What’s Halloween Without a Good Ghost Story

There’s nothing quite like a mystery, and Victoria certainly has had her share over the past 180 years.

Some, of course, were solved. Others, like that of the “small haunted cottage” remain unanswered—and as tantalizing today as when they first intrigued Victorians.

And who better to help me tell this multi-faceted tale than our old friend of several previous Chronicles, journalist D.W Higgins?

Next week he and I will take you back to 1859 when a French merchant named Aimie Lassal and his wife built a small cottage at the corner of Victoria’s Kane and Douglas streets. When Lassal died shortly after and she returned to San Francisco, the house was occupied by the Goodwins—who soon regretted having moved in.

That’s next week in the Chronicles.

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PHOTO: Halloween ghosts and goblins are just children’s fantasies, right? Certainly Mrs. Goodwin, alone in her bedroom, didn’t think so when the ghostly visitor seized her by the wrist and hissed in her ear, “Make a noise or cry out and you’ll be a dead woman. Hush!” —Pinterest