I dove thru Amboy back in 1995. Not a soul to be seen. The small town looked normal, but no humans anywhere. I thought I was in the Twilight Zone. Upon peering in some windows and seeing no one, I drove out of town. A large sign outside of Amboy explained everything. It said, "Town for Sale, be your own Mayor." A memorable experience.

@airsearch9192

2 ай бұрын

Yessir - there are several towns like that on the old Route 66. Starting west of Barstow there's Baghdad, then Amboy, then Chambless, Essex, then Fenner. We camped on the WWII airfield at Essex a couple of years ago. It was great

I was a Marine stationed at Twentynine Palms, when training we would regularly see weird things out there

@airsearch9192

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your service. Were you talking about "orbs"? I've spoken with two "desert rats" who've seen them. I interviewed a guy whose trailer door was knocked on by its previous owner (who was dead), and a man and his wife who photographed a UFO - with fiery flames shooting out of its tail. They were in Joshua Tree and Landers.

I hiked to the crater alone and it was a great hike with fantastic views from up on the rim. But this was in February or March. NEVER hike in places like this in the summer/hot months. From the rim you can see that the lava fields extend for many miles. With all of that black rock it turns into a furnace during the summer - even after the sun goes down. Be smart and be safe folks.

@airsearch9192

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment and for that life-saving advice!

I have history with Amboy Crater. It has been in my life since I was a little kid. I even had a LONG "UFO" experience all night with part of the "vehicles" moving quickly around the crater itself. Others all the way to the mountians in the east. I took a friend from Germany with me when I stopped to let her get out. She began screming: "My shoes are melting!". It was 90 something that day.

@airsearch9192

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Michael. I appreciate you adding to this story. I participated in the search for Susan Schmeirer, and made five trips out there in the months after her dissappearance. It's a sobering experience, searching for a dessicated body on that vast stretch of lava. Best wishes to you...

@princessunicorn669

Ай бұрын

Was that girl you mentioned from Germany a Wicked Witch per chance?

@michaeldavis9774

Ай бұрын

@@princessunicorn669 Understood that you might need to say something funny, But the association of my girlfriend with being a witch is not a proper way to write this. Unless you are of the red persuation. Not funny. I doubt any of my friends who are witches would appreciate it much either.

I have never felt unsafe out there altough it is creepy by yourself it still doesn't feel unsafe.

@airsearch9192

2 ай бұрын

When I was looking for Susan's body, it felt VERY CREEPY out there. Apparently a civilian found her remains about 50-feet from the road that leads into Amboy.

@princessunicorn669

Ай бұрын

You know what gives me the creeps…is a tad further down the road, you will reach the Kelso train station… there is an open air jail cell there that the local constable would employ to lock up miners in during the 1940’s to keep them from wandering around the desert at night while drinking and bored on their evenings off. Due in large part to lack of any entertainment or anything else do in that remote and isolated location.

why the heck would anyone hike there in June?

@airsearch9192

3 ай бұрын

Personally I'd blame the men. I think ladies have a more grounded sense of when things are dangerous. Older men (like myself) think they can handle the heat.

@latigomorgan

2 ай бұрын

@@airsearch9192they start out in the morning and think this isn’t so bad. Then it gets hotter and hotter and the unprepared/ non acclimated find themselves in deadly trouble.

@princessunicorn669

Ай бұрын

I confess to being perplexed by SarahLouise’s query…Whom or what would try to restrict you from hiking there in June, if that is your true hearts desire?

@latigomorgan

Ай бұрын

@@princessunicorn669 If you are unfamiliar with the desert and unprepared and go bebopping on down a trail in June, July, or August, Mother Nature will take you out of the gene pool.

"my supenrnatural experience at Amboy" I saw white orbs on mountain very far from me then curiosity propelled me forward, so i took my binoculars I realized that the source of the light was not a campfire or a flashlight but something far more extraordinary. It was a ball of pure white fire, hovering inches above the ground

@airsearch9192

2 ай бұрын

That's the third account of glowing orbs I've heard, here in the desert. My friend in Yucca Valley got a video of one that went from outside his house, right on through his house, thanks to his front door security camera.

@princessunicorn669

Ай бұрын

I’ve spent the night camping in my RV in the parking lot at Roy’s Gas Station after old Buster died. I was too tired to drive the rest of the way back home… to Pahrump, Nv and never saw anything like that, seen other strange lights though nearby at night in desolate areas that did gave me the creeps.

I was there just yesterday

It's only a mile to the crater from the parking lot. Why are these people walking an extra 2 or 3 miles to Roy's instead of back to thier cars?

@airsearch9192

2 ай бұрын

After several trips out there I finally saw the answer to your question: Hikers returning from the crater cannot see the parking lot, because it's lower than the lava. So the only sign of civilization a delerious person can see is the ROY'S MOTEL sign, in downtown Amboy.

GO BACK THE WAY YOU CAN

@airsearch9192

Жыл бұрын

Yessir. I hiked there about three weeks ago, right before it got hot. I was all alone and the sun was setting. It was just me, and the ghosts of all those who've died out there.

Amboy is a tourist spot now

@airsearch9192

29 күн бұрын

You mean now that it's 110-degrees?

@baseddroid

29 күн бұрын

@@airsearch9192 All I know is I was there a week ago and there was an Italian tour bus there. The guy who owns the place said they come by all the time

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