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Another occurrence in Ruidoso was more creepy than 'ghost' like, but I have no doubt it was in some way connected. Another weekend my girlfriend and her friend had come to ruidoso with my friend Jason and I. Inadvertently we had gone to Roswell for our Nat'l Guard drill and my girlfriend's purse with her car keys were in the jeep. Thus they had no way of leaving the house, secluded about 12 miles outside the outskirts of Ruidoso. Being relatively stubborn and restless the girls left to walk the 12 miles into town to use a payphone and call us. Kim's cell was dead, and her friend hadn't got hers to work either. 4 to five miles into the walk they noticed, on the top of a cut in the road, a cat watching them. There was something odd about the cat, the eyes didn't seem normal; but they walked on. There were no houses nearby, but this didn't make any difference at the time. As they continued, the cat would appear in front of them, staring and watching, never moving. After two or three times, the girls would watch the cat; he would sit where
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he had been, watching them intently as they would go out of site. Then, there the cat would be, again, in front of them. This happened for about a mile. Towards the end of the mile, getting freaked out by the cat, the girls went over to the other side of the road to get a closer look. There, on the ground, were photos strewn about of a woman in a bathtub,
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naked and with a very eery, scared look in her eyes. The photos were obviously made in the 1970's or 80's... the weathering on them was not from rain, or exposure, but they appeared to be taken out of an album or photo box and just placed there. There was a series of them there. As they looked at the photos the cat just stared at them. They were, at this time, completely freaked out. Debating whether to move or take the pictures or leave them, they opted just to leave them. After this, the cat didn't follow them anymore. It remained with the pictures, and didn't appear in front of them again. We often discuss it, if the cat is a manifestation of the woman, or her pet... if the woman was murdered (Lincoln county has the highest number per capita of unsolved murders in the Nation), and what her story was. It was, and is, truly one of the greatest mysteries to us of Ruidoso and Lincoln County, if only because no one else knows about it.
Submitted by Kyle
There is an old ranch my friend's dad used to own, 12 miles outside Ruidoso. About
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two years ago, my friend and I spent the weekend up there at his dad's and he told me about the haunted ranch they used to own. We were in the Guard, and had another buddy staying with us that weekend to avoid hotel fees or having to stay in the barracks. He wanted to come along and see the old haunted ranch. It was well after dark when we arrived, about 11PM. Being summer we carried revolvers and a shotgun to deal with rattlesnakes. We also carried two spotlights. We jumped the fence and walked along the southern edge of the property; it was a warm summer night, just cool enough to need a light sweatshirt at that altitude. At the old cattle pond, there was a windmill that rose about 40 feet high, a rather large old piece of equipment, and then the old corral fence led to the house. My friend Jason's parents had stayed there when they were wrangling cattle years ago, but due to several odd occurrences had started staying in tents, and when that failed to cease their nasty run ins had sold the property. The back door was ajar, in fact totally off the top 2 hinges and had bent the bottom one. We entered and looked into the kitchen, and saw nothing interesting, but when we turned we heard scuffling in the attic. The ceiling had become so decrepit that the old plaster was falling off, and it was clear that the floor of the attic was just slats of wood that I would perceive to be no more than 1.5'' wide, and 1/4'' thick, spaced at a good 1/4 to 1/2'' apart. The scuffle we heard could have easily been attested to being a mouse or other rodent at first. We went in to the living room/parlor and then went into the Library/study. It was deserted save two old bookshelves if I recall, and some debris left over from when all the family's belongings were moved out. Jason was telling us that this room was the sturdiest in the house so it's where his parents slept in their stays here, and we started to hear someone walking in the attic. Now, when you inspect the ceiling today there is no way a man could be supported walking up there; however, we heard what was clearly and irrefutably boots scuffling upstairs. They got closer and closer until they stopped, literally right over a spot that was exposed by a lack of plaster. Garret, our other friend, was now totally freaked out, and we elevated my spotlight to see if perhaps there was a vagabond peering down at us. However, we saw nothing but the roof's backside when we lit up the gap in the slats. Now convinced that we had heard something not alive, we left the house, Garret scaring us with his liberal waving of a shotgun. When we were a safe distance away we turned the spotlights back onto the attic windows, and for no more than a millisecond, perceiving more than seeing, though I daresay we did see it for that brief moment, a face staring out at us. Making sure we were indeed leaving his abode. This is a true story, I totally attest to it. I do not know where the property is, or who owns it today, but it is ~12 miles outside Ruidoso to the North east, if I am correct. This is not the only run-in we've had with the supernatural in Ruidoso, but I will make those separate posts.
Submitted by Kyle
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