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Revealing a side of the famed city that tourists rarely experience, this handbook uncovers a hidden realm of ghosts, apparitions, and paranormal phenomena in San Francisco. The guide delves into the haunted hotspots that unsuspectedly lie in the city's most famous landmarks and neighborhoods, including Alcatraz, Chinatown, and the Presidio, while directions to each hair-raising location are provided, encouraging adventurous sightseers to seek out their own ghostly encounters. With the history of each frightening locale, the probable life stories of their resident spirits, and actual transcripts of their conversations with a psychic, this supernatural study delivers a realistic feel for encountering the uncanny.

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Publié par	Linden Publishing
Date de parution	01 avril 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781610350679
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Praise for
The Ghost Detectives’
Guide to Haunted San Francisco
“An honest and top quality work which will delight those wanting a spooky ghost book, and, at the same time, please those seasoned readers of the paranormal who wish a book that delivers valuable research and seeks seriously to answer the eternal question that perplexes all of us: If a ghost was once a person like us, then are we all potential ghosts?” —from the foreword by Brad Steiger, author of Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places
“A delightful book that is a must-have handbook for everyone and anyone thinking of investigating the best haunts in historical San Francisco. Don’t go there without reading this first!” —Chris Fleming, sensitive, paranormal investigator and co-host of Dead Famous on the Biography Channel and A&E’s Psychic Kids
“Should you plan on visiting and investigating the Bay Area, I highly suggest reading The Ghost Detectives’ Guide to Haunted San Francisco before you do.” —Chad Calek, paranormal investigator featured on A&E’s Paranormal State and The Ghost Prophecies and director of American Ghost Hunter
“San Francisco is haunted! Loyd Auerbach and Annette Martin offer an inspiring and at times chilling tour of the city by the Bay. Great book!” —Jeff Belanger, writer and researcher of the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures series
“Annette Martin blows me away. She is the real thing. She not only sees the dead but speaks to them, gets them to let down their guard and tell us their secrets. I have never seen anything like it!” —Lydia Cornell, star of Too Close for Comfort and Curb Your Enthusiasm
“Another paranormal gem from the well-known and respected field investigator and paranormal educator Loyd Auerbach, as he reviews the investigations of several favorite San Francisco sites conducted with his long-time colleague Annette Martin.” —Sally Rhine Feather, director, Rhine Research Center

The Ghost Detectives’ Guide to Haunted San Francisco Copyright © 2011 by Loyd Auerbach and Annette Martin. All rights reserved.
map provided by Pat Hunter, Gallery II cover photograph © Stephen Coburn - Fotolia.com all photos by the authors unless otherwise noted
Published by Craven Street Books an imprint of Linden Publishing 2006 South Mary, Fresno, California 93721 559-233-6633 / 800-345-4447 QuillDriverBooks.com
Craven Street Books and Colophon are trademarks of Linden Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 978-1-610350-07-5
135798642
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Auerbach, Loyd.
The ghost detectives guide to haunted San Francisco / Loyd Auerbach & Annette Martin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61035-007-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Haunted places–California–San Francisco. 2. Ghosts–California–San Francisco. 3. Ghosts–Research–Methodology. I. Martin, Annette. II. Title.
BF1472.U6A94 2011
133.109794'61–dc22
2010051696
CONTENTS
Foreword by Brad Steiger
Introduction
“What Are Ghosts?” and Other Questions
The Queen Anne Hotel
The Mansions Hotel
The Presidio Officers’ Club
San Francisco Chinatown
Alcatraz: Escape to the Haunted Island
The Moss Beach Distillery Restaurant
Directions to the Haunted Locations
Map to Haunted Locations
Ghost Hunting Do’s and Don’ts
About Loyd Auerbach
About Annette Martin
Foreword
I f we may assume from the evidence of prehistoric burial sites that our species has pondered the mystery of life after death for about 60,000 years, it seems likely that humankind has been recounting the appearances of ghosts for at least that long. During that expanse of time there have always been shamans and mystics who have deliberately sought to contact the spirits of the deceased. However, in the conventional ghost report it is a specter that manifests to frighten or to enlighten the surprised beholder. Never, until the past few years, have there been legions of humans who have sought out haunted places so that they might hunt ghosts.
Yes, there was the rise of Spiritualism in the United States in the 1850s that, according to some historians, brought as many as eleven million believers to the séance table or spirit circle. When we consider that the population of the U.S. at that period in our history was approximately 30 million, the acceptance of Spiritualism as a religion served a sizeable percentage of the nation. When Spiritualism began to fade as a movement in the 1870s, such groups as the British Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, undertook a serious study of mediumship, apparitions, séances, and haunted houses.
Until quite recently, haunted houses and things that go bump in the night have remained the province of laboratory researchers and a few individuals who, because of their interest in ghosts or because of their demonstrated mediumship abilities, were called upon to investigate places thought to be haunted.
However, today, “ghost busters” and “ghost hunters” abound on cable television and radio programs. It now seems as if every village with a population of over 1,000 has a ghost hunting group. Indeed, some of these individuals with a self-professed ability to ferret out ghosts may have some right to claim such an ephemeral talent. In far too many instances, however, the credentials of the “ghost busters” consists only of watching the aforementioned cable programs and in some rare cases actually reading a few books on the subject.
How wonderfully refreshing it is to discover two highly qualified “ghost detectives” who have given of their unique talents to present a guide to haunted places in various cities, beginning with some of the well-known sites in San Francisco. I have known and respected the skills and acumen of parapsychological field researcher Loyd Auerbach for many years, and in the past three years I have come to delight in the multi-level paranormal abilities of Annette Martin, who surely ranks as one of the top psychic sensitives in the United States today.
Annette has been psychically gifted since she was a child of seven and has shared her gifts with hundreds of individuals, as well as assisting the police in recent years as a psychic detective. Annette is also a gifted singer, having her own radio program when she was ten and going on to sing with many opera companies. I have theorized that psychic ability is a talent given to certain individuals and if that person did not become a psychic, he or she might display a gift for painting, writing, dancing, and so forth. Annette proves the theory many times over, expressing her creativity in so many areas.
Loyd is my kind of psychic investigator. He doesn’t load himself down with a lot of fancy high-tech gadgets that, in my opinion, more often than not merely provide environmental static that less astute researchers interpret as genuine indications of actual ghost phenomena. Loyd is open to many sources of information that may be present in a genuine haunting—primary in this book to be that provided through the mediumship of Annette Martin. Loyd is constantly evaluating whatever input seems relevant, rejecting—or at least tabling—that which seems extraneous to the case.
Annette and Loyd have chosen to express this book largely in the form of a dialog between them as they investigate a haunting. This technique allows the readers to feel that they are actually participating in the investigation as it progresses at each location. Historical background and other research elements are also provided to allow readers a total immersion in each case.
I spoke to Annette before they investigated the many ghosts of San Francisco’s Chinatown, and I advised her that August, the month they had chosen to visit the sites, was the “Month of Hungry Ghosts” in the Chinese tradition. She answered with a laugh that she was well aware of that fact, and she promised to come back with lots of good stories. Readers may discover for themselves that Annette fulfilled her promise.
On the Jeff Rense Program just before Halloween a few years back, we conducted a live radio broadcast from the Moss Beach Distillery Restaurant with Annette, Loyd, and the ghostly Blue Lady herself. It was chillingly fascinating to hear Annette conversing with this charming ghost, who doesn’t wish to leave the picturesque location by the ocean. The Blue Lady also seems to have a kind of spirited crush on Loyd.
This is a book that readers may explore with full confidence. Loyd and Annette deliver an honest and top quality work which will delight those wanting a spooky ghost book, and, at the same time, please those seasoned readers of the paranormal who wish a book that delivers valuable research and seeks seriously to answer the eternal question that perplexes all of us: If a ghost was once a person like us, then are we all potential ghosts?
Brad Steiger, author of Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
Introduction
D o you like a good ghost story?
Are you a paranormal tourist, someone who likes to visit places with reported haunting and other unexplained activity?
Or are you a ghost hunter/paranormal investigator looking for ghosts in all the right places?
If you fall into any or all of the above categories, you’ve probably purchased (or borrowed) books that list haunted places in a given town, county, or state—or even one of the national or international directories.
These books can be very helpful, but most of them simply repeat short descriptions of what has been reported before—often years before. Some few provide longer tales of the location, the author havi