Episode 190: What's Weird In Americas Most Expensive City!!

For quite a while, I've been wanting to take an action packed trip to explore an area to which, believe it or not, I have never been, even though I can fly there from Las Vegas, where I live, in less than an hour, and as I record this, it just so happens to also be the most expensive city in the entire United States of America. Want to take a guess what city it is? Think about it. I'll give you a second. Okay, here's the answer. It is

San Diego, California. Yes, more expensive than Los Angeles or New York, or Honolulu or Miami. I talked to a bartender there who said she and her husband and two kids. They rent a small house about eighteen hundred square feet with just two or three bedrooms, and the rent alone is over three nine hundred dollars per month.

about what he saw. He and another lieutenant commander there were training with the Nimtz Carrier Strike Group just southwest of San Diego, and favor told sixty Minutes. At the time advanced radar on a ship that was a part of their training group detected what operators called multiple a novelist aerial vehicles over the ocean, descending eighty thousand feet and less than a second. All right, so surely you

know that story by now. And so that whole area of the coastline there has been a UFO slash UAP hotspot for at least twenty years. And we are talking about the entire area around Catalina Island and Dana Point and Laguna Beach.

I can come back and tell you some stories. So throughout this show, I'm going to tell you about some of the interesting places that Lauren and I visit, did things that we bought, and then, of course my ultimate conclusion so far about the UFO activity around there, But you got to realize that this also has some of the most haunted places in the United States, including a house known as America's most Haunted House. I visited there, I'll tell you about that, and one of the most

famous haunted resorts, the Hotel del Coronado. All right, I have a lot of information in front of me, and I know I'm going to run out of time, so let's get straight into this. We flew there, we got checked into a really nice hotel right there on the water. It was near a place called the Seaport Village, and it's exactly what you can imagine. It's a little area

right there on the coast. It's kind of like a little boardwalk area, and it has all the little gift shops and seafood restaurants, and I just love walking around these little places that reminds you of being in Popeyes Town. But one thing that was especially interesting was as soon as Lauren and I walked into the Seaport Village, there was this very elaborate carousel there. Turned out this thing had been hand carved in eighteen ninety five and it's

still perfectly operable. We got to ride this carousel, this merry go Round on top of these big you know there was I guess there were wooden horses. Of course, this thing had been restored over time, but that was astounding to spend five minutes just riding a carousel that had been built in eighteen ninety five. So, of course the first stuff I wanted to tick off my list. I got some delicious crab cakes right there on the water.

We walked down that boardwalk area until we got to a huge ship there, the USS Midway, which is now a museum. It's a very famous area in San Diego because you may remember seeing this photograph from World War Two. It's at the end of the war when everybody's celebrating and there's a sailor who is kissing this girl in New York City. And this famous photograph has been turned into a twenty five foot tall statue that stands right there in this area next to the Midway. They have

all kinds of really interesting memorials and monuments there. One that particularly struck me was one of Bob Hope, the comedian who had entertained the troops. It's a life size statue of Bob Hope, and he's standing there with this group of life size sailor statues all around him, and as he's standing there and addressing them, they actually have real audio from some of his stand up comedy playing and they're laughing and clapping, and I mean, I swear

it was like being transported back in time. If you're interested in history and you're ever near that area of San Diego, you gotta go check that out. It's right now by the fish market and everything. So we hit up some of the local shops. I bought some camel jerky. Have you ever had camel jerky? I'm a sucker for jerky, you know. I started out eating beef jerky. Now I eat a lot of turkey jerky and stuff like that because it's leaner camel jerky.

check out the Camel Jerky. So look, we had a great evening, found some little speakeasyes, some teeky places to chill out, and in the next day we went up a. We headed to La Joya Cove, which looks like a movie set. This is an area where these giant cliffs are right next to the water. The ocean is splashing up on the cliffs and everywhere, I mean everywhere are just tons of sea lions and seagulls and pelicans, all

this wild life. La Joya apparently means the Jewel by the way, and so it was just like you know, it was the most one of the most scenic places I've ever been to in my entire life. And of course, as we were sort of exploring and walking up and down these cliffs, it became apparent that there are some

pretty significant caves around La Joya Cove. And these caves were well, some of them are natural, but many of them were man made because apparently, back during the Depression the Prohibition, bootleggers would use these caves to smuggle all kinds of liquor up from the ocean to the surface. And distribute it around California. And these caves are really

really haunted. I actually went down myself. I didn't have the best dress for it because the rocks were very slippery, but I actually went into one of the caves and we took some pictures. You know what, I got to take a break when we come back. Okay, I'm going to get into the spooky stuff when we return, about America's most haunted house and the Hotel Delcornado and some of the things that were happening as we were exploring

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a long time. I'm not that active personally on Instagram, but my wife Lauren is, and she has been saying about, you know, it'd be nice to have she'd been talking about how nice it would be to have a place where she could upload pictures of some of the things that I talk about on the show.

So thanks to Lauren for working on that project. And I know that'll add a new dimension to some of the things I discuss. So all right, back to the trip. So yeah, here I am. I'm crawling around these slippery rocks and one of these old like bootlegger caves. And then after that we drove to the little town of La Jolla, went into this antique store where all the cells.

So we bought that. There had a nice day, and then we went to finally explore what they call Old Town San Diego. And as I mentioned to you, San Diego, it's the oldest town European town on the west coast. Let's see, Old Town contains two hundred and thirty acres and is bounded by Interstate eight on the north and five on the west. Okay, it is the oldest settled area in San Diego and the site of the first European settlement contains the Old Town San Diego State Historic Park,

et cetera. And this was especially intriguing. One of the things that you have to remember when it comes to like this part of California. A lot of times you hear about places that are named after Balboa. This guy Balboa, like Balboa Beach or Balboa Park, and there's Balboa pops up a lot, and the reason is that Balboa is this He was this Spanish conquistador basically who what he discovered, Well, he was the first European sort of discover that area.

I'll talk a little bit more about him later because I see in my notes here I have this section where we go to Balboa Park, so I'll save that for later. But anyway, so people started settling, you know, Europeans in Old Town San Diego, and of course, of course there were Native Americans there first, but people from

Europe settling there apparently in like the fifteen hundreds. And what's one thing that's really interesting about it is when you go walking through there nowadays, there are some areas where you'll be walking down a street and you will see on the sidewalk or even in the middle of the street a little marker looks like a coin, and

it's a graveside marker. Because over time, when they were building up Old Town San Diego, they would actually start building over parts of the old cemeteries, and so whenever they could, they would acknowledge that, well, there is a grave right here, and you could be sitting in a restaurant and have, you know, graves right underneath you. And we went to this fantastic restaurant and had wonderful fahitas there. It was called the Barra Barra Saloon.

And in fact, one of the most famous people executed there was a guy named Yankee Jim who was He was hanged because he had stolen a boat apparently, and for one understand like some of the people he supposedly stole the boat from were on the jury. He was a big guy and he didn't hang very easily. They basically choked him to death. And a lot of people say, of all the ghosts that haunt that house today, it's the ghost of Yankee Jim. He was not very happy

about at being executed in that way. But you know, Thomas Swalee, after he built this house, he had a lot of tragedy also in his life. I mean, he had a daughter named Violet, and when she was twenty two years old, she shot herself killed herself with his thirty two caliber gun there. That was in eighteen eighty five. She killed herself over a man. She left a note said, mad from life's history, swift to death's mystery, Glad to be hurled anywhere anywhere out of this world.

start in TV hosting there in San Diego. He had a morning show in San Diego, and in nineteen sixty four, I guess he was doing a segment for his show, and Regis Philbin said on a number of times on camera that one like one night, in the middle of the night, he and one of his producer guys, they got to visit the Whaley House and stay there for hours, and at one point there in this sitting room, and Regis Philbin says that he and the other guy, who

has had like a military background, turned and here was this white, misty form that had formed right there, hovering around the entrance to the living area. And Philbin is shocked, he's never seen anything like this. His producer military guy, for whatever reason jumps down and starts creeping up to it, like crawling up to it like he's gonna try to

grab it or something. And Philbin says that stupidly that right before the guy got to it, he wanted a better look, and so Philbin said that he turned a flashlight on and as soon as he did that, this misty.

loose and let you explore a little bit. The first guy we had was a man, and he said that he had definitely heard the loud footsteps running up and down on the second floor. They have a theater there, which is really amazing because they have a Pepper's ghost illusion set up, which is where you sort of project apparitional figures on maybe a piece of thin fabric or something similar. And you see this around Halloween a lot.

And there was this woman who was sitting there in period garub and she was a guide who was there just to answer questions. And she told this story about how that when she was there with just one other guide, they were the only people on the property. And she said that they looked up and they saw, Well, you know what, we got to take a break. When we come back. I'm going to tell you what they saw. And then she said something that I thought was a really good quote I'm going to share with you. And

then well, we traveled. We jumped to the car and we drove to Cornatto Islands, where I decided to take out a little bit of gear and investigate the haunted hotel. I am Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to strange things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be back after these important messages.

They looked up and they saw this dark figure of a tall man standing there and they said who's there or something like that or hello, and the figure just turned and walked away. And they were supposed to secure the property, so they went upstairs and looked around, and she said that there was nobody there and it freaked him out. And she said that when people ask her though if she gets scared, she gave me this great quote. She says, well, when you're here by yourself, she said,

it's like when your house sitting for someone. It feels comfy, but it's still their house. You feel their energy. I think that applies to a lot of haunted places. So look, my footage from there is still being analyzed, but you know, here are my feelings. I didn't feel anything particularly negative or scary about the place. Some haunted places feel very very heavy, and it didn't feel that heavy to me

for some reason. So America's most haunted house. I guess maybe I'd need to spend a night there to figure that one out. So I had a great time though at Old Town. Before we left, we went to this place called the Mexican Market, and I bought some Mexican jumping beans.

little worms in there. They're a larvae of a small moth and they are in there. I think up to like ten months just chewing away and eating and living inside of this thing and developing. But they are very sensitive to temperature. So if they're in a place where it's kind of cool and they like the temperature and

it's kind of dark, they don't move around. But if you put them in the sun, maybe not direct sun you don't want to kill them, or just like hold them in your hand and warm them up, they'll start bouncing around and jumping. And you know what, I have never I don't know what happens. I guess when I was a kid, they would stop jumping and I would say, like, I guess they're dead and throw them away. But I am going to keep my jumping beans in a special container and see if I can hatch the moths out

of them. And so so that'll be an interesting image for my Instagram. So look, next we drive across this bridge and we go to Coronado Island where there is a military base. A lot of military activity around around us throughout this whole trip, and that is where you find the Hotel del Coronado. Now, the Hotel del Coronado is it's historic building that was it opened in eighteen eighty eight, as the largest resort hotel in the world.

It's still the second largest wooden structure in the United States, if not the world. I can't remember for Sirah, for sure. I've got too many things I've been researching.

ghost of Kate Morgan. And this is an absolutely true story. Kate Morgan was born in eighteen sixty four and her life is kind of mysterious. She had I think various man troubles. She was like bouncing around from place to place,

chasing love. And in November of eighteen ninety two, she showed up by herself to the Hotel Del Cornado and she was dressed in black okay, black hat, black dress, and the people there this daf said that she seemed very ladylike, beautiful, reserved and well dressed, but troubled and very melancholy. That's a quote she kept to herself. A lot of people just referred to her as the Beautiful Stranger.

And after she had stayed there for about five days, she walked outside on some steps heading to the beach. She took out a gun and she shot herself in the head apparently, and killed herself. And well, the funny thing is that some people said that they thought there was foul play. Most people said that they thought it was suicide. Nobody knows for sure. But she was staying in room three to two at that time. And actually

I was in the gift shop. They sew all kinds of Kate Morgan stuff, and I even bought a little key chain that says room three h two on it, but they've changed that now to Room three three two seven. All these years since the incident, people have seen this woman in black with a big black hat and black dress floating around the hotel. Of course, in Ashwood, North Carolina, at the Grove Park End, they have the Pink Lady. Well, here they have the Beautiful Stranger in black, and she

does everything that melancholy ghosts usually do. She sometimes she shows up in your room at night. She might might tickle your feet. Sometimes she will just glide down the hallway. Sometimes you just see her sitting by herself around her room, and then she vanishes. There was one historian who said that there were a couple of people who checked into one of the rooms they are known to be haunted, and then they just vanished. They were never seen again.

magnets and things like that. And when we were there, I talked to this one bartender and he'd been working there for I think twenty years, and I asked him if he'd ever seen anything, and he goes, well, of course, he's working at this big historic bar.

ghost hunting there. I brought some of my meters and I filmed myself ghost hunting.

see a ghost at either one of these places. But I definitely feel like the Hotel del Coronado is haunted. It's got that that heaviness that I didn't actually feel at the Whaley House. So if you're ever in San Diego, look up the Hotel del Coronado. It's probably not cheap to stay there, but it's worth visiting and having a drink at the bar and walking down to the beach. So of course in San Diego, we had to go to the famous San Diego Zoo. It is the most

visited zoo in all of America. I think something like twelve million people visit it every year. You've probably seen it all over TV. Got up one morning, went there and it was the weather was actually kind of cloudy and cool, and so all the animals were out. We took a free bus tour for about thirty minutes. That was the first thing we did. And then later on they have this little ride you can take called like a sky a Safari. It's like a gondola that takes

you up. I thought that was kind of scary personally if you're a little if you don't like heights that much. But you know, here's the thing. When we went to the zoo, the animals were more active than usual and we saw i mean huge gorillas. I've never seen gorilla so active and running around right up to the glass, orangutans rolling around and playing, and there was a kamodo dragon, lots of monkeys that they had a bear there they said, called a sloth bear, and it turns out that's what

that's what Ballou was in the jungle book. And all the guides were talking about how that they only use positive reinforcement with the animals, and they raise a lot of money to save animals and help animals.

There was some kind of an expo there similar to a World's Fair in nineteen fifteen, and so they built like all these glorious buildings, facades, like one of them was used in I think Citizen Kane. This is you know, it's a twelve hundred acre park. And they have all these museums there, like whether there's one that has mummies. They have the Comic Con Museum, even though it was closed that day, all kinds of restaurants and shops. But yeah, this gets it's named after Vasco Nuna's Deve Balboa, who

was born in fourteen seventy five. He was a conquistador who supposedly was the first person to see the Pacific Ocean from Europe and came back in this kind of credited as like a kind of discoverer of the New World. And it turns out though he had a pretty dramatic life otherwise, and he was only about forty three or forty four. He was executed because there was some suspicion that he was trying to take over a certain land that he wasn't supposed to have, and he was being subversive.

And I was reading here it says the executioner beheaded Balboa at his four friends with an axe. Balboa's head did not come off clean on the first try. It took three. Their heads remained in public display for several days as a sign of his enemies. Might this was another conquistador or a similar Spanish figure that did that, And they don't know where his final remains are, but anyway, so he met a pretty bad end. But regardless, we

had a great time exploring that area. Went to this place called the Brigantine and we had some raw oysters, which is something I don't do all that often. There was this huge ship docked next to it on the water there called the Star of India. Looks like a pirate ship and it's the world's oldest active sailing ship. Began her life in the Ramsey Shipyard in the Isle of Man in eighteen sixty three. Everywhere you look there's

just some kind of crazy history. The gas Lamp Quarters where we went for dinner of that night, lively downtown neighborhood known for its NightLive clubs, bars, lounges. In fact, the oldest bar in San Diego is there called the Tivoli Bar and Grill. Maybe it's Tivoli, I'm not sure which, but opened in eighteen eighty five. So we went there. Of course, we had a shot. The next door we had one of the best seafood we've ever had at

the Water Grill. And then after that we got into one of these things called a pettycab, which is like a cycle rickshaw. Where Lauren and I are sitting in the back of this thing at like ten o'clock at night, and this guy who is driving it, he's peddling it. He says, you want to have a good time. And this guy was a maniac, and we're screaming and he's driving in circles and it was just he drove us all the way back to our hotel. There was just

always some kind of craziness. Well, look, on our last day, I found a couple of different antique shops and I found one amazing antique shop that had some big items that we want to use to decorate our house. And I don't want to tell you about those things yet because they are being specially delivered to me tomorrow supposedly, so if all goes well with that delivery, I'll tell you about those things that I bought in the next episode of this podcast, because I just don't have time

to squeeze it all in. So let me give you some conclusions here leading to the UFO situation. First off, let me say, look, I understand because of politics, California gets a bad rap. And you know, the roads were pretty bad. They're lots of potholes, and even though San Diego is the most expensive town in the country. We were at a stoplight and I looked over and I saw a guy. He was outside of a gas station. I saw him digging through a garbage can and I

just saw him pull out something and eat it. And that's pretty sad when you see things like that. But you know, everyone was incredibly nice and helpful to me and Lauren, and I mean everyone and Lauren and I. You know, we've always talked about like for some reason, people just always liked to come up to us out of the blue and just talk to us.

like that. You ever hear anything about that? Not one person would talk. I've never seen anything quite like it in my entire life. Other than some similar areas like Laguna Beach. I've encountered that.

able to get in touch with him again. So I don't know if that's going to work out or not, but it is on my list to go back there with equipment that I did not bring on this exploratory visit to do some groundbreaking recordings.

all the way up to Nobel Prize winning scientist. And I have never encountered a whole area like that where people would they acted like they wanted to say something that we just clam up. I believe, I swear to you. I believe that the people in this area around San Diego and Katalena Island and Dana Point, the some mimo has gone out there that you do not talk about this, And I don't know how fishal it is, but I

think the word is out there. And you know what, one thing that surprised me, having never been to San Diego.

been put out there. You do not talk about the UFO UAP stuff, and it may just be because you have all this military activity around there and people are afraid they've been warned not to spill any beans, or they think that maybe I'm with the military and I'm testing them and trying to see if they're going to talk. I'm not sure what it is, but there's something very.

you until it gets here. But listen to this. Let me just leave you with this. I guarantee you you did not believe you were going to hear.

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