Family Member Meets Ghost in Sierra Nevada

Barbara Harris, who works as a registered nurse on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, recently made an excursion to the Groveland Hotel in the Sierra Nevada where she had an encounter with a most unusual guest.

The hotel, a seventeen-room adobe bed-and-breakfast, which opened in 1849 to serve miners in the Gold Rush, is said to be haunted and Barbara can confirm that.

Sleeping in her room with her husband Eddie, she was awakened during the night to find the visage of a young woman wearing a full-length dress and a broad, 1920s-style hat, peacefully sitting in a chair near the foot of the bed. No words were exchanged during the brief encounter, but the ghost let it be known that her name was Margaret.

Though they did not see them, the hotel is also supposed to be haunted by other guests who checked in but did not check out, including a 19th century miner named Lyle. The hotel is near Yosemite National Park where Barbara and Eddie frequently while away their off hours.