The Arizona Ghost Story

The truth behind the Red Ghost

The legend of Red Ghost began in 1883 at a lonely ranch at Eagle Creek in Arizona. A woman was stomped to death by a strange-looking beast with a devilish-looking creature strapped on his back. Additional reports followed. A rancher awoke one morning and saw the ghost–a camel– grazing in his garden. He shot the beast. The animal’s back was scarred from rawhide strands that had been used to hold a body of a man. But how the human body came to be attached to the back of a camel remains a mystery.