Red Ghost Reign of Terror Comes to A Hilarous End

 February 2, 2026

   One of the enduring, outrageous legends in Arizona is that a demonic, rogue camel with a skeleton on its back, killed and terrorized the countryside for a decade in the 1880s.

Daily Whip Out: "The Legend of Red Ghost"

Here are just a few of the alleged "sightings":

• A ranch woman heard women screaming and rushed to a window to see a "huge, reddish colored beast," ridden by a "devilish-looking creature." She locked her doors and waited for the men to return. When they did they found another ranch woman had been trampled to death and they found red hair in a nearby bush.

• A group of prospectors reported a beast tearing through their campground and one witness said it was "30-feet tall" and knocked over two wagons.

• Another report claimed this same red creature ate a grizzly bear.

• Still another report claimed it disappeared into thin air when they tried to approach it.

• Two men were sleeping in a tent when they were jolted awake with their tent crashing down on them and were horrified when giant legs were stomping down on them. They thought it "was a giant horse" which galloped away.

• In 1893, a farmer, Mizoo Hastings found the creature in his garden eating his precious tomatoes and got his rifle and shot the beast dead. When he approached the dead body he noticed leather straps on the side with much scarring.

The “Red Ghost” demonic camel was allegedly finally killed in a farmer’s garden in eastern Arizona for eating prized tomatoes.

  I also asked Kathy if she would like to blurb our book, The 66 Kids, for an ad Dan The Man is creating and she said:

"Please don't encourage them."

—Kathy Radina