Are the San Gabriel Mountains haunted?

HikeUp · Are the San Gabriel Mountains haunted?

I've not heard of any stories of haunted places in the San Gabriel's but i assume there are plenty of them. Let's hear your story regarding haunted places, ghosts, Sasquatch, Chupacabra, monsters, UFO's, aliens, etc. in the San Gabs.

We've all seen the pictures of Godzilla on Mt. Wilson, so no need to go into that one!

Mike P · Re: Are the San Gabriel Mountains haunted?

TacoDelRio

There were some Bigfoot reports. One can read one of them by looking at one of the dams on Google Earth, and a little "i" will pop up, which has info in it.

cougarmagic

Rubio Canyon has a spooky past. Reportedly haunted by the ghost of five year old Thayer Drew and his dog...wooooooo

http://mraltadena.com/mount_lowe_rr/ch17.html

"...until 1909 when a late winter electrical storm created a landslide that rolled a huge boulder down into Rubio Canyon crushing the Pavilion. Unfortunately, the Fred Drew Family, the Pavilion caretakers, had come up from their Pasadena winter home a little too early and were trapped under the rubble of the Pavilion.

Daughters Helen and Dorothy had escaped injury and were able to get the incline car up to Echo where they called for help. Rescuers from Echo and Pasadena found Mr. Drew pinned under some timbers and nearly drowning under the rising water. Three year old George Drew was found suffering from a concussion and a broken hip. Mrs. Drew was found twelve hours later dangling by her skirt from a pipe unconscious and unnoticed. Thayer Drew, their five-year-old boy, was not found until next morning. He had attempted to rescue his dog and cat, and that's where they found his body, buried in the wreckage with the two animals in his arms."

Zach

I thought i remember reading something about bichota canyon being used as grounds for ceremonial witchcraft-type stuff. Didn't they start a forest fire with their candles?

TacoDelRio

Mike P

YES!! There is definitely a strange creature that inhabits our mountains. We have only heard this animal and never actually seen it. It is certainly malodorous! Locals call them 'barking spiders'. It seems that they tend to haunt (or harass) groups of hikers.

Has anyone else run across these animals? I have smelled evidence of them in different mountain ranges in California.

HikeUp

Mike P

OMG, No!!

I can see where the post is FO-esque, though. Now that is scary!

Zé

I don't know about the San Gabriels, but I just watched this Dateline feature about "Escape from Brushy Mountain". absolutely insane. As I knew before, stay away from western Virginia/ West Virginia.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29187510/

EnFuego

I don't know whether the San Gabriels are "haunted" but there are some good stories of the area.

I remember one my grandfather told me when I was a kid and I googled it and something actually came up.

This was the story of Suicide Bridge

"......According to the tales, a number of spirits are said to wander the bridge itself as well as the arroyo below. Others have heard unexplained cries coming from the canyon........"

Leslie L

Once while on the Backbone Trail near Pine Mtn I spotted something way down below to the west – looked like a tree but in the shape of a large man that stopped walking mid stride and had frozen in it's tracks. We watched it intently for a while, half expecting it would start walking, or flinch or sneeze, or something! But it didn’t. So we continued on our way, laughing at ourselves and our Big Foot sighting. For some reason we sometimes get spooked while hiking... some places just feel creepy... so we chalked it up to over-active imagination. But the thing is, the “tree” was gone when we looked for it on the way out. Seriously.

Zach

i know this might seem a little off-topic but why are the rock pools right underneath the bridge to nowhere always filled with a blood-red liquid? Creepy.

EnFuego

Zach - it's because the people who bungy jump sometimes don't bungy back up.

TacoDelRio

Nuggets that never got back up.

AW

Only place I know that is spooky...photographer names it the bat cave for the bats that hang out.

Been there once and it is creepy with little light..certainly wont be back. As you can see, the ground is uneven, so walking in this place in the dark and maybe you step on a dead person?

As far as the Monrovia haunted hike, that is cancelled for 2009
http://www.mcphauntedhike.com/
"Monrovia Community Services Department decided recently to cancel the 2009 version of the wildly popular Halloween event that's been a fixture for 6 consecutive years. "

AW

AlanK

HikeUp

Looks like maybe it is an altar where virgins are sacrificed to the gods or some such nonsense. Twisted Evil

AW

Oh, I thought this was a public forum so it was necessary to maintain plausible deniability...nice photoshop work eh? Have to keep it on the psst psst hush hush to not arouse the suspicions of the scooby doo wannabes. Its not one way jumpers though. See the dealio is some survey was sent up nearby Devils Gulch and never returned or reported back. A history was reviewed upon why Devils Gulch belongs to the devil. Lucklily there were some dusty documents recovered from the backroom of some library. In those documents was an account of a forage by miners to explore it....and a roar and rumbling of sorts was heard and that was that...they thought of it as the devils landslide. But whats weird is blood still drains out of the ridge, so it is necessary to plant berries there until the facts are known.

From the air, theres a cave-like pathway into the ridge, but its filled with heavy rocks. So something is amiss. Maybe whatever manner of beast is responsible only shows up every 3rd full moon or something. Whatever is the cause needs to be kept under wraps from the general public. We are keeping abrest of the situation at Morris dam(the bridge to nowhere area is only used for black helicopter landings) which shows trace amounts of human DNA but also animal DNA. And yes, the bridge to nowhere came close and ..lets put it this way, thanfully there was an epic flood or there would have to be additional cover for the accounts of those workers that were digging and heard....well its just unspeakable horror.

Kit Fox

Sycamore Flats, Little Rock Canyon, and Big Rock Canyon are the areas of the Angeles National Forest where "Big Ben," a particularly tall sasquatch, was repeatedly seen by local residents, rangers, and campers in the early and mid 1970's. These canyons form part of the eastern flank (facing the great Mojave Desert) of the San Gabriel mountain range, which towers over Los Angeles on the western side.

Wednesday, November 21, 1973
Sycamore Flats sightings indicate Bigfoot's in Valley.
By Chuck Wheeler,
Lancaster, Ca. Daily Ledger Gazette

Sightings near Sycamore Flats camp ground a few days ago by a woman who momentarily saw a faint outline of a creature reassembling our most renowned Antelope Valley Bigfoot were accompanied by grunts and screeches much as is described in John Green's "The Sasquatch File." CBO members first heard about it, and they were the first to locate prints.

During the past few days something different developed. Along with Grumley and Smith and DLG photographer Jack Overlade, and myself, Chuck Wheeler DLG Staff Writer, journeyed to Sycamore Flats, extremely interested now but not any less skeptical.

While Grumley showed us this foot print, and that faded foot print, this pretty good print, and another that might have been a footprint. It was Overlade who found the only print I would say showed great definition and looked authentic. The prints, definitely were not made by a bear, and could not have been made by man because, it was a haphazard footprint, which appeared as if the owner of the foot was surprised and slipped. He slipped breaking the humus-type top of the of the ground and leaving a print of a hurried and harried person, perfectly carved out of the decaying top layer of ground.

That footprint that Overlade found was in a campground and other lighter prints lead from it, about forty five to fifty inches apart. The foot itself was possibly twice the normal man's foot in length and maybe twice the width. It is the second time I have seen so-called bigfoot prints. It looked like a real footprint of some huge animal but it was difficult to ascertain whether there was bone structure since the twigs in the other impressions defied further detection.

It was reported, by Grumley, that not far from the Valley, several teenagers had their frankfurters stolen by something that boldly came into their camp and scared "the living daylights" out of them. Their stories conflicted a little and they weren't sure of what they had seen, only that it was large, hairy and shaped like a man. They, like so many, added "But it definitely wasn't a bear.

The Overlade print convinced me in a different way. It looks like the animal slipped and crushed the humus-type layer into the ground. The depth of it was uneven, like a slip, for it was on a grade near a large bush, indicating stealth. The Overlade Print definitely was not made by someone out on a lark, for the anxiety surrounding the print, the slipping of it on the soft, twiggy ground and the ragged definition of it indicates that bigfoot is in the Valley, but as elusive as ever.

Additional Bigfoot references

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=173

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AW

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AlanK

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