Moon Mausoleum
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Grand Canyon National Park is a majestic sight and many legends and stories are told to try to explain the peculiar feeling the place gives off. In addition to old Native American legends, there are also more recent ghost stories that seem to haunt the Canyon.
In a certain part of the Grand Canyon, a passage to the underworld known as Sipapu is said to be according to the Hopi natives. And from the depths of the underworld, the keeper of death, Maasaw is said to roam.
When people visit the Grand Canyon, many fall for the temptation of taking a memento with them back home. But according to many stories, many people are said to believe some of the tokens from the Canyon are cursed and bad luck follows them who take cursed artifacts from the park.
In a souvenir shop in the Grand Canyon based on a traditional Hopi House, employees and visitors claim the place is haunted by a couple of mischievous ghosts they often call the Brown Boys.
Inside the Grand Canyon Caverns you can explore, have dinner in their restaurant or even sleep in their overnight suit. According to the stories, there are also stories about the possibility of encountering ghosts within the deep dark caves.
After two planes crashed mid-air over the Grand Canyon, people believe that the site of the tragedy, often called the Crash Canyon, is haunted by the ghost of those who perished there in The 1956 Grand Canyon Mid-Air Collision.
On the southern rim of the Grand Canyon, the El Tovar Hotel is right on the edge. There are many haunted rumors about the hotel, many claiming that the founder of the hotel, Fred Harvey as well as some of those working there must linger as ghosts.
Former worker on the North Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon died when a boulder fell over him. Ever since, strange lights and apparitions close to his grave on the trail as well as the Phantom Ranch on the bottom of the Canyon is said to haunt the park.
A grieving wife and mother took her life when her husband and son lost theirs to the Canyon. Now The Wailing Woman is said to haunt the Transept Trail as well as the Grand Canyon Lodge in the northern rim of the park.