BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Not everybody believes in ghosts but the people here at the Kern County Museum, even the skeptics, have come around to that way of thinking. Even the skeptics concede that things unseen inhabit creaky hallways within the museum's Pioneer Village – a collection of 70 old buildings, some dating back a century and a half. A lot of folks lived, worked, traded and entertained themselves in these buildings. And, it stands to reason, more than a few people died in them. Now, those buildings – hotels, saloons, hardscrabble dwellings and grandiose estates – have been relocated to the museum's 16 tree-lined acres, many in all their nuanced detail. So, it stands to reason, some of those buildings may have brought along some of their former – well, occupants — unsettled spirits who on occasion appear on this side. Kern County Museum staffer Brenna Charatsaris is one such skeptic. Which makes her personal story all the more gripping. It was a little after dusk one night, about three hours after the museum had closed. She was walking past the Howell House, a Queen Anne style Victorian built in 1891, when something out of the corner of her eye made her pause. Something in a second story window of the Howell House, 100 feet away. A little girl. "My brain said, don't worry – it's just a little girl. Well, it was 7 o'clock-ish at night and there was a little girl just sitting and it wasn't scary, it wasn't creepy, it was only a little terrifying once my brain kicked in to tell me we've been closed since 4 o'clock and I knew there was no one else on property," said Brenna Charatsaris, with the Kern County Museum. The Howells had two children, and both grew to adulthood. So, what was the apparition at the window? Perhaps a housekeeper's child? A family friend? Who knows. "We've had ghost hunters that have come back through and they can't really explain that, that one. And I'm not really looking for an explanation," said Charatsaris. "I'm happy to write it off as my eyes were playing tricks on me." The Weill Mansion, home of pioneering Bakersfield merchant, Alphonse Weill, also has an untethered spirit, a family member, perhaps, trapped there, in the in-between. Supposedly a young lady passed away in the bathtub, and her spirit still inhabits the home. Lights have been known to go on and off and the toilet chain swings about. Man pleads not guilty to lighting fires near Kernville That's what John Good of Kernville, an electrician by trade but a paranormal researcher by avocation, told us in a 2022 interview. He says his equipment has detected what he calls orbs – balls of hovering energy that represent untethered entities. "EVPs – electronic voice phenomenon – and you can get some mighty strange transmissions from the other side, I call 'em," said ghost hunter, John Good. Out of all the unique properties at the Kern County Museum, this might be the most mysterious. This is the Fellows Hotel. This might have the most paranormal activity. Once upon a time, this was a lively place, a boomtown saloon, hotel and brothel operated by the infamous Ma Randall. Legend has it one of her hotel kitchen workers was murdered in a fight – and that kitchen worker never clocked out. Kern County Museum executive director Mike McCoy said the Fellows Hotel truly has had some odd things happen. He's seen it with his own eyes. Museum employees will set up the downstairs dining room for a banquet the following day with dozens of place settings – plates, napkins, flatware, salt and pepper shakers – and the next morning everything is on the floor, as if swept off the tabletops by a crazed, late night kitchen worker. It's tough to deny – the Kern County Museum doesn't just deal with physical artifacts. There's some otherworldly history there too. If you come out to the Kern County Museum this Halloween season and it's after dark, make sure you have someone nearby, someone you can…trust.