This guide highlights more than one hundred haunted spots, all accessible to the public, in and around San Francisco. Listings include addresses and other contact information for sites as diverse as the Old Bodega Schoolhouse, featured in Hitchcock's horror film The Birds, to the poltergeist-infested Bank of America Building. Intrepid visitors can even plan their own paranormal experiences with the author's handy checklists, procedural tips, and lists of published and on-line resources.
Jeff Dwyer is the author of an 7-book series of non-fiction guides for ghost hunters published by Pelican Publishers of Gretna, LA. He has authored eighteen articles for medical journals, chapters for two textbooks, three novels, one hundred and fifty songs, and two screenplays for television.
Born in the heart of the San Francisco Bay area, Jeff spent his early years in the small island community of Alameda where he developed a love for sailing, fishing, and local history and a fascination with the ships and airplanes of the nearby naval air station.
In college, Jeff became an All-American swimmer while pursuing his interests in the medical sciences in which he earned a bachelor's degree, two Master of Science degrees, and a Ph. D. This education landed him jobs at prestigious institutions, among them Duke University and the University of Southern California. Currently, Jeff works as a clinical specialist in cardiology.
Inspiration for Jeff's writing projects comes from his personal experience and keen sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual aspects of issues facing people today. His most recent novel, Passages Home, takes readers into the heart and mind of a veteran of the war in Iraq. The story explores spiritual and emotional wounds known as post-traumatic stress disorder, and a process of healing discovered in then vineyards, forests, beaches, and meadows surrounding the northern California town of Mendocino.
Fascinated with the paranormal, Jeff is an active paranormal investigator, researcher, lecturer, and consultant. Visit www.jeffdwyer.com to read about his investigations.
Jeff Dwyer is an accomplished public speaker having addressed audiences in excess of 2,000 people on a wide variety of topics ranging from paranormal phenomena to issues in medical research. He has been a frequent guest on radio and television in the San Francisco Bay Area.
