[pct-l] Mutant Saber Tooth... Ghost sightings

[Tortoise]

even though the story is true, the facts aren't quite what they seem.

some people may imagine they see something or feel something, but whatever 
it was, it wasn't a ghost.




Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>


montypct wrote:
> True Story
> 
> I picked up a hitch hiker a couple weeks ago.  He lives on the Los Coyote 
> Indian Reservation right here at Warner Springs.  I know his family.  Good 
> friends.  Honest people.  This Indian spoke with a deep inner honesty and 
> belief  I could feel.
> 
> He had a couple stories I have never heard before.  Ghost stories.  The Los 
> Coyote tribe says the  PCT is haunted.  He specifically said the PCT.  You 
> rarely see the local Indians on the trail.
> 
> Leaving Warner Springs northbound the trail travels through big old brittle 
> Oaks, travels up into higher Chaparral then back down into the Oaks a few 
> times.  You make some stream crossings.  Sometimes dropping down into these 
> Oaks can be scary enough without these ghost stories. You are also below the 
> highest peak in San Diego County, Hot Springs Mountain.  Hot Springs 
> Mountain is on the Los Coyotes Reservation.  Access is forbidden to 
> outsiders without special permission, which is seldom granted.
> 
> 
> 
> A ghost has been seen more than once along this stretch of the PCT on the 
> trail.  He has always been described as a man with very long hair.  A 
> grayish white light image or aura.
> 
> There are also stories of PCT hikers "feeling a presence following them from 
> Barrel Springs to Warner Springs" (mile 100-110) and it has also been "felt" 
> in the loop, but he didn't have stories of actual sightings there.
> 
> 
> 
> True Story from the local Indians, so there is some actual fact to 
> Switchbacks warnings about the Warner Springs PCT that he wasn't aware of..
> 
> 
> 
> Warner Springs Monty
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "montypct" <montypct at gmail.com>
> To: <Hiker97 at aol.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 7:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Mutant Saber Tooth... Ghost sightings
> 
> 
>>> Switchback replies: Actually, Warner Springs Monty, is the Guardian of 
>>> the
>>> PCT Warner Springs Loop.  He is the expert about all this stuff.   I just 
>>> know
>>> about what I have heard and the legends of the trail ---- the trail 
>>> lore.
>>> This stuff is only talked about a lot at trailtown saloons after  many 
>>> brews and
>>> at trail campfires in the deep of the night.  All this  scares me.  I 
>>> hope
>>> all the NoBo hikers are braver than  me.
> 
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