Trans-Pecos Trivia
by Charles Angell
Ghosts and Apparitions of the Big Bend
1) Her legend is told all around the Southwest and Mexico, with
a common thread. This ghost is said to be heard wailing and
crying around rivers, including the Rio Grande, lamenting
the loss of the children she drowned in the river. What is her
name?
a) Rita del Rio
c) Mala Madre
b) La Llorona
d) Lizzy Borden
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2) Alsate was a great Apache chief in the region whose ghost is
said to haunt the Chisos Mountains, one of his hunting
grounds. It has been said that his ghost originally appeared
to torment the man who betrayed him, allowing his capture
and execution. Who was his betrayer?
a) Ben Leaton
c) William Shafter
b) Cabeza de Vaca
d) Leonicio Castillo
3) Built in Alpine in the 1930s by the Kokernot family, this
Spanish-style house has been rumored to be frequented by
not one but two ghosts, which are what?
a) twin teenage girls
c) a woman and a little boy
b) an old woman and her cat d) a husband and wife
4) From 1620 to the 1630s Sister Maria de Jesus Agreda, a nun
in Spain, claimed to have spiritually visited and ministered
to Indians in the American Southwest and Rio Grande
Valley, describing the people, their lifestyles and tribal name.
Franciscan friars were dispatched to the area she detailed
and were astounded to meet natives who said she did indeed
visit them frequently as an apparition in the sky and who
described her physical appearance, dress and teachings.
What tribe was this?
a) Jumano
c) Apache
b) Pashtun
d) Comanche
5) South of Fort Davis is a gently sloping hill where, legend has
it, a woman in the late 1800s would light a signal fire for her
lost lover. It is said that the woman's ghost still haunts the hill
today. What is the name of this hill?
a) Arabella Mountain
c) Orphan Hill
b) Castle Rock
d) Dolores Mountain
Bonus: Which above-mentioned apparition also is said to have
appeared as the profile of a mountain?
Answers: 1-b, 2-d, 3-c, 4-a, 5-d, Bonus: Alsate
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