West — open filings

Open to visit in California

77 dossiers in California carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

77 open dossiers7 counties coveredRMS Queen Mary — deepest file

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High confidence

RMS Queen Mary

Long Beach, California

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

5 claims · 3 legends→

Detention Center

Angel Island Immigration Station

Tiburon, California

The "Ellis Island of the West"—where Chinese immigrants were detained under exclusion.

3 claims · 3 legends→

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Los Angeles, California

1927 film-colony hotel haunted—per lore—by Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Cerro Gordo

Keeler, California

1865 silver camp on a 8,500-ft Inyo ridge—now a private ghost town with overnight stays.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Sutro Baths ruins

San Francisco, California

1896 glass-topped saltwater baths—burned 1966, ruins on the cliff.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Whaley House

San Diego, California

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Winchester Mystery House

San Jose, California

Unusual mansion with an extensive modern ghost tradition.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Star of India

San Diego, California

1863 windjammer with a sailor’s ghost in the rigging.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Former Hospital

Camarillo State Hospital site

Camarillo, California

1936 psychiatric hospital—its bell tower became a CSU campus landmark.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Former Shipyard

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

Vallejo, California

The Navy’s first Pacific shipyard—145 years of warship construction.

2 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Bodie

Bodie, California

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

2 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Mission Inn

Riverside, California

Historic hotel with voice and apparition reports.

2 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Alcatraz Island

San Francisco, California

The Rock—federal penitentiary 1934–63, island prison since the 1850s.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Proctor Valley Road

Chula Vista, California

The San Diego County road with the Proctor Valley Monster and the vanishing girl.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Mission San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano, California

The "Jewel of the Missions"—and the swallows that made it famous.

2 claims · 2 legends→

La Purísima Mission

Lompoc, California

The most fully restored California mission—and the most haunted.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Amboy

Amboy, California

The town Roy’s built—population zero, still standing.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Roy’s Motel

Amboy, California

The Googie sign—the mid-century icon on the empty road.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Bombay Beach

Bombay Beach, California

The resort that drowned—where the art now grows from the salt.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Fort Ross

Jenner, California

The 1812 Russian outpost—where the czar’s flag flew over California.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Battery Spencer

Sausalito, California

The 1897 battery—where the bridge photos are taken.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Preston Castle

Ione, California

Reform-school "castle" where wards and a staff member died violently.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Racetrack Playa

Furnace Creek, California

Moving stones with observed natural mechanisms.

Millennium Biltmore Hotel

Los Angeles, California

LA’s 1923 palace—the Black Dahlia’s last-seen hotel and the early Oscars.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Palace Theatre (Los Angeles)

Los Angeles, California

Broadway’s oldest LA theater—the vaudeville house with a dark double-balcony legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Salton Sea

Mecca, California

The accidental sea—1905 flood, now dying.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Salvation Mountain

Niland, California

Leonard Knight’s painted hill—"God Is Love" in adobe and paint.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Manzanar

Lone Pine, California

The Owens Valley camp—11,000 interned under the Sierras.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort Point

San Francisco, California

The 1861 fort under the bridge—where the cannon face the Golden Gate.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort Humboldt

Eureka, California

The 1853 fort—where Grant served his lonely tour.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Brother Jonathan

Crescent City, California

July 30, 1865—the gold ship on the California rocks.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena, California

The 1925 playhouse where founder Gilmor Brown kept an office.

2 claims · 1 legend→

St. Francis Dam Disaster Site

Santa Clarita, California

Dam-collapse landscape in San Francisquito Canyon.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Hotel del Coronado

Coronado, California

1888 beachfront icon haunted by Kate Morgan, the "beautiful stranger."

1 claim · 1 legend→

Moss Beach Distillery

Moss Beach, California

1927 speakeasy haunted by the "Blue Lady"—a documented 1930s love-triangle death.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Griffith Park

Los Angeles, California

L.A.’s great park sits on Rancho Los Feliz—said to carry a 19th-century curse.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Former Military Base

Benicia Arsenal

Benicia, California

1851 Army arsenal with a camel-barn ghost and unexplained arsenal lights.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Battery Point Lighthouse

Crescent City, California

1856 tidal-island lighthouse—keeper lore and phantom footsteps.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Point Sur Lighthouse

Big Sur, California

1889 light on a volcanic rock—keeper-isolation lore and the USS Macon wreck.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Folsom State Prison

Represa, California

Johnny Cash’s 1968 concert prison—still active, still grim.

1 claim · 1 legend→

San Quentin State Prison

San Quentin, California

California’s oldest prison—the gas chamber, the condemned row and the ghosts.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Niles Canyon Road

Fremont, California

The canyon road where the "Niles ghost girl" is said to hitchhike.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bigfoot Discovery Museum

Felton, California

The Santa Cruz Mountains museum at the edge of Bigfoot country.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Junípero Serra’s headquarters—and his burial place.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mission Dolores

San Francisco, California

The 1776 mission that survived when the city around it burned.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mission Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California

The "Queen of the Missions"—and its cemetery and catacombs.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mission San Diego de Alcalá

San Diego, California

California’s first mission—1769, and the site of the first Christian burial.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

San Gabriel, California

The 1771 mission with the oldest working California vineyard.

1 claim · 1 legend→

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Record last amended October 2, 2026