The Barton Mansion

In September of 2001 four people entered the Barton Mansion, which is billed as being one of the most haunted houses in California (it's in Redlands, east of LA). What happened to them is described in great detail on the Barton Mansion website that they created a couple of years later. Included is a videoclip of their supposed encounter with a ghost (the clip looks staged to me). I'm not sure what the purpose behind the creation of the site was. They do sell a Barton Mansion dvd, but they're only asking $9 for it, so they can't make a huge amount of money from it. Maybe they're just big fans of the supernatural, or they're amateur storytellers hoping to create a Blair-Witch style mystery.

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Posted on Wed Aug 03, 2005



Comments

That's amazing Jen, thanks for sharing. 😊 it's nice that people are still talking about this. It's a real shame that i live nowhere near to Redlands.. i really would love to see the house in its current form from outside, of course.
Posted by Mikael  on  Sat Jun 30, 2007  at  07:18 AM
ok first of all, I don't think anyone whould be dumb enough to put a freakin lantern/flashlight in a persons hand if they wanted to convince people that it was a real video. I mean come on. no one is that stupid. well most people arn't lol. Well just to be another person who is defending this whole haunting thing. I have gone by that mansion multiple times(always in the day. I don't have the balls to go by at night) and I always get creepy feelings around it. I also went to the frozen custard place when I was in the area today. it's right next to the mansion. my mom and I got our ice cream stuff and just looked at the house. I started walking on the property barely even thinking about it. I saw some dark person0like shape in the top left window across fromt he ice cream place. I didn't think much of it. but I told my mom that w=it was kinda creepy. I looked back, and it appeared to move closer to the window. or at least move. I don't think it's a very dangerous thing though( even though everyone acts like it's a place haunted by evil spirits) it they were evil don't you think they would try to hurt people instead of just going towards people? no one has been harmed by any of the "ghosts" If there are ghosts there, maybe they are just trying to make contact, not scare people. or they might be trying to scare them lol who knows. everyone acts as though Dr. Barton was evil because he was in favor of slavory, but think about the time in which he was alive. he was one of the people in favor of california leaving the union. slavory was a very popular thing. even amoung christians lol. like it or not it's true. Anyway that's just my thought on it. I don't know nor do I care if the video is real. I just kow that I heard some odd noises like doors closing outside of the mansion and a figure in the window.


BTW: you can't go into it anymore, unless you want a root canal lol. it's been turned into a dentists office withing the last year or two or something. they remodelled a bit. it's still creepy to me though lol.
Posted by caitlin  on  Sat Jun 30, 2007  at  11:33 PM
for one thing , YES! the barton house story is true , i live here in redlands and my sister lived across from the barton house for 9 years , before it was under construction my nephew would sneak in and check it out until he got the hell scared out of him , not only is the barton house haunted but so is prospect park in redlands by many spirits EVP'S have been pick up and footage too many more are the mariposa school , kimberly crest , morey mansion and guess what my house also i live on the north side of redlands in a very old home we have always had activity here sence i moved in people who lived in my house have said ,DO YOU KNOW YOUR HOUSE IS HAUNTED .....I SAY I KNOW , so don't be so quick to say it is fake , everyone knows redlands is known for being haunted just take a walk through prospect park at night or through the old theatre and you will change your opinon FAST .
Posted by DEBBIE  on  Fri Jul 20, 2007  at  03:15 AM
I am tired of haunting this house. Mail me $200,000 so I can move to a condo on the upper west side.
Posted by Ghost  on  Mon Jul 30, 2007  at  09:42 PM
Can anyone tellme where the Barton Mansion is located. i thought it was on Nevada st but i cant seem to find it???
Posted by michelle  on  Wed Aug 01, 2007  at  12:50 PM
Ok so i was just reading and it seems that it is no longer un occupied and that it has become some kind of office. does any one know anything about a "smiley woods" thats supposed to be a haunted forest in redlands?
Posted by michelle  on  Wed Aug 01, 2007  at  12:53 PM
the barton house is right on the corner of nevada st and barton road , you can't really miss it , and the smiley forest haunting can be a number of places the old smiley park , or a number of orange groves that are a dumping ground for bodies , or you could be thinking about prospect park but its not the smiley forest its the bamboo forest located in prospect park where many years ago a teen girl was raped and murdered and her body found in the bamboo, there are so many haunted locations in redlands the old cemetary too , OH and ghost in the house make fun all you want but lets see you go to any of these places alone , the house across the street from me , got a call and it came from a phone in there house told them to watch the road and a few days later we had a gas leak in the middle of the road another time same thing but it said to watch the roof 3 days after christmas there new heating system caught the roof on fire , so crack jokes but many and i mean many know alot about redlands and all about its hauntings , and almost someone has had a experiance with a haunting here , a friend of mine got married on the grounds of kimberley crest mansion and believes she captured kimberley herself in a photo :0 NOT FAKE , ITS VERY REAL
Posted by Debbie  on  Sat Aug 04, 2007  at  02:24 AM
umm first of all my parents used to own one of the office on the second story it was hell being in there even in the middle of the day most of the time it was your mind playing tricks on you then the rest of the time it was unexplainable.but my personal opinion is that its real, not the movie but the hauntedness XD of the house. i think that movie is bull honkey. ive been ther late nites with my mom its traumatizing but back then my mom told me stories of the place like when it was locked tight than a dolphins butt and the next day all the lights were on i was there i HAVE LIVED IT it is a very good experiance and hey demons and ghosts im sorry for intruding it was rude of me to go there without asking but maybe ther is a way we can coincide in the house without anyone peeing there pants whenever you decide to visit but please i am not disrupting you on purpose. second i go to the montessori school and its erie just to look at it when its a mile away. so dont make any preconcieved notions of the house until YOU HAVE BEEN THER AND LIVED THE HAUNTING. thnx^_^
Posted by ichimatsu13  on  Sun Sep 09, 2007  at  05:52 PM
The video looks pretty crazy, and I don't doubt that it's fake. I'm thinking about checking it out either this weekend or the next coming up. Redlands is definately known for its supernatural inhabitants and satanic activity. Weird place.
Posted by Alex  on  Wed Nov 28, 2007  at  03:27 PM
My boyfriend and I go to the Barton Mansion all the time now. Not into the actual mansion but to the custard shop that's in the old horse stables. From what I can say the Mansion now has offices in it I believe. So if you're looking for a thrill it's not really somewhere you can go; sorry. The curstard shop is good though :]
Posted by jessica  on  Wed Nov 28, 2007  at  08:54 PM
I ended up dropping by the house this past weekend, and it seems they may have security overnight now. Kind of funny that most of all the lights in the house are on though lol. He/she may know something of the story eh? lol.
Posted by Alex  on  Mon Dec 03, 2007  at  11:07 AM
Can someone tag this place on Google Earth please? I can find the location but can't figure out which building it is.

Cheers.
Posted by Richard  on  Sun Dec 09, 2007  at  06:06 PM
well yes it is occupied now , but that does not mean its not haunted, it is and everyone knows it my nephew has seen it , now if you really want to get scared go to prospect park here in redlands at night :0 that place totaly creeps me out , it is haunted by many spirits , don't believe it but it it very true , if i were at the barton mansion at night alone inside i would turn on all the lights and have security too , seeing is believing i guess, but are you really sure you could handle it if you did ? 😊
Posted by DEBBIE  on  Mon Dec 10, 2007  at  01:54 AM
Richard, try these:

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Posted by Mikael  on  Mon Dec 10, 2007  at  03:24 PM
i've sen the viedeo a few times, the one thing that really sold it for me is when the "thing" gets out of the closet, it has a lantern, a few frames later the fucking lantern just vanishes, so it's either that it is a demon, or one of these guys friends is a funny magician lol
Posted by Vincent Rudolf  on  Tue Dec 11, 2007  at  06:16 AM
Thanks Mikael. That's apparently the right area, but I'm not sure it's the right house. The roof line doesn't look the same as in the photos.
Can anyone who lives locally give the co-ordinates? Living in NZ it's about as close as I'll ever get to the place :down:
Posted by Richard  on  Tue Dec 11, 2007  at  12:24 PM
it may not look the same because it has been remodeled and repaired , it was really a mess before they fixed it up , im not sure the video is real or not , but the house itself is haunted , and the stories of old dr barton himself and the treatment of the indians he got to build his home , the barton mansion is not a hoax it is real , check it out and see for yourself
Posted by DEBBIE  on  Tue Dec 11, 2007  at  03:18 PM
and just recently the barton mansion appeared on the maurey povitch show as being a real haunting here in southern calif .
Posted by DEBBIE  on  Tue Dec 11, 2007  at  03:40 PM
yeah, i went to ur site and saw the video and let me tell you, it scared the s*** out of me, i mean you have these two teens just looking around and all of the sudden some giant looking thing comes out of some room and scares the hell out of them i mean that thing was huge and real ugly i've never seen someting dat looks some wat like satin
Posted by cynthia  on  Wed Dec 19, 2007  at  12:15 PM
I actually have visited the mansion before it was purchased a while ago and it is fucking real.
Posted by sarah  on  Fri Dec 21, 2007  at  09:48 PM
i pass by this mansion on my way to school everyday. I cant see how this mansion could be haunted... the video looks like a hoax to me, and everytime I drive down Nevada Street, I look to see if theres anything there...nothing. Anyways, thats just my opinion
Posted by elsa  on  Wed Jan 16, 2008  at  08:55 PM
I also live in the city right next to redlands, and I've been to the mansion twice, now but after what I saw the second time i will never go back. This isn't just a hoax,these things really do happen in the mansion. Its owned by a few businesses now, so if you're caught trespassing, you might get a ticket, so be careful. But if you're really skeptical about all this, I so suggest you have a look at it for yourself.
Posted by Severina  on  Fri Jan 25, 2008  at  04:21 PM
That thing, I don't know I don't live too far, but what they tape was real but it's not a demon or so they say.
If I remember they was a group of weirdos wearing masks that go there that kill animals and carry there bodies in the place. I know one of them, and I can tell you his name. Steve Muller was it, talk about going with his group of buddies to some Barton mansion or something and do blackmagic shit, wear monster mask, killing animals like coyotes and sorts. They carry lighters, Binkie knifes, and wear crappy clothing as somesort of crazy cult satanists perhaps. That thing on the video could be one of Steve's buddies but I don't recall them carrying lanterns.

All though not taped I do see a menacing figure appear near the orange groves in the area from time to time complete in black. All I know is it aint no hobo looking for oranges.
Posted by James  on  Tue Feb 05, 2008  at  09:35 PM
dude i went to the Barton Mansion last night..(3/29/08) at 3:00am and that shit was scary... although it is almost impossible to get into it because it is now an office buliding. we took some pictures of the outside and we have evidence of orbs and two figures walking the grounds.. a whites figure standing on the balcony.. which is a new feature... and a black figure standing slightly to the right of the front entrance... in the picture the white figure resembles the figure they caught on tape those many years ago... now if you dont believe me... go see for your self.. the mansion is located on Barton and Nevada and has a white fence... i dare you to go....😉
Posted by Amanda O  on  Sun Mar 30, 2008  at  08:36 PM
Redlands has always been haunted just walk around town late at night and you will swear you feel a energy of some kind i know sometimes it is just an energy imprint from years gone by other times its a ghost you need to be stone cold sober and open to feel the energys most of the spirits in redlands are harmless i've only felt a very few angry spirits/energys/ghosts and most of them are either lost, confused or trying to protect what they seem to think is theirs still!
Posted by Catherine  on  Wed Apr 16, 2008  at  11:50 PM
if any of you think that video was not set up your a fuckin dumb ass if you watch the it right befor thay look at the thing on the floor (whatever it is) you see this so calld "demon" leg or arm in the dore way.....
Posted by todd  on  Thu May 01, 2008  at  09:57 PM
i have always wondered about this mansion and i googled it the other day to discover the video and this web site. my boyfriend and i drove to the mansion at 1am last weekend. the instant you drive up you can feel the temp. and energy change. it is not neccesarily scary but you do feel some sort of evil. all the lights were on in the mansion i am sure to disuade people from tresspasing. we still got out of the car and walked around. all the shades were drawn but as we walked around the house in the third story window i saw a tall shadow fleet past the window, i gasped and grabbed my boyfriends arm but he was way ahead of me...he was already on his way back to the car:-) it is just a strange place, i wish i knew what happened there and why a ghost is haunting it.....and why he seems to pissed off.
Posted by kelly  on  Mon May 12, 2008  at  12:27 PM
see i knew it wasnt only just me! ive been to that mansion numerous times and everythime is just as scary as the first... im going there this weekend hopefully around 1 or 2 satureday morning... if i go im going to take a video camera and see if i can catch anything...
Posted by Amanda O  on  Tue May 13, 2008  at  02:11 PM
"These guys are Christians??? Give me a break! Since when do Christians practice lying & deceiving?" ummmmmmm well there was the whole crusades thing and the conquistadors, annnd the holocust...lets not forget george w. bush... all in all i'd say christianity as a whole has done more then their fare share of lying and deceiving, as well as murder rape and pillage in the name of god
Posted by Dru  on  Tue Jun 24, 2008  at  05:39 PM
I know these guys (went to High School with them) and their video is 100% FAKE FAKE FAKE. They put it together after watching The Blair Witch project one too many times. They still laugh their a**es off at how many gullible people are willing to believe it's true.
Posted by Kevin  on  Wed Jun 25, 2008  at  05:35 PM
While it might be a hoax, the house is OLD so it might have some activity, so who knows what kind of paranormal activity might be happening there, since people have reported all these weird things from outside the house. Imagine a paranormal investigating group getting the rights to investigate the house.. like TAPS, i wanna see what kind of experiences Jason and Grant might get!
Posted by mike  on  Thu Jun 26, 2008  at  03:39 AM
I watched the video nearly frame by frame. In a frame there is the form of a alien mask. If it's just the lighting, it's doubtful. I think that it is a joke that someone thought they had a chance to be famous, and guess what, they were for a while, huh. All kinds of people are still talking about it. Good job on selling it gentlemen.
Posted by jazzy jeff  on  Fri Aug 22, 2008  at  10:57 AM
Personally I don't believe it. And the site seems to be taken down, so I can't see what everyone's talking about. Either or, people believe in something different because it's fun. They made us think, no matter how fake it is, they still deserve props for scaring so many. I'm a weenie when it comes to things like this, but honestly it wasn't that scary.

I did read the story. They said they video taped the day before when they went in. I'm sure it's on that DVD, but I'd love to see that said "bodily organ" that was found. Or the DIE scratched into the wall that they said was there.

So what's going on with the place now? I know of it being remodeled, but as it still being haunted? I have no clue. Update me if you know. XD
Posted by India.  on  Sat Aug 30, 2008  at  07:35 PM
Hey here is a recent update from the mansion
check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkXfqCP2JwY
Posted by Robert Laughery  on  Wed Oct 01, 2008  at  08:57 PM
I grew up in Redlands and like every other kid who lived there we have been to the Barton house, Mariposa School, Hillside cemetery, and many other haunted places. The fact is Redlands is Haunted it self and has been for quit sometime thanks to the level of demonic worshipers in that area. The Orange groves all over the city have been host to many events, from murders to rituals, to even finding mutilated new born babies Barton house is in fact Haunted by many evil sprits, and not a place to dwell it is a matter of time for the Doctors offices to leave the Barton house, many times has that place been set fire to
Posted by Chris  on  Sun Oct 26, 2008  at  07:56 AM
This is a link to Dr. Bartons resting place,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=barton&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1899&GSdyrel=in&GSst=6&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=8318935&

Enjoy
Posted by Chris  on  Sun Oct 26, 2008  at  02:01 PM
HORSESHIT
Posted by Christopher  on  Sun Nov 16, 2008  at  09:12 AM
I went here when I was a teenager several times with friends, though I cant say that I have been past the first floor. Something is definatly odd about this place, not sure if ghost are real but if they are then this place is for sures haunted.
Posted by BT  on  Wed Feb 11, 2009  at  01:24 PM
The mansion is pretty cool.Almost every week i pass by it.It looks old and boring but i'm sure its crazy haunted.I would love to spend the night there and just experience whatever.An awesome place for anyone who loves the supernatural should visit Hillside Cemetery.Omg - I absolutely love that place,i have had so many different experiences there.
Posted by Vicki  on  Thu Apr 09, 2009  at  01:47 AM
All you doubters are full of shit, that place has some bad things in it, If its a hoax, then I'm a fool, I dont think thats a hoax, I think thats something you dont want a piece of, unless you have nerves of complete, cold steele.
Posted by John Haney  on  Wed Jun 17, 2009  at  04:47 AM
To the people who claim to have photographs of things they've seen in the mansion, please upload your photos to ImageShack and paste a link to it. Let's see just how real it is. If you don't, it will be assumed you are a liar.
Posted by StarSplitter  on  Sun Sep 13, 2009  at  06:58 AM
Hey, I have to admit... it's arguable at best. However, what IS true (as far as I'm concerned) is that it's one of VERY FEW videos online that caused me to back the video up. In this case I did it five times! So, regardless... harmless scare. With regards to the DVD issue, how many do you think they've sold, forcryin'outloud?! The damn video is all over the internet for free! They SHOULD have done t-shirts!
Posted by Baldylocks  on  Fri Oct 23, 2009  at  12:11 PM
I have lived here in Loma Linda for over 40 years close and have been to the Barton house many times in the 40 years....there ues to be a gentleman the ran horseback riding stables there in the 60-70's my friends and I would go there...I go there now once in a while because my daughter works in a realestate office on the third floor...she many times is there by herself late at night...and NOTHING has ever happened and she has NEVER heard anything...There are several different kinds of offices in side now...I have ment a talked with the Project Manager and City Inspector when it was being remodled. They NEVER hear and NEVER saw anything in side or outside and they were there late at night many days...When it was built it was build by a man that was a Christian...with love in his heart for his family and friends...There were many children raised in that home with lots of love and laughter..So if any thing was in there it would be children laughing and running up and down the stairs...it is am amasing home inside!! so beautiful they did a great job redmodeling it....Much of the origional wood work is still there...the only thing you notice when you first go in is the old musty smell that many of the old homes have...which has to do with the wood....
November 27, 2009
Posted by Lynn  on  Fri Nov 27, 2009  at  09:21 PM
What I can't figure out is that if this place is so haunted, why is there no actually history on the place? I can't find any records, only videos, photo shopped pictures, and personal stories.
Posted by Fox  on  Sun Feb 07, 2010  at  11:15 AM
I went to that house 20 plus years ago with about 10 other people. We broke in through the back porch. We were probably not the first to do this, but the house was vacant and VERY boarded up. We went into the living room and saw a blue light emminating from an unknown source. We then went into the basement, saw nothing, and on our way up we heard steps behind us. Thinking it was a homeless person, we didn't rush from the house. Instead, we waited for the 'person' to catch up with us. Well, it wasn't a person at all. It was more of a force or spirit of some sort. There was nothing there, just a differently pressured air, denser than the air around us. It did not touch us. THEN: outside as we were leaving, this man who everyone describes, attacked the car that I was in. We pulled out as quickly as we could and never went back. Two or three of the people who were with us were in a catatonic state for several days after. As they say: believe it or not.
Posted by Nation  on  Sun Mar 28, 2010  at  04:12 PM
maybe, the "ghost" was another guy exploring the mansion with a flashlight.
Posted by Prospero  on  Tue May 18, 2010  at  04:50 AM
😏 Hello i am in aggeement with a lot of you that it must be a set up.. think about it why take the video of the ceiling and as someone mentioned something that looks like a ball on the floor and then the vid cam pans round to the door where this so called apparition appears, well if that was me and it was really real i would probably drop the vid cam in the process etc that is what i think it is all a funny prank on some freinds also why were there no gasps or noises from the lads that did the video i would sure make some kind of noise if it was really real.
soz it has failed to make me believe in the ghost theory......... :exclaim:
Posted by polly  on  Wed Jun 22, 2011  at  03:25 AM
Well, my brother is actually really close friends with the man who filmed this. I have met him and he told me the story about it. He said to him and his friends it also didnt look very real and they were even hesitant to put it online because of that reason but everyone one that they showed that video to told him to just put it online. It became a big hit because people liked the video and i have even had people ask me were the barton mansion is because they wanted to go there because of the video. You all may believe its fake, but others like to believe its real. I dont blame you for thinking its fake, but hey, im convinced, plus i live right down the street from there and ive heard plenty of other stories and videos from that place.
Posted by Alexis  on  Thu Aug 09, 2012  at  02:07 PM
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