If you go there, put your car in neutral around the turn, you get pushed up the hill.
It skidded into a wash and all the kids drowned. In the 1950’s a school bus was driving kids home from a field trip. Her ghost has been known to be called the White Witch. The first time they went to give her a funeral a fierce storm struck up and cause the towns people to delay the funeral till the next day, the next time they tried to give her a funeral another storm came out of no where and the live stock started charging thru town, at that point the towns people stopped trying to give her a funeral and just brought her to Rosehill Cemetery, From that day her sprit has been seen around Somersville and the other locations where the mining towns use to be know as The Black Diamond Mines in eastern Contra Costa County and other locations off of m marsh creek rd. So when she died the town s people of Somersville wanted to give her a funeral. Sarah was not a religious woman and told her kids that she did not want a funeral. Sarah Norton was a midwife who died on the way to deliver a baby when her carriage over turned and killed her. She is seen in the graveyard floating around the tombstones. She was a midwife and on her way to deliver a baby her carriage fell over and she was crushed. Haunted by Sarah Norton, also known as the “White Witch”. She guards the mines and when people see her, she is all white. All of the children died of illnesses and she was accused of Witchcraft, then executed. She was a nanny in the 1800’s when there was still coal mining in the mines. These mines are haunted by the White Witch. There is a ghosts of a young boy about 13 years old walking the halls at night. There are reports that when people are alone in there they get cold chills, and hear knocking and scratching when no one was around. You can hear noises, and people have sighted a female ghost walking around backstage. Even during the day, if you take pictures occasionally there will be orbs or even a glowing, ghostly figure in the picture. Down in the basement there are ropes that people used to hang themselves with.
When you’re inside, you will hear screaming coming from a distant room in the house. Also, you get the chills and have the feeling that someone’s behind you. Sometimes when you walk inside, you’ll hear a loud scream the second you enter the door. At nighttime, stand out in the front and look at the fifth window from the right on the second story. Patients used to be tortured and killed there, and it’s abandoned now. Take the first right into an industrial parking lot and you’ll see the asylum straight ahead. October 2007 – At the intersection of Marina Village Pkwy and Mariner Square Dr, turn left and go straight. Ghosts of sailors who perished on board are well documented. Many ghosts reported being seen by those who are caretakers of the old aircraft carrier.