The Dark Side of Haight-Ashbury, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury is famous for tie-dye, flower power, and the iconic Summer of Love, but behind the psychedelic haze of the 1960s lies a darker history few talk about.
Author and tour guide Tommy Netzband shares stories from his book Haunted Haight: Ghosts and True Crime Tales from Haight-Ashbury and Beyond. The Victorian houses that once sheltered hippies, musicians, and dreamers have their own secrets — and some of their former residents never truly left.
We explore the ghostly legends that linger in these historic streets, where the scent of incense once masked the scent of tragedy. From unsettling murders tied to the counterculture era to the restless spirits still spotted in candle-lit windows, these tales prove that Haight-Ashbury’s past isn’t all peace, love, and good vibes.
Step back into a time of rebellion, music, and unrest — and meet the spirits still keeping watch over the birthplace of a cultural revolution.
You can get Haunted Haight: Ghosts and True Crime Tales from Haight-Ashbury and Beyond through Amazon. You can also get the book on his website as well as information about the Haunted Haight Ghost Hunting Tour and Haunted Haight Pub Crawl at hauntedhaight.com. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, part two of our conversation with author Tommy Netsband about his book, |
| 0:08.1 | Haunted Hate, Ghosts, and True Crime Tales from Hate, Ashbury, and Beyond. |
| 0:20.0 | In San Francisco, and I didn't know this until right at the beginning of the book, has a very interesting history with cemeteries. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, we hated them. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah, which is, and that's where the book starts. |
| 0:32.5 | And I'm like, what? |
| 0:34.0 | Because, and you're from Chicago, and I was just there, and I did a ghost tour, and we're at Lincoln Park, talking about all the bodies that are still probably there. |
| 0:44.0 | And it made me think in San Francisco probably the same thing, because they were moving cemeteries. |
| 0:51.5 | And not within the Native American, |
| 0:58.2 | a lot of Native American bones that are found over by the old mission, |
| 0:59.2 | you know, |
| 1:07.2 | which because you have to realize that when the mission Dolores was founded back in the 1700s by the Spanish missionaries, |
| 1:08.9 | that church, |
| 1:10.0 | it still stands here in San Francisco. |
| 1:12.1 | It's the oldest building. |
| 1:13.5 | It predates like to colonial times. |
| 1:16.4 | And some of the forefathers of California are buried in a little tiny cemetery that's |
| 1:21.5 | owned by the Catholic Church. |
| 1:22.9 | It's like the size of a backyard. |
| 1:25.3 | Okay. |
| 1:26.1 | And, you know, it being, it being such a old cemetery, the folks that built it were the |
| 1:35.3 | Native Americans that lived here. |
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