THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Fort Humboldt is said to be haunted by a former post commander whose apparition has reportedly been seen looking from a window of the old hospital building. Visitors have also described hearing heavy objects being dragged across the floor at night when no apparent source for the noise can be found.
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park has been considered haunted for decades. Among the eerie things experienced here are the sound of heavy objects being dragged across the floor in the night and the apparition of a post commander who died of malaria in 1859, seen looking out the window at the old hospital building.