Slaughterhouse (Luana’s Canyon)
During the gold rush days of the 1800’s, a gold miner and his family lived a small wood shack along a dry wash in the heart of the canyon. Via mule, the husband would venture into the Northwestern Mountains in search of gold, returning semimonthly with food for his wife Luana and their young children. One month, however, the gold miner did not return. Soon, supplies ran out and the children began to starve. Luana, not able to tolerate the sight of her starving children, lost her mind. During a thunderstorm, she put on her wedding dress and chopped her children up into several pieces. Luana went to the river and tossed the remnants down stream. Luana returned the next morning and crying for the return of her children she died. It is said that on certain nights the her wailing may be heard from within the canyon’s walls.
Thats sad how someone can kill there baby like that although I dont belive youll hear crying maybe i should go check it out
Comment by Renaye | 10.2.2005 | 1:22 pm
Ok…I don’t agree with this story…I am from Arizona and I was told a total different story all through out my childhood. Yes there was a woman who killed her childen-but no she did NOT chop them up, they were drounded in the near by river after the womans husban left her for another and her new boy friend couldn’t stand children (thou he left her after he found out the truth of her killing her own children to stay in that relationship). I don’t agree with this story–I am sorry to say, it all a lie and I know this is just ones persons opinion…so you may thing what you’d like.
Comment by cherish | 10.4.2005 | 6:18 am
Of any of you think this was real email me at yogurt_the_dog@yahoo.com
Comment by Jacob thompson | 10.4.2005 | 7:22 pm
This is just another variation on an old Mexican legend. The story of La Llorona, or the weeping woman, has been told and retold in Hispanic culture since the days of the conquistadores. Nothing new here.
Comment by Michelangelo | 10.31.2005 | 6:56 pm
Ok, I’m from Kingman and I think the story is mixed up here. You have the story labeled Slaughterhouse but that legend is a totally different story that happened in Kingman…and not at all the story you label here.
The Slaughterhouse story was were this mother lured each one of her children to the slaughterhouse and killed them…because she couldn’t handel them anymore and was going crazy. She package the chopped up bodies and sent them away just like you would any meat. The screams and other noises would come from inside the slaughterhouse and drove the mother crazy to the point where she killed herself. TO this day you can still hear the children’s voices inside the slaughter house.
I have never heard of this Launa’s canyon story before…that is a first. hm…it sounds like a very VERY repeated story….I have heard of the same legend in other places…but not here in Kingman.
Comment by Bun-Bun | 11.29.2005 | 4:02 pm
That is pretty sad that somebody can kill there children but i don’t belive .I might go check it out just to see.
Comment by ariana | 12.4.2005 | 8:07 pm
I think I saw a version of this tale on unsolved mysteries. It really freaked me out, it sounds so realistic.
Comment by thayet59 | 12.14.2005 | 1:45 pm
I heard this story on a different website I have been researching it for like two years (I’m am only nine) I read that her husband wasn’t a miner but a butcher. She thought he left her, his car broke down coming home from the butcher shop, she grew sad, went crazy, killed her kids, threw them in the river, her husband found a repair shop had his car repaired came home asked where the children were. The wife told the truth. He devoriced her. END OF STORY
Comment by Melanie | 12.14.2005 | 2:58 pm
hey now i was born and raised in kingman and in the army now but any way the whole slaughtter house canyon story is true i have checked the old place out several times if any one is interested in more ghost stories research the old beale hotel and ask about room 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by cody | 01.6.2006 | 6:22 am
I totally agree with Michelangelo in my country there is a legend of la llorona she apparently killed her baby (there was just that baby) and sometimes is found weeping in a white dress. Near the river. It was in Mexico to.
Comment by Alexandra | 01.13.2006 | 11:41 am
yeah i have been to this place with a team headed by VIN DIESEL and there is nothing there
Comment by dan_blockin | 01.16.2006 | 4:36 am
Yeah…I don’t think even half of these stories are even close to being accurate at all. The someone who wrote these needs to check their sources AND…quit saying “You MAY here…” when it should be “You CAN hear…”! Get my drift you ignorant ******. If you are going to have a website and post stuff like this on it…then get your facts straight…and take a few creative writing classes…ENJOY!
Comment by Ali | 01.23.2006 | 7:42 pm
eww
Comment by nicole | 02.17.2006 | 11:13 pm
it’s freakin scary! also sad cuz how can she kill her own child? she could of jux killed herself and let her children eat her…
Comment by lilo gurlo | 03.14.2006 | 10:58 pm
hey thur! welps tat was a *** a$$ story i jux gotta say tat.. dueces
Comment by lilo gurlo | 03.14.2006 | 10:59 pm
I’ve heard of it in southern Texas and New Mexico. Neat legend.
The versions I heard, was that during the Spanish-American War, she heard a rumor about her town being next on the line to be raided. She hid her children in a cave by the river and returned home, preparing for the worst. The soldiers never came and she went back to find that her kids had drowned, and she threw herself into the water in a fit of regret.
The other version I heard was more or less the same thing, but with American Indians attacking the town rather than warring soldiers.
Comment by Anke | 05.2.2006 | 12:42 pm
I live here in kingman and if any body knows the directions to the place please email me at codycaillouette@yahoo.com Or if you know about the mansion in the hwallapis
Comment by cody | 05.13.2006 | 10:27 pm
I grew up in Kingman and I heard the Luana stories. In highschool (I was in the class of ‘86) everyone would drive through Slaughterhouse canyon and tell the scary Luana story. There was even a big rock on the side of the road where everyone said her ghost would appear. We would always dare someone to get out of the car and stand on the rock - of course then we would drive away and leave them there… hahaha…but we would return a few minutes later. Luana made for alot of great and scary evenings!!! I have to admit, we had some strange things happen out there. My stepdad at the time also grew up in Kingman and he couldn’t believe that the story of Luana was still being told, he heard it when he was a child and he graduated highschool in 1955. (FYI - years after graduating from college a bunch of us went to drive through slaughterhouse canyone only to find that the road was closed where it connects with the downtown area).
Comment by Misty | 05.14.2006 | 4:31 am
I have heard so many different versions of the story. It is true that you can hear the screams though. If you lay on a completely flat rock nearby, really late but early,( around 2:00), You can hear the kids screaming, not only that, but you can also see the wife in a white nightgown with blood on it.NO LIE!!!!
Comment by lauren | 07.8.2006 | 1:19 am
2 nights ago,my 15 yr. old daughter and i wnet down tho this canyon at 1:30-2:00 a.m. and saw a snake glowing in the dirt, my daughter’s purse was flug from the front seat to the back seat, and her cell phone rang twice with no one there. My car was pushed up the mountain with no gas pedal being used and when we started to hit traffic was pushed about 40 miles per hour towards traffic! we were not hurt but i truly believe in this and it is not a myth. There is a rock that has 4 small crosses and one big cross almost like a sanctuary, when you pass it the wind starts blowing and you can hear the wials and glowing lights slide across the mountain side.
Comment by BARBARA | 08.5.2006 | 1:10 pm
Sounds close to the story of LA LLarona .
Good story . TOMO…………
Comment by Tom | 08.5.2006 | 1:58 pm
hi im a mexican i heard this one before but it was in the devils mouth were they said it happends but think about it why would you wanna kill your kids then cry for them she sould of killed herself too.
Comment by yajaira | 09.19.2006 | 10:12 am
this is just sychotic most of the stories are and I wander how people come up with them. It is so stupid some of these stories.
Comment by 20 year old | 10.9.2006 | 10:48 am
K MENTIRAS!
Comment by LA CHAPA | 10.14.2006 | 12:25 am
I HEARD WISPERS OF IT. ONE DAY I WENT TO THE CANYON AND I THOUGHT I HEARD IT BUT BEALIVE THAT IT WAS SOME STUPID GUYS TRYUING TO SCARE PEOPLE…
Comment by LA CHAPA | 10.14.2006 | 12:28 am
I think that this story is really creepy where is the exact address of this canyon? i want to visit it
Comment by Jenny | 10.21.2006 | 11:12 pm
this story is physco.
Comment by Jenny | 10.21.2006 | 11:16 pm
I also live in Kingman. never heard of this place till i found it on website last year http://www.theshadowlands.net I have friends that have lived here all their lives and have no idea where lauras Canyon is. But have heard alot of spooky tales of the slaughterhouse where alot of witch craft was performed at. They use to sacrafice people at. I know people that know this for a fact. And hot spot go to during this time of season.
Comment by trish | 10.23.2006 | 4:32 am
Hi, I’m from Kingman and had heard various stories. Many people here call it “Slaughter House Canyon”. The slaughter house is still there. I have also heard that the mother hung herself after killing her children. And some people had said that you can see a shadow swinging back and forth inside at night. I’ve been there one night and it was really creepy.
Comment by Angie | 10.23.2006 | 3:58 pm
IM MEXICAN AND HAVE HEARD THIS STORY TOLD IN A SIMILAR WAY.SOMETHING ABOUT A WOMAN WHO THREW HER KIDS IN TRASH BAGS IN A RIVER.I DONT KNOW WHY,I DONT KNOW IF SHE KILLED THEM.I DONT REAALLY BELIEVE IN LEGENDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT SINCE THEY CHANGE OVER THE YEARS.AND THIS WOMAN IS SAID TO WEAR A WHITE DRESS,AND CRY FOR HER CHILDREN.SHES CALLED “LA LLORONA” BECAUSE SHE WEEPS FOR HER LOST CHILDREN.WELL MY MOM TOLD ME THAT WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD AND LIVED IN MEXICO SHE HEARD THE LADY FROM HER HOUSE AT NIGHT..AND NOT JUST ONCE.MY STEPFATHER ALSO SAID HE AND SOME FRIENDS SAW A WHITE GLOWING FIGURE NEAR THE SUPPOSED RIVER,THEN THEY RAN AWAY LOL..WELL IF YOU WANT TO WRITE TO ME OR SOMETHING, THIS IS MY EMAIL
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Comment by CLAUDIA | 10.23.2006 | 4:54 pm
i agree with cherish. i heard a completely different story. however, i’m not for sure which one is right.
Comment by robin | 11.13.2006 | 1:59 am
that is a true story but that is not how it goes this is my way of the story so there was a lady who was married to a man he was a crazt brucher who murderd a lot of people then the women went mad and killed her children and then after that she killed herself and her husband is a jerk that he kept killing people then he just killed himself to and now the house is really haunted by his presents now he is a evil goast and you can hear the poor children cries for help/how could anybody kill there children that is so dumb and now when ever you go in that house you can feel him in you so just be careful
Comment by sara | 01.8.2007 | 5:34 pm
that is a true story but that is not how it goes this is my way of the story so there was a lady who was married to a man he was a crazy brucher who murderd a lot of people then the women went mad and killed her children and then after that she killed herself and her husband is a jerk that he kept killing people then he just killed himself to and now the house is really haunted by his presents now he is a evil goast and you can hear the poor children cries for help/how could anybody kill there children that is so dumb and now when ever you go in that house you can feel him in you so just be careful. i am from arizona to and on halloween we were trying to fined a haunted house so we looked at a news paper and we saw that there was one based on the syory of the slaugter hous so i showed my dad the newspaper article and he lloked at it and thought it would be really scary so when we got there the person at the desk said it would scare the hell out of you said that when we get there keep you eyes open for someone so when we got inside there was a lot of blood every where and then our tour guid person was telling us the story the we heared a screm then a man with a chainsaw came out chasing us then he left then we went to another part of the house then we went inside a bloody room with a women holding a dead baby shouting please dont hurt me and then the man came out again after that we went to another room then that was the end of the haunted house i really thought it was good acting dont woory it was a fake.
Comment by sara | 01.8.2007 | 5:43 pm
Oh please, someone actually thinks this story looks realistic?!!! It is so obviously an urban legend or much more basic true story which has become twisted and embellished over the years!
Comment by GizGiz | 01.10.2007 | 7:51 am
This is the same thing as the la llorona story in mexico. The La Llorona goes like this.
I have heard that if u see her u will die but im not sure. She was in love wit some rich guy down in mexico. She had already given birth to 3 kids from someone else. The guy would not marry here cause she had children and had not been married so to prove her love for him she drownded the kids in a near by river. and the next day told him wat she had done. But he still refused to be wit her so she went in lookin for her died childrens bodys but the currents of the water were to trong and drowned her. If you go at night next to the river you will hear her crying for her children.But you know thats what I have heard I am not sayin it’s true cause no one knows the 100% truth =) laterz
Comment by ~**~Chicana~**~ | 01.21.2007 | 6:21 pm
I ment to say: the currents of the water were to strong.
Comment by ~**~Chicana~**~ | 01.21.2007 | 6:23 pm
I heard this story when I was little, though the person who told it to me said it was Bloody Mary’s tale. Of course within history and stories that are older with each passing year new versions are made and the older it is, the harder it is to know the truth. Who knows, they could have just died of starvation and over the years it became more horror story then tragedy.
Comment by Werty | 01.31.2007 | 4:13 pm
i really don’t know but i think it sucks
Comment by chola | 02.13.2007 | 6:47 pm
it sucks
Comment by chola | 02.13.2007 | 6:48 pm
Ok this is not true. He or she copied it from la Llorona.
Comment by Ferny xo | 02.14.2007 | 10:11 pm
ive been told by my cousions that they therw a bottle of beer at a rock and it turned to blood and something drove there car and messed with there radio i went there on halloween night with my two kids and nothing happened i was not there at 2 am someone wants to know where the mansion is NOT THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE IS /YOU HAVE TO GO TOWARDS DON LAUGHLINS RANCH A ROCK IS MARKED IN PAINT THEN MAKE A RIGHT BUT IT IS 4 WHEEL ONLY OR WALK .slaughter house canyon take the road beside the musium and go across the tracks take first left follow it to the end if iam wrong no wonder i didnt see or hear anything
Comment by doug | 02.20.2007 | 12:35 am
that is a little scary but how long and how did she have her kids and fit back in her dress if lot that must be a faaaake and isnt most ghost white
Comment by Hayley | 02.27.2007 | 7:21 pm
that is a little scary but how long and how did she have her kids and fit back in her dress if not that must be a faaaake and isnt most ghost white
Comment by Hayley | 02.27.2007 | 7:22 pm
i HIGHLY doubt thats true. at leest i hope it aint. i mean, i can see the mother kiling herself, but killing her own children?i realy dont believe this. i think its just an old wivestale that old gossipy ladies told wen they got bored!can anybody seriously think that this is true? this story is so G@Y AND FAULS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~W.C.~
Comment by Wild Child | 03.22.2007 | 2:41 pm
This sounds like a knock off of the llorona
Comment by Jo | 06.24.2007 | 10:05 pm
this will sound strange but I am freinds with the person that owns most of the land in slaughterhouse canyon. Everybody twists this story and they’re so sure they got the truth, sorry, you’re wrong. The supposed slaughterhouse that everyone speaks of was an old miners powder shack. This is why the Shack is 6 inches of concrete. The powder shack is located next to the road up a hill and can be walked up to and touched. the real slaughterhouse is up on private property you can see it from the main road. Yes it is called slaughterhouse canyon and why is constantly debated, here are the common reasons.
1. Kingman is old and guess what old town did have! A slaughterhouse! Yup animals were taken there and butchered and sold to the people of the town.
2. Butchers wife went nuts and killed her kids?
3. Miners wife went nuts and killed her kids?
4. Somebody went nuts and killed somebody!
Anyways, I have been there and you would be suprised by this place. Please keep in mind I cannot explain all of the weird things, I can explain the moaning, wailing, or screaming. Kingman is a windy place and the wind is constantly blowing which come over the edge of the canyon and makes an awful lot of noise which does sound awfully human like. People will dismiss this explanation becuase in the canyon there is now wind. They’re right, the wind is going over the top of the canyon.
Here are my experiences that are still unexplained. I owned a new jeep with hard wired auxilary lights that were hooked on the battery terminals. the main lights are run of the wiring harness and the alternator. I also liked washing my jeep and keeping it clean. I was in the canyon at night and all of my lights went dead, not my radio, not my engine, not my cellphone car charger, or the instruments. I was freaking out and slammed the brakes on the jeep and slid to a halt. I played with everything for about 20 seconds until everything just turned back on, I sat there stunned and pissed of in the dust cloud and when the dust finally settled I had a small hand print in the middle of my windshield with dust on it. keep in ming I dont have kids and for a kid to reach thatpart of my window he would have had to have been standing on my hood.
I left the canyon freaked out and I do have names and real people to back me up in this story. Email me if you have questions at Mechabay2@ yahoo.com
Comment by Wolf Davis | 07.24.2007 | 7:32 pm
It’s a canyon filled with wolves and coyotes-that’s the crying one hears-but it’s a good story.
Comment by loco | 08.20.2007 | 5:13 pm
yet another reason why kingman sucks.
Comment by cg.harris | 09.3.2007 | 3:46 am
this is soooooooooo lame i dont believe in diz kinda stuff . all of this is crazy
Comment by cinthia | 10.8.2007 | 9:45 am
oh god its just a dam story read get scared and either you belive in it or not get over the fact if its real or not you guys ruin the story for everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by lizett | 10.9.2007 | 6:17 pm
I have been going to Fairfield Hill in Newtown, Connecticut for a long time. It is the most beautiful place i have ever been to. I was playing basketball with my son behind one of the buildings there and i took his picture and when i got home and downloaded it on my computer. When i looked on the side in the window there was an outline of a face looking out. I didn’t look human. I have known this place to be haunted for along time but it doesn’t stop me from going there. I absolutely love it there.
Comment by Darcy | 10.20.2007 | 2:03 pm
I want to go!
Comment by tcera16@aol.com | 10.30.2007 | 9:28 pm
well its 7 am me, my cousin and his friends just got back from kingman arizona from slaughterhouse canyon road. we pulled up to three big boulders blocking the road so we sat thier for a bit and a train went by after it left we heard foot steps our windows started fogging up and saw a shadow so we jetted off then we pulled in to a gas station got out the car and on the rear bumper of the car was a little kids hand print now before we went on this trip we went to a car wash so the car was cleaned there was no dirt… well we drove back a second time and sat their again and it was pretty freaky because a train passed by again it was like a flash back anyway after the train was gone our doors unlocked by themselves so we got scared and tried to jet off but the car wouldnt start we turned it three times and it just wouldnt start finally we got it to start we jetted out of there as we were trying to get out it was like something was holding the car back and were on a flat surface we were not going up any hill so my friend stepped on the gas harder and we made it out…… it was pretty creepy… we pulled over to the gas station again and there were more little hand prints…. anyway i want to go back maybe during the daytime so we can get out and look for the house ….. u kno they say nobody can ever find the house to free the children well thier spirits any way …… i would like to find the house………….
Comment by nicci | 11.18.2007 | 12:13 pm
That s*it is like f*ckin Saw 2
also all of you are whores
Comment by YO MOMMA | 12.11.2007 | 5:12 pm
omg!! how could you ruin this story for me?? huh, go sahead and tell me… jk! b ut you di druin the story
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LATER *******!!
Comment by immasexyemogurl!! :) | 12.21.2007 | 11:54 pm
P.S i live here!! (in arizona)
im 14 too
Comment by immasexyemogurl!! :) | 12.21.2007 | 11:56 pm
i just moved here to kingman and im looking for haunted areas just like i did when i lived in Rockford IL ive only been here for 5 months but i never heard andy type of anything comming from that wash or mountains and i only live down the street from there so of cource im kinda upset but only cause i cant seem to get the streight story the origional version maybe i can find an old news paper cause something that big would be in a library fileing cabnet
Comment by nick | 01.1.2008 | 2:34 pm
Okay, so I live in Kingman, and I’ve heard about the slaughterhouse. This is not near what I’ve heard.
The story I’ve heard is that the kids were crazy. They went out at night to kill people (or something of that sort). Since they were like this, she killed them. And then (supposedly out of grief) she killed herself. I have heard that she’s the butcher herself, and I’ve never heard of the husband being mentioned, so she may have had a husband, I just wouldn’t know.
But I can’t help but wonder how they got the story they’ve posted instead…. interesting.
By the way, the slaughterhouse is in Slaughterhouse Canyon. You know, because back in the day, there were actual slaughterhouses… yeah… never heard of it being called Luana’s Canyon. That may just be somewhere else completely.
Comment by Oyoa | 01.1.2008 | 3:30 pm
OKAY I dont believe this story it sounds like la Llona…….just with a canyon and not a canal….
Comment by Rebecca | 02.10.2008 | 9:06 pm
OKAY I dont believe this story it sounds like la Llona…….just with a canyon and not a canal.
Comment by Rebecca | 02.10.2008 | 9:07 pm
I love how no one has been able to spell ‘psyco’ yet. Haha.
Either way, I don’t really believe this story. If anything, the woman would have already been crazy for a while, and would have murdered the kids and/or been sent to an asylum anyway. May variations of this story have been told, as have different versions of ‘The Phantom Hitchiker’. They make for a good scare, but seldom are they true. Besides, many of them say the criminal was never caught- thus being impossible to have all the facts anyway.
Comment by Theresa | 02.23.2008 | 3:54 pm
this sounds like the story la larona. a story from mexico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by jessie&nessa | 02.29.2008 | 11:41 am
hi everyone.
i have heard alot about this my hole life.
uncles, aunts, grandparents and friends tell different stories.
well who cares what really happen because there is something out there.
ive visited the canyon many times but the last time was the scariest thing ive ever experienced.
i am a local kingman teenager.
me and my friends were looking for something scary to do.
we have went every where at night, fort beal, graveyard, stormdrains esc.
well on this night behind south side park over the tracks(my claimed haunted spot)5 of my friends and i visited the canyon. kyle and mike stayed in the truck because they didnt even want to go anywhere and we dragged them along. nay, woodrow, clinton, and i wazlked through the baseball parks and over the tracks.
there are 3 houses there normal ppl living there.
i have to say they are harmless but at the same time they must deal with the strange canyon every single night.
1st off we stood on the traks looking in the dark.
a small bouncing light appeared on a mountain.
we desided not to ditch each other if something happen.
we made our way into the wash.
the light had disapeared.
everything was fine until we decided to leave.
my frieds said they could hear things.
i of corse didnt.
as we walked back over the tracks we heard the most shocking wispers of a young girl.
clinton and nay ran for the bright lights of the south side baseball parks.
i turned with the flash light and wood screamed dont leave me! i said did you here that?
once we got back to the truck we couldnt wait to tell mike and kyle.
after our story they said the tool box in the back had opened and they thought nothing of it.
this is true, i have been in that area tons of times playing baseball.
nothing ever happen.
i know it was because the time we visited the site.
1-3 oclock.
i encourage you to go there but bring friends and dont go on those ppls property.
just have fun.
remember it is scary ill never mess with it again.
if this has happen to you then plz email me.
wade.steele@hotmail.com
Comment by wade | 05.3.2008 | 6:25 pm
why did she have to wear a wedding dress?!
i told my uncle this story once my uncle once :((((
im bipolar :////
please help met
Comment by BCH | 07.6.2008 | 1:47 pm
My family and I moved to Kingman over a year ago and I had heard the story, and variations, of Slaughterhouse Canyon many times. After attending a City Council meeting last night which proposed a change of the road name from Canyon Road to Slaughterhouse Canyon Road, I decided to go check it out from Hualapai Mountain Road onto Mission Blvd to Canyon Rd. and into the canyon. I saw the rock with the “cross” and an indecipherable word spray painted on it. We also saw the three rocks at the end, (the beginning if you are coming from the SSP in downtown), of the road at the tracks. What we didn’t see is a house that can be considered a viable structure. Is the incinerator part of the property? What’s the story that surrounds that? It looks like a party place where people get their kicks on route 66 with tires and box springs. Surprising though, there were many more water and Gatorade bottles than beer bottles.
Any more information regarding the specific whereabouts of the location would be great.
Thank you!!
Comment by Mary | 07.8.2008 | 7:55 pm