Paranormal Phenomena

 By Aaron Perez Published 4/7/2025 Image Credit: Ken Hudnall and Connie Wang, Link to where you can purchase the book can be found here .     When one thinks of El Paso, Texas, what comes to mind is Chico's Tacos, the Star on the Mountain, and its desert environment. Another notable association that El Paso has is the paranormal, thanks to its various haunted locations. There are so many haunted places in the city, that thanks to the authors Ken Hudnall and Connie Wang, they are now well documented in a book series named Spirits of the Border . The first volume of the series, The History and Mystery of El Paso del Norte , gives a summary on strange events that have happened in the city and cryptids that may inhabit in its borders. The book also goes into detail on the haunting within the infamous El Paso High School and its tunnels. It also the history and a gives a list on which areas in the city have strange phenomena. It also documents a version of La Llorona that is s...

By AaronPerez Published 3/26/2025 Updated 6/1/2025 Image Credit: Harold P. Warren    EPCC Mission Valley is one of the newer facilities in the college district, which itself dates all the way back to 1969. Though completed in 1998, Mission Valley has served countless students throughout its years, especially those interested in law enforcement.  Though the campus itself is new, the land it is sitting on has a rich history, even if the initial results say otherwise. To explain it even further, one must go back to 1966, when the film Manos: The Hands of Fate had its theatrical debut downtown El Paso. The film was both a ratings and a box office disaster, due to the poor quality, incoherent voice acting, plot, and the circumstances it was made. Originally made as a result of a bet that Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant gave to fertilizer tycoon Harold P. Warren, the film would be forgotten for decades, but thanks to the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 , it found a cult ...

By Aaron Perez Published 3/12/2025 Image credit: El Paso Community College         Opened in 1975 as the medical branch of EPCC, the Rio Grande Campus originally had five programs in the field. It later expanded to 12 programs which gave its students an opportunity to enroll into more specialized careers in the medical field. Its original A building belonged to the El Paso Independent School District before it was purchased for its current purpose. It was later expanded with the adjacent B building, which is connected through the first floors. It was later further expanded in the 2000s with Health and Science Laboratory building being completed in 2002 and since then, new buildings have been built or are being rented out by the college. Prior to being part of the Community College, these buildings served various roles throughout the years. Its administrative and enrollment office and little temple buildings originally served as synagogues. One of the other build...