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Haunted Highways, Part 2

Posted by J. Joshua Placa | Oct 24, 2022 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 0 |

Haunted Highways

Posted by J. Joshua Placa | Oct 17, 2022 | Rides & Roads | 1 |

Haunted Highways, Part 2

by J. Joshua Placa | Oct 24, 2022 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 0 |

Tombstone remains a living monument to a romantic if murderous era. Its clapboard buildings and wooden sidewalks stir up images of cowboy heroes and villains, the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo, as well as the Clanton and McLaury clans, now taking up permanent residence on Boot Hill, where moldering graves are marked by rotting wooden tombstones. Their historic shootout near the OK Corral is known around the world. The Wild West is preserved in the town’s original 1880s’ buildings. The celluloid stuff you saw on TV is here to experience, live and undead.

Haunted Highways

by J. Joshua Placa | Oct 17, 2022 | Rides & Roads | 1 |

Tales of the haunted abound. They’re everywhere; they surround us; they know us. Restless spirits seem to have infested our world no matter where we try to run or hide. What are they trying to tell us? What do they want? Are they simply echoes, a kind of resonance from the afterlife, the last sound of a soul as it departs this earth? Or is it something else, something more menacing? Could these be lost souls searching for a warm body? Your body?