DV Legends & Monsters?

[Beardilocks]

As we enter Spooky Season, I thought I would bring up something that has been on my mind for the last couple of years. 

In all my travels across the US and many many Nat'l/State Parks/Preserves/Monuments I've heard story upon story of different legends in almost every region I've been to.  Ghostly wagon trains, supernatural phenomenon, women in white, UFOs, mysterious lights, Cryptids of all descriptions from Sasquatch to Thunderbirds to more classics like Will-o-the-Wisps or Pukwudgies. .  

But I rarely hear anything at all about what haunts or creeps in Death Valley!  For such a legendary place with such an ominous name (not to mention how many people have died or been lost in the area) there seem to be so few spooky stories. 

I know that the 29 Palms area and part of the Mojave have the Yucca Man (desert sasqautch variety).  


I have heard the legend of a huge cave under the Panamints that held mummified giants and loads of Egyptian-style riches, marrying two popular legends of Egyptian-type ancient civilizations in the West with the old tales of giant humaniods.  Apparently 2 or 3 groups of people have been lost trying to re-find the cave after first stumbling into it prospecting, never to return. 



The Shoshone and other tribes have legends of the Water/Rock Babies, small humanoids that inhabit springs & rocks that protect water sources and come out at night to carve petroglyphs and/or lure people to their doom. 

But I have not heard of much else.  And I have not experienced anything spooky or unexplainable in my many many nights in the park. Other than one of the early Space-X satellite launches that had me thinking that I was witnessing a full scale alien invasion unfolding overhead.

Does anyone have any tales of the paranormal or the supernatural, of monsters or mysterious lights in Death Valley?  Or is the place itself, the unforgiving land and ruthless environs, the only villain necessary?