Went on a small adventure to Jack London State Park today..er..yesterday.(it's 2:36am and I should be asleep) The park is a beautiful place, but my main point of interest was Wolf House. I read online that Wolf House is supposedly haunted, so I took the opportunity to check out the ghost vibes.
Wolf House was London's dream house, but it caught fire before completion.
It would have been an amazing house, but now it's just stone ruins.
I don't think any of my photos captured anything paranormal. These are just a selection of the photos I took. I made a short video too.
But I did have a moment where I caught a shadow in the corner of my eye.
However, it was not a definitive shadow. Peripheral vision is not always reliable. It could have been a large bug flying past, like a butterfly or dragonfly. A bird fluttering past? Another park goer walking back up the path? Eye floaters? Maybe just my brain doing stupid brain stuff.
But the shadow was quiet. A bird's wings would have made sound. The sound of footsteps would have been made by a park goer. No sound. Just a shadow in the corner of my right eye.
It was peaceful rather than spooky, and I didn't really pick up on any ghosty vibes. But my time at the ruins was all too brief. However, I did get a sense that spirits were there. Whose spirit is hard to say, but it was easy to imagine Jack London's spirit is there.
There is a difference between your imagination creating a sense of spirit and your senses preciving the paranormal. I could imagine Jack's spirit wandering about, and I could imagine why people say Wolf House is haunted. But did I actually sense or experience anything paranormal?
Jack asked that his ashes be spread in this very spot, and to have a stone from the ruins of Wolf House be placed on top. So, it makes sense his spirit would still be part of the land he loved so much. Jack also wanted to be buried close to the Greenlaw children. No doubt, Jack is not the only spirit that inhabits the park.
The park is also within the ancestral territory of the Coast Miwok (California First Nations), so I don't doubt there are multiple spirits roaming as freely as the park goers.
So. I didn't have a definitive paranormal experience. I didn't "see" a ghost or experience any distinct activity. But, if I had more time and went a little slower (I was with others), I might have gotten a stronger reading. I definitely walked away thinking, yep this place is haunted. I had a visceral feeling that it is, but that's subjective rather than conclusive. I'll have to return in the future.
#note I am aware that Jack London was an imperfect human person, but is a part of local California history.