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Slaughterhouse (Luana’s Canyon)

Kingman, Arizona

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.

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Hobo says:

February 10, 2010, 6:53 pm

I remember when i went there. I went inside the house and the woman chopped me to pieces and threw me into the river, but…..I survived :D

Jack Pozenel says:

May 25, 2010, 6:32 pm

I am the son of Jack pozenel. I plan on investigating the slaughterhouse. My friend and I are the only ones, so if anyone in Kingman reads this and is willing to help, we will appretiate it greatly. Contact me at ijaken@hotmail.com. We plan on doing this investigaiton sometime this summer of 2010. No spam though. I would only like about 5 more people. Thank you.

Arizona Moose says:

June 4, 2010, 2:38 am

I forgot that I had posted to this site awhile back, so I figure its only appropriate to post a follow up.

In November of last year, a couple of weeks after my post, the Wife and I went out to Slaughterhouse Canyon, to investigate for the paranormal.

Please Remember, If you are going out to this area, be respectful of the private houses and property in the canyon. It also appears that the old Slaughterhouse has finally been taken down, as it was on private property.

The wife and I went out to Slaughterhouse Canyon in late November of 2009, between the hours of Midnight and 3am. There was no wind all night, until we went to leave. The temperature was in the low 40′s to upper 30′s. Humidity was 27%, kind of high for around here.

We parked along side the road near the flat rock and began an EVP session, and taking photos. After about an hour and a half, we moved up to were an old powder house is located, but stayed on the main road, and conducted another hour and a half of pix and an EVP sessions.

Be aware that the train does transit past the north end on the canyon many times a day at all hours and can ruin EVP’s.

After reviewing all photo’s we found nothing on the photo’s that we could say was paranormal, however there were 19 EVP’s and 3 odd sounds that we could not account for.

Most of the EVP’s appear to be directly related to our questions we asked, or a comment to our discussion. As for the reported moaning sounds, when the wind came up, as we were getting ready to leave, the wind made strange sounds amongst the rock walls and hills in this area. Also, it will cause small rock falls that will get your attention.

All in all, we had a very productive investigation, what with it being our first time, in Slaughterhouse Canyon.

Southsider says:

July 15, 2010, 2:08 am

Not the story I heard, my family has been in kingman for over 6 generations. My great great grandma had a small goat farm in slaughterhouse canyon. I have heard different stories that seem more realistic then this one. There used to be an Indian camp in the canyon. And I had heard that Luana was an Indian lady who’s kids had become sick and died, she went crazy and killed herself. I don’t believe the story I was told but it sounds better then the one on this site.

Jason says:

September 29, 2010, 8:15 pm

I grew up in Kingman bu don’t live there any longer. While I’ve heard different versions of this story over the years (the ‘real’ version doesn’t really matter); I was always freaked out by the story. I actually grew up in a house right off Hualapai Mtn. Rd very close to Slaughterhouse Canyon. We used to ride our bikes over there all the time. The biggest variation I heard as a kid in the 80′s was a Sleep Hollow knock off. The story discussed that you could hear the woman scream on Halloween night and the family’s dog would come down into town looking for children.

lee pedigo says:

January 30, 2011, 5:24 pm

OK ME AND MY FRIENDS WENT OUT THERE AT 2 IN THE MORNING WE WENT UP TO SLAUGHTER HOUSE WE WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN AND THE ROAD ENDED INTO 3 BIG ROCKS THERE WAS HOUSES AROUND AND COULD SEE THE LIGHTS FROM THE BALLFIELD I DONT KNOW IF I WAS AT THE RIGHT PLACE OR NOT BUT IF I WAS THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE ITS FAKE.SO PLEASE TELL ME IF THAT WAS THE RIGHT PLACE OR NOT

Austin says:

March 22, 2011, 6:22 pm

My friends and I went to investigate early October of last year. We made our way into the canyon, but were stopped because of a mountain lion. Perhaps a sign? I’ve no clue, but it freaked me out.

Christina says:

June 17, 2011, 6:44 am

umm…i think you all have it wrong i am from kingman and my family has been in kingman since 1930 my dad was 12 when the two children died in slaughter house and what he and my grandmother says happend is, the two boy who were 6 and 8 got locked in by some teen boys who set the slaughter house on fire and the two boys burned to death. so there thats the true story.

Jennifer says:

August 9, 2011, 1:00 pm

It is creapy up there. For sure. I also heard that she had drowned her children. We called her the lady in a white dress. Everyone said you could hear her cry. Everyone used to party out there when I was in high school. I just thought it was cool the story is even on the web.

Foxy Ali Heart says:

August 11, 2011, 11:31 pm

I was a little skeptic to this story at first like alot of you on here, until my husband, best friend, my 2 toddlers and myself went to visit this canyon. I will have to say some scary stuff happened the last 3 nights we went there. My husband was taking a picture of the FLAT ROCK where she supposevly killed her babies and low and behold without knowing he captured her on camera!!!! This haunt is really nothing to mess with. She was found in the picture peeking her head out from behind the flat rock! and this was after my husband and I had said her name in the canyon. The creepy thing is she was not looking at my husband in the picture, she was looking behind him at our vehicle where my friend, myself and OUR BABIES were. She does look like a bad spirit. She had a evil grin on her face. To be noted, it was not just a orb. It was a full face apparition. We are thinking about sending it in to ghost adventures. Another thing the other two nights we were above the canyon on a mountain and we took random pics to see what we could find, out of 20 semi pics we found 2 main orbs that were really bright and had a mix of red, orange, blue, green, and yellow around/in them. Weird thing about this though, when we were there taking pics we heard a man talking and then the next night he said hi to my husband and friend. pretty creepy ****. so if you do choose to venture down to the canyon, please be careful. Im still getting chills after seeing her demonic face peeking from behind the flat rock and looking at our babies. oh and P.S. The picture was taken right after sunset. If you have any comments you can write me at foxy_ali_heart@yahoo.com

Manuel Murillo says:

October 30, 2011, 11:27 pm

I know as a child, around 1965, a man was found in the canyon with his throat cut and his windows were rolled up and doors locked. Law enforcement never figured that one out and my Grandmother said the Yodona had struck and not go in the canyon. Do’t know about you but the tale holds true for me.

???? says:

January 4, 2012, 6:53 am

Guys hate to tell you this but The mom did not kill the children, The man (husband) went cray (got demon possessed or something of that nature) and slaughtered the family. The voice you hear is of the lil girl who was last to be killed. That place is very very evil and a lot of my friends have gone missing there (seriously went there never came back). I have been there and seen some really scary ****. It is BAD! I advise NOT going there EVER. That place is DEADLY!

Lexi says:

January 15, 2012, 10:30 pm

This is wrong. I lived in Kingman Arizona my whole life. The father didn’t come back because he had died. So Luana drowned her children because she didn’t want to see her children suffer. Then she killed herself. Now she wanders Kingman calling out for her children.

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