Sonoma Ghosts

The house at 205 East Spain Street has a haunted bedroom upstairs at the East end of this 15 room house. There is the ghost of a girl who brushes her hair by the window. She lived in the 1800's when her father and mother ran the building as a boarding house.

I have been trying for years to learn her name, because I shared that bedroom with her; the Ray Nash Adobe was my family home for almost 40 years. I knew her as "Miss Ray" but finally I have her first name: "Mary".

Mary Ray's great grandsons were in the limousine with me on a Twilight Tour of 13 sites of Sonoma's most haunted places last month, and filled in so many blanks about this feisty young lady, who she was and what became of her after she left her ghostly mark on the space we shared as young girls and young ladies.

She lived to be 48 years old, had over a dozen children, and was the first girl in Sonoma to cut her hair short! 

Horray for Mary Ray!