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Located in San Diego California.
The United States Chamber of Commerce has declared the Whaley House as being
genuinely haunted.
The house has all of the signs of being haunted. Apparitions, cold spots,
feelings of being touched, unexplainable lights, footsteps, rappings, objects
moving, odd smells and feelings of being watched. All of these and more have
been observed in the Whaley House since it opened to the public in 1960.
There was a conflict about where the court
house should be Old Town or New Town, Thomas Whaley of course wanted it in Old
Town. While away on business his home was broken into and his wife held at
gunpoint while his office was ransacked for all the towns papers. This scene is
still played out from time to time in Whaley House.
Yankee Jim, a spirit that was hung on the
property for stealing a boat, lives here. Yankee Jim Robinson was a tall man
with unruly blonde hair. He was hung on the property before the Whaley House
was built for supposedly stealing a boat. His accomplices were let off with
much lighter sentences although no explanation is given why except that he may
have been the mastermind behind the plan. There was never any hard evidence
found. Yankee Jim had been seen in a rowboat in and around the schooner Platus.
It was not an easy hanging, sketchy history reports claim the gallows were
built for men of regular height. Yankee Jim was a very tall man, so when they
pulled the wagon out from under him, his feet still touched the ground. He
strangled to death proclaiming his innocence.
Lillian Whaley, Thomas Whaley's daughter who lived in the house until 1953,
claimed it was Yankee Jim's footsteps she heard at night walking the wood
floors. Today loud footsteps are heard upstairs when you are downstairs and
heard downstairs when you are upstairs. And sightings of a tall man with unruly
blonde hair are reported frequently. His laughter is said to heard echoing
through the hallways of Whaley House.
Several other ghosts are said to haunt the
house. Including an attorney who managed the Whaley affairs during the Civil
War and was said to have fallen in love with the house. Another spirit is Mrs.
Anna Whaley, she likes to play the piano to let others aware of her presence.
Playful and mischeivous 17 month old Tom Whaley has been seen and felt around the museum.
Events do not occur everyday at the Whaley
House. In fact sometimes weeks pass before one of the spirits makes itself
known to the workers or the public. But when it does, you can bet it is
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