Authorities Discover 5 Bodies at the Amboy Crater

During a 12-month period five people were found dead near the Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark, in California's Mojave Desert. Heat stroke was the cause of death for four of the victims, but the cause of death for the fifth victim - who was found without hands or a head, remains a mystery.

[@charlesvandenburgh5295]

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]

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

[@zee4265]

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

[@airsearch9192]

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.

[@admiralbenbow5083]

@@airsearch9192 90% of all UFO `sightings` are in the USA....

[@1ouncebird]

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]

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

[@michaeldavis9774]

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]

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]

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

[@michaeldavis9774]

@@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.

[@charlesmlane32]

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

[@airsearch9192]

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]

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.

[@sarahlouise7163]

why the heck would anyone hike there in June?

[@airsearch9192]

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]

@@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]

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]

@@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.

[@surysatha26]

I was there just yesterday

[@justpostvideos]

"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]

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]

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.

[@admiralbenbow5083]

Must have been some great mescaline

[@shepdogsd]

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]

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.

[@baseddroid]

Amboy is a tourist spot now

[@airsearch9192]

You mean now that it's 110-degrees?

[@baseddroid]

@@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

[@curtiswear1593]

Dna

[@whitemcdougal]

GO BACK THE WAY YOU CAN

[@airsearch9192]

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.