Presidio Park
Hilltop park around a haunted adobe tower crowned with a pentagram, on the site of a colonial-era cemetery.
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At Presidio Park in San Diego, this guide takes you to the small adobe building known as the Witches Tower, officially the Pattie Memorial, honoring Sylvester Pattie, an American trapper who died a prisoner on this hill in 1828. It follows the puzzle of the five-pointed star bolted to its roof, weighing whether it began as a simple compass pointing to old landmarks or as a borrowed emblem from the women's group that dedicated the memorial in 1931. Investigators drawn by the building's reputation have reported melted candle wax and stranger things after dark. Stand close to the tower and look up at the star against the tile roof, above ground once used as a Spanish burial site.
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