ghosts

When Mart Meiel was a kid, he heard his grandmother’s voice saying he would go to Alcatraz for twice as long as Al Capone. For years, he dismissed the idea. Alcatraz closed down. Then one day, Mart got a clue from an unlikely place.

In the late 1800s, San Francisco started to get crowded. To make more room, the city outlawed burials, and it moved all of its cemeteries south, to Colma.…

Thirty miles northeast of Oakland, just across the Carquinez Strait from Benicia sits the town of Port Costa. It was built just after the Gold Rush as a…

A visit to the USS Hornet in Alameda is like taking a trip back in time. The ship served in both World War II and Vietnam, and it famously recovered the…

Horrible things relentlessly surround us this year: mass shootings and wars of various sizes and revulsion, an earthquake in Mexico, more hurricanes than…

This week on KALW's showcase for the best stories from public radio podcasts and independent radio producers...“The Captain” produced by Sofia Saldanha at…

Have you ever seen a ghost? A Pew Researchstudy asked that question last year around this time, and 18 percent of the American respondents answered yes.I…

Sandip Roy is haunted in India.