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Sycamore Knoll: The Mysterious Underwater Structure Off the Coast of Malibu
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Sycamore Knoll: The Mysterious Underwater Structure Off the Coast of Malibu

January 1, 2006 Sycamore Knoll — Pacific Ocean off Malibu

Six miles off Malibu, 2,000 feet below the Pacific, sits Sycamore Knoll — a nearly five-square-mile underwater formation with a flat, structured top. Since the 1940s, residents have reported USO sightings here. MUFON investigator Preston Dennett firs...

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The USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Encounter: Navy Pilots Intercept Unknown Craft off Southern California (2004) UFOs
Nov 14, 2004
The USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Encounter: Navy Pilots Intercept Unknown Craft off Southern California (2004)

On November 14, 2004, U.S. Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz intercepted a smooth, white, 40-foot tic-tac shaped craft off...

Pacific Ocean off Southern California Coast
The Topanga Canyon UFO Wave: 50 Years of Documented Sightings in the Santa Monica Mountains UFOs
Jun 14, 1992
The Topanga Canyon UFO Wave: 50 Years of Documented Sightings in the Santa Monica Mountains

Topanga Canyon, a rural community of 8,000 residents tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains just west of Los Angeles, ha...

Topanga Canyon
The Hillside Stranglers: Cousins Who Terrorized Los Angeles Under a Badge (1977–1978) Horrific Events
Oct 18, 1977
The Hillside Stranglers: Cousins Who Terrorized Los Angeles Under a Badge (1977–1978)

Between October 1977 and February 1978, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. raped, tortured, and murdered ten w...

Multiple Hillside Locations — Los Angeles
The Manson Family Murders: The Night That Ended the 1960s (1969) Horrific Events
Aug 9, 1969
The Manson Family Murders: The Night That Ended the 1960s (1969)

Over two nights in August 1969, members of Charles Manson's cult — known as the Family — murdered seven people in two se...

10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon (Tate) and 3301 Waverly Drive, Los Feliz (LaBianca)
The Los Feliz Murder House: The Home Frozen in Time Since 1959 Urban Legends
Dec 6, 1959
The Los Feliz Murder House: The Home Frozen in Time Since 1959

On December 6, 1959, physician Harold Perelson bludgeoned his wife to death in their Los Feliz home, then took his own l...

The Los Feliz Murder House
The Black Dahlia: The Murder of Elizabeth Short That Haunts Los Angeles Forever (1947) Horrific Events
Jan 15, 1947
The Black Dahlia: The Murder of Elizabeth Short That Haunts Los Angeles Forever (1947)

On January 15, 1947, the nude, bisected body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found in a Leimert Park vacant lot — dra...

3825 Norton Avenue, Leimert Park
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