The Haunting · Investigation episode
Sutro Forest, California
DEMON or GHOST? Paranormal Encounter in California’s Suicide Forest
21:35 · The Haunting
Enter the fog-covered trails of San Francisco’s Sutro Forest with Tim Wood. This episode of The Haunting explores the eucalyptus woods, their unsettling history and the stories that bring paranormal investigators to Mount Sutro.
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- Sutro Forest night investigation
- Sound report: noise heard after a description of a pulling sensation
- EVP session follows a reported nearby noise
- Visual report: possible person on the forest trail
- Footstep report while Tim reads a historical account
- Sound report: sudden scream-like noise on the trail
- Voice or sound report: Tim describes feeling mocked in the woods
- Camera interruption and a possible figure farther up the trail
- Visual observation: face-like shape or carving in a tree
- Tim describes a feeling of being followed
Episode notes and background
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?