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Eerie California: Strange Places and Odd Phenomena in the Golden State

Eerie California: Strange Places and Odd Phenomena in the Golden State

by Mike Marinacci (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

    $16.03
Synopsis

Eerie California tells the story of the Golden State's strange and spooky sites. Describes over 100 locations in Northern, Central, and Southern California including these bizarre attractions:

-Haunted houses, hotels, highways, and parks
-Lairs of Bigfoot and other elusive creatures
-Ancient, unexplained ruins and earthworks
-Legendary lost civilizations and underground cities
-Ghosts, phantoms, and apparitions
-Accursed and jinxed places
- Phantom panthers and other sinister animals
-Weird cult centers
-Earthquake lights, moving rocks, and more strange geology
-Lake and sea serpents
-Prehistoric rock and cave art
-And much more!

Now regarded as a classic Weird America survey, Eerie California includes over 100 photographs of actual sites and phenomena. Get ready to discover a side of the Golden State you never knew existed!

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 200
 Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Published: 01 Feb 2018
ISBN 10: 1579512518
ISBN 13: 9781579512514

Media Reviews
Finalist, Travel Books Category, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. From the book: Deep beneath the heart of Los Angeles' financial district, hundreds of feet below the huge edifices that house banks, corporate offices, and government agencies, lies another city remembered only in obscure Indian legends, an underground world built by a strange race that vanished five thousand years ago. At least that's what mining engineer W. Warren Shufelt claimed in the January 29, 1934 Los Angeles Times. According to reporter Jean Bosquet, Shufelt was ready to dig up downtown L.A. in search of this ancient civilization. Shufelt had first heard of the city in a Hopi legend about the Lizard People. They were a fabled lost race who had built 13 great underground cities on the Pacific Coast after a huge holocaust swept the Southwest back around 3,000 BC.... A Hopi chief told Shufelt that the vanished race's capital city was located under present-day downtown Los Angeles. After surveying the area, Shufelt showed up on the Banning property at North Hill Street and sank a 350-foot shaft straight down, digging for what he said was a `treasure room' directly underneath. Shufelt said he had located gold in the catacombs below with the aid of his `radio x-ray'.... He said that the subterranean city was shaped like a giant lizard, with the tail tapering out beneath the Central Library, and the head in the vicinity of Chavez Ravine (now Dodger Stadium). The `key room,' the chamber that contained the map of the city and the directory to the gold tablets, lay several hundred feet under the present site of Times-Mirror Square....
Author Bio
Mike Marinacci is a lifelong California resident fascinated by the state's unique history and culture, Mike Marinacci is the author of Mysterious California (Los Angeles: Panpipes, 1988), and co-author of the bestselling Weird California (New York: Sterling, 2006). Mr. Marinacci also contributed to Weird Hauntings (New York: Sterling, 2006), The Book of Sacraments: Ritual Use of Magical Plants (Berkeley: Ronin, 2015) and Explorations in Awareness (Berkeley: Ronin, 2016), and wrote the Foreword to The Shadow over Santa Susana (New York: Creation Books, 2009).