Gila Cliff Dwellings (Silver
City, NM):
the vast, primitive
remains of ancient structures built into a towering cliff in a NM
canyon are the former home of the Mogollon tribe (who mysteriously
abandoned the it), a place of great history and mystery
Cuervo (Cuervo, NM):
a dusty and deserted
Eastern New Mexico ghost town.... complete with church, an old salon,
and a couple of crumbling houses
Airplane
Graveyard (El Paso County, TX):
the mysterious 'airplane
graveyard', where the eerie husks of countless abandoned planes
(and helicopters, and motor homes, and other various machinery) shine
mutely abandoned in the TX sunlight
Dripping
Springs (Las
Cruces, NM):
one of the most
mysterious canyons of NM's Organ Mountain range and home to a
beautiful natural spring formation as well as the ruins of the Van
Patten Mountain Camp, Boyd's Sanatorium, and the mysterious La
Cueva...
Van
Patten Mountain Camp (Las Cruces, NM):
a remote
abandoned resort which was constructed in the late 1800's and sits
nestled deep within the rocky heart of the Organ Mountain range
Boyd's
Sanatorium (Las Cruces, NM):
this
abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium, which was constructed around 1910,
lies nearly-forgotten in a canyon reputedly filled with restless
spirits
La
Cueva (Las Cruces, NM):
this
secluded cave was once the home of the
enigmatic man they called "El Ermitano" ("The
Hermit"), and also the site of his murder- one of New Mexico's
most infamous unsolved crimes
The
Lodge (Cloudcroft, NM):
over
the years, there have been many sightings of an auburn haired
apparition floating through the halls of the historic (built 1911),
haunted Victorian-style Lodge
Upper
Canyon Cabin (Ruidoso, NM):
a captivating abandoned New
Mexican cabin hidden away amongst the trees of a thick green forest and perched right on the
edge of the bank of the Rio Ruidoso
San
Elizario Cemetery (San Elizario, TX):
a dusty Old West TX
cemetery complete with sinking plots, shallow graves, and a feathered
guardian
The
Angel Tree (El Paso, TX):
alongside
a shadowy road, a watchful, angelic figure carved from the trunk of a
dead tree stands silently, forever peering at passerby with an
inscrutable wooden face
La
Llorona (Southwestern TX & NM):
the
legend of a ghostly horse-headed spectral woman who haunts the lonely
river banks, & the true story of my encounter with the mysterious
bloody box
El
Paso High (El Paso, TX):
an
undead female student is said to haunt this historic old high school after
tragically ending her own life within it's halls
Loretto
Academy (El Paso, TX):
reported
sightings of a ghost-nun pacing on moonlit nights within this unused
bell tower add to it's eerie reputation
Thunderbird
Mountain (El Paso, TX):
with the gigantic,
amazing Thunderbird-shaped natural formation of red clay on it's
mountainside, it's been there as long as anyone can remember, watching
over the Southwestern desert, and it's legends are many
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