Sacramento, CA
The Delta King
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Location: The Delta King, Sacramento, CA
API Members present: Dave, Casey, Ann, Mike, and Sabrina. Also 3 interested people and
various Delta King staff.
Information that prompted investigation:
Since the ship has been opened as a hotel, restaurant, bar, theater, and banquet hall, there have been odd
occurrences. Regularly when various people go in to “turn down” the bed in Room 436, they are sure a man walks in
the room behind them. When the women have turned around, nobody is there.
Throughout the ship, from the bar to the hotel desk, an apparition of a little girl has been seen and heard playing
and laughing. On the top deck wet foot prints of a little girl can be seen from time to time in summer, in the same
location, without explanation.
A few deaths have occurred on and around the ship. This includes the Hollywood disappearance and a few
suicides committed on the ship. The King & Queen of the River is a great reference book written by Stan Garvey.
The book is available for purchase on the ship and provides excellent history.
On my walk through during the preliminary, I was overwhelmed by a large fire near the kitchen area. I also
encountered massive WWII Pearl Harbor war panic in the same location. I took several interesting photographs.
The Investigation:
The team arrived at 9:30 pm and set up our equipment. We began another walk through, photography, and more
interviews. Sabrina, our sensitive of the evening, arrived at 10:00pm. She was given no information gathered at the
preliminary interview, but did have some knowledge of the ship possibly being haunted. The ship is extremely huge.
Our team divided to perform tasks in various areas of the ship and regrouped once every hour. The kitchen and rear
of the ship had no evidence or impressions by any of our equipment. However the Fort Sutter room felt heavy upon
entering by Sabrina. This room was left for last. We sat in Room 436 for over an hour and found no evidence of
any activity. We did experience fast battery drain. A group the visited the theater found no evidence there, but
found it to feel weird. And found their batteries to go dead very fast. The Captains room was different. I stood
were the captain of the ship would have stood. As Sabrina walked up the stairs I felt an eerie cold breeze. I moved
and let Sabrina get a “feel” of the area. I sat and listened. The instant I felt like something tackled me. I stood and
left the room.
When I stepped outside I saw and heard something splash in to the water and saw something white float by me. I
took photos, but what I saw is not on the photos. About that time, I sat down to re-group myself. I had to be calm to
Continue to lead the team and conduct my first lead investigation. Whew!
Back in the captain’s room, EMF readings were not reliable, due to ship wiring. Room temperature changed in
certain areas. Photography showed nothing that couldn’t be explained as dust. Note* The bar is directly below this
room. The bar does demonstrate moving orbs on photographs. Personally, I liked the bar area and would love to go
back as a customer. Below this area is the Fort Sutter Room.
It is now 1:00 a.m. and Sabrina chose 5 of us to enter the Fort Sutter Room. One to film, and four to sit in a circle.
Objective: try another approach to figure out what the entire team has felt, but can’t explain or prove by any means.
While sitting quietly four different people made themselves known to all of us. (And during this time, I took
continuous temperature readings of the room and of our immediate location.) In the NE corner was a woman. In the
NW corner was a little girl. She quickly moved to sit on Sabrina’s lap. Behind me, in the SE corner was a man
pretending to be the captain of the ship. To my left was the man with a head injury from Pearl Harbor. He was in the
kitchen area on our preliminary exam. The temperature began to drop slowly at first, then suddenly 10 degrees
Fahrenheit. We were all freezing. Sabrina guided us to try and make contact with what seemed to be the extreme
suffering of hundred of people from Pearl Harbor. She then had all of us imagine a light for anybody present to
cross over. I can’t describe the feeling each of us experienced next. But afterwards, the room was 15 degrees
warmer and felt light. The video of this entire event revealed nothing that couldn’t be called dust. But we were all
exhausted beyond words.
We packed up for the night and promised the great staff at the Delta King we would return to go over our findings.
*Note - due to constant ship noise, EVP was not possible. Photography was VERY difficult due to so many
reflective surfaces. EMF was limited from the old wiring.
Research highlights:
The Delta King is one of the oldest steamboats still in operation in the United States. It was built in Stockton
from 1924 – 1927, with steel shipped from Europe. A passenger, Dorothy, vanished from the ship days after her
husband’s death in Hollywood. Jean Harlow was having an affair with her husband and buried Dorothy’s body when
it was found around a week later. The ship was enlisted under a different name. It was used for three trips to
transport victims of Pearl Harbor up the river to the hospital. (Unknown to us at the time of the investigation.)
There was a large fire, involving the Delta King, in San Francisco’s harbor. The ship has been land-locked since
1985.
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