42: Old Sacramento with Lisa Praxel

Ghost Bunny

Bridget Marquardt & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On this week's episode, Bridget talks to Lisa Praxel about Old Sacramento. The city has a rich history, and plenty of spooky locations and legends. Bridget and Lisa chat about some of the iconic locations, such as the B.F. Hastings Building, the Sacramento History Museum, and the tunnels under the city. Lisa shares her experience working as a docent for the Sacramento History Museum, and leading the museum's ghost tours. Plus she shares some of the best evidence she has captured on her ghost tours, and how some of them tie back to the history of the haunted buildings.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Markort, with a brand new episode for you guys today.
0:23.9	My guest today is Lisa Praxel. Lisa Praxel has been a tour guide and living history member for the Sacramento History Museum for over 15 years.
0:32.3	As a tour guide, she takes guests into the historic underground space of Sacramento, telling a first-person narrated
0:38.1	story of how and why Sacramento has an underground.
0:41.3	In the evening, she takes adults on a tour where she portrays a saloon owner, and the tours
0:45.1	focus on the murder and mayhem that happened in Sacramento in the 1850s to 1870s.
0:50.4	She has been a fan of paranormal tours in towns all over the world while she travels.
0:55.0	About three years ago, she proposed at the museum at a paranormal tour.
0:58.7	It was approved, and now they take guests into three historic buildings, teaching them how to
1:02.9	hunt for ghosts, as well as telling them the history of the space.
1:06.3	This year, they are expanding their tours to include the historic cemetery on Broadway.
1:10.6	I'm super excited to hear all about this, because this is a place that I used to go all the time when I was younger and I still go back to every time I go home. I love Old Sacramento and I can't wait to learn more about it with you guys. Lisa, thank you so much for doing the podcast today. I'm happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Yes. So I was just saying when I was reading your
1:29.1	bio that Old Sacramento is very special to me because I grew up in Lodi, which I'm sure you know
1:35.0	is a town just outside of, not too far outside of Sacramento, maybe like 40 minutes to get there.
1:40.4	And it was some place that we used to go on special occasions or like super excited to go there to the railroad museum and just walking around and enjoying it and everything.
1:49.6	And one of my favorite stores of all time is there.
1:53.0	And I still, every time I go home, I'm always like, oh, we should go to old sack.
1:57.6	I don't even know what I want to do there, but I just want to be there. Like,
2:01.3	there's something about it that I feel really nostalgic about when I'm there. And I can picture
2:06.7	it being back in the old times. And like, I just really, really love it. But one thing, I mean,
2:12.9	obviously I know Sacramento history somewhat. And I know that, you know, gold rush and those kinds of things,
2:20.0	but I don't really fully feel like I know the history of Old Sacramento. And I definitely don't
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