Weird California: You Travel Guide to California's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. This item is unavailable.Weird California: You Travel Guide to California's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Eureka! That's the state motto of California and means 'I have found it'. Do many people actually know this? California is definitely the land of sun, surfing and serious weirdness. The Golden State has a huge number of strange people, haunted houses and bizarre sites. The authors of this book set out to travel the highways, byways and back roads in search of the odd and the offbeat. Whether it's a Man Dog, an airplane graveyard or a city of Lizard People, these authors have researched and chronicled the stories and present them here for the fellow admirers of the weird. The brand-new entry in the best-selling "Weird" series, "Weird California" is packed with all that great stuff your history teacher wouldn't teach you. So join our authors on their great adventure.

Greg Bishop co-founded The Excluded Middle, a magazine featuring UFOs, conspiracy research and new science. His writing has appeared in many anthologies and publications. Joe Oesterle is a freelance artist-writer. His work has appeared in many popular books, magazines and Web sites. He has also done various projects for Disney and Warner Brothers. Mike Marinacci, a lifelong California resident, is certain that it has more haunted houses, monster lairs and other aberrations than any other state.