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Ghost Hunter's Guide to The San Francisco Bay Area

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If it's ghostly encounters which attract you and a visit to San Francisco is in your future, take a look at Jeff Dwyer's Ghost Hunter's Guide To The San Francisco Bay Area: it's a highlight of a hundred haunted spots in and around the city, all accessible to the public, where you can search out your own haunts. Anecdotes of sightings accompany checklists and details on available tours. Addresses and phones, and black and white photos of each haunted place, are included. Dwyer is a native of northern California and personal, extensive research has resulted in a winner.

This book is a must have! The chapters are well organized and the book itself is easy to read. The first chapter deals with the basics of ghosts and proper group investigation techniques, and the subsequent chapters are divided by Bay Area regions. In each case a brief history of the location is discussed, and reports of the paranormal are also included. In addition, the author was nice enough to provide contact information where applicable. In conclusion, buy this book.

Jeff Dwyer's book, Ghost Hunter's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is his first book written on the spiritual goings-on in San Francisco and Northern California areas. I picked up this book in the first place to check out where some haunts may be haunted, and where I might find myself a spook or two.

The book is very practical. He names names and where the hot spots are: Golden Gate Bridge, Los Gatos shopping mall (the site of a former graveyard), Mission Dolores and so on. He expands his reach to the obvious (Winchester Mystery House) and the not-so-obvious (The Balclutha!).

He tells you how to dress, what to bring, how to record and what to do when confronted with a spirit.

Cold spots are a good clue, as well as a whisp of an apparition or the sounds and moans that could be the manifestation of a ghost.

Are ghosts dangerous? How do you communicate with them? All this is answered.

There was even an informative essay about Hotel Leger in Mokelumne, California where I did a ghost tour. Murders and death awaited those during the gold rush.

Highly recommended.


Other Dwyer Books:

Ghost Hunter's Guide to California's Wine Country
Ghost Hunter's Guide to California's Gold Rush Country
Ghost Hunter's Guide to Seattle
Ghost Hunter's Guide to Los Angeles

...And many more!