Eerie California

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

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