The Big Four

Dear Spooky People:Can you believe this is Newsletter Number 6??! Time flies when you’re not leaving the house and living in a heightened state of fear and loathing!I am GLAD TO HAVE YOUR COMPANY through the endless pandemic. I hope you are enjoying these emails! If...

The Journey of Lincoln’s Body

My dearest goblin children:HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY! I don’t have Cemetery Part III ready because I’ve been spending all of my time completing my mandatory continuing legal education hours. If you don’t know, lawyers in California have to do 25 hours every two years....

The Severed Head of Joaquin Murrieta

Before Madame Tussaud’s there were…traveling pickled heads. And in late 19th Century San Francisco, it made A MINT. For $1 (THAT’S $30 NOW), you could see the severed head of notorious Californio Joaquin Murrieta, preserved in a jar of alcohol, at King John’s...

Welcome to 2021

Dear Friends:Welcome to 2021! Isn’t it amazing how everything changed overnight from a smoldering apocalyptic doomscape to a brand new hell free world???? Ughhhh, right. What the fuck were we thinking.It’s time to combine post-holiday, seasonal, AND pandemic related...

January 6th, 1914

On this day in 1914, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared San Francisco’s cemeteries a public nuisance, and voted to have all remains moved. At the time, there were an estimated 100,000 people buried here, and cemetery owners, politicians, and local...