New Mexico

Alamogordo

Alamogordo Fireballs

Strange green fireballs that darted about in the sky were observed here form the 1950's through the 1970's. A slap of spectacular sightings
occurred in 1957. Several sightings were reported over the Mescalero Apache Reservation in October of that year. At 1:00 p.m. on November 5,
a glowing oval object few over highway 54 near Orogrande and caused cars to stall. The automobiles' lights, radios, and engines all failed at the
same time. An electronic engineer in one the cars reported that the felt waves of heat as the object passed overhead. The exposed portion of
his skin later became reddened and itchy,. At the same location, at 9:20 am on November 7, a couple spotted an identical object and reported
that their speedometer appeared to malfunction. All of the UFO reported led famous meteor researcher Dr. Lincoln La Paz to set up a research
project to study them. Although the sightings have never been explained. Air Force security personnel treated them very seriously.

Chimayo

El Santurario De Chimayo

This small chapel is sometimes called the American Lourdes. It is built on top of a piece of land known for it's healing and magical powers.
Indians went tot he site to available themselves of the healing energies, and Spanish priests felt it's spiritual power. The chapel was built in
1816 by Bernardo Abeyta, who was visited by an angel. The heavenly messenger told the farmer that two priests had been murdered on the
property. Abeyta searched and found part of a robe and a large crucifix that belonged to the martyrs. The townspeople carried the six-foot high
green cross to Santa Cruz to be displayed, but the cross magically reappeared back in Chimayo at the same spot where the farmer had
discovered it. This happened three more times before Abeyta decided to build a chapel around the site. The miraculous cross still rests behind
the altar of the Santurario.

Abeyta was a disciple of a Central American religious leader named Equipulas, who taught that Christ was dark skinned like his own people.
One of the ceremonies of the sect included healing with sacred mud from mineral springs in Guatamala. Abeyta carved a Black Christ for his
chapel and claimed the dirt on his property was holy. Since then, thousands of people have visited the site to take some of the sacred soil from
an earthen well in the El Posito annex. The mysterious well is always bull to the brim, no matter how much dirt is taken. The place is littered
with crutches and wheelchairs left behind by those miraculously cured of their afflictions.

Mesilla

Double Eagle Restaurant

The ghost of a petite young lady, wearing a black skirt and white blouse, has been spotted in the Carlotta Room, She is thought to be a maid
named Inez, who was killed by a stray bullet from a skirmish that took place on the plaza in 1849. A grislier version of events is that she was
killed by a member of the Maese family. One day the mother caught her young son in bed with Inez. In a fit of rage, the woman grabbed a pair
of scissors and started stabbing at the bed. Before she realized what she was doing, she had killed both her son and the maid. The spirit of
Inez remained quiet until the room was remodeled in the 1980s, after which the ghost of Inez began gliding across the floor. The frightening
apparition was also seen reflected in mirrors, and the photograph of her ghostly form hangs in the Carlotta Room. Inez sometimes manifests as
a cold spot in the tiny room, which only seats eight people. Unexplainable noises, such as the sounds of pottery breaking and disembodied
voices, are also heard in the area. At least a dozen guests and employees have observed supernatural phenomena. On October 24, 1989,
amazed witnesses saw eighty glasses fly off the back shelf onto the floor, but only three of them broke. The house was built in 1825 and
converted into a restaurant in the 1970's.

Hauck, Dennis. (1994). Haunted Places: Ghost Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York: Penguin
Book.