Haunted History Of Bakersfield - GEPRS
Haunted History Of Bakersfield
By: GEPRS
Description: The Oleander area of Bako has some ghostly neighbors!
Topics: GEPRS, Hauntings, Halloween
Posted by MaeQueen Sat Oct 27, 2007 21:01:05 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments GEPRS has had "many" people share their stories or experiences of Paranormal Activity.
This happens to be one of our very favorite stories.
So in the "Spirit" of the season we would like to share it with you now.
Although GEPRS has not yet formally investigated this account we think it is a great source of Bakersfield's "Haunted History"....
Enjoy The Story:
There is a report of a "Haunted" location in a Bakersfield home that has quite a history.
The current owners of the home report that there was once a very kind woman that owned a group of houses that were
considered at the time "new homes" on the out skirts of Bakersfield, CA.
This home is near the Oleander area. It was 1942. There was about five houses in this area and most of them were being rented out to Japanese families.
{GEPRS has recently done research and ran across the story of a Japanese Cemetery in that same area. But that's another story}...
Well as you may know 1942 was a time of War with the United States, WWII and there was a lot of suspicion and mistrust towards the Japanese people.
Therefore the majority of the Japanese families in Bakersfield where relocated to Internment Camps all over the United States.
There were a couple camps in our desert area's of California. But on studying this a big majority of these Bakersfield families went to a camp located on a Indian Reservation in Poston, AZ.
The family that lived in the house was no exception.
Before the families were shipped off the kind owner of the houses told her tenants that she would keep the homes open for them as long as she could so that when the war was over they all could return to their homes and live there as long as they wished.
Well unfortunately this did not happen for some of these poor people. Although it is recorded that the people were well taken care of in the camps some were very old when they were moved there and did not live long enough to go back to their original homes.
One of these people was a very old Japanese woman that lived in this house with her husband.
This couple was reported to be very kind and friendly and they grew flowers and various plants for a living.
Their "home" to this day has descendants of those very same exotic plants growing wild in the back yard. It is lovingly maintain by the people that occupy the house to this day.
The Haunting:
The old Japanese woman did not live to see the day in which the war would end and they would move back to their beautiful home in Bakersfield.
The current family that occupies this home has reported on many occasions that the house is haunted and very active, especially by the presence of this woman. The atmosphere of the house is nothing of a malicious and or negative nature but more of an element of gentleness and love.
As if the Japanese couple has returned and are caring for the house as well as the family that lives there now.
Most of the family members report actually seeing the little old woman and on many occasions have had full conversation with her while sitting at the families dining table.
Or walking out the back door. This is were the garden is in the back of the yard surrounding the home.
They have seen her there tending the plants and flowers. They still see and talk to her to this day. So although this is not a scary tale it is one of our towns history and that of a woman that refused to leave the home that she loved so dearly.
GEPRS:
Golden Empire Paranormal Research Society
***If you have a Haunting Story please let us know. We would love to hear from you***
goldenempirepararsrchsoc@yahoo.com
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