
Available Halloween, 2024
This self-guided audio walking tour details harrowing encounters with the apparitions that continue to haunt the resurrected ghost town of Madrid, New Mexico. You can hear the supernatural stories where they happened, from the people who actually experienced them.
Updated and Remastered
Long before Abbie Hoffman called it "the Town too High to Die," Madrid produced the coal that built the A-Bomb while also inspiring Walt Disney.
Submissions for the 8th Annual Festival will open on April 1st, 2025.
We are celebrating with two special events at the Mine Shaft Tavern: a free screening of the 2024 festival (April 1, 7pm) and then our annual Bingo fundraiser (April 2, 6pm). Join us!
Read my "Personal History" of the festival at the new site for all things New Mexico, Landofenchantment.com
by Andrew Wice
Fall 2023, El Palacio Magazine
"With a fireball brighter than the sun, matter flashed into energy at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The world did not yet know it had been forever changed—even as hot, waxy ash began snowing on the dryland acres of Southern New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin."
A four-part investigation by KMRD 96.9 FM community radio.
"Often funny, as well as easy to imagine ...
To The Last Drop envisions just how quickly greed and thirst could spark another war between the states."
★★★★ (4 stars) -- High Times Magazine, April 2009
Interviewed by Anthony Umi. 12/5/16
P.O. Box 831, Cerrillos, NM, 87010