Meet our Ghost Hosts
You can’t very well be expected to take a spine-tingling journey to the dark side without the aid of some very seasoned guides. Meet some of the guys and ghouls eager to regale you with tales of wandering spirits, malevolent forces and spooky souls that accompany you through the sinister streets and graveyards on your tour of the doomed. See you on the Other Side!
Helena Monroe
Helena Monroe was an adventurous teen growing up in early San Francisco whose life was changed when she saw a performance of a traveling theatre troupe called the Tanner Troupe in 1865. Having found her passion, she ran away from home to join this quirky group of traveling actors! They traveled throughout California before opening San Diego’s first ever commercial theatre inside the Whaley House. When their director, Mr. Thomas Tanner, dropped dead unexpectedly two weeks into performances, Helena decided to strike out on her own and continue her acting career in New Town (now downtown San Diego). After many years of tear-jerking performances and glowing reviews, however, a jealous rival actress appeared on the scene with murderous intentions! Before what might have been her biggest show yet, Helena was violently murdered by her competitor. She is cursed to spend her afterlife wandering the streets of San Diego, looking for stories to tell and audiences to entertain. When people say “theatre is dead,” perhaps this is what they mean?”
Helena Monroe
Helena Monroe was an adventurous teen growing up in early San Francisco whose life was changed when she saw a performance of a traveling theatre troupe called the Tanner Troupe in 1865. Having found her passion, she ran away from home to join this quirky group of traveling actors! They traveled throughout California before opening San Diego’s first ever commercial theatre inside the Whaley House. When their director, Mr. Thomas Tanner, dropped dead unexpectedly two weeks into performances, Helena decided to strike out on her own and continue her acting career in New Town (now downtown San Diego). After many years of tear-jerking performances and glowing reviews, however, a jealous rival actress appeared on the scene with murderous intentions! Before what might have been her biggest show yet, Helena was violently murdered by her competitor. She is cursed to spend her afterlife wandering the streets of San Diego, looking for stories to tell and audiences to entertain. When people say “theatre is dead,” perhaps this is what they mean?”
Jesse Shepard
Mystical. Musical. Transcendent.
Maggie
Maggie is your friendly neighborhood barmaid — warm smile, sharper wit, and a knack for remembering everyone’s favorite drink… and their darkest secrets. But be careful what you spill after sunset — Maggie’s lips are loose, and not even the dead are safe from her tales. The people may be gone, but their stories still haunt the bar.
Tecolote
Tecolote is not your ordinary guide through the shadows of San Diego. Named after the owl — the ancient messenger between the living and the dead — Tecolote is a spectral storyteller, folkloric keeper, and uncanny companion through the veil that separates this world from the next. Half-shadow, half-poet, Tecolote is the mystical heart of our ghost tours — whispering secrets that curl through San Diego’s canyons and graveyards. A proud Mexican-American spirit guide, he blends folklore, history, and a touch of brujería to awaken the city’s forgotten souls. From the haunted corridors of the Gaslamp Quarter to the restless graves of Old Town, Tecolote doesn’t just tell ghost stories — he conjures them. Tecolote invites the curious and the brave to walk beside him. Let him lead you through the fog of forgotten memories, the echo of footsteps in empty hallways, and the chill that creeps in when you realize: the dead are listening.
Olivia Eastwood
A self-proclaimed connoisseur of poisonous and carnivorous plants who converted her family's shed into a deadly greenhouse to experiment with teas, tonics, and tinctures made from the leaves of her collection. An apothecary of sorts that you will not survive.
Mau
Finding the wild western life very, very boring, Mau chose to ignore the daily obligations the women of her time bore and instead spendt her free moments dilly dallying by trolleys and their tracks. Her adoration for them still lasts to this very day, too attached to let them go.
Ida Bailey
Ida Bailey, proprietor of the Canary Cottage, the room where it happens. Secrets told were secrets kept until now.
The Conductor
Creep your way through gravesites by lantern light with The Conductor as your guide. Don't believe in ghosts and spirits? Think history has no mystery? He'll illuminate and elucidate the sedate. His bespoke tales may evoke wails... and certainly bring grief to your beliefs.
Zelda Pendleton Jones
The original crazy cat lady. Her clouder of cats took revenge and justifiably murdered her husband. Her spirit now walks the streets with her glaring of ghost kitties following close behind.
Antoinette
Antoinette was born beneath a dying star in the guttered veins of New Orleans, 1878 — a nameless girl with stormcloud eyes and silence stitched across her lips. The Great Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, found her beneath a blood moon, and whispered, “You were never meant for the light.” Thirteen years she studied in candlelit crypts, where bones speak and shadows listen. She learned to raise spirits with a glance, and bind the living with a whispered word. But one night, something ancient slipped its chains. Screams echoed through the bayou. The river boiled black with blood thicker than magic. And Antoinette was gone — fleeing west with curses clinging to her skin like soot. Now she walks among the dead in San Diego. They say she moves like smoke down the alleys of Old Town and the through San Diego’s long forgotten underbelly, the Stingaree District, chanting to Baron Samedi… or someone or something you can’t quite see. Take care and cross the street, for Antoinette is no ghost…She is a spell still being cast.”
Alfredo
Ghost Host