In this episode of The Haunting, Tim Wood enters San Francisco’s infamous “Suicide Forest”—better known as Sutro Forest, a fog-drenched eucalyptus canopy planted in the 1880s on Mount Sutro by Adolph Sutro.
But Sutro Forest carries a brutal reputation. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, local newspapers documented numerous suicides in these woods—so many that the area became known as a place where people disappeared, and where bodies were sometimes discovered days, weeks, or even months later.
Adding to the darkness is what once stood nearby: the City and County Almshouse (later the Laguna Honda complex), an institution created to care for San Francisco’s sick, poor, and destitute—and historically tied to the same landscape by the old “Almshouse Road.”
Now, over a century later, people still report an oppressive presence in the trees—and during Tim’s investigation, something turns violent, attacking him on camera. Was it the lingering imprint of tragedy… or something far worse hiding in the fog?