The Canyon Motel  RV Park
THE HAUNTED CABOOSE
(Caboose #2)
Guests report spending the night in a Haunted Caboose
Up in the mountain of Northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon lies this sleepy little town called Williams Arizona, also known as the Gateway City to the Grand Canyon. In this tiny town sites an original rustic Route 66 Motor Lodge from the 1940s called The Canyon Motel. It was about to be destroyed a few years back when developers wanted to transform this ten acre paradise into a town home community. If not for a couple California transplants who stepped in with a dream of resurrecting this historic property, it would be gone.
Let me first rewind and tell you that this little town of Williams was a major hub for the railroad back in the late 1800’s as well as the early 1900’s. The old Williams box Company use to load a lot of its products onto the railroad so that it could be delivered to the big city. This town was also famous as a route 66 thoroughfare that ran right down the middle of town up until the 1980s. This little town of hunters, trappers, cowboys and railroad employees still has managed to remain alive after all these years. Although the box company has long since disappeared and its famous route 66 was bypassed by the new modern Interstate, the town’s people resiliency has somehow managed to keep it all alive. Now the Main Street has been rejuvenated and the famous Grand Canyon Railway has become part of the community. The railway alone delivers thousands of visitors from Williams each year to the front door of the Grand Canyon.
Now, being that this is an old railroad community, The Canyon Motel elected to move two old original 1929 Cabooses on to the property and transform them into lodging suites. But wait, that’s not all, they also brought in a Grand Canyon Pullman railcar and have also made this into Lodging quarters. All these train cars are equipped with baths, heaters, air conditioners, small refrigerators, microwaves, coffee makers as well as Cable TV with VHS players. The owners say that these train cars are far and away the most requested and reserved units that they have. Over the past few years, there has been an increasingly amount of guests that have reported strange occurrences in there overnight Caboose visits. The reports of strange sounds in the night, the lights going on and off for no reason and even seeing an old conductor walking through the caboose swinging a lantern in the middle of the dark night. A housekeeper even reports hearing talking or whispering going on in the middle of the day while she works. She knows it’s weird, but also points out that nobody else is even around. They all say there is some type of unexplainable synergy taking place inside the Cabooses. After all these reports from various guests, the owners started looking into what this was all about, however they kept falling short when it came to logical explanations. The investigating, probing and non stop search for answers always seemed to come up short and unexplainable. So as new guests continue to arrive, the hopes are that someone spending an evening can help with some possible answers.
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