Subject: "Darkness Falls" Special Halloween Investigation Report....
Date: 9/16/2002
From: AngelOfThyNight@aol.com
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CC: June.Chapman@freemanco.com

I will say that we finished off the month of October with a blaze of glory between 3 trips to El Dorado Canyon, a dynamite radio show which captured thousands of live listeners woooo, and a one hell of a meet up. Do not forget we still have a Halloween Party also. Jubilee mine is my precious you would not understand that unless you understand the connection I have had over the years to this location. Honestly Friday night completed our trilogy with Jubilee but were not done we will visit that area explore it many more times I am sure or rather once a month since that is where the Wild West began.

Some of you living in Vegas never heard of this location granted it is secluded but its a place of lore, history, tragedy, life, death and even The Paranormal. What I brought to the world from this adventure will rock when it gets on our site everything I worked for all the training I did was so that I could one day return and bring this location to the world.

It was amazing how many people backed out of this trip we had at least 10 to 15 people who wanted in on this but were no shows, cancelees, or just scaredies haha! I wanted to thank those involved in the Project in case they decide to read this down the road...June, Kirk, Boot, and Debbie. Everybody was a big aid to our historical interviews to the actual investigation. I completed my movie last night and filming were hoping to put it eventually on youtube for our viewers to enjoy.

I want you individuals reading this to keep in mind the risk I took on this trip I climbed into mine shafts, over mine shafts, down the sides of mountains and even rolled like goddamn Indiana Jones ha. Just ask June she will tell you the adversity we faced.

On this trip June and I went to eat at Subway its a good thing we did because honestly you never know what could happen you could die just in your car driving somewhere nowadays.  June bought a new camera for the trip and we got some batteries they didn't last long which sucked but we got through the entire night thank goodness with dim lights.

 I want others to know first off to my members I am disappointed that June had to pay for all 3 trips donations are so important don't be selfish to our group our cause is pure and simple. Secondly yeah I am disappointed with the lack of participants one day some of these places wont exist you guys missed some good adventures this month. You snooze you lose one of the best look out points in Southern Nevada is THIS LOCATION! Thirdly we have permission to enter some areas many do not so if you did not come trust me the locals shoot if you trespass:) just advice to other paranormal groups reading this for years to come.

I have taken this investigation and I turned it into something beautiful in the process I got to meet Debbie a few weeks ago from our group....and last night I got Boot to join our team. Boot runs horseback tours in the canyon he is a cowboy him and the locals are the law in El Dorado Canyon. He specializes in extreme adventuring such as rock climbing, desert safety, historical tours, off roading and horseback riding. We will be seeing Boot again to camp in Dec and next month he will show us some more key locations within the canyon.

I wanted to take time out to thank Boot he is a great guy to explore with he kept up quite well with me I have not met a person in a couple years that was able to do so. So kudos to him he knows the outdoors which is great we need more people like that.

Debbie Introduced me to boot a couple weeks ago we been trying to talk to another few locals on various locations. But anyhow Boot gives extreme tours to tourist so he has to stay in check and he gave me a pretty good run down about the canyon and its history. He is a bootlegger nothing wrong with that cause again keep in mind living in this canyon still has a lot of the old west traditions and if I don't go to CA anytime soon he has some places in UTAH to show our group.

Anyhow Boot strapped on his gun, his giant knife and some other things for the adventure. I signed up a new member of our team in a matter of minutes now that is how we roll YEAH! See folks things are already better then TAPS ghost hunters think about it for a second would they put you into there production think about it. I was directing my own movie here!

Boot was drinking a Budweiser and ya know that's cool with me I told him next time I come up to explore will get a 6 pack have a few brews and hike. That is how it should be none of us get paid to do this we do this to entertain and teach the public things. I am hoping by putting this on our site we bring business and restoration to the local town so you see we got a great group cause were all about helping others out.

Boot, June and I jumped in the truck as the car would not make it for where we were going. Darkness Fell in El Dorado canyon and our journey began. We visited the Pittsburgh Mine, San Juan Mining Camp, The Gettysburg, Our Final Exploration Of Jubilee Mine and our Halloween Special Skull Mine! We are so blessed to be able to bring you guys this cherish it!

The Pittsburgh Mine

This was not an easy journey this road Boot took us down was part of an old wagon road. A place where a carriage would carry 2000lbs of ore with wood brakes down a steep grade. The truck was flying over stones, gravel and hills. At one time we drove along the edge of a cliff and Boot he was cracking jokes like crazy man its great to see someone has a sense of humor cause you should.

Boot did some pretty fancy driving I mean he literally went straight up this mound of gravel and it almost felt like we were airborne. He had to put on the 4wheel drive cause the tires were spinning it was a road very few can get back to. He pulled right up to an area full of rocks, gravel which probably was ground up stone from the mine, and gave us a safety tip on a plant they call cat claw. Trust me you do not want to get cut by it bad bad news.

The climb up to the mine was NOT easy a lot of rocks, cat claw brush, and loose stones. It was a hidden entrance and Boot told me their are 6 other levels of entrances but in very steep hard to get areas. In some cases they were just holes leading down to the bottom of some of the main tunnels.

The mine was very humid their was water on the ground I felt one cold spot in the mine. I felt watched a few times because sometimes I will play with the equipment while the team goes off out of view leaving me alone standing in a tunnel like a clown waiting to be spooked. Of course that is what makes it fun.

The tunnel had a large vein in it and we seen some black rock including a drill bit that was stuck in the stone. Boot gave me a run down of the place. We even climbed up over a pile of fine rocks into a chamber which had signs of a shaft being built. We did also see some gold in the mine and silver. All the mines have a lot of it but they are no longer used or privately owned. Mining is very difficult back then their was no lighting Boot lit the lighter to show us how bright and how far a day they would mine.

The mine had some water in it their was a chamber that had two opposite directions but did not go very far. We seen a fault line and some old metal cans and such. Not a lot of activity but that's okay we do UEing also so I am not just there to get ghost I wanted to explore this place. We also seen a bat it almost hit me in the face.

I also seen some old rails for mining carts to haul the ore out it was an interesting place I mean honestly though it dead ends so if you go in their is only one way out. If something came down that tunnel you would have no choice but to face it head on. Its an eerie place and Boot told me a spook story about it.

Its truly amazing how the lay out is of El Dorado I mean if you shine your lights right you can see gold sparkles but what is more golden is being in a mine very few ever get to see hidden deep in the desert. I did not notice a lot of activity but on my way out I stayed behind and left the area last. I felt watched in that mine and very often. It was not strong but I could feel eyes on me even as I looked back into the darkness of the tunnel that swayed left to right for hundreds of feet.

When we arrived back Boot was joking about the truck missing he told us he was putting his trailer back here and that this road would become his driveway. I give him credit if you were to live here you would be dealing with more ghost then people lets put it that way.

Boot then took us a short ways to an area with a bed of nails to the old San Juan Mining Camp.