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Ghost Towns
Enjoy this spooky Wild West break
Ghostly White Ladies
Like many things, the way a culture treats the dead can tell you what it thinks about the living
Abraham Lincoln’s Body
One body’s 36 year long odyssey
The Big Four
Time flies when you’re not leaving the house and living in a heightened state of fear and loathing!
The Journey of Lincoln’s Body
Nothing says celebration like corpse capers, so I wrote a little summary about the travails of Abraham Lincoln’s. That’s right, his corpse.
The Severed Head of Joaquin Murrieta
Before Madame Tussaud’s there were…traveling pickled heads
Welcome to 2021
It’s time to combine post-holiday, seasonal, AND pandemic related depression into one giant FERAL SADNESS KRAKEN!
January 6th, 1914
The end of San Francisco’s cemeteries
Alma Spreckels and Her Special Crypt
A fun story about a vanity tomb
Who’s Buried in Lick’s Tomb?
At one point James Lick was the richest man in California
Lockdown for the Holidays
The holidays approacheth and many of us are on lockdown again
December 10th, 1852
On this day in 1852, San Francisco held its first (legal) execution
Barn Owls
Go ahead and google “barn owl screech”
Merry Spooky Holidays
It’s officially Holiday Season which I promise you CAN be creepy
Welcome to the HLAS Newsletter
Welcome to my newsletter!
The Amityville Horror
The 2020 of haunted houses
The Ghost of Senator Broderick
Brand new statehood, same old racism
Wildfire
This shit is actually about A GHOST
The Plague Comes to San Francisco
A different, older pandemic
The Headless Bride of Yellowstone
People have vacationed in Yellowstone for forever, which means GHOST STORIES
Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever
The only thing that spreads faster than viruses is misinformation