Ghost Walk in San Juan Bautista ($40, includes goodie bag)
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Friday night, October 17, 2025
How to Pay: Go to https://www.ticketsignup.io/ticketevent/rotarysanjuanbautistaghostwalk2025 .
Select October 17, 7:00 pm
Pay with your credit card or Apple Pay.
The cutoff is 22 people, but if you have trouble signing up, text Jackie Muñoz at 831-320-1764 for help. She will let additional BAGH members in!
BRING A FLASHLIGHT! Bring COVID face masks. Wear comfortable shoes. The walk is accessible but bumpy. Find street parking. Arrive early if you want to see the Mission (it closes at 4:00 p.m.) or eat at Jardine's (it closes at 8:00 p.m.).
Our ghost walk starts at 7:00 p.m. and is 1/2 hour. Boy are you in for a treat! This meetup is in one of the smallest, most vintage, most HAUNTED little towns we have every visited.
San Juan Bautista (St. John the Baptist) is a town older than California.
The Mission was built in 1797 on a site chosen by Father Junipero Serra (now Saint Serra) because it promised an “abundant harvest of souls.”
The final scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo was filmed at this mission.
Is San Juan Bautista haunted? OH YES! From https://happycabintahoe.com/blog/2019/11/25/logue-cabin-a-travelogue-ghosts-of-san-juan-bautista (LOGUE CABIN: A Travelogue: The Ghosts of San Juan Bautista), “Halina Kleinsmith [told the author] that San Juan Bautista is built on a crystal bowl between sacred ranges. She explains that the water percolates up through the quartz, making the San Juan Valley a power spot. That’s what drew the Native Americans here. That’s what drew the Spanish here. Everything is amplified here—good, evil, nightmares, dreams. “Have you ever seen a ghost?” I ask. “Every day,” she says nonchalantly, as if talking about something as ho-hum as the rising sun. She explains that residents of San Juan Bautista must learn to coexist with spirits. They see them in their houses and businesses, hear them in their attics, and walk through “cold patches” as the spirits roam the streets. “The veil is thin here.”
Your co-organizer is Deb. She will be wearing a flashing ghost necklace. Phone: 408.828.5257.
Graphic is © Kyla Quarles.