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In Arizona folklore, the Red Ghost is a figure alleged to have roamed the Arizonan frontier in the late 19th century. It was said to have been a large, red camel, with a bleached human skeleton upon its back. Legends of it were widespread across Arizona, up until its supposed death before the dawn of the 20th century. [1]
For decades after the Civil War, Arizona miners, ranchers and cowboys shared stories of the Red Ghost, a mysterious beast that attacked humans in isolated areas. It was said the ghost was...
In the 1880s, a wild menace haunted the Arizona territory. It was known as the Red Ghost, and its legend grew as it roamed the high country. It trampled a woman to death in 1883.
The legend began in 1883 at a lonely ranch at Eagle Creek near the Arizona-New Mexico border when a woman was stomped to death by a strange-looking red-haired beast with a devilish-looking creature strapped on his back.
Soon the Red Ghost, or Fantasia Colorado as the Spanish-speaking settlers called it, was one of Arizona’s most famous inhabitants. The one stispect item in Hamblin’s account was the matter of the burden on the beast’s back.
First sighted in 1883, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death near Eagle Creek in southeastern Arizona. It destroyed a prospectors’ camp near Clifton and, another time, toppled teamsters’...
Red, tall and ridden by a devil: The possibly true tale of the big beast that once terrorized Arizona. Ranch dogs howled. A woman screamed. It was the spring of 1883, and the men were off with...
One of the enduring, outrageous legends in Arizona is that a demonic, rogue camel with a skeleton on its back, killed and terrorized the country side for a decade in the 1880s. The “Red Ghost” was allegedly finally killed in a rancher’s garden in eastern Arizona.
In 1893, The Mohave County Miner reported on what is now an Arizona legend: the Red Ghost, a rampant camel with a dead man strapped to its back. The story may have been fictional, but it was not as unlikely as one might expect.
Discover The Red Ghost of Quartzsite in Quartzsite, Arizona: A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.