Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
City park facility — check El Monte Parks and Recreation for access hours
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved park grounds with gymnasium building
Equipment
Photos OK
Lambert Park is a city-managed park facility in El Monte, California, in the San Gabriel Valley. El Monte developed from an agricultural settlement established in the 1850s into one of Los Angeles County's older suburban communities. The park's gymnasium building has served the community for recreational programming for decades.
HauntedPlaces.org documents several employee and visitor accounts from Lambert Park-Gymnasium, though no independent local news coverage or El Monte historical society documentation of specific incidents at the park has been located. The accounts describe phenomena attributed to a little girl in the attic and a male figure in the locker room, with additional reports of dragging sounds from the attic and unsettling feelings in the women's restroom.
HauntedPlaces.org has collected several accounts from people who worked at or visited Lambert Park-Gymnasium. A former El Monte Parks and Recreation Department employee described an uncomfortable presence in the women's restroom, hearing what they characterized as an oily, mechanical sound from a door in the locker room area while alone, and audible dragging sounds from the attic when working in the office below.
Several visitors report that a group who camped in or near the park experienced shared nightmares involving a little girl struck by a car. Another account describes audio recorded during a late-night visit capturing what sounded like a child laughing in the restroom area.
The apparition of a man has been reported in the locker room, though no specific identity or historical event has been attached to this figure. Similarly, the little girl in the attic has no documented origin beyond the recurring accounts.
The accounts are user-submitted and unverified, consistent with the broader pattern of community gymnasiums and parks that accumulate folklore from night-shift employees and after-hours visitors who spend time in empty buildings.
Lambert Park in El Monte is a public city park with an attached gymnasium. The building is accessible during park hours. The attic and locker room areas associated with the paranormal accounts are not generally open to the public.
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