GHOST HUNTERS

This is the sixth year in a row for the Cemetery Crawl Event. It began with an event designed by myself and Debe Branning, writer and head of MVD Ghostchasers. Our initial intention was to have a fun road rally like Amazing Race and also expose people to cemeteries around the state, as well as often having dinner in and sleeping over in spooky places. It's been a huge hit. This year Julie from Above The Norm: Bizarre Arizona and I are going to be cemetery attendants along the road trip and sleepover in the location with the road racers. I have never seen a group of people have more of a blast. Each year, I am entrusted to come up with the rhyming clues for them to find the headstones. There are still openings for 3 more teams so please consider it because this is a freaking blast! Here's the info from Debe: CEMETERY CRAWL 6 IS COMING APRIL 09 & 10 2011!!!! WHAT IS THE CEMETERY CRAWL, YOU ASK? IT IS A UNIQUE WAY OF STUDYING SOME OF AZ'S INTERESTING & HISTORICAL CE...

When I moved from the east to the west, one of the things I learned over time is that, although many buildings are haunted in the east, the land in the west is very haunted. You feel it especially standing in places like South Mountain Park and Sedona, but even on a recent excursion with Julie to the Congress Pioneer Cemetery in the middle of the high desert, you could feel it in the hills all around, as if eyes were studying you everywhere you go. There are some awesome ghostly legends involving the land in Arizona. Here's just a few of them: La Llorona: The most famous haunting in the west is a repeated story of La Llorona, the “weeping woman.” This legend varies depending on where you are in the west, but the premise is the same; a woman drowned her children because her new lover didn't want them. When she killed them, he was repulsed by what she did and she realized she had killed her children for nothing. Now, she is a crying/screaming banshee figure in the washes and bas...