Eerie California

Strange Places and Odd Phenomena in the Golden State

Mike Marinacci (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2018
Ronin Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-57951-251-4 (ISBN)

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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!

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).

Introduction

I.Northern California

•Berkeley: The University of California

•Markleeville

•Sutter Creek: The Sutter Creek Inn

•Chico

•Oroville: Cherokee Road

•Mokelumne Hill: The Leger Hotel

•Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve

•Mount Diablo

•Oakland Hills

•Coloma: The Vineyard House

•Folsom Lake

•Lake Tahoe

•Bluff Creek

•Willow Creek

•Blue Lake

•Mount Tamalpais

•Stinson Beach

•Castle Air Force Base Museum

•Clear Lake

•Petroglyph Point

•Bodie

•Alcatraz

•Bush and Octavia Street

•The Golden Gate

•Nob Hill

•San Francisco Art Institute

•Pacheco Pass

•San Jose

•Sunnyvale

•Santa Cruz

•Happy Camp

•Lava Beds National Monument

•Mount Shasta

•Bodega

•Trinity Alps Wilderness

•Jamestown: The Willow Hotel

II.Central California

•Fresno: St. John’s Cathedral

•Coso Mountains

•Death Valley National Monument

•Lone Pine

•Fort Tejon State Historic Park

•Kelso Valley

•Mission San Antonio de Padua

•Monterey

•Monterey Bay

•Santa Lucia Mountains

•Hollister

•Adelaida Cemetery

•Mission San Miguel

•Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park

•Las Cruces Adobe

•Lompoc

•Mission La Purisima Concepcion

•San Miguel Island

•Lindcove

•Aliso Canyon

•Camp Comfort County Park

•Conejo Valley

•Grimes Canyon

•Ventura: The Olivas Adobe

III.Southern California

•Salton Sea

•Big Rock Canyon

•Calabasas: The Leonis Adobe

•Devil’s Gate Reservoir

•Elizabeth Lake

•Hollywood: Hollywood Forever Cemetery

•Long Beach: The Queen Mary

•Los Angeles

•Palos Verdes Peninsula

•Buena Park: Coyote Creek Flood Channel

•Costa Mesa: Santa Ana River Jetty

•O’Neill Regional Park: Trabuco Creek

•San Juan Capistrano

•Blythe: The Blythe Intaglios

•Joshua Tree National Monument

•Lake Elsinore

•Maze Rock County Park

•Calico Early Man Site

•Giant Rock Airport

•Santa Ana River Bridge

•Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

•Deadman’s Hole

•San Diego

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	30 photographs
Verlagsort	Berkeley, CA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-57951-251-8 / 1579512518
ISBN-13	978-1-57951-251-4 / 9781579512514
Zustand	Neuware