California is teeming with dark history, and San Diego is no exception. On May 9th of 2016 during a vacation to the Golden State, my father and I decided to go on the Haunted Tour of San Diego which brought us to the most popularly known haunted locations. On these tours we were provided with EMF detectors and thermometers for tracing the strongest readings indicating the possibility of any "unseen presences." Whether or not you believe in the paranormal, it certainly is interesting and somewhat unsettling to be exploring an old abandoned home after midnight.
Joining the late night Haunted Tour of San Diego at the tour building, we passed by a large purple bus with the tour company's logo printed in bold letters along the side. This would be the bus to escort us around the city as we went from one spooky location to another. Our tour guide was not the typical vacation guide one would expect. She was dressed in a long flowing red and black gown and wore a tall black top hat with red plumes draping from it. She wore a black choker around her neck and had long painted fingernails. She spoke in a tone that drew our attention no matter how softly she said it and her movements were theatrical and captivating. Clearly she was an excellent guide, and certainly looked the part for a haunted tour. The tour took us to places all over San Diego such as the historic "Old Town" lamplight district, a haunted pub, a cursed hotel, the notorious Whaley house, and even a graveyard where a killer was executed and other graves have been reported to make mysterious sounds during the night. The house seen in the photos above was my favorite location to visit since we were able to explore inside and perform a true ghost hunt. The Villa Montezuma is full of eerie stories deserving of more of an explanation that I could accurately give, but rest assured that there are several sources for the unusual activity in that house. Inside, each member of the tour was presented with an EMF (Electronic Magnetic Field) Detector which would measure the amount of energy in the air at any given location. We would use these to track areas in the house where there seemed to be high levels of electricity and energy in the air before we began photographing, while being aware of temperature changes in the room. Everyone was eerily quiet, listening for any change in the room. For a whisper, a creak of the floorboards, or any sound which would inspire our imaginations. Whether there are ghosts in the Villa Montezuma or not is irrelevant to me. I had loads of fun using the EMF detector to pinpoint potentially creepy photos. But my father was able to capture some far more disturbing photos. One of them was of translucent whitish haze the size of a human standing in front of a mirror in the bedroom. Aside from that, some hazy orbs and green glowing dots are all we managed to pick up on our cameras. But watching the EMF reader spontaneously spike into the red zone, indicating a sudden rise in the electricity in the air where I stood, at midnight in a house as silent as a tomb made my heart race and my thoughts run wild.
So regardless if you are a skeptic or a die-hard believer in the paranormal, the San Diego Haunted Ghost Tour was an exciting and fun experience regardless. If you can stay up late enough, experience the darker history of the Golden state, and enjoy the idea of feeling like a Ghostbuster, I would definitely recommend looking into this if you are a thrill lover like I am.
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