Villa Montezuma Victorian hauntings

Villa Montezuma, a restored Victorian house museum built in the late 1880s for musician and mystic Jesse Shepard, is located in the Sherman Heights neighborhood and is noted in local lore for reported paranormal activity. Since its conversion to a museum, staff and visitors have recounted tales of unexplained noises and apparitions, and the house is commonly included on local ghost-walks and in regional accounts of haunted Victorian homes. These accounts are part of San Diego folklore and remain anecdotal rather than established fact.