San Francisco Hauntings

Mission haunts that are, erm, haunted

Isolation/abandonment less conducive to health than previously thought

The House is Cursed/The House is Society

Adolph Sutro always comes out on top

You can be a part of history! Spooky history!

Our story concludes

All that remains

The tide begins to turn, and a smear campaign gains footing

“I wrote back to him on his own paper that my name was Mrs. Mary E. Pleasant. I wouldn’t waste any of my paper on him.”

“I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”

In which a foundation of investments are made.

Our enigmatic capitalist gets her start.

The Mother of Civil Rights in California

Before Madame Tussaud’s there were…traveling pickled heads

The end of San Francisco’s cemeteries

A fun story about a vanity tomb

At one point James Lick was the richest man in California

On this day in 1852, San Francisco held its first (legal) execution

Brand new statehood, same old racism

A different, older pandemic

Stay the fuck out of that garage!