Zak Bagans, Billy Tolley, Aaron Goodwin and Jay Wasley (also known as the Ghost Adventures team) paid a visit to Rispin Mansion, and viewers will be able to watch the episode next week. You can watch a Sneak Peek video at the end of this article.
The Ghost Adventures crew regularly visit haunted locations, performing an investigation that includes the most modern technology and gadgets in order to get solid evidence of paranormal activity. Together, they look into the location’s history, interview people who know about the location or have experienced the haunting activity, and later combine all of the information to decide if the haunting is legitimate.
Located in Capitola, California, the Rispin Mansion is known to be very haunted, and is usually referred to as being cursed. Up until now, the only paranormal investigation that had occurred at the mansion was in 2012, and things were said to have gotten pretty intense. Since that time, the abandoned mansion has been sealed off. Anyone who understands paranormal energy will tell you that sealing off a haunted location can amp up the activity, and that is what the Ghost Adventures team encountered upon their investigation.
Rispin Mansion has quite an interesting history, and was built in 1921 by Henry Allen Rispin. At four stories, with 22 rooms, it stands at over 7,000 square feet, and was originally built to serve as a real estate showroom. During the Great Depression, Rispin lost his vast fortune, and sold his mansion ten years after it was built.
Rispin’s business partner Robert Hays Smith purchased the mansion, and later sold it to a church, who used it as a convent until 1959. After that, it was abandoned for many years, and began to acquire a reputation for being haunted.
In 1985, the city of Capitola bought the property, and used it as a SWAT practice area, but in 1991 it was entered into the National Register of Historic Places. Developers considered transforming it into a hotel, and eventually a 55-year lease was approved, with a plan to turn it into a smaller boutique hotel.
Unfortunately, those plans were waylaid by a fire that is estimated to have destroyed 75% of the place, and the developers abandoned their plans.
There is more to the story of Rispin Manor, and it’s likely the Ghost Adventures team will present its full history during the episode.
How can viewers watch Ghost Adventures?
The Rispin Manor episode of Ghost Adventures will air on Discovery Channel May 14, at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It will also be available to stream the following day on both discovery+ and Max.