Camarillo has many urban legends, some of which can be verified and others which cannot. This is the space to chronicle what we have heard and what we know about these. As people add information about these stories, they can be moved into the other sections, as appropriate. You may also be interested in reading about the Camarillo State Mental Hospital or about songs written about Camarillo.
Legends
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1980 The Monkees realeased "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin presumably about Camarillo.
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Dizdar Park used to be a cemetery, but the graves were moved when the church on the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Arneill Drive sold the property to the City. In the deal a stipulation was made that no alcohol could be consumed on this property. The rule stands today, and is the reason the beer garden at the Camarillo Fiesta has to stay on the driveway to the old fire station.
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The Eagle's "Hotel California" was written about Camarillo State Mental Hospital.
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Camarillo State Mental Hospital is haunted by the ghost of a crazed butcher employed on site who made sausages out of inmates.
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A man, tired of gophers or ground squirrels digging up his back yard, poured gasoline down the rodents' network of holes, lit it on fire, and blew up the hillside in The Heights. The resulting fire spread up the hill and had to be put out by the fire department.
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The Camarillo Premium Outlets were built on an American Indian burial ground.
- Wasn't this an ag field before it was the outlets? So was the ag over the burial ground first? - MicheleTobias
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2009-06-02 17:10:50 Dizdar Park used to be a cemetery, Adolfo Camarillo brought immigrants from Mexico City to build St. Mary's, which is Adolfo Camarillo's final resting place. The cemetery was called Pleasant Valley Cemetery, at some point the cemetery became property of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, and as the cemetery grew the bodies had to moved, most were moved to Ivy Lawn Cemetery, off Pancho Rd. There were less than 100 people buried in Dizdar park. I once found a list on the internet of who was buried there and who was moved and where to, but the families of three individuals could not be found, so the rumor is that there are still 3 bodies there! —CarleenPitts
