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From a
friend of ours in California
My mother worked in this place back in 1973. They opened upstairs as the Ventura Petroleum Club. Prior to the opening the upstairs was used for storage. Many of the employees had said they saw 3 different ghosts. One was a sweet little
Mexican man named Jose who did janitorial at night after the restaurant closed. He saw a man in a suit standing at the base of the stairs. The man was wearing a derby. He had said that at first he thought it was the owner, can't remember his name, and thought it was odd that he was wearing that type of hat, and that his clothes looked pretty outdated. He was apparently across the room and greeted the man he thought was his boss but got no response and because the man just stood there, Jose thought maybe something was wrong. So he started to
approach him, still thinking it was his boss, and the man just vanished. I guess it scared Jose so bad he dropped everything and didn't come back till the next morning and would not ever go back to clean late at night.
They had done a lot of remodeling on the place but left some of the original structure. Part of that being a door that led out to what had been the back yard where one of the original trees was still standing. I think it was one of the cooks that had said he was standing at the door, smoking or something, and there was a little girl swinging in a tire from that tree. I also remember
something about a woman from the upstairs window. There were enough sightings from different people that they decided to have a
séance. I don't remember all the details but they had said something about a little girl that got locked in the attic of the place, seems like her name was Sally, and died of starvation. She was the most predominant ghost. They would hear music, and a child crying, moans and groans, all sorts of strange stuff. Wish I remembered more but alas, I do not. The link below is the website to the place where there is a little blurb about the haunting. Thought you might be interested.
http://www.landmark78.com/index2f.html
Click on history and scroll down the page to the write up entitled: THE
GHOST OF ROSA
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