The story of Sacramento’s most famous ghost – May Woolsey Part 1 Watch Part 2 for the EVPs recorded during the investigation. – May Hollister Woolsey was born on November 13, 1866 and the Woolsey’s outgrew their home at 10th and E Streets and began to build at our 916 E Street property. Little May was doing exceptionally well in school and on May 25, 1877 she graduated at the top of her class in Primary School. After a long hot carriage ride to Davis, that was made even more unpleasant by the mosquitoes, their little girl became ill and was in bed for several days before she died on September 21, 1879, just before her 13th birthday from encephalitis. – Unable to reconcile ourselves to Mays death, we repeatedly consulted two spiritualists, which at the time was quite common. – They used these Spiritualist to try to contact May in the afterlife. In 1979 — 100 years after Mays death — her familys home was being remodeled by the new owner, Ed Duffy. Under the second floor landing of a staircase, he found a closet with a false ceiling. Inside that ceiling was a very old, small steamer trunk. The curved trunk was made of worn black leather, a torn shipping label on one end. That evening, attended by Jim Henley of the history center, Duffy anxiously opened the trunk. The trunk was filled with the carefully packed belongings of May Woolsey. Hundreds of items telling the story of how May and her family lived in the 1870s. Mays trunk held clothing, school books and diplomas, photos …

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