Creepy California

Keven Mcqueen

Description

Beneath California's scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden State explores the disturbing and macabre stories of unexplained deaths, intentional live burials, true crimes, and ghosts who haunt the Pacific Coast. This spooky collection includes the extraordinarily odd, like the account of a coroner, who "borrowed" the stylish clothes of one dead man and even sold the corpse's head to a doctor for scientific research, and the paranormal, like the tale of a haunted, two-story house in San Francisco that was moved across town in an effort to dislodge its ghostly tenants. The attempt failed, and the San Francisco Chronicle commented that "the neighborhood has been kept in a constant dread and torment by unearthly groans, mysterious lights, and agonized shrieks emanating from their dread habitation."

An intriguing and frightful look at the disturbing side of the state, Creepy California promises to send chills down your spine and keep you looking over your shoulder.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Tales from the Tombs
2. Eight Million Peculiar Ways to Die
3. Strange Circumstances
4. Otherworldly Wise: Coastal Ghosts
5. Predators and Prey: True Crime Stories
Bibliography

Sujets

• Unexplained Phenomena
• HISTORY
• Ghosts
• Kilotón
• Óxido de carbono (II)
• Unexplained
• Body (disambiguation)
• History of the Americas
• Murder
• United States
• NV
• HI
• Ghost
• California
• ID
• UT
• MT
• CA
• CO
• Paranormal

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 07 août 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253029133
• Langue: English

Extrait

Creepy CALIFORNIA

Creepy CALIFORNIA

STRANGEandGOTHIC TALES from theGOLDEN STATE

KEVEN MCQUEEN

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Ācknowledgments

ntroductîon

ales From tHe ombs

ÉîgHt îllîon eculîar ays to îe

Śtrange Çîrcumstances

OtHerworldly îse: Çoastal GHosts

redators and rey: rue Çrîme Śtorîes

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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