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Bob Calhoun

Bob Calhoun is a San Francisco Bay Area author, journalist, and former punk wrestler and peepshow emcee. Since 2015, he has recounted his city's most gruesome and lurid events in his regular SF Weekly column, "Yesterday's Crimes." His punk wrestling memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal (ECW Press), is a national bestseller.

The Cursed History of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church

The church's first two pastors killed themselves—and that was before the double murder in 1895 that sealed the building's reputation as haunted.

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Bob Calhoun

The Cursed History of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church

The church's first two pastors killed themselves—and that was before the double murder in 1895 that sealed the building's reputation as haunted.

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