Weird and wonderful

An impromptu stroll after an afternoon coffee conjured up some interesting sights and a startling encounter with a ghost.

The wonderful:

Then, under the watchful gaze of a Victorian home’s owner, I snapped this photo. 

Here comes the weird:

The lady hadn’t moved and I realized I had come face to face with one of Sacramento’s notorious ghosts: Dorothy Puente.

She's the infamous landlady who killed her older tenants, buried them in her backyard and collected their Social Security checks.

She's a ghost, too, these days.

The current owner of the property has a creepy sense of humor, thus the dead-ringer mannequin and these signs: