Arizona’s Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners by Julie Ferguson

For readers who like their travel guides with a healthy dose of the macabre, we’re happy to introduce Arizona’s Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners by Julie Ferguson.

Thirty-six crazy stories of local lore are accompanied by visitor info for decaying, abandoned attractions, six ghost towns and so much more. Even natives will find a new place to visit or a folk tale they never heard in this book.

Journey to Arizona through over 240 scenic photographic images and 36 stories imparting unusual and bizarre regional happenings throughout history.

Read about the Native American ruins and the ancient civilizations that inhabited their stone walls, leaving behind pottery shards, handmade tools, and astonishing petroglyphs etched on boulders.

Discover forgotten places, now decaying and abandoned, with accompanying stories behind their rise and fall. Visit six Southwestern mining towns famous for riches, scandals, and hope for new lives. These towns were booming in their heyday, but because of greed, natural disasters, and drying-up mines, they became ghost towns.


Meet Wild West outlaws who ended up dead and buried somewhere in the desert.

Discover mysterious conundrums either found buried beneath the dirt floor, roaming the barren desert, or made from odd objects, and witness the unusual weather conditions that plague the Southwest.

Find ghosts, mummies, and fossils talked about in urban legends of the desert and lost treasures and castles in the mountains. Includes directions and visitor information. Arizona awaits your arrival.

 Size: 7″ x 10″ | 246 b/w & color photos | 192 pp
ISBN13: 9780764346071 | Binding: soft cover

To purchase this book, please visit the Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. website at this link I have provided: Arizona’s Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners by Julie Ferguson http://www.schifferbooks.com/arizonas-back-roads-a-travel-guide-to-ghosts-outlaws-and-miners-5459.html

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Large White Ball With The Back Of It On Fire Observed From Coral Springs Florida

Date:  December 29, 2012
Time:  Approx: 10:20 p.m.

Hello Vike, last night at about 10:20 p.m., we were in Coral Springs, heading south on University Drive at about Wiles Road, when we saw a big ball of white fire, slowly heading down to earth.

There were a few airplanes and what seemed to be a helicopter close to the ball, but going in the opposite direction.

The ball was heading northeast and even though my boyfriend thought it was going to the ocean, my perception was that it was much closer than it looked compared to the dimensions of the helicopter.

I believe it landed somewhere in Pompano Beach, Deerfield or lighthouse point, maybe even Coconut Creek.

It was large, white and the back of it was on fire, it was going relatively slow, and it was too big to be a shooting star.

The helicopter circled the are, maybe looking for it?

I tried asking on Facebook if anyone had seen it, with no comments. Strange, do you know what it was?

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.

The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

The Vike Factor 2 (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal-2.blogspot.ca/

Red Objects Seen Flash Lights Back And Forth Over Sevierville Tennessee

Date:  August 20, 2012
Time:  9:30 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 2
Shape of Objects: Round.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: My friend and I were in the back yard watching for comets, when we saw a large glowing red object with a smaller glowing red object beside or in front of it. The objects seemed to be a single craft, approaching west to east towards us.

I cannot be sure how far away it was, but it seemed to be within a few miles in front of me, and maybe only a few hundred yards from the ground. It was much closer and lower than any airplane could get, and much brighter and there were no flashing lights and made no noise at all.

After a minute or two of heading from the west towards us, it stopped within a mile of us and a series of bright multi-colored lights lit up around the perimeter of the large red object in a side to side motion, the small red object and the large red object separated rapidly and appeared to either be two crafts or one large craft.

After the separation, they gradually separated further and further they seemed to be blinking lights back and forth in strange patterns to each other, then they both quickly headed south, within a minute they were gone... out of sight.

It was incredible, something is going on here in east Tennessee. I have also seen a large Triangle craft so close I could almost touch it in Gatlinburg 2010. Does anyone know what the hell is going on.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.

The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

The Vike Factor 2 (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal-2.blogspot.ca/

Back To Back Green Flashes Seen In The Sky North Of San Jose California

 

Date:  March 10, 2012

Time:  7:00 p.m.

 

We saw a very similar flash at 7:00 p.m. in the western part of the sky. We were driving North from San Jose, CA. Our batteries did not die, but there were two back to back greenish flashes that filled the sky.

 

These flashes were too big to be lightening. No other characteristics of lightening were present.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Fireball Type Object Shoots Back Upward Over New Mexico

Date: 2010 and September 17, 2011
Time: Evening.

Hi, I was writing to see if there is any explanation to this? The posting on your website " Bright Light Shoots Off Over Carvel Alberta Canada" 2006. My friend and I had witnessed the same exact thing, exactly, except we live in New Mexico and it happened in 2010.

Again September 17, 2011 the same friend and his girlfriend and her son witnessed the exact same sighting. I know this sounds cheesy, but the fireball was the size of my pinky nail held out at arm length, "a very hot and angry looking fireball" like off the movie Men in Black.

It seemed to be coming right at me and at a extremely high velocity and shot up leaving a short trail behind and out of our orbit, extremely fast speeds. This seems to be a reoccurring thing, have you found or heard what this is?

Thank You for your time.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Alien Presence Severe Burns Found On Man's Back Seattle Washington (Picture)

Brian Vike's Note: On the evening of July 15, 2010 a person had a heck of a night's sleep. When he woke up the next morning, July 16, 2010 a good friend of his seen the marks on his back. He spent a little time searching the internet looking for others who may have woken up having the same type of markings in there back, and sure enough, he found a photo and story which is all most the same as what showed up on him.

The case he referring to was the large case I worked on entitled Alien Abduction/Missing Time Case From Kelowna British Columbia. This article can be found on Sightings.com at

http://www.sightings.com/Archives/alienabductkelownaBC2003.html and the pictures the man was talking about are found in the same report, just on the second page at

http://www.sightings.com/Archives/alienabductkelownaBC2003_2.html

I did call the gentleman and we had a nice talk and he was forth coming with his experience which started a long time ago. I also have a photo that was taken of his back, showing the marks he has on his body.

Hello Brian, I have had an incident I would like to inquire about. It has happened before, but this time is a little more "severe".

I awoke this morning after a horrible night of sleep with profuse sweating. My friend freaked out and asked, what are those "burns" on my back were. I looked in the mirror and I have a matrix of dots on my back. I took the photo below.

I went to Google and searched for alien abduction body marks and a page of your site came up. There is a guy there who literally has the exact same marks (he is toward the bottom of the page with the scorched tree) http://www.sightings.com/Archives/alienabductkelownaBC2003_2.html

I am not particularly freaked out, as I have a pretty good idea of alien presence around us. I had my first very vivid (undeniable) sighting of a Gray in my room as a child.

If you have any interest or questions, please let me know. I live in the Seattle area and my number is (removed).

Thank you.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

UFO - Sightings.com Back Online

On Tuesday March 9, 2010, Jeff Rense's Sightings.com went back online to report on UFO events that take place around the world. Brian Vike will be looking after the sighting reports that come into sightings.com and Greg Boone will be the Forum Moderator.

This will become a premium site for all your UFO information.

Bookmark the website and visit often: http://www.sightings.com/