Dark past: The historic Angel Island Immigration Station, where immigrants from more than 80 countries were detained,interrogated and medically examined after disembarking at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940. — Bay Area News Group/TNS
THE wooden house on the hill is haunted, and those who once endured its wrath are now the ones holding the doors wide open.
Come inside, and you can almost hear the echoes of the suffering and smell the stench that immigration officers once blamed on the prisoners trapped inside, as a picture of what happened here less than a century ago starts to become clear.
