Ghost Season

My dearest spirit box operators, Welcome to Ghost Season! It’s September, Instagram is advertising expensive Halloween-themed cookware to me, which means it’s time to get into it. Here at Team Spooky we are working on a massive calendar of content for October. For the...

White Ladies

Remember The White Lady of Stow Lake and La Llorona from last week? Even if you hadn’t heard those particular stories, you’ve definitely heard of some other floating white female ghost in a tattered gown. It’s pretty standard fare for ghost stories everywhere, across...

Oh, Those Summer Nights

My Dearest Cold Spot Dwellers: HEY Y’ALL! I hope you had a fantastic summer. I spent the past two months traveling all around and visiting everyone I could. We missed out on so much family time during the lockdowns, I really just needed to SEE EVERYONE’S FACE. I’m...

City Cemetery Landmark Designation – Help Wanted!

Golden Gate/City Cemetery shown in an 1897 map by Southern Pacific Company/H.S. Crocker Co. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection) You know what I love even more than ghosts? Beer. HAHAH NO THAT’S CEMETERIES. Cemeteries are a gold mine of local history, they tell us...

Crescent City’s Cemeteries

This cemetery is in Crescent City, California, wayyyy up on the North Coast of our state. It’s beautiful and wild up here. The sea has battered this town for centuries now, graveyard included. It’s sun and salt bleached, but a massive tangle of swamp lies just behind...