Strange NM #1: Murder Cabin
It’s National Storytelling Month and October. I love to do spooky or weird stories in October, so here begins some strange tales about New Mexico. I have borrowed these from a Daily Lobo column that...
View ArticleAtari’s Video Game Graveyard
Continuing with this month’s spooky/weird stories from New Mexico, we’ve got a story from my favorite column in college. Atari’s video game graveyard discovered in southern New Mexico city By Mike...
View ArticleUnderground nuclear tests cause sites to continuously ooze toxic radiation
It was December 1961, in the desert just southeast of Carlsbad. Tufts of dry grass bent low beneath a winter wind, sand swirled across a desert plain, and here and there, a tumbleweed rocked against a...
View ArticleAliens, government breed genetic mutants in suspected underground lair
Dulce is almost in the center of the northern edge of the state, on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Dulce is a small town, yet it looms large in the minds of conspiracy theorists worldwide, who...
View ArticleDiver deaths spawn rumors of underground waterway
by Mike Smith Daily Lobo About 120 miles east of Albuquerque, on the eastern edge of the town of Santa Rosa, N.M., lies a tiny oval of blue water – a spring-fed sinkhole about 80 feet wide and 81 feet...
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