Ghosts of Pleasanton's past line the downtown. Tales of underground tunnels, murders, speakeasies and brothels have haunted — and entertained — locals for years. From the Gay 90's Pizza Company and its ghost of a brothel madame to the Pleasanton Hotel and its ghosts of gamblers and prostitutes past, ghost stories are part of the lore of more than a dozen buildings along Main Street.Every October in recent years, people from all over the Bay Area have made the pilgrimage to Pleasanton to experience the city's paranormal atmosphere for themselves. When the October 2008 tour rolls around, the ghost stories will have a measure of validation,backed by visual and audio evidence gathered this past summer by Gloria Young, a Northern California ghost hunter.What started as a two-weekend project to hunt Pleasanton's ghosts blossomed into a five-weekend investigation, said Young, founder and director of the Santa Clara-based Ghost Trackers Paranormal Research Group. "We kept finding things.
We would hear some voices, or we would capture something on a picture," she said. "The activity there is just excellent."
Young, who
founded Ghost Trackers in 1992, uses a diverse group of people to
conduct field research and learn more about ghosts and other psychic
phenomena.
The former emergency room
nurse said there are plenty of urban legends and ghost stories around
the Bay Area. She was amazed, however, to find suchoverwhelming
evidence in Pleasanton.
"It's very unusual," Young
said. "Urban legends are usually just that — urban legends." After an
early visit to Gay 90's, Young was looking through still photographs
and found a picture taken of an old mirror. It reflected an image of
herself, a male team member and Ghost Walk coordinator Rebecca Bruner.
What was surprising, however, was the image of a woman with
camel-colored hair, also reflected back from the mirror. There was no
one else with them that day who looked like that additional image.
Young also heard voices in the basement of Gay 90's, which occupies a structure built in 1864.
Pleasanton historians note
that Chinese laborers built a connection from that basement to the
town's underground tunnels, which ran from that building to the current
location of thePleasanton Ho......
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