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An 1886 oceanfront Victorian on Monterey Bay where guests report footsteps and the weight of someone sitting on the bed
555 Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Boutique hotel room rates vary by season; see the inn's website for current pricing and reservations.
Access
Limited Access
Multi-building Victorian inn on a coastal bluff; stairs between levels.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1886 · 1886 oceanfront Victorian on Monterey Bay · Landmark Pacific Grove inn
Pacific Grove began as a Methodist seaside retreat in the 1870s and filled in over the following decades with the wood-frame Victorians that still define its character. The Seven Gables Inn is one of them: an oceanfront house built in 1886, set on the bluff above Monterey Bay on Ocean View Boulevard.
The building has been adapted into a boutique inn, described in current listings as a landmark Victorian with about 25 rooms across the main house and adjacent structures, looking directly out at the bay. It changed hands over the years and has more recently operated under a hospitality collection's management.
The inn's ghost reputation is local and modest in scale. Regional haunted-site coverage of the Monterey Peninsula names the Seven Gables Inn among the area's haunts, attributing the reported activity to a former owner whose presence guests say lingers in a benign way. The historical record for the building itself is the firmer part of the story — an 1886 date and a continuous run as an oceanfront residence and then inn — while the haunting accounts rest on guest reports collected in tourism and real-estate blog coverage rather than documented events.
Sources
The Seven Gables Inn's lore is light and consistent: a friendly presence, said in local accounts to be a former owner of the house, who remains in the building.
The specific reports that recur in regional coverage are footsteps heard in the hallways and the sensation of weight settling onto a guest's bed, as though someone has sat down beside them. Both See Monterey's haunted-county roundup and a Monterey Peninsula real-estate blog name the inn among the area's haunts and frame the activity this way, with no claim of menace.
The accounts are guest-experience reports rather than documented incidents, and no specific name is attached to the former-owner figure in the available sources. The building's 1886 history is solid; the haunting rests on a thin and informal source base.
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