The Whaley House - San Diego 10/1/07 Cindy's Website Cindy's Blog
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After we gave up on Balboa Park, we decided to go to Old Town. We were going to take a ghost tour (we paid for it) yesterday, but the tour got cancelled. So we decided to drop by the tour at 6:30 pm and see if we could get in today.
We got to the hotel where we were supposed to meet and when it got to be 6:15 we asked the hotel desk about the tour. They said the guy who ran the tour was not reliable and didn’t show up sometimes. We waited until 6:30 and he didn’t show up.
Now the most famous place on the ghost tour was a real haunted house – The Waley House. Check out their website for some of its history.
(http://www.whaleyhouse.org/)
Now THIS WAS EXCITING ! I started getting butterflies in my stomach as soon as we walked in the door. I got a lot of weird sensations when I was there. There were a few rooms that were a little more scary than the other ones and I just got like bad feelings in them.
There were these costumed people, docents, who worked there and gave tours and explained things to people. They were dressed in all black with veils. They were scary enough just by themselves.
We talked to one of them and asked her questions. She said the docents saw things all the time but were more scared by things that they heard rather than what they saw because they hear things more often or something like that .
She was all dressed in black and I felt like she was a LITTLE bit suspicious, well I don’t know… She probably does pick up things but I felt she was trying to be more scary than anything else…I don’t know…I don’t know…
Then later we saw this other docent. She was even more scary. She had a veil on in front of her face so you couldn’t even see her face….and she was all scary and when you’d try to take a picture of her she would walk away.
I guess she wanted to be scary and she didn’t want to be available or whatever. And then she started sitting on window sills and things and she scared someone when she moved.
Then there was this painting that’s in one of the bedrooms and it looked like the smile was moving like — smile, not smile, smile, not smile, etc. Then a couple of the other rooms were really scary, and the dining room was really scary….got weird feelings in there.
The courtroom wasn’t really scary…to me. And the upper rooms I felt were more scary than the bottom rooms. They just had this scary feeling on the top floor. I felt like some presence in certain spots.
Then we went outside to where the garden was and it was a little bit scary there. There was a gazebo and that was a little scary. I didn’t wait there too long when we were taking a picture. Something was weird about the seats.
So then we left, but we wanted to go to the old grave yard down the street before we ended our ghostly tour. We entered the wrong way and had to jump over a wall. So we did. That area, where it was really dark, was pretty scary, but the rest wasn’t so bad. Some parts were scary and had a weird feeling, but some were not. So we just walked through and looked around and took pictures. Mostly the graves were from the 1800’s.
So then we ended the ghostly part of our Old Town visit and checked out some shops. More like a tourist section than Gaslamp Quarter, so we didn’t buy anything but dinner at the Creole Café (http://www.neworleanscreolecafe.com ) This was located on the Waley House grounds (which made going to the restroom a little scary) but even though I LOVE gumbo, the food wasn’t that great. Just OK.