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If the name Devil’s Gate Dam doesn’t evoke images of spookiness, \u201cThere’s nothing positive about any of the weirdness that’s gone on there,” says British author Nick Redfern in his latest book,\u00a0 The World’s Weirdest Places<\/em>. The author who’s spent several decades as a journalist and author writing about unusual, odd, secret and even occult topics, included two California spots in his recent book.<\/p>\n Devil’s Gate Dam in Pasadena: \u201cLocated a few miles from Los Angeles, the canyon was a favorite haunt of notorious rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, who was said to have performed arcane rituals there. Additionally, the area is home to a bridge where “in less than a century, more than 100 people have thrown themselves off to their death in the river bed below, causing the landmark to be known by locals as suicide bridge. In the 1950’s, the location was the site of a series of grisly child killings. In modern times, Redfern has found reports of\u00a0 a winged humanoid-type creature in the area“…read more!<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the name Devil’s Gate Dam doesn’t evoke images of spookiness, \u201cThere’s nothing positive about any of the weirdness that’s gone on there,” says British author Nick Redfern in his latest book,\u00a0 The World’s Weirdest Places. The author who’s spent several decades as a journalist and author writing about unusual, odd, secret and even occult […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}