June 30, 2025 • 22 mins
"People who lives here says it is haunted" #fresnocalifornia #hauntedplace #scarystories #hauntedhotel
In this chilling episode of Witch Dark Tales, we step inside the eerie walls of the historic Hotel Californian, built in 1923 by visionary architect Richard F. Felchlin—a man whose buildings still shape the Fresno skyline. But while the facade has been restored… the spirits never left.
Discover the true history of this grand hotel-turned-haunted landmark, located at 851 Van Ness Avenue in downtown Fresno. Once the city’s most elegant accommodation, the Hotel Californian became a hotbed for ghost stories and eerie legends during its long abandonment.
👻 Ghost sightings of a mysterious nurse named Sarah
🎶 Phantom children running through empty halls
🚪 Room 306 and the gambler who may have died there
🕯️ EVP encounters in the pitch-black basement
🏨 And the forgotten legacy of the man who built it all—R.F. Felchlin
Turn off the lights and dive into Fresno’s dark architectural past… if you dare.
🔔 Subscribe for more haunted places, urban legends, and real ghost stories from California and beyond.
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📍 Location:
Hotel Californian, 851 Van Ness Ave, Fresno, CA
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https://historicfresno.org/nrhp/californ.htm
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(00:00):
If you're from Fresno, listen tothis.
This building is known as the Hotel Californian was allegedly
haunted. It was said that a nurse named
Sarah had passed away in the room 302.
Some even stated you can see hershadow and others claimed to see
a reflection of her looking outside.
Now it was built from 1921 untilit's finally finished in 1923.
(00:23):
Wills officially open and the architect Mr. Richard Fernandez.
But do you believe that? This place is haunted.
Drop down a. Comment.
Let me know, but we are here at the Hotel California Inn.
Hi, I'm Witches and Norms. Welcome to Witch Talk to Us
(00:45):
podcast. I'm your host, Moon Witch, and
today we have a guest named Zombie Girl and we're going to
be talking about the Fresno Hotel California.
Not the Hotel Fresno, but the one on Van Ness where it's
allegedly haunted. Now I'm going to go over there
and do a little, not investigation, but we want to go
over there and record and take pictures, but I wanted to know
(01:08):
more now, Zombie Girl said she knew of the story.
So if you want to tell us. Okay, so I'm going to I'm going
to tell you guys the details howthat how you guys could picture
how it looks inside. It's a big building.
Well, when you enter there's like, you know, to the lobby on
(01:30):
the left side will be the mailboxes, like for elderly, you
know, the elderly people to go check their mail and everything.
And then on the right side is the window for you go to check
in because they don't let you goin just like that to have a
security. So you know, you have to check
in and say the room number of the person you're going to go
visit and all that, right. Well, as you, when they let you
(01:51):
in, like they'll tell you, OK, you could go in.
Now there's a lobby which is like they have like little
couches. They have mirror on the walls.
The last time that I saw the, you know, like I entered there,
they had the mirrors on the walland everything.
They have a cafeteria. So the history about that
building, that one that I was told was that that Californian
(02:14):
hotel, because it's called the Californian, that Californian
hotel used to be open to the public before, like long time
ago, and even President Roosevelt used to stay there
before. Like President Roosevelt, as in
the President Theodore Roosevelt.
Yes. What?
He was, he stayed there as a guest when he was open to the
(02:37):
public and I guess he came to Fresno or something like that
and he stayed there for a few nights.
Now, we actually talked to one of the person that lived there
and they told us this story. So I'm doing a podcast about
(02:59):
Fresno and I should do like haunted places.
OK, so allegedly this place is haunted.
We're like, what do you know about it?
Shoot, I know a whole lot. I mean, there's weird things
that happen. Noises, you know, you see people
waiting for the elevator and there's nobody there.
(03:21):
You know, I leave my door open. I think somebody walked by.
Nobody's walked by. I jump up.
I've been here for eight years. I stopped jumping now because
it. I mean, you're used.
To it, I'm already used to it since I've been here, there's
already been over 100 and something people died, you know?
(03:44):
And how do they die, you know? Now, did you?
Did you ever hear about the nurse that's supposedly in room
3O2? Which one her?
There was a nurse in the room. Three O 2.
She passed away and they said you can see her at the window I.
Haven't been here that well. I don't know how long it's been,
(04:05):
but three O 2. Which is it's the window right
here. Uh huh.
I really never pay attention. I don't let those get.
Let it get. To well, of course, because you
don't want to get scared. I'm not going to get scared.
It is what it is, you know. Now what about the basement?
Like what do you know about the basement?
They say it used to be an indoorpool there.
(04:25):
I heard all kinds of things that, you know, nobody wants to
go down there. There's all kinds of, you know,
things from people, you know, that passed away.
They have a bunch of stuff down there that they hold.
Why are they holding it? I don't know why.
Do you believe they're trapped? Probably so most likely.
(04:51):
You know, it's pretty weird. So I heard that there's an
elevator where. You can also hear someone.
Whistling And they say it's a Native American man that had
passed away here, a resident that used to live here way
before. Possibly.
And you've never heard a whistleor.
Screaming or giggling or anything.
I hear all kinds of ways and stuff.
(05:13):
And I believe you, yeah. I just don't let it bother me.
You know, sometimes I come in myroom and there's things moved
around and it's like no one's, no one's been in there.
I have cameras, but how does these things get moved around?
Right. You know what is it called?
Poltergeist. Poltergeist the.
(05:34):
Ghost that can move things on their own.
I mean, I found ladies hairpins in my room and nobody that I
know of where's hairpins. They've been on the floor.
You know, it's kind of weird. I don't know what else to say.
It's just weird things happen. Now the last question do I do
(05:58):
have to ask ask you is it haunted?
Oh yeah. Yeah, you believe 100%.
Oh yeah, it. Is.
You guys, this is coming from someone who lives here, yeah.
It's been haunted. All right.
Well, thank you so much. You have a blessed day.
Thank you so much. And you heard it from him
himself. He lives.
Here and he even stated that these things did happen.
(06:19):
So if you're from Fresno, drop down a comment, let me know.
Do you believe that the Hotel California and it's allegedly
haunted? Or was this just urban legends
and urban myth passed down throughout the ages for the
future generation to even know about?
People complain about elevators opening and closing by
(06:40):
themselves. Like if there was somebody in
the elevator going to one floor,open close again and go to
another floor, but it looked like somebody was in there, like
pushing the numbers or something.
And in the lobby, well, if you go towards the back, there's
like a little hallway and there's like bathrooms there and
then there's like a stairways going down.
(07:03):
Well, they're the maintenance guys, the one that clean the in
the janitors and everything. They have their offices down
there. But I what I was told was that
would used to be a parking lot for the hotel before.
And there's tunnels that connectto like a lot of places in
Fresno, like Chinatown and all downtown and everything.
I heard about the tunnel, but I didn't know it was connected to
(07:25):
the Hotel Californian. That's what I heard.
And then there used to be a pooltoo, like, you know, like a
swimming pool like for the guestof the hotel and I guess a
little girl, you know, passed away there.
She drowned and a lot of maintenance guy used to used to
(07:46):
tell us. Well, we hear like a little girl
giggle. We hear the a ball bouncing or
they seen the operation of a little girl too, like standing
in the stairways. The.
Wolf And then I was doing research about the building.
Now again you guys, this is the one located in downtown, not
Hotel Fresno, but Fresno Californian, where now it's a
(08:07):
low income apartment, correct? Yes.
So when I was doing the research, I was like, OK, I want
to know more about this haunted location.
It was said that people somehow got in.
I don't want to say broken. They got in somehow and they end
up in the basement. Now they claim that the basement
at the hotel is the most hauntedspot because not only did they
(08:29):
say they seen shadow people, someone even mentioned that they
saw a little girl and an older lady holding hands walking down
the halls going towards the basement, and then someone found
an underlying cat attached to a string.
Oh wow. Yes, and they've heard EVP and
everything. I will leave everything in the
(08:50):
description box below if you have to check it out but.
Yeah, so that's in the first floor.
There's a cafeteria there too. And they started cooking for the
elderly people like around 29 and 2099, two thousand around
there. They started cooking for people
like serving meals and everything for they could have
like a dinner. And there was a daycare there
(09:12):
too. Because before it used to be a
also for the senior citizens, correct?
Like for the elderlies. Yes.
And then when it was like late at night, people would hear the
dishes go off, like like moving around, banging and everything.
They'll go check who it was. It was nobody.
And then that's the first floor,the lobby.
(09:34):
So if you go to the elevator, you're going to end like there's
8 floors. The second floor is I the
laundry room because I remember there's the laundry room and
then the ballroom and a lot of people, you know, get served.
And there were some apartments like right there, some rooms and
the, well, the laundry room. I remember my dad saying, well,
(09:58):
I hear like voices there, like somebody talking.
And when I go in to put a like check in my laundry and there's
nobody there or he would say that somebody would like have
seen a little girl there too andstuff like that.
And there was a lot of times that my friend would tell me
that he was like shadows going on the camera because the
(10:19):
security has a camera. So they have.
So they they've had, they have cameras there.
Yes, they have cameras and all the floors.
Do you think they. Caught anything on camera is
what? I'm yes, they have my friend has
he had told me before like before, like there was EV like
EVP S would exist all the time, but like before it got real
(10:41):
popular. You know what I mean?
Like he didn't believe in that part And so like he goes, Oh
well, I saw a shadow like they seen a shadow on the 2nd floor,
like going to the ballroom, which the ballroom has a lot of
history too. The ballroom.
I didn't know there was a ballroom in there.
Yes, it was a ballroom. They used to host like parties
(11:02):
there. They used to serve like the
cafeteria was just to cook and those take the meals up there
and they had tables to serve thepeople and everything.
I don't know if they still do, but when they had like the like
the ballroom when it was open for the mayor, I remember like
there was a lot of pictures, like antique pictures there,
(11:23):
like beautiful pictures of when it used to be like the old
Fresno. And the lady was one of the
ladies that I think she was a historian for the library.
She told that she was talking tomy dad and she told him, oh, you
see that door? That door used to be the casino
for an Italian Mafia. Wait, they had a they had a
(11:43):
casino in that hotel? Like on the floor?
It was illegal. They couldn't have it.
Allegedly. Allegedly.
Allegedly. So basically it was like hidden.
Yeah. You had to be a part of the
Italian mafia to even go up there.
Let's say that, Yeah. Now let's go up to the third
floor because there's eight large guys.
(12:04):
OK, so the third floor, that's where an IHS worker passed away.
Like she you know, that's what Iwas told.
That IHS worker passed away in three O 2 and supposedly they
seen her like you even said thatand before I even told you, you
told me that and so. From what I found out was now
(12:26):
when I was doing this research, it said that doc Hotel
Californian downtown in Fresno was used as ATB hospital, but I,
I didn't find no record of it being a hospital, you know, or
like a sanitarium. And but they said that those are
nurse. You guys listen to this.
There's a nurse named Sarah who is haunting room 3O2.
(12:49):
People claim that they can see her at the window on the 3rd
floor and then go ahead. And you were saying?
Well in the third in three O 2 actually in that room, one of my
friends passed away. They couldn't contact his family
so I had to go and identify the body.
Wait. Yeah.
(13:11):
Rewind, rewind. Start over.
OK, go ahead. Yeah, one of my friends, he
passed away there, like when I used to go visit my dad because
my dad was a resident there and I met, you know, like I'm, I'm
kind of person that like to takecare of people too, you know
what I mean? Like I get so attached to
people. So there was this guy, you know
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this, he was an old man. He didn't have no family or
nothing. And like, I guess his family did
live far away, you know what I mean?
But not in Fresno. So when he passed away because
he he passed away, sleep in his sleep.
That's what I was told by the ambulance.
They couldn't contact his family.
So they called me because I guess he put me in the emergency
(13:52):
card and I had to go and identify his body.
But it was in three O 2 and he used to complain about seeing
that like a somebody go by the bathroom and he's like, please
make sure like she. He will tell me to tell the
ladies in the front desk to go check on him because he will see
(14:12):
like a shadow go from his bed tothe bathroom.
And he was afraid that somebody had entered their, you know, his
little studio and there's. Some.
I don't want to ruin this for you.
You don't have to answer, but how did you feel like that that
moment in time? Like what was your reaction?
How if you want to tell us, likehow did you feel when you found
(14:35):
out that you had to go there andidentify his remain or sorry his
you know? Yeah, it's.
Well, it was sad. I did.
I was crying because I was like,wow, I never thought he was
going to leave, you know what I mean?
He was a good person. He was a good friend.
And I was like, wow, it was so fast.
(14:57):
It was because, I mean, I was used to see him like I'll be
with downstairs in the lobby with my dad and I used to see
him pass by and he's like sitting down with us.
He used to call me granddaughter.
So it was kind of hard. It was.
But he had a beautiful like thatbeautiful death.
I'm going to lie to you going, you know, falling asleep and
(15:19):
never waking up. That's like no pain.
He didn't feel nothing but yeah,it was kind of hard.
But I kind of wonder if it has to do that.
You know, he saw the nurse thereor like the IHS worker,
whatever, and that room, becausethat's three O 2 where he, you
know, where he passed away. So that's the same room where
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they seen their shadow. And a lot of my friends tell me
all you, you could see her at 3:00 in the morning, at 3:00 in
the morning, that's when you seeher.
If you go like late at night, you'll see a lot of stuff.
And then and that was in the third floor.
But then the 4th, usually there's no stories about the 4th
(16:04):
floor. I never heard of them.
But you got to you better be prepared for the 5th floor.
But that's where my dad used to live for a while.
And I used to go like visit him and take care of him because I
was his ISS worker. So I used to go take care of
them. And there were times I was, you
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know, like the first time I experienced something on the 5th
floor, I was around the corner from his room going towards the
elevator and I heard footsteps like walking fast, you know,
like when you're trying to catchthe elevator.
So when I, the elevator is open,I just put, you know, I blocked
it for he could not, you know, close down.
And I was waiting for the personbecause I started hearing like a
(16:45):
whistle, like a, like somebody whistling.
So the footsteps are getting closer to the elevator and the
whistles too. But no one, nobody showed up.
I stayed there like for 5 minutes and then I just said,
you know what, they could catch the other one.
So I just went down. And when I went to tell my
friend, the one, he says at thattime he was working during the
(17:06):
daytime. I told him, hey, can you check
if there's waiting for the elevator?
Because I kind of worried probably was somebody that
needed help. And he, he goes, there's nobody
there. And I'm like, what?
And I was like, Are you sure? And then he's like, yeah,
there's nobody there. Look.
And he checked and there was nobody there.
(17:27):
No. And I'm like, Oh my God.
Yeah, Right. So I was kind of like, I'm going
to be. Freaked out.
Yeah, but I was kind of like, hi, OK, then he's probably
playing a trick on me. But then he started telling me
that a lot of people complain about a native, a Native
American, going down the hallways whistling every single
(17:51):
night. What does the Native American
gentleman have to do with the hotel?
Probably he was he was an old resident there and he passed
away in his room. That's scary.
Yep, that's just that's what he said that he was an old resident
before, you know, my dad moved in before he started working
(18:15):
there and he passed away. He wasn't tall, he was like 6-3
and always whistling every day to him.
He passed away. Holy smokes.
Sorry, I'm just, I'm just doing doing these haunted places and
hearing scary stories. It freaks you out.
(18:37):
You know what I mean? It it, it makes you 'cause you
have to remember constantly of everything that happened to you.
So it brings back memories of what you went through and then.
Yeah, it brings me more memoriesof my dad living there and like
having fun 'cause there is sometimes that would be funny
the the experiences that I go through.
(18:59):
Well, thank you Zombie Girl for telling us that story of the
haunted place downtown in Fresnocalled Hotel Californian.
Before we end the podcast, do you have any advices or do you
have anything to tell the viewers and all the listeners of
what we just talked about that'shaunted here in Fresno downtown?
I just want to say that if you guys have family, go visit them
(19:24):
because it's sad after, you know, after finding my friend,
it's real sad. But at the same time, listen to
what they tell you. Because if they're telling you
there's nogs or there's footsteps in front of their,
their room, their room or insidethe room, that means it's a
haunted. It's something haunted
especially on the 5th floor and 3rd floor.
So stay spooky because there's alot of fresco areas.
(19:48):
It's real scary. And we are here to discover them
all. And As for me, if you ever go to
a haunted place, just be carefulwe when you watch our videos,
we're not promoting this when we, we're not making guys go
there. We're just giving you
information that you can use andpass down to the future
generation to let them know about the history of Fresno.
(20:11):
But when you do go, make sure you're always healthy.
Don't go if you're feeling, you know, sick.
Don't do any substance. You know, 420 just.
To experience anything when you go to a haunted place, you want
to be in the right state of mindbecause you never know what any
spirits or let's say the D word,they can able.
(20:34):
They are able to just control you or whatever because you're
under some kind of you know, substance.
And always remember to never go home before after you go to any
haunted places, you need to stopby McDonald's.
You need to go to La Tienda, like buy something.
And just before you leave, just be like, oh, like, I'm we're
(20:55):
going to go to the store insteadof saying going home.
And once you get to that store, take dust your shoes off and
clap, play some good music, you know, air yourself out.
You don't want nothing lingeringaround you.
That's what I. Got to say another thing, drink
a lot of water, be hydrated because hydrated because there's
(21:16):
a lot of times that if you're weak, something quick possessed
you trust me. Another thing, I'm going to give
you this an experiment. I'll tell you the story after
the podcast, but if you're goingto download Evps, make sure
you're strong. Trust me.
I'll tell you guys the story after we're done with this
(21:37):
podcast because what I experienced, you don't want to
experience it. Just be careful of what you do.
If you're not ready for the Evps, do not download any app
with it. Well, thank you for that advice,
yes. Now with that being said, don't
forget to like and subscribe andthank you for listening to our
(21:58):
podcast where it's on every Monday on audio and on YouTube
will be every Sunday. But with that being said,
blessed be everyone. Bye.
If you're from Fresno, listen tothis.
This building is known as the Hotel Californian was allegedly
haunted. It was said that a nurse named
Sarah had passed away in the room 302.
Some even stated you can see hershadow and others claimed to see
a reflection of her looking outside.
Now it was built from 1921 untilit's finally finished in 1923.
(00:23):
Wills officially open and the architect Mr. Richard Fernandez.
But do you believe that? This place is haunted.
Drop down a. Comment.
Let me know, but we are here at the Hotel California Inn.
Hi, I'm Witches and Norms. Welcome to Witch Talk to Us
(00:45):
podcast. I'm your host, Moon Witch, and
today we have a guest named Zombie Girl and we're going to
be talking about the Fresno Hotel California.
Not the Hotel Fresno, but the one on Van Ness where it's
allegedly haunted. Now I'm going to go over there
and do a little, not investigation, but we want to go
over there and record and take pictures, but I wanted to know
(01:08):
more now, Zombie Girl said she knew of the story.
So if you want to tell us. Okay, so I'm going to I'm going
to tell you guys the details howthat how you guys could picture
how it looks inside. It's a big building.
Well, when you enter there's like, you know, to the lobby on
(01:30):
the left side will be the mailboxes, like for elderly, you
know, the elderly people to go check their mail and everything.
And then on the right side is the window for you go to check
in because they don't let you goin just like that to have a
security. So you know, you have to check
in and say the room number of the person you're going to go
visit and all that, right. Well, as you, when they let you
(01:51):
in, like they'll tell you, OK, you could go in.
Now there's a lobby which is like they have like little
couches. They have mirror on the walls.
The last time that I saw the, you know, like I entered there,
they had the mirrors on the walland everything.
They have a cafeteria. So the history about that
building, that one that I was told was that that Californian
(02:14):
hotel, because it's called the Californian, that Californian
hotel used to be open to the public before, like long time
ago, and even President Roosevelt used to stay there
before. Like President Roosevelt, as in
the President Theodore Roosevelt.
Yes. What?
He was, he stayed there as a guest when he was open to the
(02:37):
public and I guess he came to Fresno or something like that
and he stayed there for a few nights.
Now, we actually talked to one of the person that lived there
and they told us this story. So I'm doing a podcast about
(02:59):
Fresno and I should do like haunted places.
OK, so allegedly this place is haunted.
We're like, what do you know about it?
Shoot, I know a whole lot. I mean, there's weird things
that happen. Noises, you know, you see people
waiting for the elevator and there's nobody there.
(03:21):
You know, I leave my door open. I think somebody walked by.
Nobody's walked by. I jump up.
I've been here for eight years. I stopped jumping now because
it. I mean, you're used.
To it, I'm already used to it since I've been here, there's
already been over 100 and something people died, you know?
(03:44):
And how do they die, you know? Now, did you?
Did you ever hear about the nurse that's supposedly in room
3O2? Which one her?
There was a nurse in the room. Three O 2.
She passed away and they said you can see her at the window I.
Haven't been here that well. I don't know how long it's been,
(04:05):
but three O 2. Which is it's the window right
here. Uh huh.
I really never pay attention. I don't let those get.
Let it get. To well, of course, because you
don't want to get scared. I'm not going to get scared.
It is what it is, you know. Now what about the basement?
Like what do you know about the basement?
They say it used to be an indoorpool there.
(04:25):
I heard all kinds of things that, you know, nobody wants to
go down there. There's all kinds of, you know,
things from people, you know, that passed away.
They have a bunch of stuff down there that they hold.
Why are they holding it? I don't know why.
Do you believe they're trapped? Probably so most likely.
(04:51):
You know, it's pretty weird. So I heard that there's an
elevator where. You can also hear someone.
Whistling And they say it's a Native American man that had
passed away here, a resident that used to live here way
before. Possibly.
And you've never heard a whistleor.
Screaming or giggling or anything.
I hear all kinds of ways and stuff.
(05:13):
And I believe you, yeah. I just don't let it bother me.
You know, sometimes I come in myroom and there's things moved
around and it's like no one's, no one's been in there.
I have cameras, but how does these things get moved around?
Right. You know what is it called?
Poltergeist. Poltergeist the.
(05:34):
Ghost that can move things on their own.
I mean, I found ladies hairpins in my room and nobody that I
know of where's hairpins. They've been on the floor.
You know, it's kind of weird. I don't know what else to say.
It's just weird things happen. Now the last question do I do
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have to ask ask you is it haunted?
Oh yeah. Yeah, you believe 100%.
Oh yeah, it. Is.
You guys, this is coming from someone who lives here, yeah.
It's been haunted. All right.
Well, thank you so much. You have a blessed day.
Thank you so much. And you heard it from him
himself. He lives.
Here and he even stated that these things did happen.
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So if you're from Fresno, drop down a comment, let me know.
Do you believe that the Hotel California and it's allegedly
haunted? Or was this just urban legends
and urban myth passed down throughout the ages for the
future generation to even know about?
People complain about elevators opening and closing by
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themselves. Like if there was somebody in
the elevator going to one floor,open close again and go to
another floor, but it looked like somebody was in there, like
pushing the numbers or something.
And in the lobby, well, if you go towards the back, there's
like a little hallway and there's like bathrooms there and
then there's like a stairways going down.
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Well, they're the maintenance guys, the one that clean the in
the janitors and everything. They have their offices down
there. But I what I was told was that
would used to be a parking lot for the hotel before.
And there's tunnels that connectto like a lot of places in
Fresno, like Chinatown and all downtown and everything.
I heard about the tunnel, but I didn't know it was connected to
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the Hotel Californian. That's what I heard.
And then there used to be a pooltoo, like, you know, like a
swimming pool like for the guestof the hotel and I guess a
little girl, you know, passed away there.
She drowned and a lot of maintenance guy used to used to
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tell us. Well, we hear like a little girl
giggle. We hear the a ball bouncing or
they seen the operation of a little girl too, like standing
in the stairways. The.
Wolf And then I was doing research about the building.
Now again you guys, this is the one located in downtown, not
Hotel Fresno, but Fresno Californian, where now it's a
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low income apartment, correct? Yes.
So when I was doing the research, I was like, OK, I want
to know more about this haunted location.
It was said that people somehow got in.
I don't want to say broken. They got in somehow and they end
up in the basement. Now they claim that the basement
at the hotel is the most hauntedspot because not only did they
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say they seen shadow people, someone even mentioned that they
saw a little girl and an older lady holding hands walking down
the halls going towards the basement, and then someone found
an underlying cat attached to a string.
Oh wow. Yes, and they've heard EVP and
everything. I will leave everything in the
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description box below if you have to check it out but.
Yeah, so that's in the first floor.
There's a cafeteria there too. And they started cooking for the
elderly people like around 29 and 2099, two thousand around
there. They started cooking for people
like serving meals and everything for they could have
like a dinner. And there was a daycare there
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too. Because before it used to be a
also for the senior citizens, correct?
Like for the elderlies. Yes.
And then when it was like late at night, people would hear the
dishes go off, like like moving around, banging and everything.
They'll go check who it was. It was nobody.
And then that's the first floor,the lobby.
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So if you go to the elevator, you're going to end like there's
8 floors. The second floor is I the
laundry room because I remember there's the laundry room and
then the ballroom and a lot of people, you know, get served.
And there were some apartments like right there, some rooms and
the, well, the laundry room. I remember my dad saying, well,
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I hear like voices there, like somebody talking.
And when I go in to put a like check in my laundry and there's
nobody there or he would say that somebody would like have
seen a little girl there too andstuff like that.
And there was a lot of times that my friend would tell me
that he was like shadows going on the camera because the
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security has a camera. So they have.
So they they've had, they have cameras there.
Yes, they have cameras and all the floors.
Do you think they. Caught anything on camera is
what? I'm yes, they have my friend has
he had told me before like before, like there was EV like
EVP S would exist all the time, but like before it got real
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popular. You know what I mean?
Like he didn't believe in that part And so like he goes, Oh
well, I saw a shadow like they seen a shadow on the 2nd floor,
like going to the ballroom, which the ballroom has a lot of
history too. The ballroom.
I didn't know there was a ballroom in there.
Yes, it was a ballroom. They used to host like parties
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there. They used to serve like the
cafeteria was just to cook and those take the meals up there
and they had tables to serve thepeople and everything.
I don't know if they still do, but when they had like the like
the ballroom when it was open for the mayor, I remember like
there was a lot of pictures, like antique pictures there,
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like beautiful pictures of when it used to be like the old
Fresno. And the lady was one of the
ladies that I think she was a historian for the library.
She told that she was talking tomy dad and she told him, oh, you
see that door? That door used to be the casino
for an Italian Mafia. Wait, they had a they had a
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casino in that hotel? Like on the floor?
It was illegal. They couldn't have it.
Allegedly. Allegedly.
Allegedly. So basically it was like hidden.
Yeah. You had to be a part of the
Italian mafia to even go up there.
Let's say that, Yeah. Now let's go up to the third
floor because there's eight large guys.
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OK, so the third floor, that's where an IHS worker passed away.
Like she you know, that's what Iwas told.
That IHS worker passed away in three O 2 and supposedly they
seen her like you even said thatand before I even told you, you
told me that and so. From what I found out was now
(12:26):
when I was doing this research, it said that doc Hotel
Californian downtown in Fresno was used as ATB hospital, but I,
I didn't find no record of it being a hospital, you know, or
like a sanitarium. And but they said that those are
nurse. You guys listen to this.
There's a nurse named Sarah who is haunting room 3O2.
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People claim that they can see her at the window on the 3rd
floor and then go ahead. And you were saying?
Well in the third in three O 2 actually in that room, one of my
friends passed away. They couldn't contact his family
so I had to go and identify the body.
Wait. Yeah.
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Rewind, rewind. Start over.
OK, go ahead. Yeah, one of my friends, he
passed away there, like when I used to go visit my dad because
my dad was a resident there and I met, you know, like I'm, I'm
kind of person that like to takecare of people too, you know
what I mean? Like I get so attached to
people. So there was this guy, you know
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this, he was an old man. He didn't have no family or
nothing. And like, I guess his family did
live far away, you know what I mean?
But not in Fresno. So when he passed away because
he he passed away, sleep in his sleep.
That's what I was told by the ambulance.
They couldn't contact his family.
So they called me because I guess he put me in the emergency
(13:52):
card and I had to go and identify his body.
But it was in three O 2 and he used to complain about seeing
that like a somebody go by the bathroom and he's like, please
make sure like she. He will tell me to tell the
ladies in the front desk to go check on him because he will see
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like a shadow go from his bed tothe bathroom.
And he was afraid that somebody had entered their, you know, his
little studio and there's. Some.
I don't want to ruin this for you.
You don't have to answer, but how did you feel like that that
moment in time? Like what was your reaction?
How if you want to tell us, likehow did you feel when you found
(14:35):
out that you had to go there andidentify his remain or sorry his
you know? Yeah, it's.
Well, it was sad. I did.
I was crying because I was like,wow, I never thought he was
going to leave, you know what I mean?
He was a good person. He was a good friend.
And I was like, wow, it was so fast.
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It was because, I mean, I was used to see him like I'll be
with downstairs in the lobby with my dad and I used to see
him pass by and he's like sitting down with us.
He used to call me granddaughter.
So it was kind of hard. It was.
But he had a beautiful like thatbeautiful death.
I'm going to lie to you going, you know, falling asleep and
(15:19):
never waking up. That's like no pain.
He didn't feel nothing but yeah,it was kind of hard.
But I kind of wonder if it has to do that.
You know, he saw the nurse thereor like the IHS worker,
whatever, and that room, becausethat's three O 2 where he, you
know, where he passed away. So that's the same room where
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they seen their shadow. And a lot of my friends tell me
all you, you could see her at 3:00 in the morning, at 3:00 in
the morning, that's when you seeher.
If you go like late at night, you'll see a lot of stuff.
And then and that was in the third floor.
But then the 4th, usually there's no stories about the 4th
(16:04):
floor. I never heard of them.
But you got to you better be prepared for the 5th floor.
But that's where my dad used to live for a while.
And I used to go like visit him and take care of him because I
was his ISS worker. So I used to go take care of
them. And there were times I was, you
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know, like the first time I experienced something on the 5th
floor, I was around the corner from his room going towards the
elevator and I heard footsteps like walking fast, you know,
like when you're trying to catchthe elevator.
So when I, the elevator is open,I just put, you know, I blocked
it for he could not, you know, close down.
And I was waiting for the personbecause I started hearing like a
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whistle, like a, like somebody whistling.
So the footsteps are getting closer to the elevator and the
whistles too. But no one, nobody showed up.
I stayed there like for 5 minutes and then I just said,
you know what, they could catch the other one.
So I just went down. And when I went to tell my
friend, the one, he says at thattime he was working during the
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daytime. I told him, hey, can you check
if there's waiting for the elevator?
Because I kind of worried probably was somebody that
needed help. And he, he goes, there's nobody
there. And I'm like, what?
And I was like, Are you sure? And then he's like, yeah,
there's nobody there. Look.
And he checked and there was nobody there.
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No. And I'm like, Oh my God.
Yeah, Right. So I was kind of like, I'm going
to be. Freaked out.
Yeah, but I was kind of like, hi, OK, then he's probably
playing a trick on me. But then he started telling me
that a lot of people complain about a native, a Native
American, going down the hallways whistling every single
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night. What does the Native American
gentleman have to do with the hotel?
Probably he was he was an old resident there and he passed
away in his room. That's scary.
Yep, that's just that's what he said that he was an old resident
before, you know, my dad moved in before he started working
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there and he passed away. He wasn't tall, he was like 6-3
and always whistling every day to him.
He passed away. Holy smokes.
Sorry, I'm just, I'm just doing doing these haunted places and
hearing scary stories. It freaks you out.
(18:37):
You know what I mean? It it, it makes you 'cause you
have to remember constantly of everything that happened to you.
So it brings back memories of what you went through and then.
Yeah, it brings me more memoriesof my dad living there and like
having fun 'cause there is sometimes that would be funny
the the experiences that I go through.
(18:59):
Well, thank you Zombie Girl for telling us that story of the
haunted place downtown in Fresnocalled Hotel Californian.
Before we end the podcast, do you have any advices or do you
have anything to tell the viewers and all the listeners of
what we just talked about that'shaunted here in Fresno downtown?
I just want to say that if you guys have family, go visit them
(19:24):
because it's sad after, you know, after finding my friend,
it's real sad. But at the same time, listen to
what they tell you. Because if they're telling you
there's nogs or there's footsteps in front of their,
their room, their room or insidethe room, that means it's a
haunted. It's something haunted
especially on the 5th floor and 3rd floor.
So stay spooky because there's alot of fresco areas.
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It's real scary. And we are here to discover them
all. And As for me, if you ever go to
a haunted place, just be carefulwe when you watch our videos,
we're not promoting this when we, we're not making guys go
there. We're just giving you
information that you can use andpass down to the future
generation to let them know about the history of Fresno.
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But when you do go, make sure you're always healthy.
Don't go if you're feeling, you know, sick.
Don't do any substance. You know, 420 just.
To experience anything when you go to a haunted place, you want
to be in the right state of mindbecause you never know what any
spirits or let's say the D word,they can able.
(20:34):
They are able to just control you or whatever because you're
under some kind of you know, substance.
And always remember to never go home before after you go to any
haunted places, you need to stopby McDonald's.
You need to go to La Tienda, like buy something.
And just before you leave, just be like, oh, like, I'm we're
(20:55):
going to go to the store insteadof saying going home.
And once you get to that store, take dust your shoes off and
clap, play some good music, you know, air yourself out.
You don't want nothing lingeringaround you.
That's what I. Got to say another thing, drink
a lot of water, be hydrated because hydrated because there's
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a lot of times that if you're weak, something quick possessed
you trust me. Another thing, I'm going to give
you this an experiment. I'll tell you the story after
the podcast, but if you're goingto download Evps, make sure
you're strong. Trust me.
I'll tell you guys the story after we're done with this
(21:37):
podcast because what I experienced, you don't want to
experience it. Just be careful of what you do.
If you're not ready for the Evps, do not download any app
with it. Well, thank you for that advice,
yes. Now with that being said, don't
forget to like and subscribe andthank you for listening to our
(21:58):
podcast where it's on every Monday on audio and on YouTube
will be every Sunday. But with that being said,
blessed be everyone. Bye.
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