It wouldn鈥檛 be spooky season without some good ghost stories and when you live in a town as old as 蜜柚直播, there are quite a few to tell.
Chances are you've probably walked by or visited some these of these places and felt some weird vibes or seen something you can't explain, you're definitely not alone. Muahaha!
We saved a few haunts to share with you in our upcoming Facebook Live event 听
Becky McKiddy-Gydesen, a paranormal investigator and owner of听听will join us to share some of her own first-hand experiences and stories she's collected from others through her ghost tours and investigations of some popular 蜜柚直播 places.
Join us if you dare!
Santa Rita Hotel
Before it was demolished in August 2009 to make way for the Unisource Energy's corporate headquarters, the Santa Rita Hotel stood on the corner of East Broadway Boulevard and South Sixth Avenue. When it was time to close up shop the spirits of the hotel did not go quietly.听, several months before the building was torn down, police were called to investigate the empty hotel after a security guard claimed to have heard something eerie.
"The guard heard footsteps coming from the fourth floor, but police searched the hotel room by room and found nothing. A week later, a guard reported that a light on the fourth floor came on, and it sounded like someone was moving around in the room. Police checked the room and adjacent floors and found no one.
"In recent weeks, construction workers near the hotel say they've heard stories of rocks skipping down the hallways and doors slamming shut. And a Star reporter walked by the building Monday night and heard a creepy belly laugh emitting from the building. He hopped a fence and spoke to a security guard, who said the noise didn't come from the hotel."
Parapsychologist Amy Allan of the听听has said the Santa Rita Hotel was just as inhabited by spirits as the听San Diego's Whaley House, which is considered to be one of the most haunted places in America.
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
The dry air and hard soil are the two main reasons the "Boneyard" is located here. 蜜柚直播 file photo from 1991.
Security police patrolling Davis-Monthan Air Force Base鈥檚 Boneyard, the mothballed aircraft storage area, allegedly have seen the specter of a fighter pilot, dressed in World War II-era gear slowly walking among the old aircraft, perhaps searching for his own plane. Some have said the headlights of their patrol vehicles go out during these encounters, and flashlights don鈥檛 function. Others said the ghostly figure walks through the security fence and across Kolb Road before disappearing.
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Santa Cruz River 鈥 La Llorona
This story is one of the 鈥渦niversal鈥 Mexican ghost stories, hundreds of years old, with many variations. Translated as 鈥渢he crying woman,鈥 she is seen traditionally in 蜜柚直播 anywhere from the South Stone Avenue underpass to the Santa Cruz River. One version has it that she was condemned to search for her children, whom she had drowned to spite an unfaithful husband. Another says she was promiscuous and had many children, whom she drowned. When she died, she was told she couldn鈥檛 enter heaven until she found them all and brought them with her. Yet another version holds that she emigrated from Nogales, Sonora, leaving her children behind. Soon after, the Santa Cruz River flooded, the children drowned and their bodies washed up the river to 蜜柚直播. Legend has it that anyone trying to touch La Llorona will suffer a burn.
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University of 蜜柚直播's Modern Languages Building
The Modern Languages building at the University of 蜜柚直播 in 蜜柚直播, Ariz., Tuesday Jan. 16, 2007.
Several people over the years have reported encountering the ghostly figure of a young woman walking the corridors of the Modern Languages Auditorium at the University of 蜜柚直播. She is dressed in a long gown and wears a shawl over her shoulders. Tradition has it that many years before the auditorium was built, a young woman was murdered and her body dumped in a well on the site.
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Cathedral of Saint Augustine
St. Augustine Church's shadow. Photo by David Sanders / 蜜柚直播.
What started as a has grown into the beautiful church we see today in downtown 蜜柚直播 at 192 S. Stone Ave.听, ghost tour guide听Robert Owens said the church was one of his favorite places to visit because it's been said to be the home of a faceless nun who levitates in the courtyard.
鈥淭he faceless-nun phenomenon has actually been reported all over the world at really old churches and haunted locations that have a religious history aspect to it,鈥 Owens said. 鈥淪o it鈥檚 kind of a strange archetypal myth, if you will.鈥澨
Santa Cruz Church
Santa Cruz Church.
At some point in 蜜柚直播鈥檚 past, legend has it, a priest was out for a walk downtown. During his leisurely stroll, he senses that something is following him. The priest, believing he was being trailed by a large dog, turned toward the Santa Cruz Church at South Sixth Avenue and East 22nd Street. The creature behind him drew closer and closer. The priest was relieved as he approached the door of the church. Reaching toward it, he turned and saw that his stalker was not a dog after all, but a beastly, hellish thing with hooves and horns. As the priest鈥檚 hand touched the door, the creature disappeared.
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400 block of South Stone Avanue
Carlos Ygnacio Velasco was publisher of El Fronterizo, 蜜柚直播鈥檚 first Spanish-language newspaper, working from his home in the 400 block of South Stone Avenue from 1878 until his death in 1914. The house was turned into apartments after his death and bought by three partners. One of the new owners entered a bedroom behind what had been the old press room one night and was somewhat unsettled at the sight of the head and shoulders of an old Mexican man with a drooping mustache. Three months later, the owner and a young woman again saw the same figure, this time full length, standing in a rear doorway.
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22nd Street Antique Mall
Assistant manager Kathy Sevits sits next to the notoriously haunted Booth 52 where she has heard a an antique typewriter typing with no one around. Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008.
What more听appropriate a place to haunt than a place full of old stuff? Here in 蜜柚直播 we have the "Haunted Antique Mall" at the 22nd Street Antique Mall, at 5302 E. 22nd St. Here are the facts:
1. The mall has a main store and a two-story adjacent annex: It was built as a furniture store. The office was in the second floor annex. In one booth upstairs was an antique typewriter last used long ago. Several customers and employees reported hearing a typewriter typing away over a period of months, but when investigated, nobody was there. Many customers told employees there were "ghosts" upstairs 鈥 that area is no longer being used.
2. The second floor booths mostly contained furniture 鈥 chairs, desks, tables, beds, etc. Several times, the employees straightened up the furniture before going home at 5 p.m., only to find it rearranged, the chairs pulled out into the aisles, and all askew, the next morning.
3. A radio tuned to a local station for background music was left on upstairs while the store was open. Often it would increase suddenly in volume when nobody was upstairs.
4. The following is a description from an employee who still works at the mall: "The holiday season was upon us and we were very busy. One of the employees was approaching the doorway into the annex and we both were suddenly 'frozen' in our positions. The people who were shopping all sped up like in a time warp. It might have been only a matter of seconds but it seemed like hours. Then everything slowed down to a normal pace. My fellow employee was still standing in the same position on the stairs with a dazed look on her face. I said to her, 'Did you see that?' She replied, 'What just happened?' We were both shaken up."
5. One employee was bending over a jewelry showcase when she felt something brush past her back. Looking up, she saw a "transparent" figure of a young male with a mischievous look on his face who quickly vanished.
6. Several employees and customers were at the back of the mall when they heard a loud sound of crashing glass from one of the front booths. They rushed to the booth, but nothing was amiss. The booth was rented to a dealer who had died the month before. His goods were still in the booth. He was known to the employees as a prankster.
Perhaps these are all imagination, but we have documented all of these events from more than one source. Is the mall haunted? Well. . .
鈥擝y Paul and Myra Rees (owners of 22nd Street Antique Mall)
