My new house, when completed, will be the handsomest, most comfortable and convenient place in town,

or within 150 miles of here.

That was a phrase of Thomas Whaley when construction started on his home on May 6, 1856,

according to the location's website. And what he said was true. The house was designed by Mr.

Whaley himself, a beautiful two-story Greek revival home. There was no other place like it.

So it didn't take long for it to become known as one of the finest in all of Southern California.

A beautiful construction using mahogany, expensive drapes, and carpets.

And yet it was fitting when you found out about the owner.

He was a businessman, founding many of them.

Even the bricks that made his house were made by Thomas Whaley himself, in his own brickyard.

But his home would soon turn into a place of tragedy and horror, as his family would begin to fall apart in the worst

ways. In fact, Life magazine called the Whaley House, the most haunted house in America.

The more we researched into the topic, the more we became convinced that a place with such

history was deserving of the title.

Witness accounts, facts that are backed up with official records, evidence being captured to this day.

Today we head to San Diego, California, to visit the most haunted house in America, the whaley house.

My name is Edwin, and here is the dark man-lake. The house stands out from the rest in Old Town San Diego.

At one point, it was the location of Whaley's General Store and also San Diego's second county

courthouse.

People would come in and go out and the Whaley House continued to be a part of their lives,

living and breathing with them. It even became the first commercial theater in the city, that even the journal of

San Diego history has made note of how much the house has witnessed after it was built.

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