KFBK Reported on H Street House over 25 years ago!

Listen for yourself. This is from a segment that aired on KFBK over 25 years ago. Even then, the house on 22nd and H Streets gave local residents a chill. This is a 3.5 meg MP3 file.

Old Sacramento

Frightening occurances have been reported in the maze of tunnels that run underneath sections of Sacramento. The tunnels date from the period of 1864-1877, when buildings and streets were raised an entire story to protect them from flooding. Between the retaining walls, an underground maze of tunnels resulted, enclosed from above by wooden sidewalks. It is known that owners of nine of the restored buildings got together and hired a professional parapsychologist to free them of one troublesome spirit. (The underground area is bounded by H and L Streets, and Front and 12th Streets near the Sacramento River. The most haunted section is between Front Street and 8th Street. The former level of the city is discernible at several "sunken" restaurants and plazas in Old Town.)

Governor's Mansion

Investigators run into all kinds of odd complications and weird setbacks when trying to report on the goings-on in the former Governor's Mansion. Television and radio reporters, psychics, authors, and paranormal investigators all tell stories of odd equipment failures, confused schedules, purloined notes, garbled or erased tapes, and other obstacles to telling the story of this house. Nonetheless, the ghosts here still walk about and icy cold spots remain at places in the house where people died. Ronald Reagan Jr. was witness to one such ghost while home one day by himself. Shortly thereafter, the Reagans relocated to another home in the Fabulous 40s.

Former Sacramento Anchorman

The former home of KXTV news anchor Alan Frio was haunted by a ghost that appeared like clockwork every Saturday night at 2:00 AM. The transparent image of a blue man would appear in the bedroom and knock things off the nightstand or turn on the radio. The apparition once appeared in the middle of the afternoon and awoke Frio from a nap. The former owner experienced the same kind of paranormal activity, as did two more families after the Frios moved out in 1984. (The house is in Carmichael. The house was listed as one of California's most haunted houses in a 1981 issue of Sunset magazine.)

Famous Sacramento Ghosts

Sacramento has its share of famous ghosts. The image of Governor Leland Stanford's dead son appeared to him in the mansion on the corner of 8th and M Streets and told him to build an educational institution: Stanford University.

The old Perrault house on 14th Avenue became notorious in the late 1950s for its widely-witnessed instances of light bulbs bursting in their socket, objects hanging in midair, and fires starting in the furniture.

In 1973, the Martinez home in East Sacramento gained national attention for its whole family of apparitions.

Other legendary spooks from River City include the phantom of a man in his twenties sighted on the beach at the American River Sailor's Bar (beneath the Sunrise Boulevard bridge) and the ghost of an old gold miner, who emerges from the weeds along Prospector Road in the foothills.

Pocket-Greenhaven Ghosts

Another haunted hotspot is the area south of Pocket Road and Greenhaven Drive. Some homes there were constructed on top of an old Portuguese cemetery, while others border an earthen levy that was built over Indian burial grounds.

Japanese Internment Camp Ghosts Still Appear in Citrus Heights

Current hotspots include the Citrus Heights' neighborhood near Antelope and Roseville Roads, site of a temporary Japanese internment camp. Forlorn Asian ghosts have appeared in the bedrooms, living rooms, garages, and front yards of homes in the area.

A Sac State Ghost?

Many people say Shasta Hall is haunted. Students have talked for years about a ghost in the building’s theatre who disrupts play openings. Some think it is a state building inspector who fell to his death in the building before it was completed.

Sacramento Theatre Company at 1419 H Street

Dennis William Hauck's investigation of the Sacramento Theatre Company at 1419 H Street has come away with visual as well as audio evidence of paranormal activity.

According to Hauck's web site: "Several anomalous light patterns were recorded on infrared film at the same time two psychics were holding a meditative séance to conjure up spirits. At 3:00 AM in a secure section of the auditorium, disembodied footsteps were recorded on audio tape. The 50-year-old vaudeville stage is home to a ghost that employees have named Pinky — because of the pinkish aura it manifests. The apparition has been seen on numerous occasions and is even credited with warning electricians of the impending collapse of an overhead lightbar. Several people could have been seriously injured had they not evacuated the area because of Pinky's ghost. In the recent years, psychics have detected the presence of five other spirits in the building."

Crocker Art Museum Ghosts

Dennis William Hauck's investigation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento yielded significant evidence of a haunting. Read the full investigative report with photos here.

"Brown" House - Corner of 19th & F Streets

Can anyone else confirm reports of this house being haunted?

valleyflats writes: "I used to live a couple homes down and my neighbors claimed it was freaky haunted. I asked my landlord (he owns it) about it and he knew nothing of its history. Yet on the day I moved out a guy who owned a building across the street was there and he went pale when I asked him about it possibly being haunted. He said yes ... a couple bludgeonings in the 1980s?"

May H. Woolsey: 1866 - 1879

May H. Woolsey died of encephalitis. Tour visitors to Sacramento's Old City Cemetery have confirmed that her presence can still be felt, literally by placing ones hand near her grave stone.

"beckyjsacto" added: In the Discovery Museum in Old Sac, there is a display from a home in midtown that was being renovated by new owners in the 1980's. When they removed a panel in some part of the house, they found a chest of items (dolls, photos, clothing, and other personal effects) of a young girl [May Woolsey] who'd lived and died in that same house EXACTLY one hundred years prior. Truly creepy!

22nd & H Street House: It Looks Haunted, But Is It?

For years, I've heard stories about this house. KFBK, one of Sacramento's news-talk radio stations aired a halloween-themed story about the house on 22nd and H streets over twenty-five years ago. At that time, the owners related stories of hearing strange, unexplainable sounds while they were in the process of renovating the house. Additionally, they told of seeing fleeting, but regular glimpses of what looked like a small boy, (about 9 years old), hiding within a crawl space underneath the stairs on the first floor of the house, as if playing hid-and-go-seek with them. Within the last ten or twelve years, wrought iron gates have been erected around the property, the result of too many curious onlookers no doubt. Yet to this day, no one inhabits this home; it remains empty, sealed off from prying eyes by locked doors, shuttered windows and the generally creepy feeling it gives off.

A nighttime winter visit to the property, a few years ago, left us with digital images of "orbs," several sets of drained camera batteries, and unexplainable sounds of what seemed like an old dial-up telephone that began to ring; it was well after 10:00 p.m., and it seemed odd that someone would place a phone call to a home that nobody had lived in for the last fifteen or twenty years. Moreover, who would keep a phone plugged in within a home that was, for all intents and purposes, empty? Even more strange was that the rings seemed noticeably louder than normal to all of us, as if the phone had been perched atop the sill of an opened window, yet all of the windows were tightly shut and presumably locked. Was it the wind that tricked us into believing that the rings were louder than normal and coming from this house, rather than another nearby house? On the other hand, who would leave their home with it's windows open, in the dead of winter, so that their phone might be heard so loudly?

More time has passed. There are still no new occupants in the home on 22nd & H. To look at the place from the outside, it appears dead, yet it also seems that someone at least is still accepting phone calls there. Could it be the ghost of the little boy I heard about so many years ago on KFBK?