Haunted Long Beach 2: the odd and unusual in and around Long Beach, California
Published 2010
ABOUT THE BOOK: At last, a revised and updated version of the long out of print Haunted Long Beach. New stories and updates on the original tales can be found in this riveting adventure through the eerie side of not only Long Beach, but other Southern California cities as well. Gathered from historical files and personal experiences, Ms. Burnett has researched these stories extensively to try to find historical evidence as to their cause.
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A portal between two worlds that may exist around the Cal State Long Beach campus.
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Native American apparitions, haunted hospitals, theaters, libraries, fire stations, hotels, cemeteries, airplanes and phantoms of the Queen Mary.
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Personal encounters with the “unknown” told by residents of Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, Wilmington and Orange County.
Rocking chairs that move by themselves, mysterious lights, phantoms of famous people, séances that lead to buried treasure, these are some of the “true” stories you’ll find in Haunted Long Beach 2. Full of photos, a map, and a lot of history, it’s something you won’t want to miss.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
NATIVE AMERICAN HAUNTINGS?
California State University, Long Beach Sightings
Puvungna Portal?
HAUNTED HOSPITALS
Seventh Street Navy & Veterans Hospital
Carson Street Navy Hospital
GHOSTS OF THE RANCHO LOS CERRITOS
Séances & Apparitions
Curator Reports
The Phantom Whistle
RESIDENTIAL & BUSINESS HAUNTS
Downtown
Murder on Elm Street
Prank-Playing Presence
Why Me?
Breakers Hotel
Cooper Arms
Alamitos Beach
Ethereal Roommate
Whispering Woman
Woman in Yellow
The Watcher
Hostile Presence
Villa Riviera
Bluff Park
Clark Gable’s Ghost?
Sami Won’t Go Away
Belmont Heights
Occult Music Box
Soggy Shoes
Carroll Park
Argumentative Apparitions
Ghostly Biker
Central Long Beach
Influenza Ghost
“Strange Things Happen There”
The Hunchback
Mary
Dream or Real?
Abortionist’s Abode?
North Long Beach
The Rapper
Cyclical Ghost
Lakewood Village
Ghosts We Have Known
Shop Spirits
Lakewood
Haunted Pizza Parlor
Dora’s Story
Signal Hill
Why Did You Move My House?
Wilmington
The Ghost and the Buried Treasure
Banning Residence
Wilmington Drum Barracks
GHOSTS IN PUBLIC PLACES
Unexpected Visitor
Haunted Theaters
Library Ghosts
Phantoms of the Queen Mary
Eerie Hotels
Fire Station Haunts
The “SPIRITS” OF AVIATION
Ghostly Balloons & Biplanes
Christmas Ghost
The Graveyard
Don’t Forget Your Lucky Charm
Phantom Airfield
CEMETERY GHOSTS
Be Careful Who You Give Flowers To
The Almost Bride
Do You Smell Smoke?
Shaking Hands With the Anaheim Dead
GHOSTLY GOODBYES
Roscoe’s Story
One Last Visit
Stopped Clock
Premonitions
Visit from Michael
GHOSTBUSTING
INDEX
Abortion, 87-90
Alamitos Beach, 53-63
Aviation, 147-159
Banning, Phineas, 107, 110-113, 114
Baton, Russell, 84-85
Belmont Heights, 71-74
Bixby, Fred, 5
Breakers Hotel, 42-44
California State University, Long Beach, 4-6
Carroll Park, 74-77
Cemetery, 163-174
Christmas, 93-94, 150-152
Cooper Arms, 46-49
Daugherty, Earl, 154-157
DeForest Park, 91
Dillon, Josephine, 66
Drum Barracks, 114-115
Edukas, Mike (Duke), 28-29
Empire Day Disaster, 137-138
Fire Stations, 141-144
Fullerton, 9
Gable, Clark, 63-68
Ghostbusting 187-189
Harvey, Roscoe, Jr., 178-179
Hospitals, 13-17
Hotel Virginia, 139-140
Hyatt Hotel, 137
Humphrey, Morgan, 84-85
Influenza, 78-82
Kearney, Horace, 150-152
Lakewood, 99-103
Lakewood Village, 94-99
Library, 123-130
Lombard, Carol, 67-68
Magic Castle, 65
Makemson, John, 141-143
Meyers, Mabel, 39-42
Naples, 37
Native Americans, 1-9
Navy Hospital,…SEE Hospitals
North Long Beach, 90-94
Porter Sanitarium, xi
Puvungna,..SEE Native Americans
Queen Mary, 130-136
Rancho Los Alamitos, 5
Rancho Los Cerritos, 23-34
Schrubbe, Sylvia, 24-30
Signal Hill, 103-107
Theaters, 121-123
Veterans Medical Center,…SEE Hospitals
Villa Riviera, 61-63
Wilmington, 107-116