Couldn't have been, this is "The Real Ghost Train" and it's in Northern Nevada.oroblanco wrote:Mtloweman that is pretty cool - a ghost train!
The Haunted Desert - share your WEIRD experiences
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Okay,
So I'm camping out in the Borrego Sink area of Anza Borrego Desert. Late at night, I hear what sounds like someone running a stick along a picket fence. "Clickety Clack Clickety Clack Clickety Clack". I got kind of nervous because it wasn't a sound one would normally hear at night in the desert. I got up to investigate, and when I looked, I saw a dim light off in the distance.
As it got closer, I saw that it was a skeleton. It looked to be about eight feet tall and the light was coming from the middle of its' chest! I couldn't believe my eyes. The skeleton was shambling along and the clickety clack sound was coming from its' bones rattling together as it moved along.
I tried to catch up to it when it deviated its course away from me, but when it went over a berm, it just disappeared.
Okay, so that wasn't MY story, but that is the story as told by several people beginning in about 1887 of the Anza Borrego Phantom.
Best-Mike
So I'm camping out in the Borrego Sink area of Anza Borrego Desert. Late at night, I hear what sounds like someone running a stick along a picket fence. "Clickety Clack Clickety Clack Clickety Clack". I got kind of nervous because it wasn't a sound one would normally hear at night in the desert. I got up to investigate, and when I looked, I saw a dim light off in the distance.
As it got closer, I saw that it was a skeleton. It looked to be about eight feet tall and the light was coming from the middle of its' chest! I couldn't believe my eyes. The skeleton was shambling along and the clickety clack sound was coming from its' bones rattling together as it moved along.
I tried to catch up to it when it deviated its course away from me, but when it went over a berm, it just disappeared.
Okay, so that wasn't MY story, but that is the story as told by several people beginning in about 1887 of the Anza Borrego Phantom.
Best-Mike
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I was camped out in the Oregon Outback late one night when the stars were bright in a moonless sky when of a sudden the spadefoot toads and the nightbirds all went silent. I heard something like someone strumming a harp, and danged if it wasn't. There came Reptilist, floating over a low hill, glowing in a white gown with lacey dragonfly wings, a golden harp in his hands.
"Hey Rep," I said. "Whassup?"
He smiled at me and said "More stuff like this if you don't put away that Tequila," and floated on out of site, strumming away at the harp.
"Hey Rep," I said. "Whassup?"
He smiled at me and said "More stuff like this if you don't put away that Tequila," and floated on out of site, strumming away at the harp.
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Apache,
I know what you’re saying. The same or similar thing happen to me. Rep came floating one night by my camp, a remote area of the Santa Rosa Mountains, wanting some cheap Red Mountain Wine. Anything I gave him probably would have been OK. All I had to offer was Black Label. He went away a very happy man.
Anyway, that is how I remember it.
TradClimber
I know what you’re saying. The same or similar thing happen to me. Rep came floating one night by my camp, a remote area of the Santa Rosa Mountains, wanting some cheap Red Mountain Wine. Anything I gave him probably would have been OK. All I had to offer was Black Label. He went away a very happy man.
Anyway, that is how I remember it.
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There you have it, strong drink is not for kings or princes!