True Ghost Stories
Haunted church in Rialto, CA.
I have attached a photo of an image that appeared on
the stairway of a haunted old church building in
Rialto, California. This building is the home of the
Rialto Historical Society and I am the historian of the
Historical Society. The photographer, Rich McInnis,
did not see anything on the stairway when he
snapped the photo.
He was shocked to see the image after taking the
film to a one-hour photo development service. A few
days after this photo was taken, I was leading a tour
of elementary school students through the church. I
had not told them about the image in the photo, but
four girls began screaming that they had seen the
ghost of a woman with black hair and a white dress
standing in the exact same spot where the image on
the photo appeared. The entire class panicked and
the teacher had a fit after seeing her normally
well-behaved class go completely out of control.
I have spent 20 years at the intensely haunted old
church building that is now occupied by the Rialto
Historical Society. I have a Ph.D. in soil science from
the University of California at Riverside, did scientific
research for years, always ridiculed any suggestions
of the supernatural, and I was a life-long atheist until
the foundations of my belief system were blasted to
pieces by my experiences with ghosts. I never could
have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever
believe in something that seemed so ridiculous to
me as ghosts. The stories began with the discovery
of a very appealing little girl ghost whose ashes had
been kept in the church. She was sent on her way
after three very emotional seances, but other ghosts
remain to haunt the church. Two different pairs of
Rialto policemen have told me of encountering the
ghost of a woman in a Victorian dress on two different
occasions after answering a burglar alarm after
midnight. Both of these encounters occurred at the
base of the same stairway that is shown in the
attached photo. Dozens of other people have also
convincingly told me of their ghostly experiences in
the church.
I have written a book about my experiences in the
church that is called "The Little Girl in the Window: A
True Ghost Story." It was published in June 2008 and
is available on Amazon.com. My ghost book tells of
scores of extraordinary ghostly encounters that I
experienced along with other witnesses. I have
recorded minutely detailed notes of every incident
and I have written the book with the greatest care to
describe exactly what happened. Some of the
incidents are similar to those commonly described in
ghost stories, such as the sound of footsteps without
a visible person to make them, but other bizarre
things have happened that I have never seen
mentioned elsewhere. One example is a drinking
glass that disappeared from beside my dinner plate
only to instantly reappear from thin air several
minutes later at the same spot where I had last seen
it. I am not crazy because there was another witness
to this event. I was also dumbfounded to learn that
genuine psychics truly exist. I invited many people to
investigate the church, and two of them, a man and a
woman, proved to have astounding agreement with
what I knew about the ghosts and with each other¢s
observations. They had certainly never met when I
first learned each ones conclusions about the ghosts
and realized that they agreed as closely as if they had
both been describing living people rather than
unseen spirits. The man, Tom Hagman, is a ghost
investigator of more than 30 years experience who
had made many visits to investigate the ghosts in the
church and to attempt to send them on their way. The
very psychic woman, Cathy Mancinci, became a close
friend of mine and of Tom and has since helped him
many times in his work in the old church and in other
haunted buildings. The old church building is a very
unusual haunted structure because of the discovery
of a ghost portal in the kitchen area. This was
reported in precisely the same location on three
separate occasions by psychics who came to visit the
old church without hearing what others had to say
about it. They concluded that this allows ghosts to
enter and leave the church and accounts for the large
number of ghosts there.
The ghosts in the church have been discussed in
large newspaper stories in three different inland
Southern California newspapers and the haunted
historical society building has become well known in
San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. This has
drawn many people to our museum.
John Anthony Adams, Historian of the Rialto
Historical Society.
I have attached a photo of an image that appeared on
the stairway of a haunted old church building in
Rialto, California. This building is the home of the
Rialto Historical Society and I am the historian of the
Historical Society. The photographer, Rich McInnis,
did not see anything on the stairway when he
snapped the photo.
He was shocked to see the image after taking the
film to a one-hour photo development service. A few
days after this photo was taken, I was leading a tour
of elementary school students through the church. I
had not told them about the image in the photo, but
four girls began screaming that they had seen the
ghost of a woman with black hair and a white dress
standing in the exact same spot where the image on
the photo appeared. The entire class panicked and
the teacher had a fit after seeing her normally
well-behaved class go completely out of control.
I have spent 20 years at the intensely haunted old
church building that is now occupied by the Rialto
Historical Society. I have a Ph.D. in soil science from
the University of California at Riverside, did scientific
research for years, always ridiculed any suggestions
of the supernatural, and I was a life-long atheist until
the foundations of my belief system were blasted to
pieces by my experiences with ghosts. I never could
have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever
believe in something that seemed so ridiculous to
me as ghosts. The stories began with the discovery
of a very appealing little girl ghost whose ashes had
been kept in the church. She was sent on her way
after three very emotional seances, but other ghosts
remain to haunt the church. Two different pairs of
Rialto policemen have told me of encountering the
ghost of a woman in a Victorian dress on two different
occasions after answering a burglar alarm after
midnight. Both of these encounters occurred at the
base of the same stairway that is shown in the
attached photo. Dozens of other people have also
convincingly told me of their ghostly experiences in
the church.
I have written a book about my experiences in the
church that is called "The Little Girl in the Window: A
True Ghost Story." It was published in June 2008 and
is available on Amazon.com. My ghost book tells of
scores of extraordinary ghostly encounters that I
experienced along with other witnesses. I have
recorded minutely detailed notes of every incident
and I have written the book with the greatest care to
describe exactly what happened. Some of the
incidents are similar to those commonly described in
ghost stories, such as the sound of footsteps without
a visible person to make them, but other bizarre
things have happened that I have never seen
mentioned elsewhere. One example is a drinking
glass that disappeared from beside my dinner plate
only to instantly reappear from thin air several
minutes later at the same spot where I had last seen
it. I am not crazy because there was another witness
to this event. I was also dumbfounded to learn that
genuine psychics truly exist. I invited many people to
investigate the church, and two of them, a man and a
woman, proved to have astounding agreement with
what I knew about the ghosts and with each other¢s
observations. They had certainly never met when I
first learned each ones conclusions about the ghosts
and realized that they agreed as closely as if they had
both been describing living people rather than
unseen spirits. The man, Tom Hagman, is a ghost
investigator of more than 30 years experience who
had made many visits to investigate the ghosts in the
church and to attempt to send them on their way. The
very psychic woman, Cathy Mancinci, became a close
friend of mine and of Tom and has since helped him
many times in his work in the old church and in other
haunted buildings. The old church building is a very
unusual haunted structure because of the discovery
of a ghost portal in the kitchen area. This was
reported in precisely the same location on three
separate occasions by psychics who came to visit the
old church without hearing what others had to say
about it. They concluded that this allows ghosts to
enter and leave the church and accounts for the large
number of ghosts there.
The ghosts in the church have been discussed in
large newspaper stories in three different inland
Southern California newspapers and the haunted
historical society building has become well known in
San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. This has
drawn many people to our museum.
John Anthony Adams, Historian of the Rialto
Historical Society.
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