Humdinger's Love Kept Him Warm

Maybe it was just the way the moon painted the shadows or how the wind gently sighed through the broken windows of a broken town, but I knew that as I crept through those deserted rooms on that cold winter night, I was being watched. Whether it was by haunted eyes of Vulture City's lost souls or by night creatures prowling in dark corners, I guess I'll never really know. Ghost towns litter the landscape of the Old West, grim reminders of greed and deceit played out among the mining camps, where men struggled to wrest riches from the earth. Some say the skeletal remains of long-lost towns harbor ghostly secrets and ghastly tales. I went to find this out by spending part of a night at the Vulture Mine and Vulture City west of Wickenburg. I arrived at the gold-town-gone-bust as the late-afternoon shadows crept across the desert landscape and into the windows of the decaying remains of Vulture City. Photographer Richard Maack and members of MVD Ghostchasers a group of employees from the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division who all share the hobby of ghost huntingwaited for me at our rendezvous point, the Vulture's Roost, which also serves as starting point for the self-guided Vulture Mine Tour. The mine isn't open in the evenings, but we were granted access to the buildings to conduct our search for Vulture City's ghostly inhabitants. With more than 90 souls buried in the

There are many stories linked to the old

ghosts of Vulture City