There are manyreportedly haunted locations inSan Francisco,California. According toghost hunters, over 100 sites in theSan Francisco Bay Area are reported to be haunted.^[1]

Russian Hill

Manrow’s House, was built in 1851 by J.P. Marrow, a successful civil engineer and also a judge advocate of a vigilance committee with high reputation in the city. He reported paranormal activities at his house in the form of “visitations, table tapping, rapping and so forth”. These accounts were published in newspapers of San Francisco.^[2]

The Richmond

TheNeptune Society Columbarium, at One Loraine Court, was originally part of theOdd Fellows Cemetery.

Room 410 at the Queen Anne Hotel is said to be haunted by the namesake of the Miss Mary Lake's School for Girls.^[3]

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island andAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary are rumored to be haunted. TheHuffington Post included it in aHalloween article list of "spooky places".^[4]

Golden Gate Bridge

Over 1000 people have committed suicide by jumping off theGolden Gate Bridge, resulting in claims of it being haunted.^[5]

According toghost hunters,Greenwood Mansion, betweenNapa andAmerican Canyon, is reputedly haunted by its former owner John Greenwood and his wife who were murdered there in 1891.^[6]

The ground of an old village where theSpanish forces had killed manyPatwin is part ofRockville Hills Regional Park. Local people reported seeing a “partialapparition ofChief Solano”^[7]

Mark Twain andAmbrose Bierce set ghost stories in San Francisco in the 19th century. The ghost incidents narrated are of the 1850s to 1950s set here are in the genre of stories, journalistic articles or based on investigations into the incidents. Some of the references have been sourced to books in theSan Francisco Public Library, books such as “Haunted Houses of California” and the story ofSan Francisco Art Institute by Antoinette May, the "Vanishing Hitchhiker" by Rose Robinson, and “Foot Steps in the Fog : Alfred Hitchcocks San Francisco” authored by Jeff Craft and Aaron Leventhol.^[8]

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