WEIRD NEVADA: A spooky fun Las Vegas day trip exploring Ghost Towns, Area 51, and Death Valley (CA)
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- Looking for a Las Vegas day trip? Then I highly recommend you wander out into Nevada's strange desert landscape. The itinerary includes The Area 51 Alien Center, an oddball truck stop, and gift store located along the edge of the forbidden military zone, where we also stop and talk about the famed Nevada Nuclear Test Site and the wild "dawn parties" that were thrown in Vegas to celebrate the atomic age. Next, we grab lunch in Beatty, an old saloon town that boasts a resident population of wild burros. Minutes from Beatty, you'll find the ghost town of Rhyolite, one of the state's most well-preserved gold boom towns. We wander the sun-bleached skeletal remains and hunt for the grave of Mona Belle, a murdered dancer who is rumored to haunt the town. From there we cross the border into California, stopping at The Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction. The Opera House was once a former mining complex and is said to host several (sometimes malevolent) spirits and has been featured on many ghost-hunting shows. Finally, we cross into Death Valley National Park and visit the ruins of the Harmony Borax Works, chase the sunset over the Artist's Palette, have dinner at The Inn at Death Valley, which of course, also claims to have a ghost, and lastly do some epic stargazing/ufo hunting.
If you've explored these locations, I'd love to hear your stories in the comments! Also, always looking for episode suggestions.
Book your stay at The Inn a Death Valley and let me know if you experience anything paranormal! tripadvisor.tp.st/1zKPy2Gz
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Additional writing and photography by Brett Lambie
Photo Attribution:
"BOB LAZAR'S HAND SCANNER: A PROP / NOT A PROP" by WIDOMIRAMA, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
"1954 - Miss Atomic Test, Las Vegas" by James Vaughan, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
"Mona Belle" by James Marvin Phelps, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
"Amargosa Opera House Stage" by Joel Bradford, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
"Stage View - Amargosa Opera House" by Joel Bradford, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
"Interior view of mine and miners in the Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1900-1905 (CHS-5417)" by Ashley Van Haeften, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
I was born and raised in Las Vegas in 1962. There used to be a horn that the whole city could hear every weekend at noon. It was an air raid alert test. Also, as a kid, I remember when they did underground testing the windows of the house I grew up in rattling when they did tests. When I was about 10, I asked my dad ( an airforce veteran and a weapons loader) about area 51. He confirmed it was real, and when asked if he could take us there, he said no because we couldn't see much, and the guards out there won't let you get close enough to see anything. He also said if you try to sneak in, they will make you disappear. Imagine, that was around 1972 when area 51 was hardly spoken about.
I imagine growing up with all those tests going on so nearby, must have fascinating but super stressful. Obviously if they threaten to "make people disappear," they have to be hiding something profound there, beyond a regular weapons testing facility. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome video! Brett is a really nice addition, I hope he comes back!
He was a great co-host. I think you’ll defintely be seeing more of him.
Love this. Keep it up Ms. Ennis! :D
Thanks, Sean!
Love it! Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks for watching!
Great scenery! I'll bet those abandoned mines are full of spooky opportunities!
Thanks! I wish we had had more time to explore.
Good best friend Tony
This was really a great video! Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a thoughtful piece. Thanks for including me in it.
Thanks for sharing with us!
You know Brett sealed the deal, true.
Love that music you got,
Julian Cassia is the composer, he’s a super talented dude!
Very creepy
Great Thumbnail
These are great- I enjoy them very much
Thanks for watching!
I got some paranormal hot spots that are not really known but are freaky, im here in Idaho and Utah & Nevada state lines, just an insight, the old cavalry forts up this way are very active.
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to check those out next time I'm out that way. I've never been to Idaho!
Brett was so perfect for this ep
Virginia city, Nevada, ghost walk is interesting 🤔... Check it out if you ever get a chance, plus a cool place to visit for a day.
That's up closer to Reno, right? Would definitely like to explore more up there.
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It was fun spotting them flying off from Vegas. I was at the Luxor so the runway way right there.
Area 51 is a strange place
Yeah, it’s the first time I’ve ever been near it. Very mysterious.
I believe Bob Lazar, by the way. And I believe there are aliens (bodies) there.
I think so too.
Hello! I know you're a true crime documentary enthusiast. How about watching the latest true crime documentary video I shared? I'd love to hear what you think about it.
Bob Lazar debunked???? Sorry but I think the exact opposite is true.
True, “debunked” is the wrong word! He may be correct about what happened at area 51, however his claims about his education and employment could never be verified. For instance, places where Lazar claimed to have gone to college - like CalTech and MIT - said they’d never heard of him.
@@the_ghost_touristthe government wiped his records clean to debunk him.....how did he get his education to work at los Alamos lab? He definitely was a physicist!!!! People def verified this, so if he was a physicist he could have back engineered UFO n government just admitted UFO are real n that we do have crashes UFO they admitted this, bob said element 115 they used to power the craft but 115 wasn't a periodic element until 2008 n guess wat bob Lazar said this in the 80s 😂😂😂😂 he knew about the hand measuring bone density to allow admittance to buildings n guess wat that was true ,yea your friend isnt who he said.....
I mean he was talking about element 115 what 2 decades before it was considered a element and added to the table but you could argue that it would reach that regardless.
That's NOT how you pronounce my states name.
Apologies!