Most old towns have a history of strange occurances, and this one is no exception. Oroville is one of those Boom Towns from the Gold Rush. Then, it died down. Then, they built the Dam, another Rush of sorts. And most people believe that the Ghosts, haunted houses, and such, are all related to those two events. But as I was doing research for my thesis a few decades ago, I discovered that Oroville had a history that went a bit farther than the Gold Rush. I received my degree in Parapsychology because of that research, investigation, and thesis, but most Orovillans don't even know the half of it. Prior to the Gold Rush, Sutters Mill, John Bidwell, and the rest of the "founders", this area was a hotbed of activity well before these new arrivals. There are ceremonial altars and locations that date back several hundred, if not thousand years prior to the settlers. Then there are the ancient burial grounds, from native peoples and tribes whose names are lost in history. If you add to all of that energy the acts of Anton LaVey in 1964, of standing at the intersection of Myers Street, and Oro Dam Blvd, and claiming all he beheld before him in the name of Satan, you kind of get an idea of just how hot this tiny little town in northern California really is. So when someone suggests that their house is haunted, instead of just checking the history of the house, I have to check the history of the dirt itself. Prior to that house, it may well have been a burial ground. Which, like I have told many people, if they did have a traumatic event in that house's past, the residual influence of what was there previously would have increased, changed, or influenced their "occurance". So as an investigator, when time allows, in paranormal phenomena, I would suggest to those investigating their own homes for things that go bump in the night, to also investigate the past history of the house itself, but also the dirt it was built on, what was there before, and anything else they can find out. As a third generation Orovillan, I know a lot from personal family information. And the things that cannot be explained by science or logic can be explained, just not to scientists or "logical" people. We all know there are truths that don't follow what we're taught in school. I posted this for those of you who know that those things that go bump in the night aren't always just birds nesting in the attic. And when you try to tell other people what you've discovered, you get the lable of "nutcase" slapped on you. You are not a nut, you are just trying to prove something completely unscientific to scientific thinking people. And if you're on the West Coast, you already have Hollywierd working against you. My degree, her, in Oroville, is worth about as much as a postcard of Niagara Falls. On the East Coast, I would be working for TAPS, or heading up the Institute for Paranormal Research. Ghosts, UFOs, Haunted Houses, all of those things oppose what scientifically minded people believe to be the truth. But when you see an apparition, sense a great evil, or stand in a crop circle, you know science cannot explain everything. The truth isn't just out there, it's right here. So, coming from a person in a small northern California town, who discovered things that shake the very foundations of science, I give those of you a bit of advice. You know the truth, they don't. Maybe that "imaginary" thing you witnessed can't be explained with science, but with the inferno this small town sits in, I know that things that go bump in the night sometimes have much bigger feet than we thought.

Wow Mr Kitty. Yeah I have seen shows on the travel channel about haunted places but they either focus in the Deep South where I am from or from New England if it is in America. Us here on the East Coast always see California as an extremely open minded state. I guess it aint as open minded as we thought.

I do agree with you Mr Kitty,
Im trying to find out why there is such an evil presence in my Mothers spare bedroom, i hate to be in her house alone.
The houses are over 100 years old, and nothing bad happened while we have bee here, so it has got to be something a lot earlier.
Around this area, we have a 900 year old graveyard, and also the oldest Monastry village ruins in Ireland, its over 1,000 years old.
Then we have smugglers who back then did all kinds of cruel things, Highwaymen,Vikings, all in this area.
Silver Unicorn

why do ghost liek to live in abandoned palce...................mean why they do't to to go the clubs or some other palce to enjoy.

I think because they are grounded