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San Francisco Ghost Hunt Walking Tour

Christian Cagigal is a fantastic showman, weaving dramatic ghost tales of San Francisco history and the macabre along a moderate walking tour.

We are not inclined towards ghost tours. Being a history buff, I get a little salty when tour guides start playing fast and loose with well documented points of local history to fix someone's odd experience into the larger tapestry of local events. Yet, when we saw that a magician and mentalist whose work we have followed would be in town doing a ghost tour, we decided to give it a go.

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Sutro Heights And Baths

Sutro is a name that can be found across San Francisco but it is most notable in the sunset district where Ozymandias-like ruins of the mining tycoon are now overwhelmed by the natural beauty of the Pacific Coast.

Sutro is a name that permeates San Francisco. Roads and civic works were named in commemoration of this mining engineer turned Mayor. But of all of these commemorative locations, there is a set that was our favorite place to take visitors when we lived in San Francisco and continues to be one of my go-to stops whenever I'm in town: Sutro Heights And Sutro Baths.

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