Ready for Halloween? These scary ghost hotels of Northern California are
Last year, columnist Amy Bradley-Hole took you on a tour of haunted hotels all across America.
This year, if you happen to find yourself in northern California during the fall, look no further than Calaveras County. Here, you can stay at one of three hotels that are said to be haunted.
The Dorrington Hotel, located in Dorrington, Calif., approximately 99 miles east southeast of Sacramento, is said to be haunted by the ghost of former owner Rebecca Dorrington Gardner. Current co-owner Marc Lanthier tells the San Jose Mercury News that, when he first bought the hotel, he didn’t believe in ghosts, but guests have “felt her presence.”
Murphys Hotel, in Murphys, Calif., approximately 83 miles southeast of Sacramento, first opened in 1856. It has hosted notable guests including Mark Twain, John Jacob Astor, and President Ulysses S. Grant. Manager Roxana McClelland says that ghosts are really active and plenty of strange happenings like “lights on in rooms and signs that someone has been on a bed, even though no one has rented the room and the door was locked.”
California Haunts, a Sacramento-based group dedicated to psychic phenomena, will be visiting the Murphys Hotel “to conduct an investigation and hold psychic readings.” The events will be open to the public.
The next day, the group will “lead a ghost-hunting walking tour of Murphys, visiting the hotel, the town cemetery and six Gold Rush-era buildings said to be haunted” at a cost of $15.
First opened in 1851, the Hotel Leger (pronounced luh-zay) in Mokelumne Hill, Calif., approximately 54 miles southeast of Sacramento, is a hotbed of paranormal activity. Manager Casie Van Bebber says that ghost sightings and paranormal activities are a weekly thing.
The hotel is holding a Halloween party on October 31 and the public is invited. Van Beeber said that, although she can’t guarantee that you’ll see a ghost, she wouldn’t be surprised if you do see one because it occurs so frequently.
According to a psychic, one of the ghosts at the Leger is one of Van Beeber’s relatives. The “Gray Lady,” a woman in a long white gown, is believed to be Leger’s mistress. Van Beeber says that a lot of them “hang around the courtyard or the basement, which was a prison at one time. There’s one guy there who was a burn victim, and he can be hostile. Some people won’t go down there by themselves.”
If you’re into the paranormal and want to see if you can see a ghost or two, make Calaveras County in northern California one of your stops this month.
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