Author Elizabeth Kile dug into the city’s scariest haunts with stories about Hicks Road, Chuck E. Cheese and a disembodied arm in an Almaden cemetery.
Elizabeth Kile loves a good ghost story, in part because of her mom’s casual interest in the paranormal when she was growing up in San Jose. But the Branham High School English teacher’s strong interest in history has also kept her from swallowing every spooky tale she hears.
A gravestone at Hacienda Cemetery in San Jose, photographed in 2004, where the severed arm of “Bert” Barrett was buried after he lost it in a hunting accident. This is one of the locations featured in Elizabeth Kile’s book, “Haunted San Jose.” Kile did her best to bring a little Halloween spirit to Tuesday’s San Jose City Council meeting, where she read a bit from her chapter on Bert Barrett, who lost his arm in a hunting accident in 1898 when he was 13. The arm was buried beneath a tombstone in Hacienda Cemetery in New Almaden — but it’s been said on certain nights of the year to crawl its way toward Oak Hill Memorial Park, where the rest of Bertram was buried after he died in 1959.
Kile said she’d been collecting the stories for years, writing down locations that she’d hear about and adding them to the stories she heard growing up in South San Jose. She matched up the lore with interviews and research largely done in the San Jose Public Library’s California Room. While there have been previous books on the ghosts in San Jose, Kile thought she could do better and did most of the writing during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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