THE QUESTION IS NOT WHETHER MONSTERS WALK AMONGST US. They do. They have. For thousands of years. On the borders of humdrummia and every day reality, be it the forest's edge or a moonlit graveyard draped in gossamer spiders' webs, the macabre is all about. For our souls, our sanity, the vital question to answer is: Just WHERE are all these blankety-blank monsters? Santa Clarita is a riparian bedroom community, an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. It's been home to giant, man-eating grizzly bears, ghosts, serial killers, devil cults, more ghosts, Bigfoot, werewolf encounters, UFO sightings, vampires, cannibals - documented pterodactyl attacks! - and, did we mention ghosts - a veritable invasion of them? Salem, Massachusetts. New Orleans. The entire state of Wisconsin. There are many pretenders to the throne for The Most Haunted Place in America. Read for yourself, in this first of a three-volume set, bestselling author John Boston detail, with strokes of humor, terror and plain Can't-Put-It-Down story-telling, why this seemingly innocent bedroom community of Santa Clarita rates as the USA's top - TOP - hotspot of paranormal activity. Will Fleet, former president of the California Newspaper Publishers' Association and former LA Times publisher once wrote of Boston: "Of all the writers I've known in my 35 years in the newspaper business, John Boston is the best. By far." Join thousands of loyal readers who have discovered the rapier wit, tear-bringing style and enlightening prose of one the country's top newspaper columnist. Through headlines and history books, Boston has created a madcap and unique romp through the sometimes strange and spectral, but the always supernatural.