Choose a Nevada story from the list below or click on State Folktales to choose a folktale from another state.

• Invisible hands
  A couple of Comstock miners meet a couple of ghosts (bucca) working the late shift.

• The Lady in Red
  A murdered woman haunts a Nevada hotel.

• Sinks
  Nevada rivers flow into a series of lakes with no outlets. So what happens to all that water? It sinks!

You can read more Nevada ghost stories in Spooky Southwest by S.E. Schlosser.

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