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One of only two Certified Haunted Houses in the State of California, the Whaley House has
long been known to be haunted. In fact, it has been referred to as the most haunted house in California, and perhaps even
in America. By all accounts, the Whaley House does seem to be one of the few active haunted houses where the occurrences continue
over and over. The haunting and strange happenings have been observed by many people, from volunteers to guests.
I grew up in San Diego, and have visited the Whaley House many times. On a table in the
entrance to the historic home, there sits a photo album of various grainy tourist shots of orbs and shadows and such. Although
most of the photos this album contains require a very vivid imagination in order to see a figure of any sort, a few are quite
chilling. On my last visit to the Whaley House, in April of 2002, I decided it would be fun to snap a few pics of the place
myself, just to see what would turn up. I took a 35mm Pentax loaded with Kodak 400 film, and walked through the entire house,
shooting randomly as I went. It was a typical spring day in San Diego...drab, overcast, and drizzling, so the house didn't
have many visitors that day. Because of this, I was able to wait until I was alone before I snapped each photo. Although I
had already taken many pictures with it that trip, once inside the Whaley House, my camera began malfunctioning. For example,
my camera has a "too close" feature that lets you know when your subject is too near the lens to produce a clear picture.
If an object is too close to your lens when you attempt to push the shutter button, the camera will beep, flash, and won't
take the picture. Each and every shot I attempted inside the Whaley House that day resulted in my camera telling me I was
"too close," regardless of how far I was from the objects in each room. It was really creeping me out because it was as though
something I could not see was right in front of me, obstructing my shot. The really chilling moment, though, was when I had
the film developed later that day. Nearly every picture featured white orbs and/or translucent white shading. As creepy as
those were, though, they didn't hold a candle to the one I'm sending you now. I took this picture in the Whaley master bedroom.
I was completely alone in the top story of the house, and nothing seemed amiss except my camera's weird behavior and a general
sense of creepiness on my part. Clearly visible on the right side of the photo is a man's upper half. He's dark-haired and
pale-skinned with a mustache. He appears to be in period dress. His right hand is on his hip, and even the buttons on the
jacket on his right arm and a white shirt cuff are visible. I am sending you the original, unadulterated photograph. Decide
for yourselves whether you think it is a real ghost. I would really appreciate any feedback. Thank you!
Christine Pagels
Wichita,
KS
Photograph taken by, Christine Pagels
Wichita, KS
Photograph taken by, Christine Pagels
Wichita, KS
This first picture I got off the master bedroom upstairs and if you
can see to the left right next to that snowflake sticker you can see the apperance of what is believed to be a picture of
a saint of some kind. Now Idouble checked that room and there was no picture of a saint hanging there.
Mario Hernandez ( U.S.M.C ) SgtMaj Ret
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This next picture I got it from the kitchen rrom and it appears
to be a face of some sort on top of the painting hanging. Now I really don't know what it is but I can sure tell
you that this picture is real because there was no mirror or no glass in front of it either. That also trips me out because
there was no glass in front of me and yet I got what it appears to be the reflection of the flash I used on my camera.
This next picture I got from the bedroom upstairs and if you see
closely there a couple of blue flying orbs around the courtains. I mean there small orbs but you can also see the blue shadowing
around them too. What was weird about this picture was; when I took the picture the curtains were actually moving and
there was "no air or wind to make them move".
This next picture was the most interesting of all because in this
picture I took at the children's nursery you can see the apperance of the Mexican Maid the Whaley's had and the story
tells that one time that maid was upstairs cleaning the rrom and someone murdered her in there. And if you look closely you
can actually see her in this photo. She apperas to be wearing a long dress and it looks like she's standing next to the bed
looking at something. "This picture was the one that creeped me out the most at the Whaley's".
This picture was taken by my friend with his camera in a different
date but you can actually see someone's face in the middle of the picture. My friend told me that the people who work there
told him that it was the image of Mrs. Whaley posing for him.
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