Weird Arizona: Your Travel Guide to Arizona's Local Legends, and Best Ket Secrets by Wesley Treat, Mark Sceurman, and Mark Moran executive editors, Sterling, New York, 2007.
After reading this book which I found at the library, I am convinced I am in need of a copy. It has turned me onto many local stories, and Arizona stories. In this book I learned of Slaughter House Canyon in Kingman, a place by Grand Canyon with Flintstone memorabilia. Along Highway 40 there is a stretch of several different dinosaur displays, and in Quartzite there is a yacht club. There is a significant history of murders in Arizona, with the Wild West theme. This includes Tombstone. As a result there are many ghosts. Arizona also has significant extraterrestrial history, including the Phoenix lights. I was disappointed there was nothing about the ET crash close to Kingman; but a different crash farther south.
Another ghost story is that of the ghost bus of Highway 93. This is based on a more recent story of a bus traveling from Phoenix to the gambling halls in Laughlin Nevada. First the heater on the bus broke, and it was a warm July day. The driver suggested turning around, but the gamblers were anxious to continue on. Later the truck began to lose power and the driver finally said he could go no further. The passengers then put the driver off the bus, pushed it to the top of Union pass, and then decided to coast down the other side. It was last seen going behind a hill, and then disappearing. No one ever found an accident or the remains of the bus, but three years later, people started to see a ghost bus on Highway 93 between Phoenix and Laughlin.
There are many more stories, strange buildings, castles, domes etc. The book includes a section on Route 66; a section on strange animals, which includes the chupacabras, skinwalkers and Oatman burros.
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