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There's a legend about a place called "Spook Hill," where ghosts supposedly help push your car to the summit, and one about Confederate soldiers dumped in a well, and one about a mythical beast called the Snallygaster--part reptile, part bird, part octopus, with "huge jaws" and "razor sharp teeth."
They include Clients Consulting a Sorceress and Strolling Musicians, vivid little friezes of an octopus, a cat catching a quail, and the huge exciting mural of Alexander driving Darius of Persia from the battlefield at Issus in 333 b.c.
Besides the exquisite tropical specimens, there’s a perfectly horrid giant octopus.
You can walk the trails around the point, visit the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, and at low tide explore the tide pools for crabs, starfish, anemone, and, if you are lucky, perhaps even the odd, elusive octopus.
The first reason is that he underestimated America's hatred of his corporate octopus, Standard Oil.