It’s a gloomy night at UC Berkeley and Ying Liu is about to give a haunted tour of the school. “Before we start, I just have a question,” she says. “How much gore can you handle?”

There’s a brief silence before a woman in our tour group pipes up. “Gore it up! And maybe when I start crying, ratchet it back.”

Liu is dressed all in black, shoes to jacket, and carries an EMF meter to detect energy spikes in the electromagnetic field. She’s a familiar face to anybody who’s watched “The Haunted Bay,” a show she created that ran for three seasons on Amazon Prime in 2020. In the series, Liu and her team of paranormal investigators run around the Bay hunting ghosts: They found one (and showed its face on camera) at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, and have spectrally spelunked at the USS Ho

See Full Page