What is the San Diego Witches Tower?

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What is the San Diego Witches Tower?

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Күн бұрын

If you look at San Diego's Presidio Park on Google Maps, you may notice a building listed as the "Witches Tower." With its sinister sounding name, and a number of urban legends surrounding it, we visit the Witches Tower, look around, and talk about its real, fairly innocent history. We also talk about why the real history of Presidio Park, site of the first European settlement in California, is so much more interesting itself.
Presidio Park, aside from being home to the so-called Witches Tower, was also the start of El Camino Real auto route, which wound its way up California following the missions, and was famous for its bells.
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@sensi1111 3 ай бұрын

I'm Kumeyaay. And that's where my Ancestors were enslaved. We are allowed to pray there. But the spirits there are so strong. I can barely go to certain areas of San Diego because it's too heavy for me.

@fwk32 3 жыл бұрын

Lived almost my entire life in San Diego. I've been to Presidio Park dozens of times. Never heard of the Witches Tower. Crazy. GO PADRES!!!

@matildasumma8096 3 жыл бұрын

Right🤨🤔

@lnAmberClad 3 жыл бұрын

...what

@ADM-wt9cn 3 жыл бұрын

haha go padres!

@deandupont5503 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, the Padres. 🤣 As a San Diego native, I've always considered Padres fandom to be a form of masochism.

@fwk32 2 жыл бұрын

@@deandupont5503 Haha. I can't really argue with that. One day!

@sickofthestupid1067 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in El Centro and we escaped the summer heat in San Diego I thought I knew a lot about the region.....but you always seem to show me something new keep up the good work.

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@gacunahvac 3 жыл бұрын

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@lovelyjanecohen2637 3 жыл бұрын

@@SidetrackAdventures Nothing with a pentegram is "innocent"

@lovelyjanecohen2637 3 жыл бұрын

Of course the San Diego Tribune will not bother documenting & writing about homeless dead bodies turning up

@graysonhuitt2395 Жыл бұрын

I am a native American Indian and I know for a fact that there is something powerful about that Indian grave site and that tower

@pickneyjoshua9295 3 жыл бұрын

Dang. I’m stoked I found this channel. I remember being like, 15, and an older friend took us to that tower and told us about how he was chased off by satanists who were trying to sacrifice him on to of it. I totally believed him and we were scared shitless for the rest of the night as he took us all around presidio and old town to show us spooky stuff.

@antonioperez2623 3 жыл бұрын

I live in SD and never knew about witch's tower. You are correct the Presidio is a beautiful place.

@dionpaschini4536 3 жыл бұрын

There is a old house very close to this park that many years ago they dug down inside the house several stories and made rooms . I think if I remember right about four stories down or more they said on the documentary that these rooms under the house where used for rituals .they where able to get access and filmed the stairways down to each room . Maybe you could do a story on that house it’s just up the hill there from the park . I saw it on tv some years back would be very interesting for your viewers and I would like to see another story on it myself. Very interesting stuff .

@jerryknox4841 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I never made it that far south. The only mission South I made it was to San Juan Capistrano. I do love the old missions and their simple Life.

@donnasmith2720 3 жыл бұрын

I truly appreciate you for doing these wonderful informative videos. I grew up in Lakeside and call it my home even though I wasn't even born in California. We were poor, we didn't get to do a lot of exploring so I love that I can live and learn through you. Many thanks from this transplant who left California in the 90's.

@shanarstra2129 2 жыл бұрын

Hey I lived in lakeside for fifteen years 89 to 2005!

@sdtimeless Жыл бұрын

I visited last week. It has an eerie vibe. There were homeless people walking around and it smelled pretty bad up there. I don't believe it is haunted but it was very creepy and off-putting. It would be interesting to understand why there is a pentagram up there. Anyhow I left as soon as I could get a few pictures!

@BradizbakeD Жыл бұрын

It's eerie cause there are well over a thousand years of history there, from native Kumeyaay villages to the days of the Presidio and the atrocities there to the earlier pioneering days of Old Town. The Presidio down to Old Town is basically a giant burial ground that's been used for centuries.

@gypsymoontarotofficial Ай бұрын

What's eerie and WRONG is what those Missionaries did to the Kumeyaay dispicable smh

@paolaaracelyilescas9987 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your channel so much! Love learning the history of the land I'm on. Also thank you for noting that they aren't the original buildings. Although Presidio isn't a Mission, I think its important to point that the way most Missions are portrayed (beautiful gardens with white buldings) wasn't the reality in the past and that they functioned as an enslavement camp for Native Americans, very sadly. I like to visit the Missions because some of them are working with local Bands/Tribes of Native Americans and they have some great books written by them. On that note, I recommend "A Cross of Thorns" by Elias Castillo (not of local SD Native American, thought to point out). Thanks again!

@danielcarbone2414 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool, thanks for making this! I've been to Presidio Park numerous times and I've walked past that building several times thinking it was simply a restroom. I'll be sure to check it out next time!

@comeh98 Жыл бұрын

I went here today and there are crosses on each of the steps leading up to the pentagram. I don't know if those are a new addition but it definitely adds to the witchy-ness of the building.

@Crybaybeejay 3 жыл бұрын

Digs in the mid-1990s exposed extensive foundations, plaster covered walls and tile floors before reburial by SD Parks & Recreation. The room under the tower was formerly used as park maintenance storage space.

@brianpowell5082 3 жыл бұрын

Each uploaded video brings more vivid historical details of my hometown! Awesome content!!

@josuearesav 3 жыл бұрын

"Nothing to do with Witches" Shows Big Ass Pentagram lol

@partida125 3 жыл бұрын

Seriously!! People are so naive.🙄

@xNoScOpErZx 3 жыл бұрын

Dude plus he is like walking on it and everything, that’s the one thing you don’t do !

@Doc-ElaQV 3 жыл бұрын

That pentagram is there for a reason and the dark spot in the middle shows that something takes place there. Nothing to do with witches, he says? Lol

@user-rp2dj4lz2r 5 ай бұрын

People have died here but police dont publicize

@Bettinasisrg 3 жыл бұрын

One of the many places I hung out in HS, singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Makes me so nostalgic

@tonygSDWR 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Mission Hills/Presidio Park, and it was and still is a beautiful place to visit. At :56 in the video used to be a big open lot with dozens of huge grassy, bumpy mounds (perfect for jumping your bike on)! On the back side of the Mission were tunnels of giant cactus caves to run through. I believe the State tore it all up 25 years ago for an archeological dig, but the park is about the same for the 55 years I've lived here. Visit the Whaley House below the Mission in Old Town for a better haunted house and graveyard adventure.

@geoff1025 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for this video! As someone who is new to San Diego I was super curious about the google maps marker!

@bilburns1313 3 жыл бұрын

Pentagram on the roof - somehow gives the impression of a helicopter landing pad - for broomsticks...

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

That seems like as good as reason as any lol.

@jumpingjackjeebs3955 3 жыл бұрын

Cant see anything through the window and dude says "looks pretty empty"🤣

@faithford9143 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that history it is a pleasure to watch

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching.

@shanarstra2129 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in sd till I was 45 and my hubby too never knew about a witches tower!

@Idahoguy10157 3 жыл бұрын

Been to old San Diego a few times. First I’d heard of a witches tower

@roncross1945 3 жыл бұрын

Good video. Since you’re in the area will you do a video on the Mormon Battalion museum at Old San Diego, please.

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Haven't been by there in awhile. I'll have to check it out. Last time I was there (at least 15 years ago) there wasn't much more than a video they showed.

@tracyrreed 3 жыл бұрын

Is there anything there other than Mormon propaganda?

@roncross1945 3 жыл бұрын

@@tracyrreed I understand your text statement, there’s a lot of “false Christian Doctrine “ emanating from the Mormons. Still, they are a large part of settling the west so consider the history. :-)

@strawbawrri249 3 жыл бұрын

@@roncross1945 I agree. A tad bit unrelated but Mormon churches have always been some of the most beautiful to me. Love the church we drive past going down the 5! Cheers from Carlsbad 🥂

@lancefall4811 3 жыл бұрын

If structures exist beneath those mounds then they would be the only truly Historic buildings on the site.

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Its just a portion of the adobe walls under there.

@anerolllanes3737 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video, it's informative.

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@sdpadsquad5955 2 жыл бұрын

Hey man just found your channel. So I believe a couple years back I was ghost hunting with my siblings and our girlfriends and we ended up finding a dead body on top of the witches tower. It was positioned in the most weirdest way. I'll post the link to the the find. Be care if you go there at night

@mthompson6684 Жыл бұрын

My family history has it that my grand father and father rebuilt that brick cross back in the late 60's or early 70's. Clifton A Thompson jr, Clifton A Thompson III, stone masons.

@JOHNTOPG 3 жыл бұрын

I took a field trip here as a kid for school

@mindreader 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the interesting story. I'll have to visit. I'm subscribed!

@reneerenee5073 3 жыл бұрын

Home, sweet home . Thanks for sharing

@robertneal4726 3 жыл бұрын

There is one original building in that area. Supposedly the oldest building in San Diego. It’s by the golf course on Juan St and is now the golf shop.

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Its down the hill from the Presidio but it is from the early 1800s. There is some dispute about the exact date. SOHO dates it to 1817 but the plaque on the building says 1821. Unfortunately the city hadn't been taking good care of it last time I checked it out.

@erinsmith4178 3 жыл бұрын

in highschool we called it Satan tower and went there on full moons to smoke and drink lol

@enrique4459 3 жыл бұрын

How satanic

@screwielouie6564 3 жыл бұрын

Nerd

@DumLive 3 жыл бұрын

Someone does know why that pentagon is there. After all, it took longer to put it there vs a regular roof.

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

For sure, but since it was built in the 30s the person who designed it is probably long dead... Maybe?

@ZacharyRiggs619 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting video. I had never heard this legend before. As I understand it, the mounds are the perimeter of the chapel that was built in the presidio. I was always told by the older folks that the “witches tower” was built to be a public restroom where the women used the room downstairs and the men used the upstairs area. I assumed there used to be stalls underneath and troughs on the roof. Regardless, it is a strange looking structure.

@terryowens8563 2 ай бұрын

I always wondered… now I know what this building was made for… thx😮

@jeannerogers7085 Жыл бұрын

You are going to get me out of the house, to rediscover these areas I never noticed, in the past 50 years living in the county!

@jeannerogers7085 5 ай бұрын

Me too!

@allialias Ай бұрын

We called it the watchtower. Mom would sit in the car after lunch and I would go up the tower and walk the star and look at the view. We were at the time capsule dedication in 1969. The Parks of San Diego were Beautiful.

@lagatitabruja Жыл бұрын

I always thought that was a groundskeepers shed until I climbed to the top once. Great video

@monsterfrank 3 жыл бұрын

I miss my home town I live in mayberry usa I use to do my ghost adventure at el santo campo and psa flight 182 crash site in north park they still have damage to the sidewalk from the plane crash great job on the video

@CactusAtlas 3 жыл бұрын

Wow... really ISN'T much of a tower but rather interesting none the less. Had I ever noticed that on a map I certainly would have wondered.. but now I know!

@sandiegobrewreview 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this video

@johngulino2651 Жыл бұрын

I lived very nearby for decades and never knew of this history. Wow!

@mrst8618 3 жыл бұрын

First Go Padres!!! Presidio Park, beautiful. Really wish they’d stop allowing groups to workout/exercise on this beautiful property.

@lovescoffee9780 3 жыл бұрын

Miss San Diego.

@trishguajardo 3 жыл бұрын

We used to go ice blocking in the late 80’s at Presidio Park.

@wileyann9449 10 ай бұрын

Oh yeah! I remember this place. Didn’t know that’s what it was called but as teens in the 80s it was a meeting place/hang out.

@charlesgreen3214 2 жыл бұрын

Where did you get your information ? It is a mission. I'm kumeyaay native from San pasqual Indian reservation. Located in the San Diego county. That was one of our missions

@SidetrackAdventures 2 жыл бұрын

The mission is long gone and was moved to the current location by the stadium hundreds of years ago. The current buildings were built in the 1900s.

@charlesgreen3214 2 жыл бұрын

But it was still a mission . Part of the foundation is still there

@deandupont5503 2 жыл бұрын

Oh. Em. Eff. Gee. In my teenage punk rock days, in the 80s, that was where we'd all gather on weekend nights to drink our 4.4 beer and plan the rest of the evening. It was convenient, because you could see cars approaching from any direction: SDPD couldn't sneak up; we had plenty of time to chuck our beers into the bushes and look innocent. The star held zero meaning to us, it was just kinda... There, you know? It was a place where all the hardcore kids exchanged info on what parties were happening, and where, then head out. Anyone hanging out at Presidio after ten was either a total loser or had just finished fooling around with their girlfriends and lost track of time. (We also didn't tag, or litter. Keeping the place clean meant being left alone in the long run.)

@eeemistr7237 5 ай бұрын

4.4 % beer? LOL! As Teens we all drank 6.5 % beers here in Canada regularly every Friday night, 4.4 would be like water for us!🤣🤣

@elghost5516 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Im a San Diego native and did not know this ! Thanks !

@KINGABDUL99 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@cwwml 11 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed!

@Sometimes_Always 3 жыл бұрын

I love these sorta obscure factoids about San Diego.. I've lived here for 40+ years and finding something different always gives the city an extra layer of personality.. Liked and Subbed.. Thank yoU!

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, we appreciate it.

@777Kareena 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting people like to gather there and under the shadow of the cross.

@lnAmberClad 3 жыл бұрын

they said, suspiciously

@griselluna368 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos!

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@jeffmyers7062 Жыл бұрын

very cool! The cactus are great !

@Corgis175 Жыл бұрын

I/ve been to the Presidio in Santa Barbara which was the originally built one and used. Of course, restoration happened too.

@HawaiiPaperCo 3 жыл бұрын

So "they" put this "tower" up about 100 years ago, placed a mosaic pentagram in it, and called it the Witches Tower, but it's not sinister at all. His-story is starting to look questionable everywhere to me.

@donchilders226 3 жыл бұрын

Place loaded with demons going to have go there and pray.

@sandrap5174 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to see someone is awake to all the satanic hidden bullshit. This kinda stuff is all over the world if u know where to look. I know it's hard to believe but there is a group of assholes who practice satanic practices and they are your average person all they way up to your politicians. It's all coming out. They cant hide it anymore. Start looking and u will see a pattern of many satanic site. Like the Georgia guidestones. Just do a little research and you will start to question everything as we all should.

@grumpyoldwizard 3 жыл бұрын

The pentagram is broken by lines. It should be solid.

@cosmicgem_ 3 жыл бұрын

I used to like to wander around & would play there when I was little lol I once saw people dressed in all black & I just went back to my parents Lmao i remember being bummed I couldn’t play, didn’t question what was going on. 🤣

@Brucev7 3 жыл бұрын

The irony is, that is hardly any kind of "tower" )

@soledadperrycholita6577 3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried camping out night to see any different activity of the witches tower? houndsunny

@jaimemonreal7878 3 жыл бұрын

Nice hat! Go Padres! Thanks for the video!

@midnyte6195 3 жыл бұрын

I should know,my aunt lives here in San Diego and is a wiccan )0(

@KINGABDUL99 Жыл бұрын

FaZe Rug! Explored it Right now!

@Skrelnick222 3 жыл бұрын

I remember going there on an elementary school field trip and that pentagram freaked my friends and I out. I always wondered what the story behind it was. I guess it's kinda cool that no one really knows.

@nrivera3604 2 жыл бұрын

What’s does 222 mean. I see it all the time

@davecook8378 Жыл бұрын

@@nrivera3604 A Karen Valentine fan?

@romarobbins270 Жыл бұрын

I love the Presidio and the Mission in San Diego. Although the Mission in Oceanside is nicer, in my opinion.

@cedarwho7 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine claiming you "discovered" a place when there were folks there for literally thousands of years before you were ever there...

@MurdaIncorporated 3 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up

@carrielee3649 3 жыл бұрын

Like Columbus

@RealRedWolf 2 жыл бұрын

how did i not know that being near Chula Vista for nearly 17 years..

@audreyd6725 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea. Makes me sick

@buzzbierbaum4026 Жыл бұрын

Good Video? Growing up in MH and playing as kids in that park theres lots of story’s hippie sit in’s anti war protest in-the 60’s bikers gang meets . And Indian graves dug for studies. Spooky stuff just like Pioneer Park.

@AngryAsianOG 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like the Tribal T Star logo!

@kyleohara8700 Жыл бұрын

I think it's hilarious when people make up stuff in order to make a story about a location, the whole "witches tower" cracks me up.

@graysonhuitt2395 Жыл бұрын

Is the the same as, the cover of the eagles hotel California? Does anyone know?

@fubarlife7776 Жыл бұрын

Be interesting to hear what the original purpose of the "Witch's Tower" room was used for 🤔

@susiestogsdill5075 3 жыл бұрын

Why the hell is there a pentagram there?

@graysonhuitt2395 Жыл бұрын

I can almost sware that it used to be round and way way taller, and it was hunted maybe, I know that it was a spiritual place

@chrislilly8657 3 жыл бұрын

Was there today! And this pops up?

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Google is watching!

@chrislilly8657 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised🙀

@dahliacecily 2 жыл бұрын

But why the pentagram!

@thename9552 3 жыл бұрын

It's on the Mission federal credit union debit card. But they put a goat head with blood dripping down .

@altruism8637 3 жыл бұрын

but whats IN the witches tower? And whats the other building down the hill at the 3 way stop/yeild sign?

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

It looked empty inside. If you mean the building behind the native American statue, it is an abandoned restroom.

@elsupremo3651 Жыл бұрын

@@SidetrackAdventures Do you know what happened to the Native American statue? Its been removed

@elizabethbogle3533 Жыл бұрын

I wonder what's inside.

@haeleyjoy5418 3 жыл бұрын

In September 2020 there was a body found there and there’s a video on KZfaq about it and I found a news article

@haeleyjoy5418 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKqmm7x6rdbWgn0.html

@SidetrackAdventures 3 жыл бұрын

Hello. That video is fake and also claims to be from June. The body found in Old Town in September was found on Juan St. not at Presidio Park.

@haeleyjoy5418 3 жыл бұрын

@@SidetrackAdventures my bad, thank you for the correction

@RG-vl9dl 3 жыл бұрын

The site is an old cemetery!!!

@astrodoubleo6987 3 жыл бұрын

I play the ouija board there and it worked brrrrrr

@user-lg4mc9qy2r 9 ай бұрын

Ain't no way I'll walk on that.

@-Jeremiah- 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a bigger cartoonname in legitimate history than “Sylvester Pattie”?

@mikebecker3817 2 жыл бұрын

Sylvester patty died in San Diego with his son

@Severe4Kicks Жыл бұрын

Also this is a every haunted place and it as stories that believe it had rituals with the tower and was preformed by witches

@toErehWon 3 жыл бұрын

3:53 1928 Webster dictionary, American: Copper color human of the American continent.

@cedarwho7 3 жыл бұрын

I was here yesterday! I live in San Diego..

@gabrielzazueta2218 3 жыл бұрын

He’s covering something up lol

@5evalol Жыл бұрын

who else came from rugs video?

@matthewl1941 Жыл бұрын

Me😂

@logandiaz7636 3 жыл бұрын

Some girl got raped and killed there. No kidding. It was on the news

@kjbuchanan63 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it the 1? PCH. 101 is further north

@SidetrackAdventures 2 жыл бұрын

This is on the historic route of the 101. The 101 used to start at the Mexican border but has been decommissioned south of where it starts now. The 1 starts in Orange County.

@kjbuchanan63 2 жыл бұрын

@@SidetrackAdventures I didn't know that...😳👍 cool beans

@crystalsands297 3 жыл бұрын

I know the whole story on the building of Old Town to New Town to downtown San Diego my family Bloodlines been building up this place

@BethanyEidson 3 жыл бұрын

Many a young witch have taken candles up there hence the burn marks.

@reekdadddy2881 3 жыл бұрын

They still doing things on that tower ... all the rich people live right around it (occult)

@raulchavez1339 3 жыл бұрын

"First American buried"

@davidthejanitor847 3 жыл бұрын

Booooo...... Dude, those were the best urban legends growing up..... Just over the hill is a park that has a nice playground..... And a bunch of headstones in the pack of the park.....