Mount Rubidoux, Area 101 & The Valley of the Headless Men

Mount Rubidoux, Area 101 & The Valley of the Headless Men
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI’s Esoteric Detective
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The following three places mentioned in this article, are possible haunted locations with interesting back stories. These are the type of places that draws me in, where I crave to know more. Are the Dark Watchers at Mount Rubidoux? It sure seems like it. Are UFOs attracted to Area 101? Why have some men lost their heads at The Valley of the Headless Men? So many mysteries that I would love to have answers to. Let’s step back and take a look at some of the stories that surround these three very strange areas.

MOUNT RUBIDOUX, RIVERSIDE, CA
In the past, I have written about the strange paranormal activity at Mount Diablo, San Bruno Mountain, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and other mountains throughout the world. I find it odd that so many mountains attract paranormal activity and Mount Rubidoux is no exception. One story after another is connected to Mount Rubidoux. Some people have reported seeing apparitions, ghostly figures, and even Jesus Christ at the top of the mountain. Yes, you heard that right. Jesus Christ has appeared on this mountain, so say the witnesses. Locals have reported hearing devilish voices in the hills and if that is so, then the appearance of Jesus Christ may just be a deceitful image created by devilish creatures that haunt this mountain. Miniature demons are seen and known to throw rocks at hikers. Mysterious rock formations are found on this mountain’s hiking trails. Some hikers say they will walk by a spot, and everything is normal and come back to that spot a few minutes later and there is now a mysterious rock formation at the location. Was this done by a “rock moving poltergeist”? Some locals think the demonic elves that haunt this mountain hide out in the secret passages that lead to catacombs. Catacombs that date back to the Prohibition period. These catacombs and tunnels were for moving illegal liquor.

SOME HISTORY:
The mountain is named after Louis Rubidoux, who established Rancho Rubidoux in 1847. The summit has a large cross honoring Father Junípero Serra. The Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery is next door and is rumored to be haunted, people visiting the cemetery have seen shadow figures moving about. Shadow figures have also been seen on the mountain. One local even mentioned that he saw a demonic elf hiding behind a tombstone. Tall ghostly robed figures have been seen walking along the edge of the mountain. These figures have been described as eerily similar to the Dark Watchers that lurk in the mountains south of Monterey. They also bare some resemblance to the tales of equally tall-robed figures that reside on Mount Shasta and some people associate those tall figures as the last of the Lemurians.

There you have it. A place where small rocks and pebbles are thrown at hikers by some unseen force. The rock & pebble throwing is blamed on the demonic elves. The demonic elves are also known to provide sinister cackles to accompany your hike. Most terrifying though is that something, again perhaps the demon elves, stack rocks into strange pyramid rock piles after the hikers pass by. Hikers have turned around to see these pyramid piles formed behind them suddenly and mysteriously, their builders nowhere to be seen, and the speed with which it is done, would be impossible for mere mortals.

Besides ghosts, shadowy forces, strange tall-robed beings, and demonic elves, there are some more mundane weirdness on the mountain. The legendary Prohibition tunnels as mentioned above supposingly extend from the nearby Mission Inn all the way to Mount Rubidoux. Some locals say the tunnels also lead to a lost Chinatown. Some legends discuss an entire abandoned and buried downtown area from the late 1800s buried underground somewhere along these tunnels between Mount Rubidoux and the Mission Inn. Back at the Mission Inn, if these tunnels do exist, ghosts have been witnessed at the entrance, of course. The Mission Inn is also haunted, complete with a few haunted rooms for your stay. One of the inn’s founders, Alice Miller, also haunts one of the rooms.

AREA 101
I have driven down Highway #1 and 101 many times and never knew about the so-called Area 101 near Laytonville, California. You can count this among the many strange sights travelers will encounter along northern California’s Redwood Highway, they will see a billboard of a flying saucer firing beams into “Area 101.” Behind the sign are a couple of buildings painted with lavish psychedelic murals, mixing UFO, mystic and religious symbols. Area 101 is not a tourist attraction, but the front end for a farm collective named Healing Harvest Farms, which grows and dispenses medicinal marijuana. It is also an occasional local concert and event venue. There are beautiful color murals on the outside of Area 101. During the 1970s, the site was a gas station, motel, repair business, and a roadside restaurant named the Czech Lodge (also operated as the Grapevine, and Terwilligers). Area 101 attracts people of the Wiccan culture, people with psychic abilities, mystical people, people who embrace the hippy culture. Tarot card reader Dawn of the Light said when she journeyed to Area 101, she saw 4 people chanting. One of the chanters said they were chanting for UFOs to appear in the sky. This may have actually started working as there have been reports of UFO/UAP activity in the night skies over Laytonville, CA. Multiple nights people of Laytonville have seen a circle shaped object fly from west to east in the northern sky, it is always after midnight. Another unique thing about Area 101 is that the chanting may have opened a doorway, a portal to another dimension as Shadow People have been seen wandering about in the area. Shadow People may be interdimensional type of entities that explore our reality and then they go back to their own reality.

THE VALLEY OF THE HEADLESS MEN

LOCATION:
The Nahanni National Park Reserve, sometimes known as “Headless Valley” or “Valley of The Headless Men” (after a series of unsolved historical deaths in the park), in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (approximately 311 miles west of Yellowknife.

The Valley of the Headless Men is a nickname for a remote valley in Nahanni National Park Reserve in northwest Canada. The valley is known for a history of mysterious deaths, including decapitated bodies, and is said to be haunted. The victims of the Valley of the Headless Men are: 1. In 1908, Charlie McLeod found the skeletons of his brothers Frank and Willie in the valley, with their heads severed. 2. In 1917, the decapitated skeleton of Yukon prospector Martin Jorgensen was found outside his burned cabin. 3. In 1945, the body of a minor from Ontario was found in a sleeping bag, with no head. Some theories were thrown out, that wild animals decapitated these victims. If this was true, where are the heads? Wild animals usually target the soft areas of a body. Wild animals eating a body, would most likely take things like the heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, etc. They would not take a hard cranium. It doesn’t make sense why these victims would be missing their heads. Author Pierre Berton described the valley as having a “sinister atmosphere” and “weird, continual wailing of the wind”. The Royal Mounted Police think the causes are not paranormal in nature, but attribute the deaths to less mystical causes, such as the greed and rivalry of the Gold Rush era. The brutal reality of isolation in the wilderness may also have contributed to the deaths. Explorer Jean Poirel discovered over 250 caverns in the valley, including one that contained the skeletons of 116 Dall sheep.

Numerous other reports from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed similar deaths, and a good number of people have simply vanished without a trace after setting foot in the park. Around the same time in the park’s history, a series of unexplained plane crashes earned an expanse of mountains the name the Funeral Range, which borders the ominous Hell’s Gate rapids. Later in the 19th century, UFO sightings and other strange lights were reported in the park, and to this day fringe bloggers obsessed with cryptids recount stories of Amphicyonidae—a predatory bear-dog hybrid that went extinct in the Pliocene period—prowling the valley, as well as signs of Bigfoot activity in forbidden parts of the park. Certain areas within Nahanni are closed to visitors because of their sensitive ecosystems or cultural significance for the indigenous Dene people. But some say the restrictions are as much about containing the park’s supernatural forces as they are about keeping people out.