Listen If You Dare! Three Bay Area Ghost Stories

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We recommend you listen to this episode on headphones. Join us around the campfire to hear three ghost stories, some of them decades old, and all of from right here in the Bay Area. Featuring Wes Leslie of The Haunt Ghost Tours, Tommy Netzband of Haunted Haight Walking Tour and the San Francisco Ghost Society and storyteller JP Frary. Additional Reading Ghost Stories and Macabre Tales to Binge This Halloween Chilling Histories of California Event at KQED Bay Curious Newsletter Sign-Up Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Carly Severn, Lina Blanco, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Vinnee Tong, Don Clyde and Jenny Pritchett.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	It is night.
0:07.0	You are sitting in a forest sunk in deep into a camp chair surrounded by damp redwood trees.
0:16.3	It's a little cool so here take this flannel blanket.
0:25.0	Feel the warmth of this permitted and 100% legal campfire.
0:30.0	Tonight we have gathered to hear three ghost stories, some of them centuries old and all of them from right here in the Bay Area.
0:46.0	Some of the spirits will get to know tonight are friendly, here to guide us.
0:51.0	Some are consumed by their own tragedies and carry on as if no time has
0:57.2	passed. And some might just be here to scare us.
1:02.8	I'm Olivia Alan Price and this is Boo Curious.
1:08.8	And this is Boo Curious. Curious. Curious. Curious.
1:14.0	Support for Bay Curious
1:19.0	is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
1:22.0	Still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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1:32.1	Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today.
1:37.1	All right, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
1:40.3	We've got three stories for you this evening from three different storytellers and along the way we'll also get to know some ghost hunting terminology
1:49.5	First up is Wes Leslie he's one of the co-founders of The Haunt Ghost Tours and his tale casts
1:56.0	us back to the 1860s. So one of the most haunted areas in early San Francisco was Kearney Street through the
2:10.4	financial district and Chinatown today.
2:12.8	It was pretty common to encounter a poltergeist in that area
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