{"id":21343,"date":"2015-10-13T00:23:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21343"},"modified":"2015-10-13T00:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T07:23:26","slug":"haunted-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/haunted-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hants.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Whaley House San Diego tours (left) and Haunted Queen Mary ship in Long Beach<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When a custom housing development was completed\u00a0and people moved out as quickly as they moved into their $2+ million houses, a friend who worked for the developer told me it was because the new homes were haunted.\u00a0The company was\u00a0caught unearthing an ancient Indian burial site and not reporting the\u00a0artifacts they were digging up. Eventually they were slapped with a small fine. Is it possible that the custom homes were really haunted? \u00a0Some would laugh or scoff and say it&#8217;s all hooey, while others have no doubt that ghosts are real. The truth is that ghosts are popular in contemporary culture and interest is heightened around Halloween. Things have certainly changed&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/hotels\/haunted-hotels.html\">haunted hotels<\/a> used to hide\u00a0employee and guest reports of anomolous phenomena while today, many declare they are haunted in attempts to attract thrill-seekers looking for ghosts! Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/grave-tours.html\">Halloween Ghost Tours and Graveyard Tours &amp; Events<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year-round ghost tours\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH: Queen Mary &#8211; daily<br \/>\nIONE: Preston Castle (offered several times \/ year)<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: Whaley House in Old Town &#8211; daily<br \/>\nCOLUMBIA STATE HISTORIC PARK: Stories in Stone, Ghost Tours (monthly tours)<br \/>\nSAN JOSE: Winchester Mystery House &#8211; daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whaley House San Diego tours (left) and Haunted Queen Mary ship in Long Beach When a custom housing development was completed\u00a0and people moved out as quickly as they moved into their $2+ million houses, a friend who worked for the developer told me it was because the new homes were haunted.\u00a0The company was\u00a0caught unearthing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}