Phantom Miners of Vulture City, Arizona

In the late 1800's, a man named Henry Wickenburg established a mining colony in the deserts of Arizona.  Originally a quartz mining site, gold was discovered and the colony grew into the thriving mining town of Vulture City with over five thousand people living in or around it's midst.  However, Vulture City was not entirely peaceful.  

It is believed that spirits of dead miners haunt the remains of the gold mines at Vulture Mines, Arizona

Many claim jumpers, would pilfer from other miners and over the years it is known that eighteen men died in the town as a result of being executed at what was known as the hanging tree.  A tree that still stands to this day as well as other structures in the town.  The old gold mine shaft remains intact as well where it is thought that many miners died in a collapse.

It is known that eighteen "claim robbers" were hung on what Vulture City residents called "The Hanging Tree" which still stands.

Although a ghost town since 1942, it is thought that some of these miners, thieves and the like, still haunt the buildings and mineshaft. An eerie feeling passes over visitors as they make their way through the ghost town. And it is even thought that the spirit of a Native American brave haunts the area. It's headless figure has been seen near the cemetery where he was buried. Some visitors believe that the ghost of a child haunts the old school house on the premises.

Vulture City has been the object of many paranormal investigations. Several teams have made EVP recordings of voices coming from the old mine shaft. One famous team, the crew of Ghost Adventures, has even recorded the eerie sounds of a piano playing in the abandoned school house...  on a piano that no longer works!

The remains of the Vulture City Assay office still stand to this day.

The town is open for paid tours to this day, so you can check it out and see for yourself.  You just may hear the phantoms of Vulture City!


References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_Mine
http://www.arizona-leisure.com/vulture-mine.html
http://vultureminetours.com/

Location:

Latitude: 33.813866°
Longitude: -112.832183°

For driving directions and tour info, visit: http://vultureminetours.com/

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