Our haunted vacations: Springville Inn 280 mile northeast of Los Angeles, CA

ur Latest trip in August to The Springville Inn near Los Angeles, Ca We were asked to appear in Fresh Takes on Family Hobbies and Traditions sponsored by Subway Restaurants.

And here is the final product..

We arrived at LAX and were driven to the Springville Inn by the California blond bomber.

A great guy and a lot a help.

It was built in the early 1900 and has a long history or

reported haunting. Specifically a women in white, a young girl, and a couple of old gentlemen all associated with

the time when the area was part of a gold mining town.

We spent two nights investigating the first night outside alone with no cameras or production staff just to get a feel and the second day and night with all the production staff that included 2 camera men, sound guy, producer, director, and a couple of helpers as well as the staff of the hotel.

We had the two floors of the restaurant and bar completely at our disposal.

The night we arrived we tried out our ovulus which uses various electronic variables to allow a spirit manipulate to

form words from a 10,000 word dictionary. We had some success that night with it as well as some crazy emf readings

with our emf detectors.

But I am skeptical as to whether or not we were really communicating with a spirit or just

had random words that happened to answer some of our questions.

The next morning bright and early we were taken on a tour of the Inn and Restaurant by the owner and mangers

We were fitted with mics and told not to look at the cameras the away we went.

We were shown the main hot spots that were reports of various types of paranormal activity were experienced.

All the time followed around by the production crew and cameras.

We investigated most of the day with not much action.

From the Inn's website:

For nearly 100 years, The Springville Inn has been a treasured part of local history.

The Springville Inn caters to four very special and unique guests. They are residents who have watched over the Inn for almost 100 years. They are not demanding or critical, they never offer their opinion on how to run a country inn, they are not malevolent, they do not disturb the quiet of night and their enjoyment is not derived from scaring people. But, there is a definite presence about them. These bodiless, ethereal and lustrous creatures are The Ghosts of The Springville Inn.

Our ghosts predominately inhabit the original 1911 main building formerly known as the Wilkinson Hotel. They have never been seen or their presence felt in the hotel which was added on in 1972. Nor, have there been any experiences with them in the Grill Room which was added on to the main building in 1979. They exist as they have throughout the years in the main building, known as the Wilkinson Hotel in its heyday. Local historian, Jeff Edwards, has told us that there was no coroner or morgue in Springville, so upon ones untimely demise, their bodies were placed in the upstairs rooms of the hotel on ice to await transport by stagecoach or train to Porterville.

We can only speculate as to the true identity of our four ghosts as historical records are vague and incomplete. We do not know their given names but we refer to them lovingly as the "Young Man" who looks to be a handsome logger in his twenties who was likely working in one of the numerous mills of Mountain Home. The "Little Girl" who looks to be near eight years of age is appropriately clothed in a turn-of-the-century dress. The "Woman", beautiful and elegant with flowing blond hair in a long dress is seen floating on the balcony surrounding the Penthouse or wandering the second floor hallways in the main building. The "Old Man" who seems to keep to himself in the kitchen with a watchful eye has the most frequent contact with past and present employees. He generally only appears in the main kitchen of the Inn or the upstairs service kitchen. He is usually seen staring up or down into the dumbwaiter joining the two kitchens. He is not shy as he frequently makes himself seen by our chefs and kitchen staff.

According to sightings throughout the past and present, the Young Man moves fluidly with purpose around the bar and up what was the original grand staircase which brought guests from the lobby straight upstairs as you entered the building. He is known to be a flirt with a habit of brushing up against women to make his presence known. He is said to be a logger who was shot outside the Inn, in the streets of Springville. According to legend, guests carried him into the Hotel where he bled to death. Occasionally he has been seen walking hand-in hand with the "Little Girl", but not recently or by any current staff members.

Numerous employees and guests of the Inn have experienced the ghosts - some of whom appreciate their wanderings and some whom would rather not have an encounter with them.

A past employee washing dishes in the kitchen quit after witnessing the "Little Girl" watching her in the mirror which hung in the dish washing area. The owners quickly removed the mirror. The "Little Girl" has not been seen since...

We set up a mirror but didn't catch a reflection but did get some unusual spikes in response to questions with the K2.

That night we spend about 6 hours going through the whole property with lights on and off. We had some good responses to our k2 meter and emf and also picked up an evp but we cant make out the words. The sound crew had some really strange experiences with equipment shutting off or going haywire which was shown on the video they released.

some unusual shots

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We also found later after reviewing the videos we took some shadow(s) moving back and forth across our laser grid when no one was present in the bar area upstairs. We also heard a few knocks in response to some questions when Conner and I were doing some isolation's in the area where the woman has been seen. But nothing worth posting.

This was the location of the laser grid shadows

Here is the shadow figure moving across our laser grid upstairs the second night. I had left my iPhone video recorder running on the table pointing at the bar while I was downstairs. I edited this 30 seconds out of the recording from my phone. I came up the stairs and picked up and turned off my video right after this shadow moves across the second time, but I didn't notice any movement or sounds when I came upstairs.You can also hear a glass being slid or dropped by the bar (not me). The sound at the end is me picking up the IPhone and stopping the recorder. I was alone at that time but the shadow is not me as the grid was on the bar shining against the wall a few feet away. The stairs are in the adjacent room next to table my IPhone was recording from and Conner and the camera guy were the only people (alive) in the building besides me. The shadow was between the wall and the laser grid placed 15' away.