Slaughterhouse Canyon: The Wailing Mother of Kingman
A Gold Rush tragedy left a chilling legend echoing through the canyon walls near Kingman
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The City Built on Its Own Dead: San Francisco’s Disrupted Graves and Restless Foundations
Hikers in one San Francisco park walk on names. Tombstones, broken and repurposed, still show dates underfoot on the trails. That unsettling detail capture...
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Cursed Parties and Vanished Nieces: The Haunted Mansions of Pacific Heights
A tarot reader wanted a drink. His host forgot to bring it. What followed, she claimed, was a curse that shattered her life over the…
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The White Lady, the Ghost Cop, and the Statue That Watches: Golden Gate Park’s Restless Green
Walk the rim of Blue Heron Lake after dark and you may meet a woman who has searched these paths for more than a century.…
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Boothill Graveyard: Where Tombstone’s Dead Still Reach for the Living
Beyond the O.K. Corral gunfighters, this 1878 cemetery is famous for spirits that touch back
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Soapy Smith’s Ghost: The Gold Rush Con Man Who Never Left Skagway
He ran the town for barely three months, yet the legend, and maybe the ghost, refuses to check out
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Bear Creek Swamp: The Alabama Legend a Sheriff’s Report Couldn’t Kill
Twenty-one dolls, a Halloween prank, and a legend that grew anyway.
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Red Onion Saloon: The Haunted Gold Rush Brothel of Skagway
Behind the famous ghost named Lydia are the real lives of the women the Gold Rush used and forgot
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The Dead Children’s Playground: Huntsville’s Swing Set That Moves Itself
Two very different tragedies compete to explain the same haunted swing set. Neither one is comforting.
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The Boyington Oak: The Tree a Dying Man Promised Would Prove Him Innocent
Two other people confessed to the murder on their deathbeds. The man Alabama hanged for it never got to hear either one.
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