Whaley House:The Whaley house is located at 2476 San Diego Avenue in Old Town. It was a busy Saturday and Old Town had LOTS of foot traffic. We bought our 'tickets' at the store located next to the Whaley House and then walked back to enter the house itself. I had visited before, but this was Kim's first time, so we wandered through the entire house before we came back into the "court room" area of the home where the curator was telling his "ghost stories". He was a young mexican man who had a way with telling the stories that scared the heck out of everyone in the room, as he would stomp his foot at pivitol points in the story. After listening to his stories, we again proceeded to tour the house, we, nor any of the other tourists, felt, saw or experienced anything unusual. At one point though, while we were upstairs and just about to head down, "the curator" was standing off to the side of the hallway, whispering some unusual spanish words very quickly, almost as if he was trying to 'bring something forth', but that was the only creepy thing we experienced. ALL IN ALL, the house is worth visiting, if just for the history of it all and the 'possibility' of witnessing something ghostly. You can check out their website here:
Whaley House Official Website
El Campo Santo CemeteryThe El Campo Cemetery is southeast of The Whaley house on San Diego Avenue. It is a very unkept cemetery, all dirt, with most of the plaquards missing information, but it is the oldest cemetery in San Diego, built in 1849, so what would you expect. The most unusual feature of this cemetery, are the grave markers in the street outside the gates. With the influx of the population and the need for more space, the city just paved over some of the cemetery, embedding metal "Grave Site" markers in the pavement to mark the exisiting graves. A memorial plaque is posted on the cemetery wall showing where the burials were originally located.
