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Hello Bako Ghouls And Gals. It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Ghost Hunters Back Again With Your Favorite Spooky Report Of The Year!

The Top Ten Most Haunted Place In Bakersfield

**Note** We have added a few places this year and unfortunately on some we can only tell you the general locations out of courtesy to the residents.

We hope you enjoy.

And Have A Spooktacular Halloween!

 CAUTION: As always we ask that if you decide to

 go to these locations please use caution and safety.

And always respect the privacy and the property of

the residents of the locations whether they be alive or "DECEASED".

Happy Hauntings

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1) Bakersfield Californian Bldg.:The Location: 1707 Eye Street.

 Severity Of Haunting: Fair To High

Details: A German Shepherd Dog awaits eternally for his master to come back to the building, An old Security Guard keeps watch of the building, The Former editor of the paper is seen on occasion.

GEPRS Results: We have experienced some pretty strange things in this area as well as most of the buildings stretching around the downtown part of town. Starting at California through to 19th street on down.

2) BHS Campus : The Location: 1241 G st.

Severity Of Haunting: Fair To High

Details: A young couple about  16 to 18 years old is often seen  on the upper part of the bleachers. The girl wearing a prom dress, the boy wearing a BHS Letterman's jacket. (Also what has been discovered is that human bones were UN-earthed during construction stemming from a hospital that was once there. Bones of medical amputees).

GEPRS Results: We have had many reports of sightings and activity here. Especially from people that have performed at the theater or worked in the various buildings on the property.

3) Downtown Bakersfield: The Location: 18th, 19th,  to Chester Ave. 

Severity Of Haunting: High

Details: Most of these area's have had reports of some sort of activity or sightings. Most are private residents therefore we can not divulge the exact addresses. But there has been many reports of homeowners, patrons, and employees of businesses being touched. A ghostly dog has been heard barking {see Bakersfield California}. Ghostly figures of homeless people have been seen wandering the streets and disapearring before your eyes.

GEPRS Results: Two members of GEPRS have personally experienced ghostly activity in these areas. Most of our investigations are not far from each location.

 {4) Garces Circle : The Location: 30th St & Chester Ave. 

Severity Of Haunting: Low To Fair

Details: Father Garces is known to weep, move his hands, wave his hat, move his arms, and whatever part of his body that he can move. Usually to warn of an appending car accident or fender bender. (Personally we think he is just tired of standing in the same place. hahaha! And "Ironically" there had been talk of moving the statute to make a new Over Pass so he may get his wish.) So as long as you are careful and don't get into an accident or hit by a car at the circle, there may be a good chance to see this highly reported phenomena on Halloween Night.

GEPRS Results: None to report except what we have been told. 

5) Kern County Museum: The Location: 3801 Chester Ave

Severity Of Haunting: High

Details: Probably one of the most concentrated area's of active houses of buildings ever assembled. These are houses and buildings from all over Bakersfield and surrounding area's brought together into one spooky place. They may be having a walk through and for a small fee you too could have an experience like the many that have been reported there. {Once again this is a private area after a certain time so please only go there during business hours when the museum is open}

GEPRS Results:

A few especially active places are the old school house were children are still heard singing and talking, the old jail that has a feeling of despair and sorrow, and if you stand on the slab of concrete that is reserved for entertainment, located in the center of the surrounding buildings. You will always feel like someone is watching you from the windows of the buildings themselves.

6) Central Park: The Location : 21st & R St.
**Caution : It is not a safe area to go there at night, so please use extreme caution**

Severity Of Haunting: Low To Fair
{We have rated this based on the many reports we have
received, but not from actual data or investigation.}

Details: There is a ghostly woman in white that is seen floating around the area. It has been reported that actual human remains of a woman have been found there. One account is that the remains had a bullet hole.

GEPRS Results: The reports of the human remains all here-say
and in no way have we confirmed it to be fact.

7) 17^th Street :Location: 17th Street And Surrounding Area

Severity Of Haunting: Fair

Details: There has been several reports from Businesses and Home Owners in this area that they are experiencing activity. There are two especially haunted locations in which have reported objects moving or disappearing. Disembodied voices. Strange sightings of a figures floating about.

GEPRS Results: This area was once the site of an old Mortuary and Graveyard. **See Below (8) For More Details.

8) 20th Street, 21st Street, thru to Westchester Ave.: Location: "Same"

Severity Of Haunting: "HOT"

Details: Ghostly Apparitions Of All Sorts, Phantom Joggers And Homeless People walking About, Spirits Of Children, A Reported Ghost Woman, Vision Of A Man Murder By His Wife. And Much More.

GEPRS  Results: Although the majority of these stories or reports are second hand we at GEPRS can say that we have had our own real experiences in these areas and can account for positive substantiated information  ;through history study and research. Note that this area has had numerous reports and with good reason. This entire area was once one of the cities cemeteries. Most of the remains had been interred and moved to other cemeteries including Union Cemetery. Which by the way like most of the cemeteries in town have some sort of activity. But what may account for most if not all of the reports is the fact that not all the remains had been recovered and reburied in sacred ground. There are still remains being found to this day as building and rebuilding takes place. There was a supposed murder in this area. A woman murdered her husband and it has been said that it is felt that this accounts for some of the activity on a certain street in this area. This has also been the reported site of an old hospital in which several children had died from an outbreak of yellow fever. Many people have been wandering at night in this area. Which would be normal except they are people in period clothing and or are either, as some current residents have reported to look, "wispy" or "transparent" like.These people have been seen wandering around all over this area at night and some in the day time. GEPRS has to report that in one of the homes in this area there is a home that has been rented out and rented out several times because of a terrible feeling you get when you are on the property. {UPDATE: GEPRS has investigated once again and have observed on 10/10/08 that someone has moved out once again and a new family was moving back in that very day}. The members of GEPRS have experienced this same feeling at this location so we know this to be valid. There is also an Estate Sale in the West Chester areat that GEPRS members had attended. The more sensitive members in the group swore they saw the deceased lady owner of the home standing close by in a room in which people were rummaging through her belongings. She was very angry and in some ways a bit confused that people were buying and taking her belongings. The GEPRS group rushed from the house quickly as the woman looked right at them.

9) H st and 20th: Location: Several Areas

Severity Of Haunting: Med

Details: Apparitions of a Fireman, Dapper Gentlemen, And Ladies Of The Night. There has been a Fireman seen in this area and it is not known if this is an actual haunting or just a recording of the past. He is known to be dressed in a uniform of the past century. There are also reported in this area prostitutes and their gentlemen callers, or also known as "Ladies Of The Evening", "Soiled Doves", or various other names. In the late 1800's early 19th century Bakersfield was have growing pains and with this came many single men looking for their fortune and a place to settle. With this growth came many businesses to meet the needs of the growing population. One of these industries was tolerated and excepted as long as certain laws were followed. And that was the business of prostitution or "cribs" as they were called. This happened in many locations down town and was a prosperous and booming business until that is when more people moved into town which brought "gentile upstanding citizens", "respected businesses", and oh yes "Churches". To make a long story short these "Cribs" were shut down by the end of the 1900's. So this could account for the sightings and activity still observed to this day in that area.  

10) Oleander Ave. Location: Private Residence

Severity Of Haunting: Med to High

Details: There has been reported an old Japanese Woman that lives with a family here. The only thing unusual about this is that the woman has been dead since World War II. She talks regularly to the family that now owns the house and tends to the garden and plants outside as if she had never left. During the time of World War II there was much mistrust and suspicion towards the Japanese and German people. This unfortunately included many of the Japanese and German residents  in Bakersfield. They were taken to Internment camps in the high desert and staid there until the war was over. Most reports were that they were taken care of well by the American people but they longed to get back to their lives and homes in Bakersfield and surrounding California. Many came back to Bakersfield to start a new life. Some went back to their native land in Japan. But a small few, either old or sick, did not make it back at all and either past away shortly on their return out of the camps or in the camp itself. One such woman owned a home with her husband in the Oleander area. They had a Nursery there and grew flowers and exotic plants. Like most of the Japanese citizens in that area they were taken to the camps. The old man survived but the old woman did not. Years past and new people moved into the house were they so lovingly cared for their flowers. But to this day the old woman has returned and lives with the family making contact with them on a regular basis. **Note that in this area is also the site of an old Japanese Cemetery that had been dug up and moved to another location. This may account for other reported activity in this area.

GEPRS Results: This  story had been reported to GEPRS from the current residents themselves. And with research we have found that there is truth to the history of the home and the area.

Well that's about it..there are many many more locations but these are just a few that are regularly reported to be Haunted.

If You Would Like To Share Some Of Your Own Bako Haunts Or Report A Haunting Or A Weird experience....LET US KNOW We would love to hear from you.

Soooooo...Happy Haunting And Be Careful Out There.

GEPRS=Golden Empire Paranormal Research Society

goldenempirepararsrchsoc@yahoo.com