by Court | Sep 7, 2021
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...
by Court | Aug 25, 2021
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...
by Court | Jul 22, 2021
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...
by Court | Jul 16, 2021
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...
by Court | Jun 30, 2021
My dearest phantom cold spots: Happy Summer! I’m writing to you guys in between road trips all over California, spending time with family that we didn’t get to see during the pandemic. Travel is happening again, which is awesome but also kind of overwhelming? I am...
