Surprising and Strange

Rancho Santa Fe, Surprising and Strange, The World June 1, 2021

24 years ago, Heaven’s Gate couldn’t wait

Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something so preposterous that dispatchers took their time in relaying the information to central command. “This is regarding a mass suicide. I can give you the address,” the…

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Featured, Surprising and Strange April 21, 2021

Bill Murray ‘ghostbusted’ at Kit Carson Park?

“My friends were out at 1am smoking weed at Kit Carson Park in Escondido when they saw Bill Murray walking through the woods like a phantom.” — Jibby_von_HaHa on Imgur and Reddit Secret Pokemon Go character? Look-alike or hoax? Big Foot, abominable snowman and Hodgee the friendly Lake Hodges monster be damned, meet the latest myth to blow through Escondido town, the ghost of Bill Murray….

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Advertise, Community, Entertainment, Entertainment/Arts, Featured, Music August 12, 2019

Woodstocked celebrates hippiedom while raising funds to locate missing persons

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Advertise, Community, Editorial, Opinion, The Grapevine July 23, 2019

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Advertise, Business, Retail March 6, 2018

Home Decor Imports where astrophysics meets accent pieces

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Advertise, Featured Business Review, The Grapevine September 5, 2016

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Surprising and Strange

24 years ago, Heaven’s Gate couldn’t wait

Move over D.B. Cooper for Geezer Bandit

Hodgee, the friendly Lake Hodges Monster: Fact or fiction?

Why won’t scientific evidence change the minds of Loch Ness monster true believers?

Blast from the past at Cal State San Marcos

Dr. Bronner rises from the grave to say

Idiosyncratic dinosaur ‘museum’ went extinct

Ghosts are in the house, but have no fear

Death and dying with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Bill Murray ‘ghostbusted’ at Kit Carson Park?