Colma Is Most Haunted Town Near San Francisco

There is a town near San Francisco with a deathly reputation. Colma is known as “the City of the Silent”. Because Colma is a place where the living residents are outnumbered by the dead. Read more about this town with a dubious distinction.

Colma is a city in San Mateo County at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula. This town of only around 1,800 people has a creepy and haunted history.

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Colma has paranormal activity because most of the city is a vast cemetery, where 1.5 million of San Francisco’s dead are buried.

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The bubonic plague in 1900 and then the 1906 earthquake of San Francisco caused destruction, fires, and death in the city. The need for remote plots was severe for a variety of reasons, so after years of negotiation San Francisco’s dead were relocated to Colma in one of the largest relocations of the dead in history.

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One haunted story of paranormal activity revolves around a sighting of a gargoyle creature perched on a tombstone. These sightings have been reported by past residents and visitors.

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The most infamous account of activity is from 1997 the sap of a pine tree in the cemetery created the image of the Virgin Mary. This image of Virgin Mary is said to be from the disturbing of the dead.

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Another haunted story involves a Zombie. Legend goes that a Colma police officer noticed a man with blood dripping from his ear to his mouth. Naturally, the man disappeared without a trace.

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Wyatt Earp, the famous lawman, gambler, and Western is buried in Colma. His grave site has been the source of fascination and myth as well.

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Learn more about the sordid and creepy history of Colma near San Francisco in this video below: