ARIZONA LEGENDS

Ghostly Sightings in Arizona

Ajo – In the 1950s, after a young couple had just married in Ajo, Arizona, they headed north on their honeymoon to Lake Tahoe. However, they never made it. Soon, they entered an area lined with hills and rocks, known as the crater range. About midnight, their car slammed into a boulder and both newlyweds were killed. Today, it is said that if you drive through this area after midnight, you can see their stranded vehicle, along with the honeymooners off to the side, trying to flag down help.

Flagstaff

Days Inn - Reports of a tall ghost of a man has often been reported standing next to a bed in one of the rooms.

Crater Range outside Ajo, Arizona

USGS Offices - Building 1 - Reportedly the sounds of clapping hands are often heard, as well as doors that open and close seemingly by themselves, and lights that tend to constantly flicker.

Hotel Weatherford – This historic hotel has been serving guests since its opening on New Year’s Day in 1900, with such visitors as newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, former President Theodore Roosevelt, and lawman Wyatt Earp. Along with its rich history, a couple was reportedly murdered in the hotel in the 1930s. Staff has reported that one employee who was staying in the hotel, awoke in the middle of the night to find a bride and groom sitting on the foot of the bed. In addition, another guest relayed that while taking an early morning stroll through the hotel, he spied the silhouette of a young woman darting from one side of the room to the other in the hotel’s ballroom. Other reports tell of low whispers and voices coming from the empty lounge. Hotel Weatherford, 23 N. Leroux St, Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, 928-779-1919. For the whole story of the Hotel Weatherford, click HERE!

Landscape around Kingman, Arizona

Kingman – In a place called Launa’s Canyon about two or three miles southeast of Kingman, unearthly screams are reportedly heard in the middle of the night. It was here, during the mid 1950s that a man and his two daughters, along with his fiancé, traveled out of Kingman in search of gold. Prepared to stay a while, they soon built a new house in a deep narrow canyon. Evidently, the future wife and her soon-to-be step daughters did not get along and the fiancé decided to take matters into her own hands on the very night before her marriage. She murdered the children, hiding their bodies in the house and then took off into the canyon.

Later, when she regained her sanity, she came back screaming and moaning through the canyon, begging forgiveness for what she had done. To this day, the legend says that her moans and cries can be between midnight and 3:00 a.m.

Prescott – The Hotel Hotel Vendome in Prescott is reportedly haunted by a woman named Abby Byr and her cat, Noble. At some point in the early 1900s, Abby came to Prescott in an attempt to heal herself of tuberculosis, then called "consumption.” She soon met and married a man and the pair bought the hotel. After a time, they lost the hotel due to unpaid taxes. However, the generous new owners allowed the couple to stay on at the hotel at no charge. Somewhere along the line, when her husband went out to get medicine, he never returned. The devastated Abby refused to eat or drink and ended up dying of starvation in Room 16 in 1921. Beginning after World War II, guests began to report seeing Abby, along with her cat in the room that she died. Apparently still waiting for her husband’s return, she is described as a benevolent ghost, friendly to those that she encounters.

The historic La Posada Harvey House Hotel was the

last Harvey Hotel ever built, and today is the only one

left standing that still serves as a hotel, January, 2005,

Kathy Weiser

Winslow

The La Posada Hotel - On May 15, 1930 the famous La Posada Harvey House Hotel opened its doors for business. The last one built in the famous Harvey Hotel and restaurant chain, Winslow was chosen for the site, as it was the headquarters for the Santa Fe Railway. During those days, Winslow was growing so fast that the railroad anticipated the town would soon become another Santa Fe, New Mexico. Designed by Mary Colter, the famed Grand Canyon architect, she paid careful detail to blending the aspects of both the Native American and Spanish cultures of the area into the hotel. During the heydays of Route 66, the hotel garnered even more attention as thousands of travelers passed along this historic path. With the decline in rail travel, the La Posada closed in 1957. Today, however, it has been restored and stands as an oasis in the desert.

With the many people and their varied stories, who have passed through these historic doors, is it haunted? We couldn't dig up any information, but our reader, Diane, shares her experience.

Reader's Story:

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