Update on The Mansions.

I researched The Mansions haunted history online.  The owner's name was Richard Chambers; one of his two nieces (who did indeed hate one another) was named Claudia.  It was Claudia who died in a bloody "farm accident" which cut her body in half.

There were no pictures of the family that I could locate.  The only photo I could find of The Mansions itself is the one to the left a remodeled front-view taken by a realtor. While the listing does mention the home is haunted, it quickly goes on to describe how it's been "painstakingly reformed to its previous glory". 

But not in my eyes.  It pretty much looks like any other "new and improved", cookie-cutter Victorian home. 

The Mansions I experienced was beautiful with its peeling paint on the porch, too many indoor plants and cobwebbed corners on the vaulted ceilings.   Bald spots shined on the red velvet curtain edges, and the smells of old mahogany and sweet flowers sent goosebumps up my back.  19th Century rich folks had lived there, died and left all their gaudy "stuff" along with a few of their souls.  I'm sad it's gone, apparently along with it's amazing history.

Gonna keep looking for those pictures I took.  Keep checking here; maybe you'll get to share in a piece of Haunted San Francisco.