What’s scarier than ghosts? Locations haunted by said ghosts! Nothing makes the human imagination run wilder than old, rundown buildings surrounded by whispers of horror stories. In fact, many love to entertain their curiosity by visiting such places. You can read the story behind one such scary haunted house located in San Francisco before planning your visit!
The mirth of the owner
In 1977, Robert Pritikin bought the Chambers Mansion, a rundown boarding house, and converted it into a sixteen-room hotel. Pritkin rechristened it the Mansions Hotel. Soon, the hotel became a popular landmark in the neighborhood due to Pritkin relentlessly advertising the hotel as haunted to tourists & onlookers.
On the opening night of the haunted hotel, the eccentric hotel owner staged a fake murder on the staircase to promote his friend Gwen Davis’s new book. He also invited a shaman to “bless the premises” of the hotel as…