Hale Lake

New Mexico · USA · Haunted site

A lake outside Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, said to be where a settler and Native dispute first broke out. Visitors report the car losing everything.

Hale Lake lies just outside Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, and local tradition places the first confrontation between settlers and the Mescalero Apache in this area here.

The warnings that come with the site are practical rather than atmospheric. Drive up at night and the radio, the heater and anything else electrical in the car is said to stop working. Visitors are told to bring other people and to be prepared to spend the night, because the brakes are said to fail on the way back down.

That is an unusually specific set of claims and all of them concern the vehicle rather than the visitor.

This is remote high country in Lincoln County. Whatever else is true, the roads are rough, the descent is steep, and being stranded out there overnight without telling anyone is a genuinely bad idea for reasons that have nothing to do with what happened in the 1800s.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Hale Lake?

Hale Lake ligger i New Mexico, USA.