and The Undertaker

40:58 inscribing your stone

41:00 the men with shovel stand all around

41:02 they shoveled you into that cold wet

41:05 ground they shoveled in dirt they throw

41:07 wind rocks and they don't give a damn if

41:10 they break the Box

41:12 oh the worms crawling and the worms

41:14 crawling up they do right dress and they

41:17 turn about then each one takes a bite or

41:20 two of what the war office used to call

41:23 you

41:24 oh your eyes drop out and your teeth

41:26 falling the worms go over your mouth and

41:29 Chin they bring other friends and their

41:31 French friends to attitude all the hell

41:34 when they're through with you it's

41:36 another song ladies and gentlemen

41:44 something truly scary here to your left

41:44 known Zilla you need to take your

41:46 personal items with you because we are

41:48 not going to be returning to the trolley

41:52 there are 399 Souls of rest here

41:54 actually not all of them are rest some

41:57 of the cars that Park the longest turn

41:59 into roadway won't have trouble starving

42:01 or their alarms will go off for no

42:03 apparent reasons

42:11 he arrived here in January of 1852. now

42:11 the guide was saying that the more

42:13 affluential and richer people are kind

42:15 of in the more towards the center of the

42:16 property not along the wall by the

42:18 street I want to point out a couple of

42:19 my favorite things about this Cemetery

42:22 one of them is the Olive Tree by the bar

42:24 wall you'll notice that the trunk of the

42:26 tree looks like the scream face

42:28 I think it's spooked

42:34 and then these benches here

42:34 on this paling fences in the early days

42:36 paline fences were considered as a good

42:38 way to keep the wild animals from taking

42:40 your loved ones away from you

42:43 they said the taller the paling fence

42:44 the more affluent the person in the

42:47 grave

42:48 now one of the more popular grave sites

42:50 here is this one here for little girl

42:52 Gillis

42:53 it's not uncommon that we will come here

42:56 and find stuffed animals money

43:00 um Candy you see the rumor with the

43:03 Holyfield has

43:05 if you leave her drinking she will

43:07 continue to watch over you after

43:13 look at that there's fireworks going off

43:13 here though is that Sea World down there

43:14 that's Sea World yeah that's SeaWorld

43:16 take a look at that that's pretty dang

43:18 cool

43:22 another guide is taking us around the

43:24 back of the house to share some stories

43:27 around here as well I like how his

43:29 outfit but he also has the lantern which

43:31 kind of adds to the Ambiance this is

43:33 where Thomas Whaley first met Yankee Jim

43:35 Robinson

43:36 actually didn't beat him he was one of

43:39 the crowd of onlookers when Yankee gym

43:41 was hanged

43:42 Thomas Whaley was also at the hangings

43:44 of Bill Marshall and Juan Verdugo

43:47 Thomas weisby was also a member of the

43:50 firing squad that shot in San Diego

43:52 garak

43:53 the lives of those five men all

43:55 intersected this one place

43:57 you see before this house was here this

44:00 is where Justice was carried out in

44:01 early San Diego

44:03 for the house dance today was the early

44:05 position of the Hanging Tree

44:07 in fact many speculate that's how Thomas

44:10 Whaley got such a good deal on this land

44:13 now Whaley was a merchant from New York

44:16 who made his way on a Clipper ship

44:18 around the Cape Horn up to San Francisco

44:21 it was health reasons that brought him

44:23 to relocate here to San Diego

44:26 he ended up with the tents on the main

44:28 square of selling guns and Provisions

44:31 after achieving some success

44:33 he wrote to this French woman Anna that

44:36 he had met in New York she was the love

44:37 of his life and he told her if she were

44:40 to marry him

44:41 he would build her the finest House of

44:43 the day this is still the oldest

44:45 two-story brick structure in Southern

44:47 California

44:48 now this house have many purposes it was

44:51 the Whaley's private residents it was

44:54 the first theater run by the Tanner

44:56 group

44:56 it was a general store

44:59 it was even the courthouse where all the

45:01 major decisions of San Diego were made

45:03 for a time you can see they've even

45:05 recreated a holding cell here

45:11 now the ghosts that are believed to be

45:11 here Thomas Whaley would hear Footsteps

45:13 in the house when he was here alone

45:16 they believed those footsteps belong to

45:18 Yankee Jim Robinson we witness executed

45:20 at this very site

45:22 many believe Thomas Whaley is still with

45:24 the property people have claimed to

45:26 smell his cigar smoke

45:27 a figure with the top hat a Blackbeard

45:29 has been seen wandering the upper levels

45:31 of the house

45:33 perhaps he's still watching out for his

45:34 interests

45:35 Anna Whaley this house was built for her

45:38 people claim to smell her lavender

45:40 perfumes lost two children at this house

45:43 Thomas Whaley Jr died at the age of 17

45:45 months a baby has been her crying in the

45:48 house

45:49 also Violet Whaley one of the daughters

45:51 was dejected in her marriage at the age

45:54 of 23.

45:56 this cast during to a severe depression

45:59 she tried to drown herself in the system

46:01 behind the house she was saved by her

46:03 father a year later she stole his gun

46:06 and shot herself here in the backyard he

46:09 blottered into the house where she

46:10 inspired in The Parlor

46:12 now in the 1960s there were multiple

46:14 calls to the San Diego Police Department

46:16 about women frantically crying behind

46:19 the house

46:20 they responded and on many occasions

46:22 they claimed to have come across a young

46:24 woman in the purple gown who was crying

46:26 they'd Shone their lights on her she'd

46:28 look up and she'd dissipate

46:30 many believed this was deciding a Bilo

46:33 Whaley

46:33 there's even the ghost dog if Dolly

46:36 Warden the Whaley's got her stereo has

46:38 been seen walking through the house in

46:39 the backyard

46:40 some guests have you been claimed to

46:42 fill a cold nose against their ankle

46:44 that's one of the unique things about

46:46 this place

46:47 is this not just the photographic

46:49 evidence ectoplasm orbs and apparitions

46:52 many believe the spirits here can and do

46:55 interact with the living

46:56 there have been violent pushes there

46:59 have been colds of us have been seen to

47:01 move through groups of people items in

47:03 the house will move by themselves

47:06 the chandelier in the courtroom is

47:08 suspended by three wires

47:10 has been seen to rock and freeze a rock

47:13 and freeze it will do it for a period of

47:16 over 20 minutes when this happens some

47:19 of the doses that have been with this

47:20 house works on believe the house has an

47:23 anniversaries points in time with the

47:25 spiritual energy is more no problem

47:29 something one of those dusts they claim

47:32 that they'll leave their cane in the

47:34 general story area coming up on the tour

47:36 group they'll come back and find their

47:37 cane in the middle of the staircase the

47:40 staircase is yet another one Thomas

47:42 Whaley was very mistrusting of Alonzo

47:45 Horton's newtowners in fact if they even

47:48 had a cannon on the front porch to

47:50 protect his entry it goes downtown is

47:52 today

47:54 well ladies and gentlemen

47:57 once again I'm the professor and it's

47:59 been a pleasure sharing the darker side

48:00 of San Diego with you but you see this

48:03 tour is going to continue tonight

48:05 when your head hits the pillow

48:07 and your imagination begins to take over

48:10 with that in mind I have one final poem

48:12 to share with you it's a night I walked

48:15 for a spirits well and I told the tales

48:18 I had to tell I shivered a bit and I

48:20 shuddered some but most of all I had

48:23 some fun

48:24 I will not fear the spirits of the Dead

48:26 tonight when I sleep but my bed those

48:28 that need to fear the ghosts are the

48:30 ones who did not tip their hosts

48:34 ladies and gentlemen thank you so much

48:36 for joining us and I wish you a

48:38 beautiful week

48:46 they're walking by hungrys which I am

48:46 getting a little bit kind of like that

48:47 totally here on uh

48:49 a strip here what do they call this road

48:51 let's call this uh San Diego Ave I

48:53 believe it is oh yeah I think so yeah so

48:55 right over there is where we picked up

48:56 the tour and we're trying to find some

48:57 Mexican food but it is about 9 30 or 9

49:00 45 and all of them on a Sunday Eve as a

49:02 recording of this

49:04 are closed at nine so there was we're

49:07 not we're kind of striking out

49:09 over

49:11 in the area getting Mexican food so we

49:14 might not be able to get anything on

49:15 this area we had a couple good

49:16 recommendations tried there's three or

49:18 four places we went up to and all of

49:19 them were closed at nine so

49:22 no Mexican food for us on San Diego Ave

49:24 or San Diego street

49:26 and Old Town San Diego

49:32 it's okay though

49:32 I'm a little too frightened to eat yeah

49:34 this is a whole

49:36 Ambiance going through here everything's

49:39 closed yeah

49:44 definitely a lot different than earlier

49:44 oh yeah

49:46 so these are both the tours that we did

49:48 ghosts and gravestones fright seeing

49:51 tour and the Whaley House now heading

49:54 back towards downtown

49:59 they're beautiful all illuminated over

49:59 there not a plane going directly

50:02 overhead

50:03 like a Wayne's World moment

50:07 look at that

50:22 ended up getting a carne asada burrito

50:22 end up going in a local

50:24 restaurant sit down restaurant

50:27 and getting some food ended up being

50:29 pretty good took a little took a little

50:31 while to get the food

50:32 but the burrito was really really good

50:34 carne asada steak burrito and some chips

50:38 and salsa

50:43 ended up being a pretty good day

50:43 a little uh some some chores Whaley

50:46 House ghost tour

50:47 and uh the

50:50 headstone graveyard tour

50:52 all in all good day back at my hotel now

50:56 looking out over at Petco Park

50:59 and I went to three games I didn't film

51:01 all the games but I did went to a game

51:03 today I didn't bring my camera on

51:05 the Rays lost the Series

51:07 they won one game but

51:10 the San Diego Padres won the other two

51:12 so raise the last two days do not play

51:15 very good baseball in my opinion but

51:18 can't win them all still have the best

51:20 record though and

51:21 the MLB right now so for that I'm pretty

51:23 pretty excited about but

51:26 really good view of this the stadium

51:28 here from Iran though that's gonna do it

51:30 for today I'll see you the next video

51:31 the Vlog

51:34 is over

Inside The Whaley House -America’s Most Haunted Home / Ghost & Gravestones Night Tour Of Old Town SD

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