New Mexico's Haunted Route 66
9781467171960
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Wandering shades, ghost towns, and a phantom train
The Land of Enchantment lives up to its name when it comes to Route 66—and stories of the paranormal. With not one but two paths to explore, the Mother Road winds through New Mexico's mountains and deserts, past ghost towns and thriving cities, and boasts more than its fair share of haunts.
Budville, once a thriving hub and stopover between Albuquerque and Grants, now lies deserted, except, perhaps, for the spirit of the last person to call it home. The whistle of a phantom train can sometimes be heard chugging alongside the highway in Tucumcari, and in Glenrio, an abandoned town that straddles the New Mexico–Texas border, the spirit of a murder victim is rumored to inhabit one of the last buildings standing.
Even the New Mexico Mining Museum plays host to the spirits of miners who once worked in the uranium capital of the world, and in Gallup, the Hotel El Rancho boasts not just Hollywood credentials but tales of otherworldly encounters.
Author Sundee Perkins explores the spooky twists and turns of New Mexico’s Route 66.
Haunted White Sands
9781467172134
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Missing Persons, Doomsday Cults and Shifting Sands.
Though it may look as pure as the driven snow, White Sands is bathed in the blood of the dead whose bones lie hidden beneath the dunes.
Still waiting to be found in the sea of gypsum is Albert Fountain, who vanished from the face of the earth in 1896 along with his eight-year-old son. Long before that, the spirit of Pavla Blanca searched for her conquistador lover in the form of swirling sand, mysterious giant footprints rose from the earth at Alkali Flats, and a sorcerer met his end near the spot that Spaceport America stands today.
Elsewhere, the ghostly Rebecca haunts The Lodge at Cloudcroft, a long-dead hermit lights a fire from his den in the Organ Mountains, and a witch is still trying to claw her way out of a Mesilla cemetery.
John LeMay and Donna Blake Birchell unearth the buried spirits of White Sands National Park, White Sands Missile Range, and nearby settlements.
