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Brunckows Cabin, the bloodiest spot in Arizona, that title alone is enough to give almost anyone goose-bumps. Calm, warm and peaceful as any a place could be in the daytime the simple adobe ruins of the cabin sit on a hill surrounded by nothing, and are just off the main road that connects Sierra Vista and Tombstone. As I said, sounds peaceful right? Well let's just change the scene a little bit...let's take the brightness and warmth of the afternoon sun and replace it with the darkness and loneliness of the night. Suddenly the title of "Bloodiest spot in Arizona" dominates the thoughts of the human mind and a little bit of the terror of what happened here races into the heart. Brunckows cabin is the site of reportedly 22 murders that occurred from the mid to late 1880's and a site the locals don't even wish to set foot on. |
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Just to give you an idea, I personally know a few locals who would love to camp the night in boothill cemetary, but don't wish to step anywhere near the site of Brunckow's cabin or it's nearby mineshaft, daytime or night, in fact just mentioning the cabin to them gives them the chills and creeps them out to the point of where they can't talk about it.So with all that in mind plus the many "scared to death" stories from both locals and tourists who did brave the cabin, TPI was drooling at the mouth and four of us headed to the cabin for an informal investigation.We turned off the main road and made our way along the dirt roads that led to the ruins of the old mineshaft, which is as far as you can reach by car, so we unloaded, grabbed our gear and started taking readings and pictures at the shaft (which by the way is not reported to be haunted but we wanted to leave no stone unturned). After spending some time at the mineshaft we decided it was time to do what we came for, investigate Arizona's biggest haunted gem...Brunckow's Cabin. Only one problem came to mind...which way to go, we had a few hiking paths to choose from, and since none of us had been there at night before we just choose the path that best went in the general direction of the cabin and headed off guided by the moonlight. After walking along the decending path for a few hundred yards it opened up into a wash, as we walked into the wash I glanced up and to my right and I saw a small hill at the edge of the other side of the wash. I also thought I saw some ruins but it was too dark to make anything out, even with our flashlights, but I got a gut feeling about the hill the second I saw it so we found a path that headed up and around to that hill and decided to take it. Not far up the ascending path I all of a sudden got a rush of pyschic energy that felt like a giant flash flood overtaking my body, it was at that point that I looked at Josh and said "this is it, we're definatly here", there was no doubt. When we got to the top of the hill the ruins were sitting right in front of us, Josh explained that he felt a rush of energy, so I told him what I experienced and we explained in detail to each other what we felt, only to find out that we felt the exact same thing at the exact same place. |
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