Ghost Riders in the Sky: The Legend Behind the Song | Haunted West

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  • @arailway8809
    @arailway8809 Рік тому +37

    Success has many fathers.
    One tale of the origin of the song
    puts it in Arizona, and written by a Forest Ranger.
    Eckhart's Stampede Mesa in Texas Scapes
    puts the origin at the same place with a nester
    spooking the herd when the trail boss would not
    let him cut the herd for his milk cow.
    They say that Palo Duro Canyon still echoes the
    screams of the horses that Ranald MacKenzie
    had shot to force the Comanches onto the reservation.
    I spent some time at the present lake in Crosby county
    where the stampedes occurred. One windy night,
    I camped alone there. I dreamed of a cow big on the shoulders
    and tapering to both ends. I walked in daylight over much of that area.
    Not much of a dream, but having spent time around cows,
    I knew it was not the usual cow.

    • @doorusthewalrus6903
      @doorusthewalrus6903  Рік тому +2

      I vaguely recall the story about the milk cow, but never the one attributing the story to Arizona. Looking into it just now, the inspiration for the Stan Jones song came from an Apache legend he heard when he was 12 years old in 1926. Lon Schuyler beat him to the draw in 1902 for the story itself, but it's fascinated how this same story is imbedded in Apache lore hundreds of miles from the spot in Texas. Obviously, the story has deep roots.
      Thanks ARailway!
      For further info about the song:
      web.archive.org/web/20170224140737/www.westernmusic.org/stan-jones

    • @Momusinterra
      @Momusinterra Рік тому +1

      Can you draw a picture of the big- shouldered, tapering dream cow?

    • @gwaithwyr
      @gwaithwyr 9 місяців тому

      I have seen a photograph of an ancient cave painting (in France, I think) which shows an aurochs (extinct bovine) withyhe body shape you describe. Dreams are strange things!

  • @danielboone3770
    @danielboone3770 15 днів тому +3

    Ooh my gosh! This is where the Ghost Riders in The Sky song came from! I LOVE it!

  • @user-ol7bt4wp1j
    @user-ol7bt4wp1j Рік тому +25

    I heard that this story actually might be a passdown of the wild hunt.
    The Wildhunt was a legendary event in Germanic/Scandinavian mythology in which the Aesier (Odin and Thor and so on.) went riding on their horses, through the sky to hunt down the living to take them down to the under world.
    The story of ghost riders in the sky, probably came from the earliest Dutch/German/English and Scandinavian settlers. And then was pass down and slightly, changed into the version we have now.

  • @lastmannotstanding3741
    @lastmannotstanding3741 Рік тому +23

    finally a story about the legend of the ghost rider and not some sjeleton on a badass hellcycle

  • @classicalvintagecollector
    @classicalvintagecollector Рік тому +25

    My dad used to play this song on guitar when I was a little boy. The first version I ever heard was by Lorne Greene.

  • @MarkTedesco-zf8ej
    @MarkTedesco-zf8ej 7 місяців тому +9

    I wish Hollywood could make a good movie about this mesa

  • @johnmitchelljr
    @johnmitchelljr 7 місяців тому +8

    Well done, I love history well told. Thank you.

  • @mrs.g.9816
    @mrs.g.9816 Рік тому +6

    I love ghost stories and legends, and this is the first time I've heard of this one. Now I must listen to the song.

    • @Tangento
      @Tangento 4 місяці тому

      I have immersed in countless versions of this epic tune, but one of my current favorites is from a guy I had never heard of until recently: Kenny Paul. The electric gutarwork is subtle but haunting, especially toward the end. This one, in my opinion expands on the dark atmospere of the classic version from Johnny Cash, with a traditional bluegrass undercurrent.
      Have a listen:
      ua-cam.com/video/Uxa9Q1R2kUY/v-deo.htmlsi=CbQvhx0jrldGIL_F

    • @underthetrees4780
      @underthetrees4780 3 місяці тому

      My favorite version, but there are many good versions out there.
      ua-cam.com/video/j2klh2cTa_Q/v-deo.htmlsi=du_YtJHBXyeIEUeq

  • @leslieawest5062
    @leslieawest5062 Рік тому +8

    At last a Story about the Legend of Ghost Riders in the Sky in Texas Mesa. It was very sad, but very interesting. I heard about the legend in my Book about Stan Jones in the 192Os in Arizona, 😊❤🐴🐎🐴🎶🎵🎶

  • @skywatchermissouri4172
    @skywatchermissouri4172 Рік тому +5

    This is. Story repeated many time across many generations upon generations , it was crazy story as soon as the mesa started having siting gs of the shining ones the fallen Angele and they see the lightning that's they ship REAL TALK

  • @Homoprimatesapiens
    @Homoprimatesapiens Рік тому +8

    I always was wondering where this gripping song came from. Now this is cleared up, and yeah, thanx a lot. Very interesting. 💯🌟👻👻👍👍

  • @ragnapodewski4694
    @ragnapodewski4694 Місяць тому +2

    Mesas are covered by Basalt, an Iron rich stone, where lightnings frequent strikes. Cattle or sheep flocks are often killed by lightning. One ancestor of mine lost his whole sheep.

    • @carmengarciabermejo9567
      @carmengarciabermejo9567 20 днів тому

      From Spain: we love these legends. They're part of the American culture. Cheers.

  • @garvdarb
    @garvdarb Місяць тому +1

    I love listening to The writer, Stan Jones, Vaughan Monroe, Burl Ives versions of this great song. And most only know it as a Johnny Cash tune.

  • @stevielease7952
    @stevielease7952 7 місяців тому +2

    Indeed this story does sound like a story straight out of Revelation .

  • @Negative_creep3383
    @Negative_creep3383 5 місяців тому +4

    The harlathing, einhejar, die wilde jagd

  • @TheKing_1986
    @TheKing_1986 Рік тому +17

    This would make for a fantastic movie, provided it could be made without involving the comic character and instead focus on making the story as realistic and historically accurate as possible.

  • @johnjones3208
    @johnjones3208 Місяць тому

    Sir, thank you for this very interesting and informative presentation. Regarding the Massa. I have always wondered about the inspiration behind the sing Ghost riders in the sky. After hearing this legend, it makes more sense.

  • @christinepearson4972
    @christinepearson4972 Рік тому +8

    Note that this legend was indeed responsible for the ghost rider character Carter slade who worked as the devil bounty hunter for 100 and 50 years

    • @RockandrollNegro
      @RockandrollNegro 8 місяців тому +1

      The story actually was the inspiration for the original Ghost Rider character published by Magazine Enterprises between 1949-1955. Stan Lee more or less stole the character in 1967 and changed his name to Carter Slade.

    • @christinepearson4972
      @christinepearson4972 5 місяців тому +2

      I was referring to the event in the ghost rider 1 movie

  • @tonybarde2572
    @tonybarde2572 8 місяців тому +2

    The legend began in the Netherlands and Belgium. People told stories of the Buckriders (Dutch: Bokkenrijders). Spirits of the damned who ride on the backs of large, fire breathing, black billy goats across the night sky searching for souls to steal for Satan, their master.

  • @user-zk5nb9ji6j
    @user-zk5nb9ji6j 5 місяців тому +4

    Good song

  • @catlynnearkin8825
    @catlynnearkin8825 4 місяці тому +1

    I love the song. ❤️

  • @AmbroseBoaBowie
    @AmbroseBoaBowie 7 місяців тому +1

    That’s so cool! I want to go there!

  • @michaelarmbruster586
    @michaelarmbruster586 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for tale very fun

  • @andrefromelpasotexas3236
    @andrefromelpasotexas3236 Рік тому +10

    This is badass. Just earned a sub from me 👍🏽

  • @Bhazulle
    @Bhazulle Рік тому +33

    My uncle Stan Wrote this song.

    • @proudamerican6255
      @proudamerican6255 9 місяців тому +1

      Very cool

    • @lordsams
      @lordsams 8 місяців тому +1

      no Stan Lee didn't right the song

    • @Bhazulle
      @Bhazulle 8 місяців тому +2

      @@lordsams Stan... Jones...

    • @lordsams
      @lordsams 8 місяців тому +2

      @@Bhazulle I made a funny

    • @lyndonreid3521
      @lyndonreid3521 8 місяців тому +1

      Cool!

  • @dennisthornton4434
    @dennisthornton4434 Рік тому +5

    You forgot the accapella version by Geoffrey castalucci.

  • @David-yw2lv
    @David-yw2lv 19 днів тому +1

    My favorite renditions of this song are by Johnny Cash and The Sons of the Pioneers.

  • @m3chanist
    @m3chanist 3 дні тому

    The actual history is far more interesting and rich. The lineage of this song starts in Ireland with "Johny I hardly knew ye" an old war protest song, you can find Joan Baez excellent version here on utube, it crossed the Atlantic and became "When Johny comes marching home again", Dolly partons version is a great reference. This was a favourite whistled by Stan Jones as he checked his weather stations while working as a park ranger, clouds rolling in. He went on to write Ghost Riders for the sons of the Pioneers, a television band of cowboys who at the time were working as caddies at a golf club.

  • @gwaithwyr
    @gwaithwyr 11 місяців тому +3

    Yes, maybe the old Wild Hunt myth helped to create the story of Stampede Mesa. There are also stories of historic battles being fought again in visions over the battlefields.

  • @grassroot011
    @grassroot011 Рік тому +5

    Huh, must be some truth to the legend? Thanks

  • @alla122
    @alla122 10 місяців тому +2

    Mooie schilderijen van cowboys

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    @user-se9wc6rm6y Рік тому +2

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  • @Crazycoyote-we7ey
    @Crazycoyote-we7ey 7 місяців тому +4

    From what i heard was that all the Men that were with Sawyer on that drive all died within a year either killed in saloons or on other drives
    Sawyer shot himself on stampede mesa after a year it happened according to the story Sawyer kept having nightmares since

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking6252 Рік тому +2

    I always heard it was up Oregon territory way's , Idaho perhaps. Just heard it somewhere? Sounds like a true myth.

  • @florenceneri8240
    @florenceneri8240 9 місяців тому +1

    J'aime ❤

  • @Heathershusbandbear
    @Heathershusbandbear Рік тому +1

    Good job

  • @CwL-1984
    @CwL-1984 Рік тому +1

    Interesting 🤔
    👍👍

  • @johnvercellone1988
    @johnvercellone1988 Місяць тому

    Hark The Lord has blessed this land and the origin of this song knew it.

  • @eliasthienpont6330
    @eliasthienpont6330 6 місяців тому

    🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁LION c LIKE No. 907

  • @marb.4624
    @marb.4624 Рік тому +2

    Too bad there is no machine translation, but it's very interesting 🤔

  • @DOMOZORROORROZOMOD
    @DOMOZORROORROZOMOD Рік тому

    11:01

  • @DLYChicago
    @DLYChicago 3 місяці тому

    I have seen some commentators liken the story to the pagan European myth of the Wild Hunt.

  • @randygraf2474
    @randygraf2474 Рік тому +2

    learn something new, thanks.

  • @tomb3040
    @tomb3040 Рік тому

    𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐦

  • @GassonTeddy
    @GassonTeddy 2 місяці тому

    😅😅😂😂😂

  • @user-up9cd8fw9e
    @user-up9cd8fw9e Рік тому

    고스트라이더
    미국 1950년대 사우스캐롤라이나 천주교 신부님이 하나님의 계시를 받아서 곡을 만들었다 4개를 받았다 그 중에 하나다
    성신의 작곡이다
    음악을 듣는 사람이 곡에서 사람이 만들수 없는 하나님의 신성을 느낀다
    하나님을 찬양하는 곡이다
    바벨론 강가
    이 곡도 하나님의 계시로 작곡한 노래다 4개를 받았다 그 중에 하나다
    성신의 작곡이다
    음악을 듣는 사람이 곡에서 사람이 만들수 없는 하나님의 신성을 느낀다
    싸이 강남스타일
    5대 목사 집안이다
    하나님께 구해서 하나님의 계시를 받아서 작곡한 3개 중에 하나다
    음악을 듣는 사람이 곡에서 사람이 만들수 없는 하나님의 신성을 느낀다 😊

  • @DOMOZORROORROZOMOD
    @DOMOZORROORROZOMOD Рік тому

    11:02