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The Air-Conditioned Dream

Mystery Castle: A Father's Secret Desert Castle

When Boyce Gulley was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1927, he disappeared from his wife and three-year-old daughter without a word. He spent the next 16 years in the Arizona desert, secretly building an 18-room castle from car parts, goat milk, and salvaged junk — all for the daughter who thought he'd abandoned her. She inherited it after his death, along with hidden treasure, love letters, and a childhood Valentine she'd made for him decades earlier.

The Trunk Murderess: Phoenix's Most Infamous Crime

On October 16, 1931, a medical secretary named Winnie Ruth Judd killed her two friends in Phoenix, dismembered one of them, packed the bodies in trunks, and boarded a train to Los Angeles. She was caught when the baggage handler noticed the smell. The trial made national headlines. She was sentenced to hang, declared insane, and spent decades in an asylum — from which she escaped seven times, once living undetected for six years. This is Phoenix's most infamous true crime story.

The Phoenix Lights: What Thousands of People Saw

On March 13, 1997, thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a massive V-shaped formation of lights moving silently across the sky. Pilots, police officers, and the Governor all reported seeing it. The Air Force blamed flares. Twenty-five years later, the Phoenix Lights remain one of the most witnessed and documented UFO events in history.