There is a place at the intersection of 16th Ancastro Street in Oakland, California.

At that very spot, overlooking a stretch of I-980, there stands three Victorian houses

that were built in the 19th century.

There used to be a fourth house.

It may have been the reason behind one of the most haunting poltergeist stories I have ever heard.

The San Francisco Chronicle featured stories from residents of those three remaining houses

in an article published on Halloween 1997.

Cindy Chan was plagued by nightmares of a ghostly woman in her room.

Tom Catch for her had a cat who suddenly started acting possessed,

drooling, behaving erratically, and eventually jumping off the balcony to its death.

Ida Lewis had lived in her home since 1963, but her story was actually inherited from her late

mother who lived in the missing fourth Victorian house.

This one had been demolished in the 1970s to make room for the freeway.

Ida's mother claimed that the house was haunted.

That house was known as a Clark mansion.

Some people like Cindy, Tom, and Ida have claimed that the intersection at 16th and Castro

is haunted, but none of their stories compared to the events of April 1874.

For three nights, the mansion's residents, their friends, and

strangers who had heard of the hauntings were mesmerized by the paranormal activity within the

Clark Mansion. But then, just as quickly as it had been thrust into the public eye,

the Clark family and their mansion disappeared back into obscurity.

While researching this story, we found a pamphlet written by the owner of this mansion

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