On September 24, 2013 I returned from a two week vacation during which I flew to Texas and ended up taking a 3600 mile road trip across six states, along the way visiting four national parks and catching up with a friend I hadn't seen since the first time we met five years ago, when I threatened his life over a card game in Morocco.
Along the way, my friend and I decided to look into local ghost stories and ended up with one of our own. This is part 2 of that story.
A look at Google Earth shows the area to be dotted here and there with houses but on the ground, in the dark, the turnoff to Angel Canyon Road from Highway 89, some six miles into the desert north of Kanab, felt so remote it may as well have been the far side of the moon. After leaving the highway we followed the road down a small rise, past low shrubs and patches of scrub grass, to the start of the 350-acre Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.
Best Friends is noted
as being America’s largest sanctuary for companion animals, recognized for
their commitment to their “no-kill mission”; they believe that 90% of shelter
animals are adoptable, or could be with the proper care and treatment. It seemed a bit grim, then, that the sole
reason we were in the neighborhood was on the off chance of seeing someone
wearing a fur pelt and firing pellets of ground-up human body at their enemies,
but that didn’t stop us.
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| Aw, that's cute. Now make with the evil witches |
