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"content": "\u003cp>If your idea of a perfect Halloween is turning off all the lights, tucking yourself under a blanket, and snuggling up next to a bag of fun-size candy for a horror movie marathon, you’re not alone. It’s a strategy that effectively removes the pressure of coming up with a costume idea and picking a party to attend. But it does present one pretty major quandary: what the hell to watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To aid you in this decision, we’ve come up with a list of classic horror movies—all filmed in the Bay Area, all available to stream or rent, and all liable to make your Halloween better.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>Cujo\u003c/em> (1983)\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFUD8b-BZCc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An entire generation of ’80s kids is still walking around with a lifelong phobia of St. Bernards because of the sheer terror wrought by \u003cem>Cujo. \u003c/em>It’s a simple but disarmingly realistic concept: a large dog gets rabies from a bat bite and descends into madness, ambushing humans as he goes. One mother and son get caught in his proverbial crosshairs, trapped in their broken-down car with no escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmed in locations around the North Bay (Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Glenn Ellen and Mendocino), the movie was given a different (less bleak) ending than Stephen King’s original text. Despite this—and the fact that in some “attack” scenes the dog is transparently trying to cuddle screaming actors—\u003cem>Cujo\u003c/em> remains one of the better Stephen King movie adaptations. Dee Wallace’s performance will stay with you long after the credits roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Cujo’ is streaming now on Tubi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>It Came From Beneath the Sea\u003c/em> (1955)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEm1c-sBRfY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wanted to see a giant radioactive octopus throwing its tentacles around downtown San Francisco, this is the film for you. Having had its habitat in the Philippines destroyed by thermonuclear tests, and after authorities repeatedly attempt to electrocute it, the poor, unfeasibly massive octopus arrives in the city and promptly goes berserk. It wrecks buildings! It squishes men! It squeezes the Ferry Building’s clock tower to death! It even wraps itself around the Golden Gate Bridge like it wants to make babies with it. Yes, it’s completely preposterous, but if you can’t watch a giant furious octopus suction-cupping bystanders to death on Halloween, when can you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘It Came From Beneath the Sea’ is streaming now on Tubi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Burnt Offerings\u003c/em> (1976)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo_6Fb5k2lo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its earliest stages, it’s tempting to view \u003cem>Burnt Offerings\u003c/em> as just another bog-standard haunted house movie. Don’t be fooled. 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Don’t take on a summer rental if it comes with an old lady in the attic that you’re obliged to feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Burnt Offerings’ is streaming now on Tubi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>Phantasm\u003c/em> (1979)\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIRVOepV9Ik\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reanimated corpses. Hell portals. Severed fingers that turn into insects. Flying silver spheres with spikes. Horny teens getting stabbed in cemeteries. Evil minions that may or may not have been inspired by \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> Jawas. Absolutely nothing about \u003cem>Phantasm\u003c/em> makes any sense at all. (\u003cem>At all\u003c/em>!) 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Throw every other bird on Earth into the mix and, as one Bodega Bay bystander states in the middle of this Alfred Hitchcock classic, “Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t have a chance.” (It’s worth also keeping in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/12/07/this-hitchcock-movie-was-inspired-by-crab-toxin-frenzy-in-capitola/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> was inspired by a real-life event\u003c/a> in which a Northern California town was attacked en masse by seabirds, in 1961.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=’arts_[aside postid='arts_13936524']‘]Witnessing San Francisco’s Melanie Daniels (charmingly played by Tippi Hedren) slowly devolve from a self-assured, independent practical joker to a traumatized shell is genuinely perturbing here. And not a little harrowing now that we know about \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2017/film/news/tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcock-the-birds-sexual-harassment-1202637959/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitchcock’s appalling treatment of Hedren\u003c/a> in real life. But the lure of \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> remains (Bodega Bay continues to be a hotspot for Hitchcock tourists), as does the lore. Unsubstantiated rumors persist that the Bay Area’s crow population increased enormously after Hitchcock released the birds into the wild at the end of filming. Just pray they don’t turn on us one day…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Birds’ is streaming now on Netflix.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>The Fog\u003c/em> (1980)\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyunS1hGyQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Fog\u003c/em> is the kind of unintentionally hilarious horror movie that is best watched in groups, with some sort of drinking game fashioned after it. 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But boy oh boy, did it get a good one. The casting for the 1978 remake was damn near perfect (hello, young Jeff Goldblum!), and paranoia and panic is so thoroughly seeped into every scene, you can’t help but feel completely immersed in the characters’ nightmare, as one-by-one they’re replaced with alien replicas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Invasion\u003c/em> is also that rare San Francisco movie that includes Things That Locals Like, including Sutro Tower, Bimbo’s, the Broadway tunnel, and even (\u003cem>gasp!\u003c/em>) the Tenderloin. Plus! It contains the Donald Sutherland scene—\u003ca href=\"https://tenor.com/view/donald-sutherland-pod-people-podpeople-body-gif-10811761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you already know the one\u003c/a>—that launched a thousand gifs. A true horror classic and a scary little love letter to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ is streaming now on Amazon Prime. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>‘]Witnessing San Francisco’s Melanie Daniels (charmingly played by Tippi Hedren) slowly devolve from a self-assured, independent practical joker to a traumatized shell is genuinely perturbing here. And not a little harrowing now that we know about \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2017/film/news/tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcock-the-birds-sexual-harassment-1202637959/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitchcock’s appalling treatment of Hedren\u003c/a> in real life. But the lure of \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> remains (Bodega Bay continues to be a hotspot for Hitchcock tourists), as does the lore. Unsubstantiated rumors persist that the Bay Area’s crow population increased enormously after Hitchcock released the birds into the wild at the end of filming. Just pray they don’t turn on us one day…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Birds’ is streaming now on Netflix.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>The Fog\u003c/em> (1980)\u003c/h4>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fUyunS1hGyQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fUyunS1hGyQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Fog\u003c/em> is the kind of unintentionally hilarious horror movie that is best watched in groups, with some sort of drinking game fashioned after it. Drink every time someone says “Mrs Kobritz”! Drink every time a dead body lands on Jamie Lee Curtis! Drink every time some idiot doesn’t notice there’s a rotting, hook-handed pirate ghost directly next to them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Primarily filmed in Point Reyes (with some Bodega Bay and L.A. thrown in), \u003cem>The Fog\u003c/em> is a movie that came really close to making some salient points about the sins of our forefathers, only to sacrifice it all for plumes of dry ice and a hearty amount of face-stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Fog’ is streaming now on Amazon Prime.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c/em> (1978)\u003c/h4>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vc_0dlmSq7I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vc_0dlmSq7I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Did the disturbing \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049366/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1956 classic\u003c/a> \u003cem>need\u003c/em> a more high-tech do-over? Not really. But boy oh boy, did it get a good one. The casting for the 1978 remake was damn near perfect (hello, young Jeff Goldblum!), and paranoia and panic is so thoroughly seeped into every scene, you can’t help but feel completely immersed in the characters’ nightmare, as one-by-one they’re replaced with alien replicas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Invasion\u003c/em> is also that rare San Francisco movie that includes Things That Locals Like, including Sutro Tower, Bimbo’s, the Broadway tunnel, and even (\u003cem>gasp!\u003c/em>) the Tenderloin. Plus! It contains the Donald Sutherland scene—\u003ca href=\"https://tenor.com/view/donald-sutherland-pod-people-podpeople-body-gif-10811761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you already know the one\u003c/a>—that launched a thousand gifs. A true horror classic and a scary little love letter to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ is streaming now on Amazon Prime. (The 1956 original is also free on the Roku Channel, should you fancy a double feature.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966268\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;font-size: 16px\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man.png\" alt=\"A huge wicker structure built in the shape of a man, stands on a hillside with a ladder propped up against its center. On the ground a circle of people with torches stand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man-800x627.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man-1020x800.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man-768x602.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man-1536x1204.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/wicker-man-1920x1505.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1973’s ‘The Wicker Man,’ British policeman (Edward Woodward) visits a remote Scottish island to find that the locals have embraced a form of paganism.It’s October. Some of your neighbors will spend this, the official first weekend of spooky season, going all-out with inflatable yard skeletons and ghosts. They will embark upon the annual attempt to make candy corn, aka high-fructose ear wax, a thing. They’ll adorn their front porches with those cotton spider webs that look nothing like real spider webs and instead just make it look like they went and ritually murdered a white sweater so they could hang its dismembered corpse across their doorway as a grisly warning to all other knitwear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962878']For me, it’s a more simple, elemental formula: Hot cider, cider donuts, folk horror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeal of cider and donuts is universal, but folk horror might need some defining. Essentially, it’s horror set in remote, isolated areas where nature still holds sway. Well, nature paired with the superstitious beliefs of the locals, who tend to treat unwary outsiders with suspicion (if the outsiders are lucky) or malice (if they’re not).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classic example is 1973’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/112213/how-religious-sect-movies-like-midsommar-get-so-far-under-our-skin\">\u003cem>The Wicker Man\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which an uptight, devout, and veddy \u003cem>veddy \u003c/em>British policeman (Edward Woodward) visits a remote Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. Turns out the locals have embraced a form of Celtic paganism, which doesn’t sit right with him. He says as much to the island’s aristocratic leader, a mysterious and charismatic sort played by Christopher Lee. Things don’t end well for our poor British bobby — though presumably the island \u003cem>will \u003c/em>enjoy a bountiful harvest, so, you know: Big picture, it’s still a win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-tDnavDCwI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other founding classics of the genre include 1968’s \u003cem>The Witchfinder General\u003c/em> and 1971’s \u003cem>The Blood on Satan’s Claws\u003c/em>, which of the three films has the least going for it, apart from its title, which is, all reasonable people can agree, \u003cem>metal AF\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love me some folk horror, and am never happier than when I can while away a damp, foggy (and thus obligingly atmospheric) October afternoon mainlining new and old examples of the form like \u003cem>Kill List\u003c/em>, \u003cem>You Won’t Be Alone\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Viv\u003c/em>,\u003cem> The Ritual\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Häxan\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Medium\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Apostle\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Midsommar\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Witch\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Hereditary\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Night of the Demon\u003c/em>, \u003cem>A Field in England\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Robin Redbreast\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Men\u003c/em>. (Looking for more examples? Check out the documentary \u003cem>Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXmlf3Sefg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folk horror involves supernatural elements, but I confess a particular fondness for those stories that don’t — stories where it’s the folk themselves (read: the locals, and their beliefs) who are the true and only source of the horror. (I won’t spoil which of the above films traffic in human vs. supernatural evil, in case you haven’t seen them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Talismans and turtlenecks\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Wicker Man\u003c/em> was the first folk horror film I saw as a kid, which is maybe why I harbor a deep love of folk horror set in ’70s Britain, a time and place when an interest in the occult became faddish, inspiring a wave of folk horror specifically inflected with Satanic panic. Many of these films were set in the past, but those like \u003cem>The Wicker Man \u003c/em>were set in the then-present, a time when men wore wavy hair and tight bell bottoms. Christopher Lee’s Lord Summerisle, for example, sported a kicky tweed leisure suit topped off by a burnt-orange sweater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13964075']It’s why I think of this very specific subgenre of ’70s folk horror as Talismans and Turtlenecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just came across a new-to-me example of T & T last Sunday afternoon, which was suitably cold and wet and misty: 1970’s \u003cem>The Dunwich Horror\u003c/em>. A stiff-haired Sandra Dee, desperately attempting to shake her goody-goody image, plays a woman who falls under the sway of a young and hilariously intense, wide-eyed Dean Stockwell. (Seriously, you keep waiting for his character to blink, but instead he just keeps goggling fixedly at the world around him. At one point he makes a pot of tea, staring at it so fiercely through every stage of the process you start to wonder if he’s trying to convince it to hop into bed with him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1WCp8hGB0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get me wrong: It’s a cheesy film, filled with crummy dialogue and hammy acting and cheap sets and one fight scene so wildly inept that has to be seen to be disbelieved. I won’t reveal if the threat hanging over the film is human or supernatural (though the fact that it’s based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story should tip you off). 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(Others carry various versions of the larger-than-life skeleton.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as stores race to get the latest and greatest Halloween score out as soon as possible, superfans say it’s about time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Halloween is celebrated earlier\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Home Depot’s 12-foot skeleton is affectionately known by fans across the internet and globe as “Skelly.” When Skelly was launched, the thinking was that he’d be out for a week or two leading up to Halloween night, Allen said, the usual consumer behavior observed at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic changed that timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody started decorating in early October for something to do,” Allen said. “And we’ve really seen a shift in the market where now people are decorating for Halloween how we’ve seen with Christmas historically, planning out decorations five to six weeks, two months ahead of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936916']Mak Ralston, a Halloween fanatic known as Haunt Former on YouTube, who posts Halloween videos year-round, has noticed the shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to be a kind of a calendar as to when I would expect things to come out in stores,” Ralston said, noting that orange and black and witches and skeletons used to roll in at the start of September, maybe mid-August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, I saw some stuff in stores for Halloween in June, early July,” he said. “It’s never been earlier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For some, it’s always Halloween\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Some average people who aren’t as invested don’t realize that for people who are really committed to both Halloween and the horror culture, they’re in it to win it like all year,” Ralston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can post a video about a horror movie or about a Halloween mask that’s coming out in October in February, and people eat it up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nate Rambaud, known as That Guy Nate on Youtube, started his channel by posting videos of abandoned stores such as Toys ‘R’ Us, a niche interest on the video-sharing platform. Now with more than 440,000 subscribers, his bread and butter is a more spooky niche. He posts videos touring Spirit Halloween locations, which often occupy abandoned stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935838']Rambaud has been to well over 300 Spirit Halloween locations in all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Halloween is so easy to attach to. It doesn’t require anybody else whatsoever,” said Rambaud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christmas “kind of requires other people, your family. You’re out buying stuff for people. And then kids sit around and wait for Christmas — that’s really all they can do for Christmas,” he said. “But Halloween — anyone can associate with Halloween and you can do it any time all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the year-round party, Skelly’s had some work done for his fifth birthday. Allen said the new Skellys for sale this season will have more UV additive to hold up against the sun longer, along with a more durable resin mixture to withstand colder temperatures. And he now has a dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are taking the skeletons on dates. They’re going out to the beach, he’s playing in the sand,” Allen said. “We’ve seen him at weddings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Humphrey, an artist in Texas, helps moderate a Facebook group of Home Depot Halloween superfans. There is a little bit of healthy competition over decorations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times people will say, ‘I know this is not as good as everyone else’s, but I wanted to share this,’” Humphrey said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aaah, it’s that time of year once more. A Spirit Halloween store just sprang up at the strip mall. Target checkouts are awash with gigantic skeletons. And every child in the vicinity is demanding dangerously sharp cutting implements with which to annihilate a pumpkin or five. That means it’s time to start planning your Halloween schedule in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, we have some suggestions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13964054 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing an elaborate headdress and face mask made of beading, PVC, feathers and lace. She is carrying a black parasol.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-768x615.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-1536x1230.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-1920x1538.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goths: not ones to half-ass anything. Especially Halloween. \u003ccite>(Craig Stennett/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gathering-of-the-goths-halloween-festival-tickets-951700219977\">The Gathering of the Goths\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum, Alameda\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>Oct. 19, 5 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goths are dark, rubbery and be-corseted all year-round, so just imagine the effort they put in when they’ve got a haunted ship full of bands, food and something called a “poison and elixir bar” to hang out on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USS Hornet puts on a Halloween spectacular every year, but this one promises to be next level, with performances from four dark wave bands including Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43v0MzucOG0\">Jeweled Snakes\u003c/a> and San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwMiPL6_h4\">Octavian Winters\u003c/a>. There will also be DJs, costume contests, tarot readings and a Halloween art, fashion and decor market. Optional add-ons to the regular tickets include creepy-crawly crafting from \u003ca href=\"https://silvermooncuriosities.com/\">Silver Moon Curiosities\u003c/a> and — oh, but of course — ghost tours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for after-dark visitors to the Hornet to report apparitions, disembodied voices, strange light anomalies and objects moving on their own. But be warned: This might be one evening when distinguishing between the living and the dead is trickier than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1386px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"Two women in witchy costumes stand behind a table of wine bottles and Halloween decorations.\" width=\"1386\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM.png 1386w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-1020x673.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1386px) 100vw, 1386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is about to transform into an activity-packed haunted house. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://dirosa.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0SVT000004aixt2AA\">Halloween at di Rosa Day\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 26, 11 a.m\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>4 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://selbysohn.com/\">Selby Sohn\u003c/a> has always been an artist adept at mixing the playful with the discomfiting. It makes perfect sense then that she’d be providing some of the artwork (and wearable sculptures!) for di Rosa Day — a family-friendly Halloween spectacular being held at the contemporary art gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor sculptures that live on di Rosa’s 217-acre property are mind-bending in the best of times, and on Oct. 26, they’ll be accompanied by trick or treating, a costume parade, hands-on art activities (including making \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope\">zoetropes\u003c/a>!) and, best of all, a haunted house. Not just any haunted house, either — it will be situated inside the gallery’s former winery, a circular stone structure complete with a bell tower that dates back to 1886. Don’t worry, parents — there will also be wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Selby Sohn has previously written for KQED.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1422px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A man in a tuxedo stands in a grand dining room clutching a ouija board.\" width=\"1422\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM.png 1422w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-800x543.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-1020x693.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-768x522.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magician and San Francisco history buff Christian Cagigal. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Christian Cagigal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.christiancagigal.com/tickets1.html\">Christian Cagigal’s Witching Hour\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hotel Majestic, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>October 2\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>25, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If its Trip Advisor and Yelp reviews are to be believed, the Hotel Majestic is a perfect location for any Halloween event. Strange footsteps, lights turning on by themselves and strange bouts of sleep paralysis have all been reported. One reviewer even claimed to see “a ghost girl walking around the hallway across [from] my bed… She had long brown hair and wore a Victorian dress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Cagigal will enchant guests at the 122-year-old hotel with his magic and illusion skills, as well as his vast knowledge of local history. Apparently, Cagigal will also be bringing a variety of interactive, spirit-goading props along, including ouija boards, strange artifacts and antique dolls. If that doesn’t inspire terrifying Victorian ghost children to appear, nothing will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles.png\" alt=\"A Day of the Dead altar, decorated with flowers, skulls and crosses, set up on a green lawn. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1191\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-800x476.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-1020x607.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-768x457.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-1536x915.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-1920x1143.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Niles Altar Walk honors the dead in a variety of beautiful ways every year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Niles Main Street Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.niles.org/annual-events/niles-altar-walk\">The Niles Altar Walk\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Niles Town Plaza, Fremont\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Nov. 3, 2\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>9 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Niles Altar Walk is neither the biggest nor the splashiest Dia de Los Muertos event in the Bay Area. Where it distinguishes itself is in its family-friendly warmth, and a spirit that is rooted entirely in celebrating the dead, be they recently deceased loved ones or long-gone ancestors. Because it eschews commercialism, the downtown celebration has been a genuinely moving occasion every year since it first started in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring traditional performances by local children and adults, as well as opportunities for visitors to honor their own loved ones, this is a Day of the Dead experience that provides enough space for true reflection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1946px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A small boy stares out of his misty window at night. On the other side of the glass, a menacing figure with glowing eyes.\" width=\"1946\" height=\"1088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM.png 1946w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-800x447.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-1020x570.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-768x429.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-1536x859.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-1920x1073.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1946px) 100vw, 1946px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You might wanna close your curtains, kid. Jordan Preston Carter as Mark Petrie in ‘Salem’s Lot.’ \u003ccite>(Max)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Self-Guided Horror Movie Marathon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Everywhere, Bay Area\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fall 2024 has so many promising horror movies on offer, it’s hard to narrow the best ones down into a shortlist. For those of you wanting a theater experience, consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13964075/sinister-and-unhinged-james-mcavoy-is-the-host-from-hell-in-speak-no-evil\">\u003cem>Speak No Evil\u003c/em> \u003c/a>(Sept. 13), a remake of a 2022 Danish movie that’s in possession of one of the most twisted endings in recent memory. Then there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUj_H-4SXPk\">\u003cem>Last Straw\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Sept. 20), a stylish but claustrophobic horror about a lone waitress fending off masked intruders at an all-night diner. Halle Berry leads \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H3yhfkJBnQ\">\u003cem>Never Let Go\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Sept. 20) as a mom raising two kids in a post-apocalyptic nightmare where only the ropes physically tethering them together can keep the family safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d rather stream your horror from under the safety of a blanket, check out the long-awaited remake of Stephen King’s creepy vampire classic \u003cem>Salem’s Lot\u003c/em> (October) on Max. Paramount+ has a \u003cem>Rosemary’s Baby\u003c/em> prequel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJwvOC2i3VQ\">\u003cem>Apartment 7A\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Sept. 27) starring the always-wonderful Diane Wiest as everyone’s favorite homey Satan-worshipper, Mrs. Castevet. Finally, from Netflix, Sam Raimmi and the studios that brought you \u003cem>Barbarian\u003c/em>, there’s \u003cem>Don’t Move\u003c/em> (Oct. 25), a film tailor-made for anyone whose recurring nightmares revolve around needing to run but not being able to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A string quartet performs in a circle, surrounded by candles.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1828\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Listeso String Quartet will be performing Halloween-inspired classics at the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Andrew Chin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/candlelight%3A-a-haunted-evening-of-halloween-classics/33010/\">Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>First Presbyterian Church, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 31, 7 p.m\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading to church isn’t the first thing most people think of doing for a Halloween night out, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.listeso.com/\">Listeso String Quartet\u003c/a> is giving everyone a solid reason to go this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classical musicians will be doing two candlelit performances — at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. — inside Oakland’s beautiful (and appropriately dramatic) First Presbyterian Church. And the setlist consists entirely of Halloween- and horror-inspired songs, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield and songs by Danny Elfman from \u003cem>The Nightmare Before Christmas\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>. Expect to leave thoroughly bewitched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-629417691-scaled-e1726101678653.jpg\" alt=\"Close up on a black and red flower with a yellow center.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Black Knight’ dahlia. \u003ccite>(FlowerPhotos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/create-a-goth-garden-this-halloween-cupertino-tickets-998819956377?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Goth Gardening\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SummerWinds Nursery, Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 13, 10:30 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can hang a skeleton on their doorstep for Halloween, but for the folks who prefer to celebrate the dark arts all year-round, more dedication is required. Which is exactly why Cupertino’s SummerWinds Nursery is throwing a Goth Gardening class in the middle of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-minute, Halloween-inspired guide will teach you how to keep your planter boxes and gardens mysterious and enchanting. By the end, you should know how to distinguish between your black dahlias, black velvet petunias and midnight mystic hyacinths. Before you know it, you’ll have the ghostly garden of your dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with other-worldly bumps on her face, wearing green scrubs and gloves, leans over the body of a grey alien menacingly. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There’s more than one kind of alien — and one kind of terror — in this year’s Into the Dark production, ‘Fatal Abduction.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of ‘Into the Dark: Fatal Abduction’)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.intothedarksf.com/\">Into the Dark: Fatal Abduction\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Mint, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 4\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>Nov. 3, times vary\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the theme was cults. The year before that, it was something to do with seances, and also vampires. This year, the maniacs and drag queens behind \u003cem>Into the Dark\u003c/em> are exploring all things alien abduction, time travel, climate change and — sure, why not? — evil lizard people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, the venue is the Mint, the cast is as huge as the concept, and visitors should anticipate a fully immersive, highly theatrical haunted house vibe. Oh, and the Fang Bang Bar will be back open for all of your libation-related needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year — because of course there’s a twist! — VIP ticket holders will also have access to Justin Cooter’s Roadhouse Bar. Cooter is purportedly an amateur wrestler and alien abductee who’ll be performing, line dancing and indulging in bouts of arm wrestling. This entire event will, of course, be almost unfathomably bonkers — and that’s precisely why you should go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed as Captain America and a woman dressed as a witch walk a dog through streets busy with people in costumes. A dog dressed as a lobster is nearby on a cart.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants (including a lobster dog!) at Sausalito’s 2023 Halloween parade. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/events/halloween-sausalito\">Halloween Sausalito\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Station 1 Firehouse, Sausalito\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 31, 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Halloween events go, there are few as joyful as Sausalito’s annual street party — an explosion of costumed humans and dogs wandering the streets and sharing treats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fun kicks off with a parade starting at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/64/451\">Station One Firehouse\u003c/a> and ending at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/90/840\">Robin Sweeny Park\u003c/a>. The four-block walking distance makes this a delightfully leisurely stroll that’s suitable for all ages and most fitness levels. After a touch of trick or treating at the park with local vendors, the highlight of the evening commences. I am of course referring to the annual dog costume contest. The event is free to enter and there are three categories of competition: best little dog, best big dog (for pooches over 35 pounds) and best human and dog couple. Pity the poor judges having to figure out who to give prizes to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that — get ready to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnWe9Zl2kDY\">feel the zing\u003c/a>! — there’s a screening of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837562/\">Hotel Transylvania\u003c/a>\u003c/em> inside City Hall. Family fun at its finest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-916493350-scaled-e1726106683174.jpg\" alt=\"Barman giving cocktail to woman at a busy Halloween party.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are you a witch? Gilman Brewing Company would like you to pay them a visit. \u003ccite>(Wundervisuals/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://allevents.in/berkeley/vintage-witch-market-in-berkeley/10000971989405477\">Vintage Witch Market\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\">Gilman Brewing Company, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\">Oct. 20, 12\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>5 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A bar full of witches? Surrounded by everything they need to cast their spells? What could possibly go wrong!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it mildly, Gilman Brewing Company’s Vintage Witch Market isn’t your average Halloween-themed pop-up market. For a start, it really is geared towards practicing witches with stalls selling herbs, spell-casting kits, brooms, divination tools and so much more. On top of that, attendees are encouraged to wear their best witch finery. Midway through the day, prizes will be given out to the best sexy witch, vintage witch and movie witch. Just don’t be surprised if one of them puts a spell on you…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Halloween, everyone!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Aaah, it’s that time of year once more. A Spirit Halloween store just sprang up at the strip mall. Target checkouts are awash with gigantic skeletons. And every child in the vicinity is demanding dangerously sharp cutting implements with which to annihilate a pumpkin or five. That means it’s time to start planning your Halloween schedule in earnest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, we have some suggestions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13964054 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing an elaborate headdress and face mask made of beading, PVC, feathers and lace. She is carrying a black parasol.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-768x615.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-1536x1230.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-2153420734-1-1920x1538.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goths: not ones to half-ass anything. Especially Halloween. \u003ccite>(Craig Stennett/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gathering-of-the-goths-halloween-festival-tickets-951700219977\">The Gathering of the Goths\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum, Alameda\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>Oct. 19, 5 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goths are dark, rubbery and be-corseted all year-round, so just imagine the effort they put in when they’ve got a haunted ship full of bands, food and something called a “poison and elixir bar” to hang out on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USS Hornet puts on a Halloween spectacular every year, but this one promises to be next level, with performances from four dark wave bands including Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43v0MzucOG0\">Jeweled Snakes\u003c/a> and San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwMiPL6_h4\">Octavian Winters\u003c/a>. There will also be DJs, costume contests, tarot readings and a Halloween art, fashion and decor market. Optional add-ons to the regular tickets include creepy-crawly crafting from \u003ca href=\"https://silvermooncuriosities.com/\">Silver Moon Curiosities\u003c/a> and — oh, but of course — ghost tours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for after-dark visitors to the Hornet to report apparitions, disembodied voices, strange light anomalies and objects moving on their own. But be warned: This might be one evening when distinguishing between the living and the dead is trickier than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1386px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963750\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"Two women in witchy costumes stand behind a table of wine bottles and Halloween decorations.\" width=\"1386\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM.png 1386w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-1020x673.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-1.29.23 PM-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1386px) 100vw, 1386px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is about to transform into an activity-packed haunted house. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://dirosa.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0SVT000004aixt2AA\">Halloween at di Rosa Day\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 26, 11 a.m\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>4 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://selbysohn.com/\">Selby Sohn\u003c/a> has always been an artist adept at mixing the playful with the discomfiting. It makes perfect sense then that she’d be providing some of the artwork (and wearable sculptures!) for di Rosa Day — a family-friendly Halloween spectacular being held at the contemporary art gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor sculptures that live on di Rosa’s 217-acre property are mind-bending in the best of times, and on Oct. 26, they’ll be accompanied by trick or treating, a costume parade, hands-on art activities (including making \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope\">zoetropes\u003c/a>!) and, best of all, a haunted house. Not just any haunted house, either — it will be situated inside the gallery’s former winery, a circular stone structure complete with a bell tower that dates back to 1886. Don’t worry, parents — there will also be wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Selby Sohn has previously written for KQED.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1422px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A man in a tuxedo stands in a grand dining room clutching a ouija board.\" width=\"1422\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM.png 1422w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-800x543.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-1020x693.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-12.39.22 PM-768x522.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magician and San Francisco history buff Christian Cagigal. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Christian Cagigal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.christiancagigal.com/tickets1.html\">Christian Cagigal’s Witching Hour\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hotel Majestic, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>October 2\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>25, 7:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If its Trip Advisor and Yelp reviews are to be believed, the Hotel Majestic is a perfect location for any Halloween event. Strange footsteps, lights turning on by themselves and strange bouts of sleep paralysis have all been reported. One reviewer even claimed to see “a ghost girl walking around the hallway across [from] my bed… She had long brown hair and wore a Victorian dress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Cagigal will enchant guests at the 122-year-old hotel with his magic and illusion skills, as well as his vast knowledge of local history. Apparently, Cagigal will also be bringing a variety of interactive, spirit-goading props along, including ouija boards, strange artifacts and antique dolls. If that doesn’t inspire terrifying Victorian ghost children to appear, nothing will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles.png\" alt=\"A Day of the Dead altar, decorated with flowers, skulls and crosses, set up on a green lawn. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1191\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-800x476.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-1020x607.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-768x457.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-1536x915.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/niles-1920x1143.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Niles Altar Walk honors the dead in a variety of beautiful ways every year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Niles Main Street Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.niles.org/annual-events/niles-altar-walk\">The Niles Altar Walk\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Niles Town Plaza, Fremont\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Nov. 3, 2\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>9 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Niles Altar Walk is neither the biggest nor the splashiest Dia de Los Muertos event in the Bay Area. Where it distinguishes itself is in its family-friendly warmth, and a spirit that is rooted entirely in celebrating the dead, be they recently deceased loved ones or long-gone ancestors. Because it eschews commercialism, the downtown celebration has been a genuinely moving occasion every year since it first started in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring traditional performances by local children and adults, as well as opportunities for visitors to honor their own loved ones, this is a Day of the Dead experience that provides enough space for true reflection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1946px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A small boy stares out of his misty window at night. On the other side of the glass, a menacing figure with glowing eyes.\" width=\"1946\" height=\"1088\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM.png 1946w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-800x447.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-1020x570.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-768x429.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-1536x859.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-4.57.19 PM-1920x1073.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1946px) 100vw, 1946px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You might wanna close your curtains, kid. Jordan Preston Carter as Mark Petrie in ‘Salem’s Lot.’ \u003ccite>(Max)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Self-Guided Horror Movie Marathon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Everywhere, Bay Area\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fall 2024 has so many promising horror movies on offer, it’s hard to narrow the best ones down into a shortlist. For those of you wanting a theater experience, consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13964075/sinister-and-unhinged-james-mcavoy-is-the-host-from-hell-in-speak-no-evil\">\u003cem>Speak No Evil\u003c/em> \u003c/a>(Sept. 13), a remake of a 2022 Danish movie that’s in possession of one of the most twisted endings in recent memory. Then there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUj_H-4SXPk\">\u003cem>Last Straw\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Sept. 20), a stylish but claustrophobic horror about a lone waitress fending off masked intruders at an all-night diner. Halle Berry leads \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H3yhfkJBnQ\">\u003cem>Never Let Go\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Sept. 20) as a mom raising two kids in a post-apocalyptic nightmare where only the ropes physically tethering them together can keep the family safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d rather stream your horror from under the safety of a blanket, check out the long-awaited remake of Stephen King’s creepy vampire classic \u003cem>Salem’s Lot\u003c/em> (October) on Max. Paramount+ has a \u003cem>Rosemary’s Baby\u003c/em> prequel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJwvOC2i3VQ\">\u003cem>Apartment 7A\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Sept. 27) starring the always-wonderful Diane Wiest as everyone’s favorite homey Satan-worshipper, Mrs. Castevet. Finally, from Netflix, Sam Raimmi and the studios that brought you \u003cem>Barbarian\u003c/em>, there’s \u003cem>Don’t Move\u003c/em> (Oct. 25), a film tailor-made for anyone whose recurring nightmares revolve around needing to run but not being able to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A string quartet performs in a circle, surrounded by candles.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1828\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1373069317-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Listeso String Quartet will be performing Halloween-inspired classics at the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Andrew Chin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/event/candlelight%3A-a-haunted-evening-of-halloween-classics/33010/\">Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>First Presbyterian Church, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 31, 7 p.m\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading to church isn’t the first thing most people think of doing for a Halloween night out, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.listeso.com/\">Listeso String Quartet\u003c/a> is giving everyone a solid reason to go this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classical musicians will be doing two candlelit performances — at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. — inside Oakland’s beautiful (and appropriately dramatic) First Presbyterian Church. And the setlist consists entirely of Halloween- and horror-inspired songs, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield and songs by Danny Elfman from \u003cem>The Nightmare Before Christmas\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>. Expect to leave thoroughly bewitched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-629417691-scaled-e1726101678653.jpg\" alt=\"Close up on a black and red flower with a yellow center.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Black Knight’ dahlia. \u003ccite>(FlowerPhotos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/create-a-goth-garden-this-halloween-cupertino-tickets-998819956377?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Goth Gardening\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SummerWinds Nursery, Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 13, 10:30 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can hang a skeleton on their doorstep for Halloween, but for the folks who prefer to celebrate the dark arts all year-round, more dedication is required. Which is exactly why Cupertino’s SummerWinds Nursery is throwing a Goth Gardening class in the middle of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-minute, Halloween-inspired guide will teach you how to keep your planter boxes and gardens mysterious and enchanting. By the end, you should know how to distinguish between your black dahlias, black velvet petunias and midnight mystic hyacinths. Before you know it, you’ll have the ghostly garden of your dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with other-worldly bumps on her face, wearing green scrubs and gloves, leans over the body of a grey alien menacingly. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/2.-FatalAbductionDoctorAlien02-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There’s more than one kind of alien — and one kind of terror — in this year’s Into the Dark production, ‘Fatal Abduction.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of ‘Into the Dark: Fatal Abduction’)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.intothedarksf.com/\">Into the Dark: Fatal Abduction\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The San Francisco Mint, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 4\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>Nov. 3, times vary\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the theme was cults. The year before that, it was something to do with seances, and also vampires. This year, the maniacs and drag queens behind \u003cem>Into the Dark\u003c/em> are exploring all things alien abduction, time travel, climate change and — sure, why not? — evil lizard people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual, the venue is the Mint, the cast is as huge as the concept, and visitors should anticipate a fully immersive, highly theatrical haunted house vibe. Oh, and the Fang Bang Bar will be back open for all of your libation-related needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year — because of course there’s a twist! — VIP ticket holders will also have access to Justin Cooter’s Roadhouse Bar. Cooter is purportedly an amateur wrestler and alien abductee who’ll be performing, line dancing and indulging in bouts of arm wrestling. This entire event will, of course, be almost unfathomably bonkers — and that’s precisely why you should go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857.jpg\" alt=\"A man dressed as Captain America and a woman dressed as a witch walk a dog through streets busy with people in costumes. A dog dressed as a lobster is nearby on a cart.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-1756859857-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants (including a lobster dog!) at Sausalito’s 2023 Halloween parade. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/events/halloween-sausalito\">Halloween Sausalito\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Station 1 Firehouse, Sausalito\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oct. 31, 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Halloween events go, there are few as joyful as Sausalito’s annual street party — an explosion of costumed humans and dogs wandering the streets and sharing treats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fun kicks off with a parade starting at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/64/451\">Station One Firehouse\u003c/a> and ending at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/90/840\">Robin Sweeny Park\u003c/a>. The four-block walking distance makes this a delightfully leisurely stroll that’s suitable for all ages and most fitness levels. After a touch of trick or treating at the park with local vendors, the highlight of the evening commences. I am of course referring to the annual dog costume contest. The event is free to enter and there are three categories of competition: best little dog, best big dog (for pooches over 35 pounds) and best human and dog couple. Pity the poor judges having to figure out who to give prizes to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that — get ready to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnWe9Zl2kDY\">feel the zing\u003c/a>! — there’s a screening of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837562/\">Hotel Transylvania\u003c/a>\u003c/em> inside City Hall. Family fun at its finest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/GettyImages-916493350-scaled-e1726106683174.jpg\" alt=\"Barman giving cocktail to woman at a busy Halloween party.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are you a witch? Gilman Brewing Company would like you to pay them a visit. \u003ccite>(Wundervisuals/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://allevents.in/berkeley/vintage-witch-market-in-berkeley/10000971989405477\">Vintage Witch Market\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\">Gilman Brewing Company, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\">Oct. 20, 12\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">–\u003c/span>5 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A bar full of witches? Surrounded by everything they need to cast their spells? What could possibly go wrong!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it mildly, Gilman Brewing Company’s Vintage Witch Market isn’t your average Halloween-themed pop-up market. For a start, it really is geared towards practicing witches with stalls selling herbs, spell-casting kits, brooms, divination tools and so much more. On top of that, attendees are encouraged to wear their best witch finery. Midway through the day, prizes will be given out to the best sexy witch, vintage witch and movie witch. Just don’t be surprised if one of them puts a spell on you…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Not much power has leached from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830037/william-friedkin-meets-the-devil-and-father-amorth\">\u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em>\u003c/a> since its first release in 1973. The horror film’s upcoming 50\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary has unleashed an inevitable \u003ca href=\"https://www.theexorcistbeliever.movie/\">new version\u003c/a> out in theaters now, as well as countless other tributes, including articles, special screenings and podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the latter, the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://rss.com/podcasts/takingonthedevil/\">\u003cem>Taking on the Devil\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is notable for its heady, intellectual interrogation of \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em>‘s theological implications. The host is horror movie scholar \u003ca href=\"https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/people/faculty/gmbrand.html\">Gina Brandolino\u003c/a>, who teaches at the University of Michigan. (Full disclosure, I became friends with Brandolino while on a fellowship there.) Her partner in the podcast is \u003ca href=\"https://candler.emory.edu/faculty-profiles/gabrielle-thomas/\">Gabrielle Thomas\u003c/a>, an ordained priest and Emory University professor of early Christianity, who has written about representations of the devil. The two debate questions such as how \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em> helps us think about evil in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904911']The film has had an ongoing impact on pop culture and contemporary Christianity, Thomas told NPR. “I mean, the Church of England I’m ordained in,” she said, “we actually had to go back and look at liturgies for exorcism and deliverance and that kind of thing as a result of that movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long ago in early Christianity, she said, exorcisms were a completely normal ritual that took place before baptism. “Everybody was exorcised because there was an assumption that everyone would be experiencing some kind of demonic oppression, because that’s where the church was at that time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How humans have thought about the devil has evolved” over centuries and across faiths, she added. For example, the devil was once usually presented as being blue in the Christian contexts Thomas studies. He was seen as being like the sea, wild and inexplicable. “We understand that there’s chaos in the sea,” she said. “And it’s relatively recently that we ended up with this red thing with horns and the trident that’s slightly comical… There’s been a sort of ‘nice-ification’ of the devil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDGw1MTEe9k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this era of grinning purple devil emojis, cute cartoon characters like Hot Stuff and sexy demon antiheros on popular shows like \u003cem>Lucifer \u003c/em>and\u003cem> Good Omens\u003c/em>, the devil in \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em> punches with medieval-era power, Thomas says. This demon, Pazuzu, is not palatable. He is grotesque, primal and scary, regardless of your faith or lack thereof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, Thomas said, \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em> is not really concerned with the devil. It’s about the people who observe his possession of a 12-year-old girl named Regan who did nothing worse than play with a Ouija board. Which raises the question: why Regan? And that in turn, Thomas notes, raises an even older question: “Why hasn’t God stepped in and solved all of this? Which is a question that lots of people are asking all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936524']Why do bad things happen to good people? Thomas says this is not an inquiry for God. This is a question for humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I loved about \u003cem>The Exorcist \u003c/em>is that it gives us a [sense of] how to respond, in the sense of these two priests,” she said, referring to the characters Father Karras and Father Merrin, who perform the film’s dramatic exorcism. “They’re not perfect. They’re completely messed up, just as many people on the street would be. But they respond with love,” she said. “They’re absolutely not the most successful in the way that they approach it … but they’re present in it. So Regan is not alone ultimately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And right at a moment when the world feels caught in something profoundly, cosmically terrible, maybe \u003cem>The Exorcist \u003c/em>still carries a message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIxpPMyGcpU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t leave us with a sense of ‘there’s just nothing we can do’,” Thomas said. “It leaves us with a sense of: I can be present. I can be present with the person who’s experiencing evil. I can stand with them. If I’m a priest, I might pray some particular prayers. If I’m not a priest, I might not pray these prayers, but I can be with that person or with that group of people… For me, it was the message of presence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13830037']The director of \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em> always insisted \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@transylvania/the-exorcist-is-not-a-horror-film-50b9ecfa17ea#:~:text=hold%20much%20weight.-,William%20Friedkin%20famously%20said%20that%20he%20didn't%20consider%20The,from%20the%20franchise%20moving%20forward.\">his movie was not a horror movie\u003c/a>. It was a movie about faith. And it reminds us that when we feel helpless and hopeless, there is power in being present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited for the web by Rose Friedman. Produced for the web by Beth Novey.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Not much power has leached from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830037/william-friedkin-meets-the-devil-and-father-amorth\">\u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em>\u003c/a> since its first release in 1973. The horror film’s upcoming 50\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary has unleashed an inevitable \u003ca href=\"https://www.theexorcistbeliever.movie/\">new version\u003c/a> out in theaters now, as well as countless other tributes, including articles, special screenings and podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the latter, the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://rss.com/podcasts/takingonthedevil/\">\u003cem>Taking on the Devil\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is notable for its heady, intellectual interrogation of \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em>‘s theological implications. The host is horror movie scholar \u003ca href=\"https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/people/faculty/gmbrand.html\">Gina Brandolino\u003c/a>, who teaches at the University of Michigan. (Full disclosure, I became friends with Brandolino while on a fellowship there.) Her partner in the podcast is \u003ca href=\"https://candler.emory.edu/faculty-profiles/gabrielle-thomas/\">Gabrielle Thomas\u003c/a>, an ordained priest and Emory University professor of early Christianity, who has written about representations of the devil. The two debate questions such as how \u003cem>The Exorcist\u003c/em> helps us think about evil in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Halloween is here and it is increasingly demanding clever, referential costumes — which can be anxiety-inducing if you take the holiday too seriously (like me). This is especially the case if you are an enormous procrastinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED staffers rounded up some Northern California costume ideas that you can pull together in an afternoon before you head out tonight — whether for a block party or to follow your kids doing the rounds trick-or-treating.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the news\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Santa Cruz sea otter stealing surfboards\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the ultimate California story: a five-year-old sea otter demonstrated “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955604/this-otter-is-hassling-santa-cruz-surfers-and-stealing-their-boards\">unusual behavior\u003c/a>” in Steamer Lane by confronting kayakers and surfers and cajoling them off their boards. 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That decision came days after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the company’s license. Cruise vehicles have been part of several crashes, and have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958630/cruise-robotaxi-fleet-will-be-halved-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco\">occasionally behaved erratically in traffic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cruise costume would require dressing in the company’s orange and white colors, but absolutely \u003ci>needs\u003c/i> a cone on the head as a nod to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruise\">protesters immobilizing the cars by putting traffic cones on their hoods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some more ideas:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/24/san-francisco-1-million-public-toilet\">$1.7 million San Francisco public toilet\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A zombie Oakland A’s player, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952845/oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball\">a reference to the team’s possible move to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2019/6/9/18659049/max-muncy-home-run-madison-bumgarner-go-get-it-out-of-the-ocean-game-over\">“Go get it out of the ocean”\u003c/a> was possibly the baseball quote of the year. 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The most eye-catching is the show’s opening look: neon blue pants with a long orange coat. Or really anything with fur lining and flared pants (remember, it’s the early 2000s). You should also pretend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wijVzNz3IS8&pp=ygUMcmF2ZW4gdmlzaW9u\">get a vision once in a while.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpH_PIqT-q8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grimes Poznikov\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local deep cuts can also make for excellent costumes. Grimes Poznikov was known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Grimes-Poznikov-the-Automatic-Human-Jukebox-13304291.php\">Automatic Human Jukebox of San Francisco\u003c/a> in the 70s and 80s, playing tunes for residents in a makeshift “jukebox” made from a refrigerator box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Poznikov’s box looked like in the day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/02Nhm3t2G5w?feature=shared&t=55\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karl the Fog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic — you can go as the anthropomorphized fog that hangs over San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/karlthefog?lang=en\">has its own social media presence\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Read more:\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955604/this-otter-is-hassling-santa-cruz-surfers-and-stealing-their-boards\">This Otter Is Hassling Santa Cruz Surfers — and Stealing Their Boards\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can honor the otter by wearing a brown or gray shirt and pants, drawing on whiskers and carrying a surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The broken X on top of the headquarters formerly known as Twitter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, downtown San Francisco was terrorized by a flashing ‘X’ logo as part of Elon Musk’s rebrand of the former Twitter headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sign — with seemingly glitchy lights flashing on and off day and night — received 24 complaints from its neighbors in just three days. The complaints cited safety concerns with how the sign was installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Try donning a cardboard ‘X’ and flickering a flashlight on and off by your side. Just don’t repeat Musk’s mistake: be careful not to point it into someone’s eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read more:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956929/san-francisco-takes-down-elon-musks-giant-flashing-x-sign-after-just-3-days\">San Francisco Takes Down Elon Musk’s Giant Flashing ‘X’ Sign After Just 3 Days\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A self-driving Cruise car with a traffic cone on top of it\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over whether or not the self-driving Cruise vehicles should be allowed in San Francisco reached a momentary end as Cruise — owned by General Motors — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965752/cruise-suspends-driverless-robotaxi-service-nationwide\">suspended its driverless operations nationwide due to public safety concerns\u003c/a>. That decision came days after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the company’s license. Cruise vehicles have been part of several crashes, and have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958630/cruise-robotaxi-fleet-will-be-halved-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco\">occasionally behaved erratically in traffic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cruise costume would require dressing in the company’s orange and white colors, but absolutely \u003ci>needs\u003c/i> a cone on the head as a nod to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruise\">protesters immobilizing the cars by putting traffic cones on their hoods\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some more ideas:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/24/san-francisco-1-million-public-toilet\">$1.7 million San Francisco public toilet\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A zombie Oakland A’s player, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952845/oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball\">a reference to the team’s possible move to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2019/6/9/18659049/max-muncy-home-run-madison-bumgarner-go-get-it-out-of-the-ocean-game-over\">“Go get it out of the ocean”\u003c/a> was possibly the baseball quote of the year. This costume could be a twofer: Dodgers’ infielder Max Muncy with a baseball bat and Giants’ pitcher Madison Bumgarner with a fishing rod.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vanessa Carlton (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/vanessa-carlton-san-francisco-puppet-video-18077427.php\">but as a puppet singing throughout San Francisco\u003c/a>). I am not sure how you can make this in an afternoon, but I would like to see it.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Throwbacks and Icons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Princess Mia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco princess Mia Thermopolis from \u003cem>The Princess Diaries\u003c/em> is a TikTok favorite this year. The movie was filmed in the city in 2000, with Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews starring. You just need a white dress, black sunglasses, headphones and a tiara to mimic the movie’s poster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@malu_panico/video/7271450024830061857\" data-video-id=\"7271450024830061857\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@malu_panico\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@malu_panico?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@malu_panico\u003c/a> So ready for princess diary 3 \u003ca title=\"miathermopolis\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/miathermopolis?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#miathermopolis\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"princessdiaries\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/princessdiaries?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#princessdiaries\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Princesses - Riyah\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Princesses-7080689808426781486?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Princesses – Riyah\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teen psychic Raven from Disney Channel’s \u003cem>That’s So Raven\u003c/em> — set in San Francisco in the early 2000s — was an aspiring fashion designer, so there are plenty of fits to choose from. The most eye-catching is the show’s opening look: neon blue pants with a long orange coat. Or really anything with fur lining and flared pants (remember, it’s the early 2000s). You should also pretend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wijVzNz3IS8&pp=ygUMcmF2ZW4gdmlzaW9u\">get a vision once in a while.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gpH_PIqT-q8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gpH_PIqT-q8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grimes Poznikov\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local deep cuts can also make for excellent costumes. Grimes Poznikov was known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Grimes-Poznikov-the-Automatic-Human-Jukebox-13304291.php\">Automatic Human Jukebox of San Francisco\u003c/a> in the 70s and 80s, playing tunes for residents in a makeshift “jukebox” made from a refrigerator box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Poznikov’s box looked like in the day:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/02Nhm3t2G5w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/02Nhm3t2G5w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karl the Fog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic — you can go as the anthropomorphized fog that hangs over San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/karlthefog?lang=en\">has its own social media presence\u003c/a>. Balloons, gray tissue or fabric can help signify the clouds.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy Wiseau from ‘The Room’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a film that will forever be synonymous with San Francisco (for better or for worse), you can go as Tommy Wiseau’s character Johnny from the cult classic \u003cem>The Room\u003c/em>. All you need is an oversized suit and a wiry shoulder-length black wig. Sunglasses would be helpful.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pKAwXLVxuZQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pKAwXLVxuZQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some more ideas:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2022/08/30/a-new-bushman-has-arrived-to-terrify-unsuspecting-fishermans-wharf-tourists-again/\">current SF Bushman on Fisherman’s Wharf\u003c/a> is following in the footsteps of past Bushmen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/characters/article/san-francisco-bushman-where-is-fishermans-wharf-16443278.php\">buskers David Johnson and Gregory Jacobs\u003c/a>, who scared tourists for nearly four decades.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Lady Bird\u003c/em> is a classic Northern California text for girls who fight with their mom. From \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> director Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age debut, the Sacramento teen played by Saoirse Ronan \u003ca href=\"https://thefilm742.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/mv5bnwqynwrhmgetntnkmi00zdgylwfmymqtnjdingfkmzbhowizxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvyndu3mjgwmdq-_v1_sy1000_sx1500_al_-e1512324254204.jpg?w=1200\">can be recreated\u003c/a> with a Catholic school uniform, red hair, and something to wrap around your arm to mimic her pink cast.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmcHVUsjDJc\">Huell Howser\u003c/a> is a public television legend in California; his look can be accomplished with a button-up yellow shirt, a microphone and sunglasses. Also, gray hair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For any duos, \u003cem>MythBusters\u003c/em> was filmed in San Francisco!\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Carly Severn, Adrienne Lee, Marisol Medina-Cadena, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli, Annie Fruit, Sydney Johnson contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ose Kilgore didn’t know Kelsey Fourdyce in life, but she talks about her all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was amazing,” she says after leading a tour group around the Financial District, North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco, sitting on the steps of a church that’s built from the rubble of the 1906 quake. “She spoke three languages, she had a master’s from [Switzerland].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kilgore knows this because, before incorporating Kelsey’s story into her ghost tour for \u003ca href=\"https://thehauntghosttours.com/tours/san-francisco/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-eKpBhAbEiwAqFL0ms-Vo0ut7LRO6UCGK6ZqAhx_tonq9w36-Q23tbb6GeZ0zpfbHFKHoxoC89AQAvD_BwE\">The Haunt\u003c/a>, she went down a “deep-dive, rabbit-hole” researching Fourdyce’s life, not her death. In 2015, Fourdyce’s body was found in the Great Star Theater in Chinatown, an event splashed across headlines in the Bay Area. The story comes up during Kilgore’s four-minute segment on the Great Star, said to house numerous hauntings (none of them seem to be Fourdyce, though).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kilgore felt that if she was going to recount Fourdyce’s death to tourists and local paranormal enthusiasts, she should learn a little more about who she was beyond the grisly details that remain online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was a responsibility [for] me to know about this woman if I’m going to be talking about her all the time,” Kilgore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost tour guide wearing a microphone holds up an iPad in front of a guest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Kilgore, tour guide for The Haunt, checks guest in for a ghost tour in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kilgore’s sensitive approach is indicative of how ghost tours — once silly, campy affairs with jump scares — are changing in San Francisco as culture evolves. Ghost tours tell stories about real people who met gruesome ends, and can drift into true crime. And as true crime comes under increasing criticism for turning the worst moments of peoples’ lives into entertainment, ghost tour guides have begun putting more care into how they treat their subject matter. Instead of sensationalizing murders, many are adding historical context and using the paranormal to explore San Francisco’s fascinating, turbulent past. [aside label='More Ghost Stories' postid='news_11930135,arts_13904118,news_11963206']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime ghost tour guide Christian Cagigal has seen the industry evolve firsthand. He began working for the city’s first ghost tour, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfghosthunt.com/\">San Francisco Ghost Hunt\u003c/a>, in 1998, and took over the business from its original owner in 2016. He’s watched ghost tours grow from a small niche into a pillar of the tourism economy in San Francisco and many major U.S. cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cagigal started, ghost tours rose from a mid-’90s fascination with the strange and unexplainable. “There was kind of, like, \u003cem>Unsolved Mysteries\u003c/em>, that led to \u003cem>X-Files\u003c/em>, that led to [a] pop culture [where] it didn’t matter if you were a believer in ghosts or vampires or monsters or whatnot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Cagigal’s audiences were largely made up of women. But lately, America has found itself in another spooky moment — \u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>, true crime podcasts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps\">congressional hearings on aliens\u003c/a> — and ghost tours now attract far more diverse groups than in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s across the board,” he says. “It’s the girlfriend buying the ticket for the boyfriend cause he’s really into it. It’s the little boy in the family who dragged the whole family of six cause he really wanted to go on this. So I feel like it’s spread across genders. It’s spreading across whether you believe in ghosts or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds to long metal rods while surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tour guide Rose Kilgore (left) shows Colin Rodrigues how to use dowsing rods to attempt communication with spirits during The Haunt ghost tour on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hat broadening of ghost-tour audiences is also shifting the way the guides deal with decades-old stories in 2023. Historically, horror has leaned heavily on tropes, some of which we now recognize as harmful: the house built on a cursed Native American burial ground, the haunted asylum. Along with a new softening of the more problematic aspects of true crime, tour guides find themselves doing what they can to counteract stereotypes while still providing thrills and chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kilgore, historical context does the trick. Her tour starts in the Financial District, right under the Transamerica Pyramid. On a warm, recent Saturday night, as she takes her group from North Beach to Chinatown, she takes a few minutes to explain racist city policies carried out against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891987/chinese-immigrants-were-forced-out-of-eureka-in-1885-heres-how-locals-are-making-that-history-known\">Chinese immigrants in the 1800s\u003c/a>. And as we pause again, she makes sure to demarcate the area’s rough-and-tumble early years from its vibrant present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tend to talk more about the sinister side of the neighborhood’s history,” Kilgore adds, “and we want to tell you it does not represent the neighborhood to this day, a place we absolutely recommend you stick around for. So after this tour, check it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people across the street from a brightly lit building in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The The Haunt ghost tour stops in front of the Great Star Theater in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kilgore is a second-generation ghost hunter who started out investigating Civil War battlefields with her father. Her tours tend to focus on turn-of-the-century life in San Francisco, rather than convincing guests there are specters around every corner or playing up grisly details for gasps. “[There’s some] people who just wanna glamorize it…like really exaggerate it, in a way,” she says of some ghost-hunting enterprises. “And a lot of these things [that are supposedly hauntings] are just scientific phenomena.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagigal, too, tries not to let himself get too wrapped up in the pursuit of a good ghost story if there just isn’t one there. This helps keep his tour grounded in history, and keeps him open to interrogating his own work. “History is a living entity,” he says. “I have a number of biographies that I’m telling, and there was a certain way we would tell them 25 years ago, and now we know better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encounters this the most when it comes to his 15-minute opener on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793099/the-secret-history-of-mary-ellen-pleasant\">Mary Ellen Pleasant\u003c/a>, an abolitionist and businesswoman of early San Francisco who is said to haunt the site of her former mansion. “I’m a non-Black male telling a story of a maligned Black woman,” he says. “In 2016, as I was telling the story every single night, I was still telling the old version of the story, the old script I had in my head, because it was just the easiest to do. But as I would hear my own words, I’d be going, ‘Hmm, let me rethink that one for a bit.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people close their eyes in the center of a group of people across the street from a brightly lit building in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Levi Peterson (center) and Pamela Price participate in a cleansing ritual as part of The Haunt ghost tour on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedhaight.com/\">Haunted Haight Pub Crawl\u003c/a> incorporates ghost-hunting elements — participants are issued electromagnetic frequency readers, devices said to sense spirits — owner and tour guide Tommy Netzband primarily sees ghost stories as a conduit for a city’s history. “History and ghosts, they go hand in hand,” he says while he waits for tonight’s tour group of eight, backlit by the garishly-decorated smoke shop behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His aim with all his tours isn’t to put on a dazzling performance — though he does, to a lot of laughs and wisecracks from the audience. He makes side-eyed observations about psychics (“They never have a last name, do they?”), gives out raffle prizes and attempts to summon lost souls through his friend’s invention called a miracle box (the strange, hushed noises that come out of it are actually eerie). But his goal is mostly to help guests feel more connected to the city by telling the stories of people he can prove lived — and died — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that history be the focal point of whether a ghost is real or not. I love all this equipment, but history is history. You know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a device in their hands and looks intently towards a building in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Price uses an EMF meter to test for ghostly activity during The Haunt ghost tour in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut that history sometimes straddles the line between flashlight-under-the-chin campfire tale and gratuitous gore. Halfway through the tour, he proffers a trigger warning before telling the story of two women brutally attacked and killed on Waller Street in the late ‘60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethics of recounting such horrific details is something Netzband mulled over before including this story on his tour. “I grappled with, ‘Did I wanna include this?’” he says. “I told their story because I really believe that you’re not truly dead until you’re forgotten. So I don’t want [that to happen to] these women, who suffered from the hands of these killers. Some didn’t even get justice. … I really grappled with it, but I’m happy I did, because I think I’m letting these women’s story be told.”[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a common refrain among true crime fans — that telling victims’ stories may bring about justice. But some critics take issue with podcasts and Netflix specials profiting from the worst moments of a person’s life, no matter how long ago they lived. While ghost tours are, at heart, built on such a thing, this crop of guides is updating the local folklore canon with a newfound studiousness and sensitivity — an approach that, considering our history of being socially ahead of the curve, feels very San Franciscan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, you become very empathic in this line of work,” says Netzband. “Hopefully I’ll change peoples’ perceptions on ghosts. That is my goal.”\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://thehauntghosttours.com/\">The Haunt\u003c/a> offers ghost tours daily. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfghosthunt.com/\">San Francisco Ghost Hunt\u003c/a>‘s tours take place Tuesdays-Sundays, with a special VIP magic experience happening Oct. 28-31. \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedhaight.com/san-francisco-ghost-tours\">The Haunted Haight Pub Crawl\u003c/a> takes place Oct. 27-31, with new tours coming soon.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">R\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ose Kilgore didn’t know Kelsey Fourdyce in life, but she talks about her all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was amazing,” she says after leading a tour group around the Financial District, North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco, sitting on the steps of a church that’s built from the rubble of the 1906 quake. “She spoke three languages, she had a master’s from [Switzerland].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kilgore knows this because, before incorporating Kelsey’s story into her ghost tour for \u003ca href=\"https://thehauntghosttours.com/tours/san-francisco/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-eKpBhAbEiwAqFL0ms-Vo0ut7LRO6UCGK6ZqAhx_tonq9w36-Q23tbb6GeZ0zpfbHFKHoxoC89AQAvD_BwE\">The Haunt\u003c/a>, she went down a “deep-dive, rabbit-hole” researching Fourdyce’s life, not her death. In 2015, Fourdyce’s body was found in the Great Star Theater in Chinatown, an event splashed across headlines in the Bay Area. The story comes up during Kilgore’s four-minute segment on the Great Star, said to house numerous hauntings (none of them seem to be Fourdyce, though).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kilgore felt that if she was going to recount Fourdyce’s death to tourists and local paranormal enthusiasts, she should learn a little more about who she was beyond the grisly details that remain online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was a responsibility [for] me to know about this woman if I’m going to be talking about her all the time,” Kilgore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost tour guide wearing a microphone holds up an iPad in front of a guest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/The-Haunt-ghost-tour-Estefany-Gonzalez-001-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Kilgore, tour guide for The Haunt, checks guest in for a ghost tour in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kilgore’s sensitive approach is indicative of how ghost tours — once silly, campy affairs with jump scares — are changing in San Francisco as culture evolves. Ghost tours tell stories about real people who met gruesome ends, and can drift into true crime. And as true crime comes under increasing criticism for turning the worst moments of peoples’ lives into entertainment, ghost tour guides have begun putting more care into how they treat their subject matter. Instead of sensationalizing murders, many are adding historical context and using the paranormal to explore San Francisco’s fascinating, turbulent past. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime ghost tour guide Christian Cagigal has seen the industry evolve firsthand. He began working for the city’s first ghost tour, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfghosthunt.com/\">San Francisco Ghost Hunt\u003c/a>, in 1998, and took over the business from its original owner in 2016. He’s watched ghost tours grow from a small niche into a pillar of the tourism economy in San Francisco and many major U.S. cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cagigal started, ghost tours rose from a mid-’90s fascination with the strange and unexplainable. “There was kind of, like, \u003cem>Unsolved Mysteries\u003c/em>, that led to \u003cem>X-Files\u003c/em>, that led to [a] pop culture [where] it didn’t matter if you were a believer in ghosts or vampires or monsters or whatnot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Cagigal’s audiences were largely made up of women. But lately, America has found itself in another spooky moment — \u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>, true crime podcasts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps\">congressional hearings on aliens\u003c/a> — and ghost tours now attract far more diverse groups than in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s across the board,” he says. “It’s the girlfriend buying the ticket for the boyfriend cause he’s really into it. It’s the little boy in the family who dragged the whole family of six cause he really wanted to go on this. So I feel like it’s spread across genders. It’s spreading across whether you believe in ghosts or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds to long metal rods while surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tour guide Rose Kilgore (left) shows Colin Rodrigues how to use dowsing rods to attempt communication with spirits during The Haunt ghost tour on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hat broadening of ghost-tour audiences is also shifting the way the guides deal with decades-old stories in 2023. Historically, horror has leaned heavily on tropes, some of which we now recognize as harmful: the house built on a cursed Native American burial ground, the haunted asylum. Along with a new softening of the more problematic aspects of true crime, tour guides find themselves doing what they can to counteract stereotypes while still providing thrills and chills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kilgore, historical context does the trick. Her tour starts in the Financial District, right under the Transamerica Pyramid. On a warm, recent Saturday night, as she takes her group from North Beach to Chinatown, she takes a few minutes to explain racist city policies carried out against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891987/chinese-immigrants-were-forced-out-of-eureka-in-1885-heres-how-locals-are-making-that-history-known\">Chinese immigrants in the 1800s\u003c/a>. And as we pause again, she makes sure to demarcate the area’s rough-and-tumble early years from its vibrant present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tend to talk more about the sinister side of the neighborhood’s history,” Kilgore adds, “and we want to tell you it does not represent the neighborhood to this day, a place we absolutely recommend you stick around for. So after this tour, check it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people across the street from a brightly lit building in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The The Haunt ghost tour stops in front of the Great Star Theater in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kilgore is a second-generation ghost hunter who started out investigating Civil War battlefields with her father. Her tours tend to focus on turn-of-the-century life in San Francisco, rather than convincing guests there are specters around every corner or playing up grisly details for gasps. “[There’s some] people who just wanna glamorize it…like really exaggerate it, in a way,” she says of some ghost-hunting enterprises. “And a lot of these things [that are supposedly hauntings] are just scientific phenomena.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagigal, too, tries not to let himself get too wrapped up in the pursuit of a good ghost story if there just isn’t one there. This helps keep his tour grounded in history, and keeps him open to interrogating his own work. “History is a living entity,” he says. “I have a number of biographies that I’m telling, and there was a certain way we would tell them 25 years ago, and now we know better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encounters this the most when it comes to his 15-minute opener on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793099/the-secret-history-of-mary-ellen-pleasant\">Mary Ellen Pleasant\u003c/a>, an abolitionist and businesswoman of early San Francisco who is said to haunt the site of her former mansion. “I’m a non-Black male telling a story of a maligned Black woman,” he says. “In 2016, as I was telling the story every single night, I was still telling the old version of the story, the old script I had in my head, because it was just the easiest to do. But as I would hear my own words, I’d be going, ‘Hmm, let me rethink that one for a bit.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people close their eyes in the center of a group of people across the street from a brightly lit building in an outdoor urban setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/231007-GHOST-TOUR-EG-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Levi Peterson (center) and Pamela Price participate in a cleansing ritual as part of The Haunt ghost tour on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hauntedhaight.com/\">Haunted Haight Pub Crawl\u003c/a> incorporates ghost-hunting elements — participants are issued electromagnetic frequency readers, devices said to sense spirits — owner and tour guide Tommy Netzband primarily sees ghost stories as a conduit for a city’s history. “History and ghosts, they go hand in hand,” he says while he waits for tonight’s tour group of eight, backlit by the garishly-decorated smoke shop behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His aim with all his tours isn’t to put on a dazzling performance — though he does, to a lot of laughs and wisecracks from the audience. He makes side-eyed observations about psychics (“They never have a last name, do they?”), gives out raffle prizes and attempts to summon lost souls through his friend’s invention called a miracle box (the strange, hushed noises that come out of it are actually eerie). But his goal is mostly to help guests feel more connected to the city by telling the stories of people he can prove lived — and died — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that history be the focal point of whether a ghost is real or not. I love all this equipment, but history is history. 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"content": "\u003cp>Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate over candy corn is on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the classic shiny tricolor kernels in autumn’s white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes: its plastic or candle-like texture (depending on who you ask) and the mega-sugar hit it packs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='bayareabites_112659']“I am vehemently pro candy corn. It’s sugar! What is not to love? It’s amazing. It’s like this waxy texture. You get to eat it once a year. It’s tricolor. That’s always fun,” comedian \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@shannonfiedler13/video/7292080976388181290\">Shannon Fiedler gushed on TikTok\u003c/a>. “Also, I know it’s disgusting. Candy corn is objectively kind of gross, but that’s what makes it good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love it or loathe it, market leader Brach’s churns out roughly 30 million pounds of candy corn for the fall season each year, or enough to circle planet Earth about five times, the company says. Last year, that amounted to $75 million of $88.5 million in candy corn sales, according to the consumer research firm Circana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When compared to top chocolate sellers and other popular confections, candy corn is niche. But few other candies have seeped into the culture quite like these pointy little sugar bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other sweets have their haters (we’re looking at you Peeps, Circus Peanuts and Brach’s Peppermint Christmas Nougats), candy corn has launched a world of memes on social media. It inspires home decor and fashion. It has its knitters and crocheters, ombre hairdos, makeup enthusiasts and nail designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it makes its way into nut bowls, trail mixes, atop cupcakes and into Rice Krispie treats. Vans put out a pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.vans.com/en-us/shoes-c00081/customs-image-library-candy-corn-authentic-shoe-pvn0a3vc1498?recipe=9b9d27e5949aaa48051e4e031802dae9\">shoes emblazoned with candy corn\u003c/a>, Nike used its color design for a pair of Dunks, and Kellogg’s borrowed the flavor profile for a version of its Corn Pops cereal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936917\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM.png\" alt=\"A pair of low top sneakers covered with a candy corn design and orange laces. \" width=\"1960\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM.png 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM-800x489.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM-1020x623.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM-160x98.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM-768x469.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM-1536x939.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-24-at-2.24.46-PM-1920x1174.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The candy corn Vans. Yes, these are real. \u003ccite>(Vans.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Singer-actor Michelle Williams is a super fan. She recorded a song last year for Brach’s extolling her love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As consumers rave or rage, Brach’s has turned to fresh mixes and flavors over the years. A Turkey Dinner mix appeared in 2020 and lasted two years. It had a variety of kernels that tasted like green beans, roasted bird, cranberry sauce, stuffing, apple pie and coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won’t be back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that it was newsworthy but perhaps not consumption-worthy,” said Katie Duffy, vice president and general manager of seasonal candy and the Brach’s brand for parent Ferrara Candy Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936315']The universe of other flavors has included s’mores, blueberry, cotton candy, lemon-lime, chocolate and, yes, pumpkin spice. Nerds, another Ferrara brand, has a hard-shell version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when candy corn was invented. Legend has it that Wunderle Candy Co. in Philadelphia first produced it in 1888 in collaboration with a longtime employee, George Renninger. It was called, simply, Butter Cream, with one type named Chicken Corn. That made sense in an agrarian-society kind of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years later, the Goelitz Confectionery Co., now Jelly Belly, began to produce candy corn, calling it Chicken Feed. Boxes were adorned with a rooster logo and the tagline: “Something worth crowing for.“ Brach’s began candy corn production in 1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, kids delight in stacking candy corn in a circle, points in, to create corncob towers. As for nutrition, 19 candy corns amount to about 140 calories and 28 grams of sugar. To be fair, many other Halloween candy staples are in the same ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818.jpg\" alt=\"Three children wearing cat face paint sit at a table and decorate orange frosted cupcakes with pieces of candy corn and other confections.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candy corn cupcakes: Easier to eat than candy corn alone. \u003ccite>(Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ingredient-wise, it couldn’t be more straightforward. Candy corn is basically sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s glaze, salt, gelatin, honey and dyes, among some other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not any sweeter than a lot of other candy, and I’ve tasted every candy there is,” said Richard Hartel, who teaches candy science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='bayareabites_112648']Hartel’s students spend time in the lab making candy. The candy corn lab is among his most popular, he said, because it’s fun to make. His unscientific poll of the nine seniors who last made candy corn turned up no strong feelings either way on actually eating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the flavor, I think, that puts some people off. It sort of tastes like butter and honey. And some people don’t like the texture, but it’s really not that much different than the center of a chocolate-covered butter cream,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candy corn fans have their nibbling rituals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margie Sung is a purist. She’s been partial since childhood to the original tricolor kernels. She eats them by color, starting with the white tip, accompanied by a warm cup of tea or coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To this day, I swear the colors taste different,” she laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fact check: No, according to Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get people started on Brach’s little orange pumpkin candies with the green tops. That’s a whole other conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The candy pumpkins? Disgusting,” said the 59-year-old Sung, who lives in New York. “Too dense, too sweet, not the right consistency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She likes her candy corn “borderline stale for a better consistency.” Sung added: “Unfortunately, I can’t eat too many because I’m a Type 2 diabetic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there are the hoarders. They freeze candy corn for year-round consumption. Others will only eat it mixed with dry roasted peanuts or other salty combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My ratio is 2 to 3 peanuts to 1 piece of candy corn. That’s the only way I eat it,” said Lisa Marsh, who lives in New York and is in her 50s. She stores candy corn in glass jars for year-round pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the haters, 71-year-old fan Diana Peacock of Grand Junction, Colorado, scolded: “They’re nuts. How can they not like it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13933318']Au contraire, Jennifer Walker fights back. The 50-year-old Walker, who lives in Ontario, Canada, called candy corn “big ole lumps of dyed sugar. There’s no flavor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her Ontario compatriot in Sault Ste. Marie, Abby Obenchain, also isn’t a fan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The universe of other flavors has included s’mores, blueberry, cotton candy, lemon-lime, chocolate and, yes, pumpkin spice. Nerds, another Ferrara brand, has a hard-shell version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when candy corn was invented. Legend has it that Wunderle Candy Co. in Philadelphia first produced it in 1888 in collaboration with a longtime employee, George Renninger. It was called, simply, Butter Cream, with one type named Chicken Corn. That made sense in an agrarian-society kind of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years later, the Goelitz Confectionery Co., now Jelly Belly, began to produce candy corn, calling it Chicken Feed. Boxes were adorned with a rooster logo and the tagline: “Something worth crowing for.“ Brach’s began candy corn production in 1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, kids delight in stacking candy corn in a circle, points in, to create corncob towers. As for nutrition, 19 candy corns amount to about 140 calories and 28 grams of sugar. To be fair, many other Halloween candy staples are in the same ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818.jpg\" alt=\"Three children wearing cat face paint sit at a table and decorate orange frosted cupcakes with pieces of candy corn and other confections.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-142019274-scaled-e1698183510818-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candy corn cupcakes: Easier to eat than candy corn alone. \u003ccite>(Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ingredient-wise, it couldn’t be more straightforward. Candy corn is basically sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s glaze, salt, gelatin, honey and dyes, among some other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not any sweeter than a lot of other candy, and I’ve tasted every candy there is,” said Richard Hartel, who teaches candy science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1940px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay.png\" alt=\"A young white woman with long blonde hair, black cat-eye eyeliner and gold septum nose piercing looks over her shoulder towards the rear of the vehicle she's in.\" width=\"1940\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay.png 1940w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay-800x515.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay-768x494.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay-1536x988.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/alex-lemay-1920x1235.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1940px) 100vw, 1940px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paranormal investigator Alex LeMay. If this face doesn’t get you interested in talking to dead people, nothing will.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ll admit it: Back when it first premiered on Syfy in 2004, I used to watch \u003cem>Ghost Hunters\u003c/em> quite religiously. I will also admit that the reason for that is because I grew up in what I would consider an extremely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881990/the-haunted-house-on-lombard-street-that-left-a-trail-of-tragedy\">haunted house\u003c/a>, with parents who steadfastly refused to admit anything paranormal was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get it. Most people feel embarrassed to admit such things exist. But it sucked to have to argue about it nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904911']My initial interest in \u003cem>Ghost Hunters\u003c/em>, then, sprang from the idea that folks could gather tangible proof of the paranormal — be it video footage, photos, voice recordings, or light and sound interactions — and treat it like science instead of superstition. Where the series quickly lost me was in its inescapably bro-y tone. Much of the show’s crew had zero qualms about going into properties where people were experiencing spiritual disturbances and yelling obscenities until something — anything! — happened. (Why you trying to start a fight with dead guys, my dudes?) It did not help that the slew of copycat shows that followed in \u003cem>Ghost Hunters’\u003c/em> wake picked up that Angry Man Yelling cue and ran amok with it. (Exhibit A — *sigh* — \u003cem>Ghost Adventures\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s taken almost 20 years, but some genius at Hulu just finally figured out that TV ghost hunting would be a lot more fun if a bunch of queer psychic people did it. And guess what? It is! The five castmates of new reality show \u003cem>Living for the Dead\u003c/em> use all of that specialty equipment the bro ghost hunters use, in combination with their own unique third-eye-related talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15RhMymDxo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, who’s on this team of glam, gay ghostbusters? Let’s start with delightful psychic medium Logan Taylor, who’s one-part Tyler Henry, one-part Long Island Medium. Quick-witted and wry Roz Hernandez researches locations, but her primary role here seems to be humor-relief. Then there’s witch and spiritual healer Juju Bae, who’s a much-needed calming presence, not to mention a reliable problem-solver. Finally, there’s tough-but-sweet tech expert and empath Alex LeMay and tarot reader Ken Boggle. Oh, and I should probably mention that voiceovers are provided at the open and close of each episode by (*checks notes*) executive producer Kristen Stewart. (You heard me! If the investigators are the angels, Stewart is the Charlie.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936524']The intrepid team travels across the country in their trusty little camper van, exploring public and private locations, doing all the things regular ghost-hunting shows do, just with a little bit — OK, a lot — more flavor. (And also drinking. These clairvoyants love a cocktail.) Not only does their range of personalities make for a better-rounded ghost show, it also makes for a much funnier one. These investigations are awash with quips. (“I felt a tug at my tail… which normally I’d be for,” “I hear gay people,” and “I did say I wanted to feel something from a man in Vegas…” are pure joy within a ghost-hunting context.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Living for the Dead\u003c/em> also benefits from a team that has a much more thoughtful approach to this work than the shows we’ve seen like it before. For example, when this crew gets messages from the other side asking them to leave a room, they simply acknowledge it, get up and leave. (Imagine that, \u003cem>Ghost Adventure\u003c/em> dudes!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2314px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance.png\" alt=\"A group of five men and women sit around a wooden dining table lit only with many white candles.\" width=\"2314\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance.png 2314w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-800x486.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-1020x620.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-768x467.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-1536x933.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-2048x1244.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/queer-seance-1920x1167.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2314px) 100vw, 2314px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Juju, Logan, Ken, Roz and Alex conducting a very gentle seance in an Arizona mansion. And yes, the chandelier is moving. \u003ccite>(Hulu/ ‘Living for the Dead’)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Living for the Dead\u003c/em> team is mostly great, but not always perfect. Early on, many of them are far too willing to jump to “demon” and “non-human entity” as explanations for unpleasant activity at properties. Boggle, particularly in the first few episodes, seems a little too overwrought and dramatic for the work at hand. Thankfully, everyone calms down a bit and the team chemistry really comes together later in the series. The episode set in Las Vegas’ Palamino strip club is particular stellar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935838']If the reasoning for assembling a specifically queer group of paranormal experts for this series seems flimsy, that’s because it is. Kristen Stewart says she based the idea for \u003cem>Living for the Dead\u003c/em> on nothing more than a goofy idea her friend and fellow producer CJ Romero came up with. It was the creators of \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em> (oh, but of course!) who ultimately helped K-Stew bring it to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a skeptic, it’s unlikely that \u003cem>Living for the Dead\u003c/em> will make you a believer. The series is also not going to be to everyone’s taste. But consider this: One of the reasons \u003cem>Ghost Hunters\u003c/em> was so popular in the first place was because it had a bunch of regular, suburban Joes doing the investigations. For those of us who’ve longed to see the supernatural explored by folks that we could better relate to (queers, weirdos, hot goths and trans women who make chlamydia jokes when things get too dark), \u003cem>Living for the Dead\u003c/em> is a total winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if I were a ghost? Well, I know for sure which cast I’d rather have wandering into my bedroom in the middle of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Season 1 of ‘Living for the Dead’ is streaming now on Hulu.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Witches have become ubiquitous in fiction these days, whether they’re being unjustly persecuted in a historical setting, selling love potions in some charming seaside town, or enchanting unsuspecting princesses in a fairytale forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the witches are good, misunderstood, or just plain wicked doesn’t even matter — there are lots of great options coming out this fall. Here are few:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Witches of Bone Hill\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 818px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.50.12-AM.png\" alt=\"A dark blue book cover featuring autumnal vines, a creepy house and a flying fox.\" width=\"818\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.50.12-AM.png 818w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.50.12-AM-800x1185.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.50.12-AM-160x237.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.50.12-AM-768x1138.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Witches of Bone Hill’ by Ava Morgyn.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cordelia Bone is dead broke and drowning in the debts her ex-husband left behind when he skipped town, so it seems like a miracle when she finds out that she and her sister have inherited a massive Victorian house and the estate of a great aunt they didn’t even know they had. Upon arriving at Bone Hill, the sisters discover that the inheritance may be more trouble than it’s worth. From crazed bats to mysteriously sexy groundskeepers to creepy family crypts, everything seems to be telling Cordelia to run in the opposite direction. But in order to claim the fortune she so desperately needs, she must follow her great aunt’s wishes and remain at the ancestral seat of the Bone family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883118']The longer Cordelia stays in the house, the worse her chronic headaches get, and the more she begins to sense that there is some sinister presence seeking to do her harm. But perhaps, if she can get to the bottom of the mystery of why her mother fled Bone Hill and was subsequently murdered years before, she can finally right the wrongs that are haunting her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part family epic, part supernatural thriller, and part gothic romance, Ava Morgyn’s \u003cem>The Witches of Bone Hill\u003c/em> is a haunted house book with a witchy twist. Cordelia is an interesting character, because initially she comes across as very distant and self-absorbed, but as she opens herself to her family history and her magical abilities, she also opens up to the reader and becomes someone compelling to root for. The Bone’s magic itself is not warm and fuzzy either, often manifesting in a rather grisly fashion. It reminds me of \u003cem>Practical Magic —\u003c/em> the novel, not the movie — as there is a bite and a bitterness to this family magic and a strength and coldness to the characters that creates a vivid, if sometimes uncomfortable, world where witches commune with the dead and untangle generations of disfunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that this book does have some pretty gruesome moments, and the animals in it do not fare well. This is definitely a gothy, edgy witch book, not a cozy one!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>After the Forest\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 784px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM.png\" alt=\"A dark green book cover featuring a woman in a long gown walking down a path into a forest. Gold vines decorate the edges of the image.\" width=\"784\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM.png 784w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM-160x244.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM-768x1172.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘After the Forest’ by Kell Woods.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greta and her brother Hans survived being abandoned by their father and almost eaten by a wicked witch, but the village has never forgotten that there is something a bit uncanny about them. People whisper that Greta herself is a witch — and the truth is, they aren’t wrong. Greta took a book of spells from the witch when they fled, and now she uses it to bake enchanted gingerbread that even the most suspicious of villagers can’t resist buying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people begin to disappear and end up torn to pieces, the village blames a rogue bear that Greta encountered in the forest. Greta protects the bear, at first because she feels sorry for it, and then because she realizes that it is not a simple beast at all. Soon the villagers turn on her, and she’ll need all the witchery she can conjure to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13872372']Fairytale enthusiasts will find many familiar stories woven throughout this book. While it might seem at first like a retelling of Hansel and Gretel, it quickly departs from that origin and hints at other tales, from the sisters of Snow White and Rose Red to the bear husband of East of the Sun, West of the Moon. It’s very easy to get lost in the whimsy, romance, and transformative magic as Greta navigates the different ways of being a witch and determines which choices might make her wicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The various tropes of fairytales are retold here more than they are subverted, and in some instances, that feels a bit uncomfortable. Specifically, there is an evil dwarf character in the book, which feels notable because he is the only dwarf character. While I understand that the inclusion of this character type is in keeping with the source material, I think it would have been more interesting to examine (and perhaps subvert) this trope and its origins rather than reinforcing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love for and understanding of fairytales runs deep in Kell Woods’ book, and it’s sure to interest anyone who has an appreciation for dark forests, enchanted princes, and clever witches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Night of the Witch\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM.png\" alt=\"A dark green book cover featuring the phases of the moon in lime green.\" width=\"824\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM.png 824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM-800x1179.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM-160x236.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM-768x1131.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Night of the Witch’ by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Fritzi’s village is destroyed by witch hunters and her cousin is taken, she follows after them, intent on saving her only surviving family and bringing justice for the dead. When she accidentally catches up with the wrong group of witch hunters, she disappears a witch they’ve captured with her magic, but is then arrested herself by the group’s captain, Otto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935438']Otto is deep undercover. After his mother was burned by witch hunters, he joined their ranks and became a captain to break them from the inside. He and his sister Hilde have been working on a complex plan to free over 100 people doomed for the pyres. But when he goes to arrest Hilde and put their plan into action, Hilde vanishes, leaving Fritzi in her place, threatening their plans — unless Otto is able to convince Fritizi to help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they may just be strong enough to take down the witch hunters and their evil commander for good. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The longer Cordelia stays in the house, the worse her chronic headaches get, and the more she begins to sense that there is some sinister presence seeking to do her harm. But perhaps, if she can get to the bottom of the mystery of why her mother fled Bone Hill and was subsequently murdered years before, she can finally right the wrongs that are haunting her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part family epic, part supernatural thriller, and part gothic romance, Ava Morgyn’s \u003cem>The Witches of Bone Hill\u003c/em> is a haunted house book with a witchy twist. Cordelia is an interesting character, because initially she comes across as very distant and self-absorbed, but as she opens herself to her family history and her magical abilities, she also opens up to the reader and becomes someone compelling to root for. The Bone’s magic itself is not warm and fuzzy either, often manifesting in a rather grisly fashion. It reminds me of \u003cem>Practical Magic —\u003c/em> the novel, not the movie — as there is a bite and a bitterness to this family magic and a strength and coldness to the characters that creates a vivid, if sometimes uncomfortable, world where witches commune with the dead and untangle generations of disfunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that this book does have some pretty gruesome moments, and the animals in it do not fare well. This is definitely a gothy, edgy witch book, not a cozy one!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>After the Forest\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 784px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM.png\" alt=\"A dark green book cover featuring a woman in a long gown walking down a path into a forest. Gold vines decorate the edges of the image.\" width=\"784\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM.png 784w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM-160x244.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.55.34-AM-768x1172.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘After the Forest’ by Kell Woods.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greta and her brother Hans survived being abandoned by their father and almost eaten by a wicked witch, but the village has never forgotten that there is something a bit uncanny about them. People whisper that Greta herself is a witch — and the truth is, they aren’t wrong. Greta took a book of spells from the witch when they fled, and now she uses it to bake enchanted gingerbread that even the most suspicious of villagers can’t resist buying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people begin to disappear and end up torn to pieces, the village blames a rogue bear that Greta encountered in the forest. Greta protects the bear, at first because she feels sorry for it, and then because she realizes that it is not a simple beast at all. Soon the villagers turn on her, and she’ll need all the witchery she can conjure to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fairytale enthusiasts will find many familiar stories woven throughout this book. While it might seem at first like a retelling of Hansel and Gretel, it quickly departs from that origin and hints at other tales, from the sisters of Snow White and Rose Red to the bear husband of East of the Sun, West of the Moon. It’s very easy to get lost in the whimsy, romance, and transformative magic as Greta navigates the different ways of being a witch and determines which choices might make her wicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The various tropes of fairytales are retold here more than they are subverted, and in some instances, that feels a bit uncomfortable. Specifically, there is an evil dwarf character in the book, which feels notable because he is the only dwarf character. While I understand that the inclusion of this character type is in keeping with the source material, I think it would have been more interesting to examine (and perhaps subvert) this trope and its origins rather than reinforcing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love for and understanding of fairytales runs deep in Kell Woods’ book, and it’s sure to interest anyone who has an appreciation for dark forests, enchanted princes, and clever witches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Night of the Witch\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM.png\" alt=\"A dark green book cover featuring the phases of the moon in lime green.\" width=\"824\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM.png 824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM-800x1179.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM-160x236.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-1.58.34-AM-768x1131.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Night of the Witch’ by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Fritzi’s village is destroyed by witch hunters and her cousin is taken, she follows after them, intent on saving her only surviving family and bringing justice for the dead. When she accidentally catches up with the wrong group of witch hunters, she disappears a witch they’ve captured with her magic, but is then arrested herself by the group’s captain, Otto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Otto is deep undercover. After his mother was burned by witch hunters, he joined their ranks and became a captain to break them from the inside. He and his sister Hilde have been working on a complex plan to free over 100 people doomed for the pyres. But when he goes to arrest Hilde and put their plan into action, Hilde vanishes, leaving Fritzi in her place, threatening their plans — unless Otto is able to convince Fritizi to help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they may just be strong enough to take down the witch hunters and their evil commander for good. But first, they’re going to have to learn to trust each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This historical fantasy, by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis, is technically YA, but it works as a crossover into adult fantasy romance. The main focus is definitely on the relationship that builds between Fritzi and Otto, and they have some very charming moments that makes the romantic plotline feel earnest and satisfying. The connections to actual history and Germanic folk beliefs feel fairly tenuous, and there’s no attempt to make the characters think or talk like anything other than modern teens so, at times, reference to actual historical elements feels a bit jarring. But as long as I kept it in my head that this was full-on fantasy, it clipped along very satisfyingly, delivering on the witch vs. witch hunter trope that is the reason to read it in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Caitlyn Paxson is a writer and performer. She is a regular reviewer for NPR Books and \u003ca href=\"http://www.quillandquire.com/\">Quill & Quire\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=3+witchy+books+for+fall+that+offer+fright+and+delight&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ask Northern Californians what local monsters they think about the most, and invariably you will hear a list of very bad people. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/17396/are-you-a-gentrifier-this-quiz-can-tell-you\">Gentrifiers\u003c/a>! The people who spread lies about San Francisco being \u003cem>The Purge\u003c/em> now! That one guy who hoses down homeless people! Folks who move in next door to music venues, then make noise complaints! Erratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959303/sf-activists-protest-immobilize-driverless-cars-with-traffic-cones\">ghost cars\u003c/a>! You get the gist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Halloween season at the moment, though, so it’s the perfect time to think beyond the usual suspects and venture into our region’s very real history of dealing with \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> monsters. The mysterious kind. The kind that people laugh at witnesses for reporting in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five major ones you might not have realized were ever in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg\" alt=\"A mysterious bigfoot figure, walking through a foggy forest and silhouetted against trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bigfoot, doing his thing. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bigfoot in Antioch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1869, an unsuspecting hunter wandered back to his campsite in Antioch one evening to find his belongings in disarray. As he tried to make sense of the scene, he noticed something else — enormous footprints that closely resembled the shape of a man’s foot, rather than an animal’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunter was so confounded that, rather than clean up the mess, he opted to hide out in some bushes 20 yards away and stake out whatever had paid the camp an earlier visit. After two hours, the mysterious beast did indeed come back and the hunter was able to observe a bonafide Bigfoot for about 20 minutes. The hunter later reported that the creature was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“5 feet high and disproportionately broad and square at the shoulders with arms of great length. The legs were very short and the body long. The head was small compared to the rest of the creature and appeared to be set upon his shoulders without a neck. The whole was covered with dark brown and cinnamon-colored hair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So… a tall Ewok then? (Sign me up!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904911']The hunter hung around long enough to see Overgrown Wicket meet up with another Bigfoot that was “unmistakenly female.” (That means boobs, probably?) To his surprise, after telling other hunters in the area what he had witnessed, the Bigfoot-spotter found that almost no one was surprised. Most other folks reported seeing the signature giant footprints and at least one other man had seen the furry fam as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rupert Matthews, author of \u003cem>Bigfoot: True-Life Encounters With Legendary Ape-Men\u003c/em> notes that: “This acceptance of the reality of the creatures by those who spent a lot time in the forested hills is a feature of early cases [of Bigfoot sightings] that surfaces again and again. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg\" alt=\"A gorgeous blue lake surrounded by green pine trees. A small green island sits in the center of the water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe: May or may not be home to a giant serpent monster. \u003ccite>(Anjelika Gretskaia/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tahoe Tessie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a bad joke set-up: Two nuns, a couple of cops, one optometrist and 10 USPS workers walk into the countryside… yadda-yadda-yadda… punchline about a sea serpent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except, that is the actual list of people who reported seeing some kind of aquatic monster in the waters of Lake Tahoe in the mid-1980s. One of the cops, Reno’s Kris Beebe, said the creature — nicknamed “Tahoe Tessie” for funsies — was “dark gray or black” and “a minimum of 10 feet long.” The other witnesses described a featureless body that was “fast-moving and undulating, but strangely devoid of identifying attributes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that nothing of that size had ever been proven to live in the 1,590-foot-deep lake, fishing guide Mickey Daniels told the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner:\u003c/em> “I think there’s something there. I’ve talked to about a hundred people who’ve seen it. What do I do — call them liars?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Female, red vampire lips with dripping blood, viewed in close-up.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-2048x1193.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-491791494-1920x1118.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1978, a Daly City resident named Kooki Davis claimed publicly to be a full-fledged vampire. \u003ccite>(Remains/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Vampires in Daly City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1978, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> dedicated a story to Kooki Davis, a Daly City-dwelling hair stylist from Trinidad, who was living full-time as a vampire. “She has long fangs, razor-sharp fingernails and blood dripping from her lips,” the paper reported, like that was perfectly normal. “She speaks with a Transylvania twang and her ‘come hither’ stare sends icy fingers up and down your spine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904118']In the story, Davis explained that she’d become a “certified” vampire five years ago. And if you’re wondering what \u003cem>that\u003c/em> exam involves, she elaborated: “To become a vampire, you have to be bitten by a vampire. Once bitten, you become a victim. Victims have to serve an apprenticeship to learn the ropes … There’s a lot of activity in San Francisco, so you can earn your merit badges pretty fast — as opposed to Dubuque or Wichita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This is the value of newspapers, friends. Movies never tell anyone that in order to rid oneself of a vampire problem, moving to Iowa or Kansas will solve it, but here we are.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of her interactions with the general public, Davis noted that at work, at the end of each haircut, her “trademark” was to give each of her customers a “gentle bite” on the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Man, that salon must have had amazing insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks up at a flying mothman figure in the sky that's silhouetted against the moon at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone spotted this guy on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge. Not cool, Mothman. Not cool. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Sacramento Mothman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As all good cryptid nerds know, Mothman primarily enjoys hanging out in West Virginia. (Probably because 80% of the state is forested, and also because approximately 80% of people who don’t live in West Virginia assume that everyone who does is crazy.) For decades there, witnesses have been describing a 7-foot-tall man with red eyes and wings, with a wingspan between 10 and 15 feet wide, who can fly at speeds too fast to catch on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Mothman must have had himself a little Californian vacation in 2009, because a photographer named Lamont Greer claims to have seen the humanoid hanging around on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge one night. Greer had been taking photos of the bridge at the time and was stunned by what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13933318']“I had just finished filming the back side of the bridge so I was bent down putting my camera back in my camera bag,” Greer told The History Channel’s \u003cem>MonsterQuest\u003c/em>, “and I kind of felt something looking at me. When I first saw it, I didn’t know what it was … but then my eyes kind of focused on it a bit better. It spread wings and then started flying off. It wasn’t a man, it wasn’t a bird. It was absolutely strange and unique. If it wanted to come down and hurt someone — attack — it absolutely could cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento sighting is not the only time Mothman has showed up in a city. In 2017, a bunch of people reported seeing him hanging around Chicago — including at the airport. A moth’s gotta vacation, you guys. A moth’s gotta vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg\" alt=\"Two slender sea monsters with long tails and small fins make turns in the ocean as light streams through from the sky.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-768x553.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiple fishermen in Santa Cruz and Monterey used to report a sea serpent lurking in the water. They nicknamed it ‘The Old Man of Monterey Bay’ and also, for some reason, ‘Bobo.’ \u003ccite>( Victor Habbick Visions/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Old Man of Monterey Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a hundred years ago, the fishermen of Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz waterfront started reporting seeing an alarming dragon-like creature circling their boats. Some witnesses said the strange beast had a very large head, extremely long tail and a series of pointed spines along its back. A Monterey man named Dominic Costanza said the creature was about four feet in width and had “what looked like the face of a very old man or a monkey … with two eyes the size of breakfast buns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Never mind the creature — what the hell is a breakfast bun?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March 1940, the creature had two nicknames — “The Old Man of Monterey Bay” or “Bobo,” depending on your preference — and it had prompted around 30 fishing captains to make reports to the \u003cem>Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Geoffrey Dunn — a man whose family had been in Santa Cruz for generations — wrote in \u003cem>Santa Cruz Style\u003c/em> that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Several of my uncles and cousins reportedly encountered the monster while fishing in their small, double-ended fishing vessels … My late uncle Mario Stagnaro once recounted for me the afternoon that a badly shaken fisherman, Bill Totten, returned to the docks following a day of fishing in June of 1941. ‘I saw that serpent or monster out there!’ he screamed. ‘Get me out of here!’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Totten apparently did not return to the wharf for some time. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ask Northern Californians what local monsters they think about the most, and invariably you will hear a list of very bad people. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/17396/are-you-a-gentrifier-this-quiz-can-tell-you\">Gentrifiers\u003c/a>! The people who spread lies about San Francisco being \u003cem>The Purge\u003c/em> now! That one guy who hoses down homeless people! Folks who move in next door to music venues, then make noise complaints! Erratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959303/sf-activists-protest-immobilize-driverless-cars-with-traffic-cones\">ghost cars\u003c/a>! You get the gist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Halloween season at the moment, though, so it’s the perfect time to think beyond the usual suspects and venture into our region’s very real history of dealing with \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> monsters. The mysterious kind. The kind that people laugh at witnesses for reporting in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five major ones you might not have realized were ever in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg\" alt=\"A mysterious bigfoot figure, walking through a foggy forest and silhouetted against trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1319248043-scaled-e1696541239104-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bigfoot, doing his thing. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bigfoot in Antioch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1869, an unsuspecting hunter wandered back to his campsite in Antioch one evening to find his belongings in disarray. As he tried to make sense of the scene, he noticed something else — enormous footprints that closely resembled the shape of a man’s foot, rather than an animal’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunter was so confounded that, rather than clean up the mess, he opted to hide out in some bushes 20 yards away and stake out whatever had paid the camp an earlier visit. After two hours, the mysterious beast did indeed come back and the hunter was able to observe a bonafide Bigfoot for about 20 minutes. The hunter later reported that the creature was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The hunter hung around long enough to see Overgrown Wicket meet up with another Bigfoot that was “unmistakenly female.” (That means boobs, probably?) To his surprise, after telling other hunters in the area what he had witnessed, the Bigfoot-spotter found that almost no one was surprised. Most other folks reported seeing the signature giant footprints and at least one other man had seen the furry fam as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rupert Matthews, author of \u003cem>Bigfoot: True-Life Encounters With Legendary Ape-Men\u003c/em> notes that: “This acceptance of the reality of the creatures by those who spent a lot time in the forested hills is a feature of early cases [of Bigfoot sightings] that surfaces again and again. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg\" alt=\"A gorgeous blue lake surrounded by green pine trees. A small green island sits in the center of the water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1251586077-scaled-e1696542414253-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe: May or may not be home to a giant serpent monster. \u003ccite>(Anjelika Gretskaia/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tahoe Tessie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a bad joke set-up: Two nuns, a couple of cops, one optometrist and 10 USPS workers walk into the countryside… yadda-yadda-yadda… punchline about a sea serpent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except, that is the actual list of people who reported seeing some kind of aquatic monster in the waters of Lake Tahoe in the mid-1980s. One of the cops, Reno’s Kris Beebe, said the creature — nicknamed “Tahoe Tessie” for funsies — was “dark gray or black” and “a minimum of 10 feet long.” The other witnesses described a featureless body that was “fast-moving and undulating, but strangely devoid of identifying attributes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that nothing of that size had ever been proven to live in the 1,590-foot-deep lake, fishing guide Mickey Daniels told the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner:\u003c/em> “I think there’s something there. I’ve talked to about a hundred people who’ve seen it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the story, Davis explained that she’d become a “certified” vampire five years ago. And if you’re wondering what \u003cem>that\u003c/em> exam involves, she elaborated: “To become a vampire, you have to be bitten by a vampire. Once bitten, you become a victim. Victims have to serve an apprenticeship to learn the ropes … There’s a lot of activity in San Francisco, so you can earn your merit badges pretty fast — as opposed to Dubuque or Wichita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This is the value of newspapers, friends. Movies never tell anyone that in order to rid oneself of a vampire problem, moving to Iowa or Kansas will solve it, but here we are.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of her interactions with the general public, Davis noted that at work, at the end of each haircut, her “trademark” was to give each of her customers a “gentle bite” on the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Man, that salon must have had amazing insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks up at a flying mothman figure in the sky that's silhouetted against the moon at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1327260846-scaled-e1696543232911-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone spotted this guy on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge. Not cool, Mothman. Not cool. \u003ccite>(David Wall/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Sacramento Mothman\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As all good cryptid nerds know, Mothman primarily enjoys hanging out in West Virginia. (Probably because 80% of the state is forested, and also because approximately 80% of people who don’t live in West Virginia assume that everyone who does is crazy.) For decades there, witnesses have been describing a 7-foot-tall man with red eyes and wings, with a wingspan between 10 and 15 feet wide, who can fly at speeds too fast to catch on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Mothman must have had himself a little Californian vacation in 2009, because a photographer named Lamont Greer claims to have seen the humanoid hanging around on top of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge one night. Greer had been taking photos of the bridge at the time and was stunned by what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I had just finished filming the back side of the bridge so I was bent down putting my camera back in my camera bag,” Greer told The History Channel’s \u003cem>MonsterQuest\u003c/em>, “and I kind of felt something looking at me. When I first saw it, I didn’t know what it was … but then my eyes kind of focused on it a bit better. It spread wings and then started flying off. It wasn’t a man, it wasn’t a bird. It was absolutely strange and unique. If it wanted to come down and hurt someone — attack — it absolutely could cause damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento sighting is not the only time Mothman has showed up in a city. In 2017, a bunch of people reported seeing him hanging around Chicago — including at the airport. A moth’s gotta vacation, you guys. A moth’s gotta vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg\" alt=\"Two slender sea monsters with long tails and small fins make turns in the ocean as light streams through from the sky.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-768x553.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-147219986-scaled-e1696546415739-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiple fishermen in Santa Cruz and Monterey used to report a sea serpent lurking in the water. They nicknamed it ‘The Old Man of Monterey Bay’ and also, for some reason, ‘Bobo.’ \u003ccite>( Victor Habbick Visions/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Old Man of Monterey Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a hundred years ago, the fishermen of Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz waterfront started reporting seeing an alarming dragon-like creature circling their boats. Some witnesses said the strange beast had a very large head, extremely long tail and a series of pointed spines along its back. A Monterey man named Dominic Costanza said the creature was about four feet in width and had “what looked like the face of a very old man or a monkey … with two eyes the size of breakfast buns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Never mind the creature — what the hell is a breakfast bun?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March 1940, the creature had two nicknames — “The Old Man of Monterey Bay” or “Bobo,” depending on your preference — and it had prompted around 30 fishing captains to make reports to the \u003cem>Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, Geoffrey Dunn — a man whose family had been in Santa Cruz for generations — wrote in \u003cem>Santa Cruz Style\u003c/em> that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Several of my uncles and cousins reportedly encountered the monster while fishing in their small, double-ended fishing vessels … My late uncle Mario Stagnaro once recounted for me the afternoon that a badly shaken fisherman, Bill Totten, returned to the docks following a day of fishing in June of 1941. ‘I saw that serpent or monster out there!’ he screamed. ‘Get me out of here!’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Totten apparently did not return to the wharf for some time. Play nice, Bobo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>October is upon us once more. Pumpkins are springing up on doorsteps, costumes are being prepped and candy is appearing in bulk on store shelves. If you’re planning to pre-game Halloween for the entire month, there’s no better author to get you in the mood than San Francisco’s own Shirley Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919589']When thinking of Jackson’s scariest tales, horror fans are usually inclined to pick up \u003cem>The Haunting of Hill House, \u003c/em>the deliciously claustrophobic \u003cem>We Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c/em> or the macabre short story that put Jackson on the map, \u003cem>The Lottery\u003c/em>. But Jackson has a wealth of other disturbing short stories that are just as likely to give you chills on a dark October night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the creepiest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935464\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952.jpg\" alt=\"A small child stands behind a pane of frosted glass, with their mouth pressed up against the glass in a scream.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles, the subject of a six-page story by Jackson, is a mean little so-and-so. \u003ccite>(Ugurhan/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Charles’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s be honest. There is nothing more terrifying than small, uncontrollable children. Children who won’t stop injuring their classmates. Children who physically attack their teacher without a care in the world. Children who remorselessly disrupt the world around them for attention and their own sadistic pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of you unwilling to commit to reading Lionel Shriver’s disturbing masterpiece \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/80660\">\u003cem>We Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, there’s Jackson’s \u003cem>Charles\u003c/em>, just six pages long and seeped in the same themes. Ultimately, this 1948 short story is about the blind faith we put in our children, the idea that sometimes nature wins out over nurture and, most of all, the unflinching judgement parents receive from other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580.jpg\" alt=\"A close up shot of a dental X-ray, showing upper and lower molars. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-1536x1029.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teeth: All fine and dandy until one of them rebels and takes over your life. \u003ccite>(Glow Images/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Tooth’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The only thing worse than a rotten child like Charles is a rotten tooth — and an overnight, out-of-town trip to the dentist, all while tripping on codeine, whiskey and sleep aids. In the course of \u003cem>The Tooth\u003c/em>, the story’s heroine, Clara, feels herself slowly but surely slipping away, as unbearable pain — and the almost omnipotent cause of it — takes over. Her ordeal doesn’t end with the anticipated sanctuary of her dentist’s office, either. Instead, she falls even further into a sunken place forced on her by a rebelling part of her own body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her tooth,” Jackson writes, “seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle, and only as such was she of interest to the dentist and the nurse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In granting so much control, so viscerally, to Clara’s molar, Jackson somehow conjures David Cronenberg-levels of body horror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A 1950s-era photo of a white couple sitting at a square dining table covered in a white cloth. He is sipping from a coffee cup as she smiles at him, holding a tea cup aloft. There is a half-eaten cake on the table in front of them.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1973\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-800x617.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-768x592.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-1536x1184.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-2048x1578.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-1920x1480.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What if you never really know what your spouse is thinking? \u003ccite>(George Marks/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘What a Thought’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scariest thing about \u003cem>What a Thought\u003c/em> is the way it so completely upends an average scene of domesticity. The story, about a typical wife and her perfectly pleasant husband, sees the woman of the house, for no apparent reason, fantasizing about killing her spouse. The casual nature of her invasive thoughts make murder seem positively normal — as easy as making a cup of coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Jackson’s protagonist is making life and death decisions with all the passion and intensity one might put into making a roast dinner is what ultimately makes \u003cem>What a Thought\u003c/em> so disturbing. Do you ever really know what your partner is thinking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1812px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM.png\" alt=\"A man in a suit, viewed from behind, walks down a cold, concrete and mysterious corridor in the half light.\" width=\"1812\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM.png 1812w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM-800x548.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM-1020x699.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM-768x526.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-27-at-1.05.23-AM-1536x1053.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1812px) 100vw, 1812px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is that you, James Harris? \u003ccite>(Gremlin/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Daemon Lover’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This 1949 short story shares a name with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HbUHw_EYmI\">traditional Scottish folk song\u003c/a> and makes nods to Elizabeth Bowen’s 1945 story, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3302893-the-demon-lover\">\u003cem>The Demon Lover\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, both of which convey the eerie consequences of a broken promise of marriage. Jackson’s rendition takes the form of a nightmare that spirals and slowly accelerates, despite staying firmly rooted in everyday environs. (If there was a movie to compare it to, it would be \u003cem>Rosemary’s Baby\u003c/em>, albeit with less Satanists.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Daemon Lover\u003c/em> finds Jackson’s unnamed protagonist groomless on her wedding day and searching the streets to find him. Like a bad dream where you can never quite reach your destination, she encounters multiple hurdles and humans that are unsympathetic to her anxiety-ridden plight. By the end, it’s unclear if this bride is indeed jilted or just wrapped up in her own delusions — the product of being 34, unmarried and shunned by society because of it. One for the single ladies!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935468\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image looking out over a peaceful lake with trees in the foreground on the shoreline and mountains in the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1144570392-scaled-e1695854121256-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh, it all looks picturesque now, but what happens when your car and phone stop working and no one will bring you food and fuel? \u003ccite>(Around the World Photography/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Summer People’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine what would happen if everyone in \u003cem>Succession\u003c/em> lost their lackeys and had to fend for themselves for once. Then imagine what would happen if those lackeys actively turned on the Roys while the family was out in the middle of nowhere. That’s the scenario Robert and Janet Allison are faced with in \u003cem>The Summer People\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883118']Obliviously elite, and disdainful of those they perceive to be beneath their stature, the Allisons find themselves the victims of their own self-entitlement in this 1950 allegory. When the couple decides to extend their vacation in their remote holiday cabin, the townspeople around them don’t take too kindly to it. As the locals cease to tend to the Allisons, the couple soon finds themselves without kerosene, groceries or a working vehicle. Their phone line goes dead, the local mechanic can’t be reached and the Allisons wind up isolated and helpless, having grossly overestimated their ability to get whatever they want, whenever they want, from the people around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson eerily weaves a sense of creeping peril into the story, creating an ominous atmosphere that slowly envelops the Allisons’ home. After reading this one, you’ll never outstay your welcome anywhere, ever again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When thinking of Jackson’s scariest tales, horror fans are usually inclined to pick up \u003cem>The Haunting of Hill House, \u003c/em>the deliciously claustrophobic \u003cem>We Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c/em> or the macabre short story that put Jackson on the map, \u003cem>The Lottery\u003c/em>. But Jackson has a wealth of other disturbing short stories that are just as likely to give you chills on a dark October night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five of the creepiest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935464\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952.jpg\" alt=\"A small child stands behind a pane of frosted glass, with their mouth pressed up against the glass in a scream.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-1305855030-scaled-e1695847008952-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles, the subject of a six-page story by Jackson, is a mean little so-and-so. \u003ccite>(Ugurhan/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Charles’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s be honest. There is nothing more terrifying than small, uncontrollable children. Children who won’t stop injuring their classmates. Children who physically attack their teacher without a care in the world. Children who remorselessly disrupt the world around them for attention and their own sadistic pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of you unwilling to commit to reading Lionel Shriver’s disturbing masterpiece \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/80660\">\u003cem>We Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, there’s Jackson’s \u003cem>Charles\u003c/em>, just six pages long and seeped in the same themes. Ultimately, this 1948 short story is about the blind faith we put in our children, the idea that sometimes nature wins out over nurture and, most of all, the unflinching judgement parents receive from other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580.jpg\" alt=\"A close up shot of a dental X-ray, showing upper and lower molars. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82959666-scaled-e1695851692580-1536x1029.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teeth: All fine and dandy until one of them rebels and takes over your life. \u003ccite>(Glow Images/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Tooth’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The only thing worse than a rotten child like Charles is a rotten tooth — and an overnight, out-of-town trip to the dentist, all while tripping on codeine, whiskey and sleep aids. In the course of \u003cem>The Tooth\u003c/em>, the story’s heroine, Clara, feels herself slowly but surely slipping away, as unbearable pain — and the almost omnipotent cause of it — takes over. Her ordeal doesn’t end with the anticipated sanctuary of her dentist’s office, either. Instead, she falls even further into a sunken place forced on her by a rebelling part of her own body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her tooth,” Jackson writes, “seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle, and only as such was she of interest to the dentist and the nurse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In granting so much control, so viscerally, to Clara’s molar, Jackson somehow conjures David Cronenberg-levels of body horror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A 1950s-era photo of a white couple sitting at a square dining table covered in a white cloth. He is sipping from a coffee cup as she smiles at him, holding a tea cup aloft. There is a half-eaten cake on the table in front of them.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1973\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-800x617.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-768x592.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-1536x1184.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-2048x1578.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GettyImages-82144318-1920x1480.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What if you never really know what your spouse is thinking? \u003ccite>(George Marks/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘What a Thought’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scariest thing about \u003cem>What a Thought\u003c/em> is the way it so completely upends an average scene of domesticity. The story, about a typical wife and her perfectly pleasant husband, sees the woman of the house, for no apparent reason, fantasizing about killing her spouse. The casual nature of her invasive thoughts make murder seem positively normal — as easy as making a cup of coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Jackson’s protagonist is making life and death decisions with all the passion and intensity one might put into making a roast dinner is what ultimately makes \u003cem>What a Thought\u003c/em> so disturbing. 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