Welcome to the very haunted Old Town State Historic Park. This area represents the focal point for the growth and development of San Diego. The city became California's first Spanish settlement when a mission and fort were established in 1769. Old town originally developed below the mission. With its colorful legacy of haunting including numerous anomalous photographs, disembodied sounds, apparitions, EVP and other evidcence substantiating the afterlife, believers and skeptics come from everywhere to sample Old Town hauntspitality.