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Buried & The Burned: A Bakersfield Ghosts Walking Tour Through the Central Valley's Print, Stage, and Hotel Hauntings
1501 Truxtun Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93301
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Buried & The Burned Bakersfield Ghost Tour is $21 per person per the operator's site; an extended bonus tour to additional haunted locations is offered by request.
Access
Wheelchair OK
A roughly 1-mile outdoor walking tour of downtown Bakersfield, starting at the Colonel Thomas Baker Memorial.
Equipment
Photos OK
Downtown Bakersfield Historic District · Bakersfield's Gold Rush and oil-boom era
US Ghost Adventures runs city-branded ghost walks in dozens of U.S. cities under local names; in Bakersfield the program is marketed as Bakersfield Ghosts. The tour meets at the Colonel Thomas Baker Memorial and covers about a mile of downtown Bakersfield on foot over roughly an hour, without entering privately owned buildings.
The route draws on Bakersfield's history as a Gold Rush and oil-boom era Central Valley city, touching on the eight-story Padre Hotel, the former Bakersfield Californian newspaper building, and the Nile Theater. The operator's own site states its stories are drawn from historic reports, local folklore, and recorded sources.
Sources
The operator's preview material highlights The Padre Hotel, an eight-story hotel the operator ties to reports involving a former owner and other guests; the Bakersfield Californian Building, the former home of the city's daily newspaper, which the operator connects to the stress of a newsroom environment; and The Nile Theater, which the operator markets around a reported phantom performance voice tied to a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
A 1-hour, 1-mile walking tour of downtown Bakersfield starting at the Colonel Thomas Baker Memorial, covering a historic hotel, a former newspaper building, and a theater with reported hauntings. Tickets are $21 per person, all ages. Runs nightly. A bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations is available by request.
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Preview stop; the operator's flagship story for the tour. NOTE: the corpus also carries a second, apparently duplicate entry for this hotel at the-padre-hotel (California) — see report for adjudication.
Preview stop; former home of the local newspaper, the Bakersfield Californian.
Preview stop; the operator ties reported activity to a phantom performance voice.
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