Sometimes a place can imprint you with its own tragedy. Maybe that was the idea behind the supposed hauntings last week. Right now I’m a bit imprinted by the day I spent with the dusk shift of the Tohonoh O’odham Reservation Police Department, during which time I toured much of their 75 miles of border with …
Author Archives: Nathan
Tiny Republicans
I have seen some strange things this week—a Geronimo statue shaped like a sex toy, a hotel so shabby it seemed haunted—but nothing quite as wrong as the children’s book for sale at the Briarwood Country Club in Sun City West, just outside of Phoenix. I was there to interview J.D. Hayworth, the Republican gunning …
A Bedside Visitor: The Update
Yesterday I wrote about awaiting an otherworldly visitor at the haunted Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, Arizona, and thought it only right to give an update. The ghost never arrived. She was, according to legend, going to come sit at my bedside. She did not. At least not while I was awake. When I went down for …
A Bedside Visitor
I came into tiny Douglas, Arizona this afternoon looking for a couple of people who didn’t particularly want to be found: such is the news business sometimes. Before I could find them, I needed to find a hotel so I could set my gear down, look up a few addresses online, and get stalking. Fortunately, …