There are many reportedly haunted locations in

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. According to ghost hunters, over 100 sites in the

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are reported to be haunted.

San Francisco

;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. ;The Richmond Columbarium-500

The

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, at One Loraine Court, was originally part of the Odd 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. ;Union Square Room 207 at the Hotel Union Square is said to be haunted.

San Francisco Bay

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are rumored to be haunted. The

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included it in a

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article list of "spooky places". The Golden Gate Bridge Fog

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, resulting in claims of it being haunted.

Napa County

According to ghost hunters, Greenwood Mansion, between Napa and

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, is reputedly haunted by its former owner John Greenwood and his wife who were murdered there in 1891.

Solano County

The ground of an old village where the Spanish forces had killed many

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is part of Rockville Hills Regional Park. Local people reported seeing a “partial apparition of

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In fiction

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and

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set ghost stories in San Francisco in the 19th century. The ghost incidents narrated are of the 1850s to 1950’s 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 the

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, books such as “Haunted Houses of California” and the story of San 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.

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