Haunted San Diego Ghost Tours — Local services in La Mesa

My daughter and friend and I went on the Haunted San Diego Ghost Tour last night and it was excellent. I appreciate that before the tour I was sent an email and a text with detailed information about where to meet in Old Town and what to expect. Our tour guide greeted us right away and was very friendly and nice. The Ghost Coach pulled up and our guide started out tour. Our group walked to the historic Whaley House in Old Town and we learned the history of the home and who lived there. The Ghost Coach (bus) then picked us up and drove us to Sherman Heights. The bus was comfortable and cutely decorated inside. The guide shared stories and photos with the guest on the drive down. We stopped off to see the Villa Montezuma a Queen Anne style mansion. This magnificent mansion was built in 1887 for the renowned musical composer Jesse Shepard by Spiritualist. This home is reported as haunted and is known for the owners conducting séances inside of it. Our next stop was to the legendary Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego's Gaslamp District and we got to go inside this beautiful hotel. This hotel was built in 1887 and is a National historic landmark that is thought to be haunted. After seeing inside of the beautiful Hotel we walked across the street to see the William Heath Davis House that is a historical house from 1850. Because of Covid pandemic closures, we could not go inside of the house but our guide had a key to the courtyard and she opened it up to tour us around the park area and told us the history of this house. The last stop of the Ghost tour was to the Cemetery of El Campo Santo located in the Old Town San Diego Historic Park which is a burial ground where many of San Diego's deceased were laid to rest for all eternity. The cemetery was built in 1849 and was used until 1880. We walked around the cemetery and heard some stories about it being haunted by the ghost of Yankee Jim Robinson who was hanged on the property of the Whaley House before it was constructed. Witnesses have recounted seeing other apparitions as well.

We all enjoyed the tour and the humor and storytelling. I have lived in San Diego for a really long time and have visited all of these spots many times over the years, but I still really enjoyed learning new history and information about each from our educated guide.

I highly...

5-STARS! My sister and I took the Old Town Walking Tour on Halloween night and we had a great time!

Booking and joining the tour was very convenient. The check-in process was quick and painless. No tickets to have to print out or pull up on your phone, you just give your names, they have a roster, and that's it! So nice and easy.

We really enjoyed the walking tour. Leandra was our guide and she was a great storyteller, really set the fun, spooky mood for Halloween. While we love ghost stories and knowing the spooky history of the locations we visited, we also loved learning the regular history as well. Learning about the houses in Heritage Park was very interesting, and it was REALLY fun getting to be there at night with no one else around. Plus the meeting location was very convenient, even on Halloween night parking wasn't too difficult to find.

We are very familiar with the Whaley House and its history, we've done a tour in the house before, but even so, Leandra had a lot of interesting facts that we'd never heard before, especially about "Yankee Jim", so the research was well done. Visiting the graveyard was very interesting as well, we knew it was close by the Whaley House but seeing Yankee Jim's grave in person really brought his story to life again.

Leandra also did a fantastic job navigating through the streets on a very busy night and keeping the group engaged with so many other tours and distractions around. Her presentation and delivery was great! We had a lot of fun on her tour and would definitely take it again.

I did notice something very interesting in a photo I took of the Sherman Gilbert house before the tour started on the widow's walk at the top... Was it a ghost I caught? Not sure! But I learned LATER, after taking the photo, that there is a ghost story tied to that widow's walk. Catching it on Halloween night made it that more fun...

Meh, it was ok. We did the Old Town walking tour, not the bus tour. I've heard the bus tour is better. No fault to Rosalinda who was a good tour guide. She had some humor, puns and good stories and smart outfit. It just wasn't a very spooky tour. You do not get into Whaley house on this tour, nor any of the other buildings, so that was disappointing. The website is slightly misleading and doesn't tell you that the museum is open for anyone to just go into during operating hours. We didn't see that we wouldn't be getting into the museum until we read the fine print on the emailed receipt that evening. We got there in the evening for the tour but would have been there earlier to do the museum ourselves. Heritage Park is open to the public for anyone to walk through. None of the houses are accessible, even to the tour guides, though they pay to have "access" which seems unfair for them. The cemetery part, again open to the public anytime day or night, was interesting. We were given divining rods, pendulums and EMF readers. No activity and EMF readers suspiciously don't pickup ANY signal (which even humans/phones emit a low frequency) so those seemed rigged. The one I picked up was going off in the box and stopped when I picked it up. But it was an amusing time killer, although I could have spent our $250 for the 5 of us on something more entertaining and just done our own research and walk. Getting INTO buildings makes a better tour and I wish that was the case on this tour. I can imagine that this tour would be really fun to do when the town is celebrating Day...