Spooky Trails and Tall Tales California: Hiking the Golden State's Legends, Hauntings, and History

by Tom Ogden

Overview

California is home to Hollywood stars, gorgeous vineyards, and some of the most haunted areas of the country. Its immense wilderness has been the setting for mysterious disappearances, unsolved murders, and bone-chilling supernatural occurrences. Exploring all the spookiness the state has to offer has been a difficult challenge… until now.

Spooky Trails and Tall Tales California features different spooky stories across northern, central, and southern California. Accompanying each of these captivating tales is hiking information for the brave reader interested in venturing into the wilderness to test their mettle. Written in an engaging, “campfire-style” voice and with dozens of stories and hikes throughout, readers will discover and explore the haunted history of the Golden State.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493042456
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	09/15/2020
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Tom Ogden has been a magician for forty years. As such he has a natural interest in ghosts, hauntings, and all things supernatural. He’s the author of nearly twenty books, many of which in Globe Pequot’s successful “Haunted” series. Ogden is in demand as a speaker on the Spirit World and is a member of the Paranormal Investigation Committee of the Society of American Magicians.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Preface xiv

Pacific Northwest

1 Indigenous Spirits 3

2 Bigfoot 10

3 The Phantoms of Fort Bragg 15

4 The Watchers 19

The Cascades, the Sierra Nevada, and Death Valley

5 The Underground City 24

6 The Spirit Orbs 28

7 Terror in Truckee 32

8 The Hunchback Horror 39

9 The Chimeric Children 43

10 The Stanislaus Siren 48

11 Natural Wonders 52

12 The Lake Spirits 62

13 The Phantom of Moro Rock 71

14 Death Valley Days 74

Bay Area

15 The Waterfall Wraiths 84

16 The Shadow People 87

17 The Dawn Falls Vampire 90

18 The Ellis Island of the West 92

19 The Ghosts of Golden Gate Park 97

20 The Wailing Witch 103

21 Murder in Memorial Park 108

22 The Sinister Sisters 111

Greater Los Angeles

23 The Queen of Elings Park 117

24 Cabrillo Returns 120

25 The Leaper 126

26 The Witches' Lair 129

27 The Haunted Estate 132

28 The Missing Children 137

29 The Materializing Mansion 140

30 Hollywoodland 147

31 The Ghosts of Griffith Park 152

32 The Hungry, Hungry Ghosts 160

33 The Haunted Forest 163

34 The Sturtevant Demons 170

35 Spirited Sprites 173

36 The Angeles National Forest 175

37 The Shadows of Thompson Creek 181

Inland Empire

38 Canyon de los Indios 186

39 The Riverside Revenant 191

40 Big Bite 193

41 The End 195

42 Gram's Ghost 199

Greater San Diego

43 The Whisperer 205

44 Denizens of the Desert 208

45 The Vallecito Visions 215

46 The Cuyamaca Cryptid 220

47 The Forest Phantoms 222

48 The Omen 225

49 Elfin Entities 228

50 The Snake Maiden 231

51 The Invisible Interlopers 234

Bibliography 236

About the Author 240