GHOST 6: Vegia's Body Main Street Plymouth, California

 Click here for walking directions to the haunting referenced on this page - 9359 Main Street


Built in 1879 as the Caucasian Club, the bottom floors housed a mortuary, a tailor and a clothier and a “Caucasian Society Hall” filled the top floor. Now imagine a hard-working Austrian immigrant – that man was A. Vegia. The well-respected man who ran the clothier and tailor shop on the main floor for over four years was about to experience just how wild the west really was. One day, customer Peter Shapral who ordered a suit not to his liking – angrily approached Vegia right on this street. The men argued. Shapral shot the tailor dead. Shapral was tried by never convicted.


Before the shooting the tailor accused Shapral of being godless and someone whose spirit would walk in alone for all eternity, but what came to pass was the opposite - for now it is the spirit of Vegia that roams the rooms of the building that once housed his shop s well as the mortuary where he was laid to rest.


Read the article here Shapral trial.












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