Yes, I remember them. Herbert Mullins lived in front of my friends home. He used to wave to us through his window, was above the bo0ardwalk on a hill. Freaked out him mom more than us but we were just teens, it was normalLater when in nursing school took a psychology course and we studied Mullins. Guy was an x,x,y chromosome.
Used to hitch home from school and another friend and I were being kidnapped , jumped out of the truck before they took a right turn on Hwy 9. (Soquel and the guys just sped up, took Hwy one and we were in a back pickup with a camper, started tossing everything out the back and screaming at cars for help and jumped at about 35 mph)
I can’t tell you all the stories. Craziest was riding my horse by the river in Felton, came to a clearing and my horse( young untrained) wanted to bolt. Inside that clearing was a black slate altar inside a stand of redwoods with fresh blood. I let her run back to the stables.
It wasn’t just those two but yes, they were the biggest. There was a lot of LSD and weird cults including the Rajaneesh Orange people, Erhards training seminars, JImmy Jones Peoples Temple sect members( lot of people lived in SC, Dianetics name it Santa Cruz had em.
There was plenty of bloodshed on Hwy 17 before they put up the concrete barrier down the middle of the road. I was always amazed at how the thing was covered in skid marks from one end to the other.