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What is the origin of the name Haunted Canyon in Arizona?

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Uncategorized

What is the origin of the name Haunted Canyon in Arizona? Mike WalbornTempe, Arizona I call it one of those obvious place names: Haunted Canyon, which is located east of Phoenix, not far from Globe, was supposed to be haunted. According to an August 1891 article in the Arizona Enterprise, a man named Pete Gann camped in the canyon during a monsoon that was so fierce, the boulders and rocks were rockin’ and rollin’ (my words, not his). He decided the place was haunted, and that’s how it got


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