Echoes of the Southwest

  This Arizona ghost town is southwest of Phoenix and 12 miles north of Sentinel.   In 1744, Father Jacob Sedelmayer named the location “Santa Maria del Agua Caliente”.   In 1775 it was shortened to Agua Caliente. The name means “hot water” and derived from the neighboring hot springs. The indigenous Native Americans used the hot springs as a healing treatment. By 1873, people from all over the world came to experience the hot springs. In 1897, they constructed a 22 room hotel with a swimming pool for all the visitors wanting to stay there. Sadly, because the nearby farmers using the water for irrigation, the hot springs eventually dried up. Today, all you will see when you visit Agua Caliente is an abandoned hotel, empty pool, adobe/stone ruins of cabins and outbuildings.

I love it when they find fascinating things in my state of Arizona. In the small town of Miami, ancient Indian skeletons were exhumed. They found 29 primeval skeletons near Iron’s Ranch which is located along the Miami-Superior Highway. An archaeologist, Eric H. Schmidt, discovered the bones while investigating ancient Arizona ruins. Schmidt works for Mrs. William Boyce Thompson at the Museum of Natural History. The information they got from examining the bones was that a number of Native Americans were over 6 feet tall. They also found over 2,000 Native American artifacts and over 120 rooms that prehistoric people once lived in.

In a week from today, Sharon and I will embark on a 5 day, 4 night road trip along some of Arizona's Route 66 path. Our journey will start in Flagstaff where we will visit historic sites and stay the night at a known haunted hotel. We booked a room that has reports of an old lady rocking in the chair by many witnesses. I will definitely have my video camera running that night. We plan to have drinks in the hotel's bar which has its own tales of ghosts roaming around. I hope they are in the mood to let us know they are there. The next day we will head out towards Winslow, you know the city in that song with the line, "standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona". Along the way, there are lots to see. On Google Earth, Sharon found abandoned towns, and historic sites where weird creatures have been seen. We will stop at the meteor crater to take videos and photos. Sharon will be doing FB live along the way. The drive to the meteor crater is very eerie. Th...

Check out this website for information on these Native American ruins in the heart of Mesa, AZ. http://arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/plan-a-visit/mesa-grande We also found out that many ghost stories have be told about the park, the nearby hospital and some of the homes that are around the site. People have reported an apparition of a Native American man, shadow figures, noises by unseen forces and objects moving on their own. I would love it if our research team can do an investigation in that area.