"Both came to the project with significant expertise in the subject. Winegarner wrote a book called " San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries," and Minick has spent years collecting tales of "ghosts, San Francisco hauntings and macabre history, on her website " Here Lies a Story," (among that site's revelations: in the days after burials in the city were banned, and before private cars became common, there was a funeral streetcar that used to run down Valencia Street and took coffins and mourners directly to Colma)."
"It was the bone pit under Fort Mason that finally persuaded the two long-time friends to take their shared interests to the next level. In 2024, Minick saw a story announcing that the mystery of the pit - specifically how the remains of at least 25 people came to be jumbled together underground, with saw marks but without a single full skeleton among them - had been solved."
Dead Reckoning is a podcast that investigates San Francisco death culture, burial mysteries, hauntings, and macabre local history. Founders Beth Winegarner and Courtney Minick bring deep subject expertise: Winegarner authored San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries, and Minick curates ghost and haunting narratives on Here Lies a Story, including a historical funeral streetcar on Valencia that carried coffins to Colma. Carolyn Kissick produces and edits the show. Episodes examine cases such as bodies buried under the Asian Art Museum, the Fort Mason bone pit, Potrero Hill quarantine cottages, and a Mission District funeral director's dubious assessment of the pope's embalming. Planning required nearly a year and weeks of research per episode.
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