This is Arizona's scariest story, according to locals

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A reader poll named the Phoenix Lights as Arizona's scariest lore, surpassing tales of ghosts and Skinwalkers.

The Phoenix Lights refer to widely reported UFO sightings over Arizona, Nevada, and Sonora, Mexico on March 13, 1997.

The U.S. Air Force officially identified the lights as flares from a military training exercise, an explanation many witnesses dispute.

On October 17, we unleashed Arizona’s creepiest lore , a collection of spooky tales where you, the readers, voted for the scariest ones.

From skinwalkers to the mysterious gold-obsessed ghosts guarding the Lost Dutchman mine, readers cast their votes for what truly keeps them up at night. But in the end, it wasn’t desert spirits or ghosts that took the crown … it was aliens.

You read that right. The fam