Do you feel like you didn't get enough spooky satisfaction from Halloween in San Diego this year? Did you cast off dressing-up because you didn't feeling like trudging through rows and rows of costumes in San Diego's Halloween costume shops? Well, now that Halloween madness has passed, there is one San Diego attraction that celebrates the macabre in an understated fashion all year long.
The Whaley House is one of the most important landmarks in San Diego. In addition to being the Whaley Family household, the County Court House, the city's first theater, Thomas Whaley's general store, a billiard hall, and a school, it also was the site of the suicide of Violet Whaley in 1885, and other significant hangings.
The attraction is a museum first, and it does give visitors great insight into what it might have felt like to be a San Diegan in eras past, but there is a undeniable presence of something unsettling lying underneath. Whether it is the draft you can feel on the stairs, the smell of Mr. Whaley's cigar in the study, or the heavy breathing visitors have reported coming from behind certain bedroom doors, there is something going on. And this real San Diego haunted house informs and spooks locals every day, year-round, in the midst of Old Town's many shops, bars, and restaurants.
Visit the San Diego Whaley House website for more information, at whaleyhouse.org.
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