The Springville Inn sits along California State Route 190 in the small foothill town of Springville, Tulare County, nestled against the western slope of the Sierra Nevada just minutes from the Giant Sequoia National Monument. The town has been here since 1849, when pioneers settled the area, and the inn has been at its center since 1911, when it was built as the Wilkinson Hotel to serve travelers arriving with the railroad. The original owners went broke during construction and were forced to sell before they ever saw it finished. A 1972 addition brought the motel rooms that extend behind the original structure, but the bones of the place—the restaurant on the ground floor, the bar and dance hall on the second—remain housed in the 1911 building. For over a century, the Springville Inn has served as the social hub of a town that goes quiet by six in the evening. It is also, by most accounts from those who have worked and stayed there, thoroughly haunted. Four distinct entities have been identified by staff over the decades, each given a plainspoken name by employees who encountered them often enough to stop being surprised. The Old Man is the most frequently reported, an observant presence concentrated around the kitchen and the old dumbwaiter that connects the lower kitchen to the upper service area. Former employees describe him not as a passive residual haunting but as an active and hostile personality—hiding the lock to the walk-in cooler, shoving barstools, breaking glassware, knocking from inside the walk-in as though someone had been locked in, and on more than one occasion physically attempting to push workers down the stairs. The Young Man is said to be the ghost of a logger who was shot and carried into the inn to die. His energy is described as friendly, even charming—he frequents the bar area and has a reported affinity for female guests and staff. The Little Girl, estimated by witnesses at seven or eight years old, appears in turn-of-the-century dress at various locations throughout the building, though sightings have grown less frequent in recent years. The Woman is the rarest and most unsettling of the four. She has been seen on the upstairs balcony in white, and one former restaurant employee described an encounter in which the figure appeared standing inverted on the ceiling of the dining room, staring down with a dark substance dripping from her mouth. That employee ran screaming into the kitchen. The reports extend beyond the original building. Guests in the motel rooms have described cabinet doors swinging open on working hinges, unexplained sparkling lights on ceilings that persisted even after curtains were drawn, and personal belongings rearranged overnight—dress socks neatly folded into pant legs in ways the guest swore they never would have done. Staff members have reported whispers, physical touches on the staircase, and self-propelled kitchen utensils. One visitor captured a voice on a phone recording that appeared to say "help me" over background noise. A man from Sacramento who stayed at the inn for a work trip reportedly refused to return, driving an extra forty-five minutes to stay in Tulare on all subsequent visits rather than spend another night. Former employees note the activity is markedly stronger during mornings and afternoons than at night.

Sequoia Dawn occupies a location in Springville, California, currently serving as residential apartments but housing within its structure the physical legacy of a tuberculosis sanitarium that operated during the early-to-mid twentieth century. The development of the tuberculosis crisis in American communities created urgent need for specialized medical facilities designed to isolate tuberculosis patients and provide treatment regimens based on prevailing medical understanding of the era. Tuberculosis, which claimed tens of thousands of lives annually during the first half of the twentieth century, prompted the construction of numerous sanitariums across the country, facilities specifically designed to house patients experiencing the advanced stages of the disease. The structure in Springville represents one such installation, constructed with facilities and infrastructure intended to accommodate the medical and daily needs of tuberculosis patients during extended treatment periods. Sequoia Dawn operated as a medical facility during a period when tuberculosis remained one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and before antibiotic treatments rendered the disease manageable rather than typically fatal. The facility housed individuals in varying stages of the disease, some recovering, some declining, and many ultimately succumbing to the illness despite the care provided by medical staff. The intensive emotional environments created by such facilities, where patients confronted their mortality and families grieved losses, generated profound psychological and emotional resonance within the physical spaces. The deaths of numerous patients, many of whom were relatively young, created a legacy of loss and suffering embedded within the location's history and architecture. Accomplishing the transformation from specialized medical facility to residential apartments required modifications to the original structure, but the building retained fundamental characteristics reflective of its original purpose. The location chosen for the facility included on-site cemetery grounds where patients who died at the sanitarium were interred, a burial area that remains associated with the property despite the change in primary function. The proximity of the cemetery to the current residential structure creates an unusual situation where residents of the apartments live adjacent to graves of individuals who died decades earlier in the facility. Paranormal phenomena reported by residents of Sequoia Dawn apartments include disembodied voices of children apparently playing and laughing, sounds that continue despite the absence of any living children in proximity and which persist across multiple occasions and times of day. Visitors and staff have reported sensations of extreme cold affecting localized areas, temperature drops that move through spaces and then dissipate without obvious cause. The apparition of a woman has been observed on multiple occasions by independent witnesses, a figure appearing in the back office area associated with the former medical operations. Physical phenomena include objects being displaced or moved from their expected positions, and one documented account describes a visitor's hat being forcibly pulled from their head by an unseen force despite no other person being in proximity. The accumulated phenomena suggest the continued presence of spirits associated with the location's history as a tuberculosis sanitarium, with the voices of children and the apparition of a woman possibly representing individuals who died at the facility during its medical operational period.