Arizona – Slaughterhouse Canyon
Legend goes that if you go to Luana’s Canyon at night you can hear a woman sobbing. That’s because it’s the ghost of a woman who killed her children. Back during the gold rush, a very poor family lived in the canyon. The father walked off to find food and didn’t return. The mother, driven mad by the cries of her hungry children echoing around the canyon, killed them all and then put on her wedding dress to wear as she slowly starved to death. Since then, the place has earned the nickname “Slaughterhouse Canyon.”
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)