Eerie sounds and lights have been reported around Bonito lake. Rife with abandoned mines and an entire ghost town beneath the lake, it is a spooky and spectacular camping spot.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- Bonito Lake
Lincoln National Forest
New Mexico 88341
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 33.4554261, -105.7354838
- County:
- Lincoln County, New Mexico
- Nearest Towns:
- Nogal, NM (7.3 mi.)
Ruidoso, NM (9.3 mi.)
Capitan, NM (11.3 mi.)
Ruidoso Downs, NM (11.6 mi.)
Carrizozo, NM (15.2 mi.)
Mescalero, NM (20.7 mi.)
Bent, NM (21.7 mi.)
Tularosa, NM (31.0 mi.)
Cloudcroft, NM (34.4 mi.)
La Luz, NM (35.1 mi.)
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My old house in Dallas, Tx is something you guys might be interested in. I was sleeping one night and I heard a bumping noise in my closet. I opened it and nothing was there so I decided to go back to bed. I turned around and saw my deceased grandmother in a clear apparition. She was holding a book but I didn’t catch the title. She disappeared without saying a word. This happened twice, but only to me. There have also been times where I feel a hand on my shoulder and nobody’s behind me, or a soft whisper in my ear when nobody is next to me. But it’s strange because it stopped as soon as we moved. But if her spirit is trapped in the house, it doesn’t make sense, because she’s never been to that house. She’s only ever lived in New Jersey.
I visited a house in Richardson Texas where supposedly a man had lived in the thirties and we decided to check it out ( me and my friends Connor and Collin) we saw some documents left on the table of the abandoned house of 1701 Nantucket dr and the signature was Roy C Kerr and a bunch of strange things happened. We bolted. The next day I was with my friend, Daniel who did some research on the house. He found that the house was owned by the Kerr family and someone is still paying the bills, but the house was in ruins and clearly abandoned on the inside.
I also am from Dallas. My first house was in Allen, Texas ( Dallas suburb) my husband and I lived there for 8 years which at first was normal. when we started remodeling we must have Disturbed something. when I was alone I could feel something was with me. just when I I would start to get so afraid that I would leave it would whisper my full name in my ear. I didn’t want to tell my husband for the longest time until he came to me and confessed it had done the same to him. Just then it laughed and a gush of wind blew past us. I know that it was something bad because of the sickening feeling that it brought with it. I never had, or since, felt like that in my life.
I also am from Dallas. My first house was in Allen, Texas ( Dallas suburb) my husband and I lived there for 8 years which at first was normal. when we started remodeling we must have Disturbed something. when I was alone I could feel something was with me. just when I I would start to get so afraid that I would leave it would whisper my full name in my ear. I didn’t want to tell my husband for the longest time until he came to me and confessed it had done the same to him. Just then it laughed and a gush of wind blew past us. I know that it was something bad because of the sickening feeling that it brought with it. I never had, or since, felt like that in my life.
The original town below the lake is now gone as the entire lake was drained and dug out and bad soil removed from a fire prior to 2019 that contaminated the water.
There is no more town below unfortunately.
Will add a photo I might have of the lake drained and dug out if I find it.
The town hasn’t been there for a very long time. Bonita lake is a man made lake. The town that was there was years and years before they ever made the lake. But if U do the research about it, U will find out about it and what happen, which is probably why it’s haunted to this day.