In nearly every corner of the globe, people have seen them. Lurking in the shadowy forests, hiding in caves and remote canyons, unobserved until some frightened human catches a glimpse. For millennia, we have sat about the campfire and told chilling tales of these creatures, beings that are human-like, but not entirely human.
Sometimes they are much larger than us. At times, they are extremely small, the "Little People" of the wilderness. They may be covered in thick hair, with arms too long and feet too large, facial features twisted and distorted. They appear similar to us, but there is always something "off" about them, something that makes our skin crawl. They are a living, walking embodiment of what Freud described as das Unheimlich-something uncanny, something human-like but not quite human, a devilish parody of the human form.In this fourth volume of the Haunted Temecula Valley series, we examine tales of tiny humanoid beings, monstrous hairy beasts, and other mysterious creatures of Southern California.