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Said to haunt the sand and waters by Baker Beach in San Francisco, the ghost of a woman has appeared and people claim to have heard her song, almost calling them to her. 

San Francisco is a city of legends, earthquakes, old money, and eccentric spirits. At the foot of the rugged cliffs west of the Presidio and just south of the Golden Gate Bridge, this stretch of sand has long been a favorite for picnickers, locals, and, it’s said, the dead.

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Before it was a picturesque escape for sunbathers, Baker Beach belonged to the U.S. military. The adjacent Presidio military base, established in 1776, was one of the oldest active military installations in the country before its decommissioning in the 1990s. Over the centuries, it served as barracks, a garrison, and a site of numerous executions, skirmishes, and military accidents — some of which bled onto the sands of Baker Beach itself.

The Woman in White Beneath the Bridge

The beach is said to be the location of a female apparition who sings on the shore and her sounds are believed to have hypnotic powers. It is not a very widely known ghost story and a suspicious part of the tale is that it is mostly told through vague and short lists of haunted beaches, and not by locals. 

On foggy nights when the Golden Gate disappears into the mist, witnesses have spotted a ghostly woman in white standing alone where the beach meets the rocks. She appears out of nowhere and like a siren, sings people towards her.

As the waters by the beach have a heavy stream and strong undercurrent rip tides, entering the waters is not the best idea. Some fear that her appearance and beckoning voice to the water can pose a danger and her haunting is attributed to more than one mysterious disappearance from the beach. 

Who was she? Some speculate that she is the spirit of a woman who leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge and that her body was never recovered by the coast guard. Some think that she must be one of the victims of the ships that went down right by. Some say that she’s not a human spirit at all, but a creature like the siren, her sole purpose is to lure people to the dark depths of the sea. 

Strange Lights and Whispering Waves

Beyond these specific apparitions, locals and paranormal investigators report an array of inexplicable phenomena on Baker Beach. Flickering orbs of light dart between the dunes, disembodied voices carry on the wind, and sudden, icy pockets of air settle in even on the warmest summer nights.

Some claim to have heard the faint, ghostly strains of military bugles, or the whispered fragments of old sea shanties, though no source is ever found. Lifeguards in the 1970s were said to routinely encounter eerie shadows moving along the surf, far from any living presence

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