Local Legends in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Folklore and local ghost stories tied to the places and communities where they are told.

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Santa Fe courthouse ghost

Santa Fe, NM

The Santa Fe courthouse ghost is New Mexico's modern classic: a white shape recorded gliding across the county courthouse lawn by a security camera in the 1980s — footage broadcast, argued over and never quite explained, in a city already thick with older ghosts.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

About local legends in Santa Fe

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