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y Wallacereill1-l-s,)ra-tsalle10n-a’sicyButirthmdtoThe Red Ghost of Arizonan 1883, a huge red monstermounted by a ghostly rider killed a woman in the southeastern corner of the Arizona Territory. Thebeast left behind cloven footprints andlong, red hairs. Nicknamed the RedGhost, it inspired many scary tales.One rancher, however, identified thecreature for what it was: a camel witha man— perhaps a dead man—on its back.Camels were not uncommon thenin the West. But who was the rider?That the man was dead was verifiedwhen five miners came across the cameland shot at it, dislodging the skull from a human skeleton on its back.The camel attacked several otherpeople, but there were no more reports of the Red Ghost after 1884. In1893, a rancher shot and killed a camelV .4xkjin his turnip patch, and it turned out tobe the Red Ghost. The camel’s body was covered with a network of knotted rawhide strips. It became clear that the skeleton had been tied to thecamel’s back. Perhaps it was a grisly joke. or perhaps amurderer had bound his victim—alive or dead—to a walking coffin.INVmmON TO OUR READERS
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