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Demystifying San Diego’s oldest tales
The new travel guide “Weird California” (Sterling) showcases paranormal hot spots and local oddballs around the Golden State, and if you thought the only myths that existed in San Diego were affordable housing and a fiscally solvent city government, you’d be wrong.

Take, for example, Lakeside’s “screaming tree.” Local legend says it’s a lone tree at the end of a dirt road somewhere near a feedlot and/or slaughterhouse. According to the travel guide, “Honk three times and the ghost of a murdered girl will scream at the top of her disembodied lungs, replaying the last moments of her life at the foot of this gnarled trunk.” Sound like a blood curdling tale or sappy story?

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