Cemetery Crawl 5 - Part two - Phoenix Arizona Haunted Sites

The Cemetery Crawl 5 teams woke up early and headed to breakfast with all their new found friends! Soon the vehicles were gassed, loaded and ready to hit Old Route 66 once again! The teams gathered for another group picture outside the Road Kill Café.

Maddie called the teams over to one end of the parking lot of the Historic Route 66 Motel. She handed color coordinated blindfolds to the teams and asked them to blindfold the driver. Then the teams had to verbally call out to their driver and guide them to their vehicles. The race was on.

The first cemetery stop of the day was the Seligman Cemetery. The small cemetery is just south of town and can be seen from the freeway. Graves date from the late 1880’s to the present.

The Cemetery Crawlers were suddenly confronted with a ROAD BLOCK! This only meant they had to return to town and complete a segment of DETOURS before they were allowed to move on down the road. Detour #14 take a picture at the Snow Cap Drive In. Detour #15 Pose for a photo at the Route 66 Gift Shop. Detour #16 Stop back the Historic Route 66 Motel and take a picture under the sign. Detour #17 Pose for another photo outside the Road Kill Café.

Detour #18 Drive along Route 66 and stand by a Berma Shave sign. Detour #19 take the Grand Canyon Caverns exit and go to the caverns and pose with the dinosaur.

Detour #20 Stop at the Keepers of the Wild sign and go WILD! Detour #21 take a group picture of your team at the Hackberry Store.

From the store, the teams drove up to the Hackberry Cemetery. The town was named for the Hackberry Mine which was named for the nearby Hackberry trees.

The teams took Detour #22 and posed on the fence at Hackberry School. Then they were instructed to drive 35MPH down the old Hackberry Road. It is a dirt road that connects with US HWY 93 north of Wikieup. Twenty-one miles of this smooth dirt road was almost more than the serious racers could bear—and tension began to mount! Back on HWY 93 the crawlers made a quick stop at Detour #23 take a picture at the Snoopy Rocket.

On the south side of Wikieup, the team turned down a road and stopped at the WIkieup Cemetery. This tiny cemetery is the final resting place for both the town of Wikieup and Sandy. It has been used since the 1880’s with a few current grave sites as well.

The Crawlers received another envelope filled with challenging detours. Detour #24 stop at the roadside rest area and take a picture of a team member at the Joshua trees. Detour #25 Entering Wickenburg, drive to Garcia Cemetery and place a bouquet on Maria’s grave. Detour #26 Stop at the haunted train station and take a picture with the statue of the traveling school teacher. And the toughest detour of them all, Detour #27 Get directions to Henry Wickenburg’s grave and find his final resting place. Teams were sent all over town searching for this tiny residential cemetery.

The last cemetery on the Crawl was the Morristown Cemetery off of HWY 60. This small cemetery is on Castle Hot Springs Road. Most graves are surrounded with quartz and other white rocks. The cemetery has been used from the 1880’s to the present.

There was one last challenge to complete. Teams were handed a large plastic egg. Inside the egg were puzzle pieces giving the directions to the finish line. Teams needed to put the puzzle together before they could get back on the road! From Morristown the teams drove HWY 74 back to I 17. Turning north, they drove a few miles to the Pioneer Living History Village. They entered the restaurant and saloon of the Pioneer and completed the finish on the back patio entrance! Fabulous fun prizes were rewarded to the winning teams and consolation gifts were given to all participants! The winning teams were:

FIRST PLACE: Ghostie Geckos

SECOND PLACE: Be Dazzled

THIRD PLACE: Ghost Runners

FOURTH PLACE: Twisted Minds

FIFTH PLACE: Grave Diggers

SIXTH PLACE: Team Covair

MOST ‘FUNNY MONEY AWARD’: Team Covair

We are currently seeking a production team interested in filming Cemetery Crawl 6 in April 2011 for a Halloween reality special. The Amazing Cemetery Crawl, an annual event hosted by the MVD Ghostchasers, takes ghost hunters on a road trip through Arizona following rhyming clues, stopping at cemeteries, historic detours, and many tasks and duties to earn their way to winning prizes. Along the way, contestants learn about haunted sites, back road cemeteries, famous gravesites, and enjoy an evening in a haunted location. This exhausting 36 hour road rally is unlike anything else in Arizona. The locations are amazing, the road trip hilarious, and the participants become seriously competitive. This is a great opportunity to capture something rarely seen--ghost hunters having playful fun in the backdrop of the picturesque Arizona desert and its quaint ghost towns.
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