William Heath Davis House

The William Heath Davis House is the oldest surviving structure in Downtown San Diego (New Town). He never actually lived in the house that now bears his name, but it is the same age and style of his house that was located at State and F streets.

As far as apparitions go a lady has been seen on the second floor landing of the home ready to give tours to awaiting groups, the gold ropes used to keep visitors out of certain rooms have become unlatched with no one around, there is a picture that shows some odd mist in the background that was not present when the picture was taken and the old style gas lamps in the building have been turned on with invisible hands.

The house is now a museum and one of the oldest places in the downtown district.

One night I walked pass the place with a friend and the entire curve of the corner that the house sits on I felt there was a presence walking to my left a little bit behind me. It was like when you go to a haunted house where people are in costumes and invade your space until you freak out and scream. No matter how fast I made my friend walk to keep up pace with me we could never go fast enough. It was always in step with us until we cleared the house. At the time I had no idea that the house was rumored to be haunted so I was caught completely off guard.

When Neo and I walked by he felt a possible faint presence there but you feel creeped out and like your being watched when you walk by. Neo said it was like the owner didn’t realize they were dead; they’re just watching over their land. Nothing was really grabby or attracted to what we were doing that time.