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The
Waley House is 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 mischievous 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
memorable.
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