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Haunted 8 OUR YUCAIPA | OCTOBER 2014 Haunted Halloween is upon us and Yucaipa's ghosts want to come out and play. Here are a few stories to tell your kids before you tuck them in tonight. The best part is they all take place in this quiet town we call home - Our Yucaipa. Contributing to this story: Jaelin Palmer, Courtney Taylor, the Internet Machine & a dash of active, healthy imagination. Believe these stories at your own risk… The Lady in Red Pendleton Road is a curvy, narrow road east of Bryant. It is poorly lit and spotted with a few houses and some dirt lots. A woman is said to have been involved in a solo roll-over car accident in the 1950s. She escaped her mangled car by pulling herself out through shattered glass window and staggered, gravely hurt and bleeding, for about a half a mile. She collapsed and her body was later found by police. Some locals say she was a teenager on her way to prom and was wearing a red, flowing dress. Others say that her dress is red because it was drenched with her blood. Many have seen her ghostly apparition walking the road, still looking for help. People have reported strong feelings of uneasiness along Pendleton Road, as though they are being watched when no one is around. Some have heard disembodied voices — even screams — especially in the area of the wash. Chapman Heights There was a small airport in operation from 1938 to 1952 and the landing strip lay where hole #7 is now on the Yucaipa Valley Golf Course. In the late 1940s, there was a small aircraft crash and four teenage boys, the only ones aboard, were all killed. Today many residents report seeing the boys walking the golf course, as if they were walking a runway. Several golfers have reported feeling a chill as they step up to the seventh tee box and some have said that their golf cart has been rocked by unseen hands. Yucaipa High School In the building that used to be used as the cafeteria, now the wood shop, it is said an employee of the school unexpectedly passed away — the cause of death was never determined. Now, students and staff report hearing disembodied voices mingled with the echoes of sounds from lunches long ago.