Three haunted places. One invisible connection. Welcome to California's Paranormal Triangle. 🔺

In this episode, Joe Rios maps a dark triangle across California: the cursed Proctor Valley Road outside San Diego, where headlights stalk drivers and a monster is said to walk; Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, the decaying former poor farm where some 2,000 unclaimed dead lie in a potter's field — and where U.S. Marines once found preserved human remains in an old morgue freezer; and the Santa Lucia Mountains of Big Sur, home of the Dark Watchers — silent, motionless figures that have stared down at travelers for centuries, written about by John Steinbeck himself.

Then comes the theory that ties it all together: what if these hauntings aren't isolated? What if tragedy feeds something — a paranormal food chain, with the Dark Watchers at the very top?

CHAPTERS:
0:00 — Cold open: reading the hymn of Tláloc as the Texas storms roll in
3:58 — The California Paranormal Triangle, explained
5:30 — Point 1: Proctor Valley Road — the monster and the ghostly travelers
12:00 — Point 2: Rancho Los Amigos — Downey's forgotten asylum of the poor
17:27 — Point 3: The Dark Watchers of Big Sur — los vigilantes oscuros
21:05 — The theory: a paranormal food chain
23:42 — Outro — are you ever truly alone out there?

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