Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #621
Date of adventure: 3/29/22
In Death Valley’s Rhyolite ghost town, legend tells of a beautiful young “working girl” who was murdered by her boyfriend — and was laid to rest in a lonely grave in the desert, thanks to prudish townsfolk not allowing her to be buried in the cemetary. Today, visitors from all over the world leave flowers, high heels and other items at her gravesite…but somehow, despite my many visits to Rhyolite, I had never been to her grave! Join me as I search for the lonely grave of Mona Bell…and tell her tragic tale.
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Extremely cool video.
So sad 😞 …. Your plea after you lay your beautiful rose 🌹 on Mona’s grave … “Please don’t steal it.” That’s says a lot for where we are in this country. Sad 😢 RIP Mona. 🥀 🙏 👠 💄
Love the train depot,bet it was really beautiful in the old days. Love your videos, stay safe and God bless you and your family, love Bones 😊
The grave was Cool…I'll look for it next time I am up there.
Great doc available on the railroad war that raced to Rhyolite called "The Great Desert Railroad Race". Two men locked in a brutal competition to move borax.
Will be there in May. Would be cool to see the rose you placed there. Had no idea it wasn't a real grave until the video. Very informative.
Mona was a soiled Dove who boned most of the miners at that camp.
You are the Huss
Enjoying your adventures thanks for taking s along
excellent job 🌹
LowEarth Orbit
Talk about talking a story into the dirt!
cool
They say a person dies twice on this earth, when the body dies and when no living person remembers them. Great adventure Wonderhussy.
You could have a TV show. You're hilarious,, and informative. Great videos.
When are you going to Washington and place the gold rose 🌹? Inquiring minds want to know
Hasta La vista baby Mona
Her actual grave is in Seattle.
Almost Everybody is a prostitute ( just not in a se*ual sense). The ladies of the night these days prefer the title se*workers.
I appreciated your story of the 2008 crash and being left with a house in your name and a mortgage. In this modern age with so many jobs for women, and with your education and talent, that you were scouring CL, it makes sense to understand that women back in the day were probably driven into se*work by a combination of circumstance and desperacy.
You have a wonderful way of telling a story, I enjoy this very much 👍☮️
I bet Mona had many a Minor in her mudd hut.
As of May 3 your awesome rose is still there.
Gotta say, I found your constant use of 'prostitute' to refer to this woman really horrible. Isn't it kind of reductive? Wouldn't 'woman' have been better?
You know and this is not an insult this is actually praise…
You're starting to remind me a huell howser…. I actually knew his secretary…. She and her husband had a boat out here….
Anyway carry on there Gypsy Rose hussy.
Something's fishy here.
… Well try vinegar and water
They may have buried her in Washington but I agree with you because I believe that wherever you die that's where your spirit was released.. that's if we actually have spirits but anyway I digress..
Love your channel just picked up on it and now trying to catch up on some of the older ones
OMG HOLY FU__ING S__T I'm sitting here holding a picture of my twin daughters when they were about 2 years old. The back drop is red satin material. They are both wearing wide brim fancy RED ladies hats. The picture was taken by a neighbor along with her sister's , these ladies were a hoot!, as they were all members of the RED HAT Society !!!! My daughters were made Honorary Members . This picture was displayed at the senior center in town, were they met for years. My daughters names
Emelia and …….Isabella. tooo cool. You tell a mean story woman.
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Thanks!
You take us to such evocative places! I can feel the lives of these miners and the women who followed them! Thank you for great narration and fine videography!
How ungrateful can you be trashing such a thoughtful gift, are you constantly high?
Love Your Videos!
Mona Bell, it turned out, had been born Sarah ‘Sadie’ Isabelle Peterman in 1887. On the night she died she was only 20 years old and still legally the wife of another man.
Clinton Columbus Heskett had eloped with Sadie to Colorado when she was just 18 and they’d been married less than a year when Fred Skinner whisked her off to Nevada. Heskett had been searching for her ever since.
Heskett arrived in Rhyolite within a few days of the murder, gave his statement to the police and collected the battered body of his once lovely young wife. He escorted her back to her family in Ballard, where Sadie Heskett was buried at the Crown Hill Cemetery in a plot hastily purchased by her father.
Thank you,. Good escape to your world. Mona Bell had to be some kinda gal with a lot of character.I have a feeling also a nut case on alcohol, shame she did not have a pistol in each hand,. RIP Sarah Isabel
You are a dessert rose, Very attractive young lady, You are well liked,Healthy,Fun to watch,and look forward to your videos
I can imagine any space buff not really appreciating where that thing I ended up. Oh well darn it the heck.
Couldn't you look it up on the internet for the distric where the prositute might be buried. It might show you a better spotg where it would be.
Wow so what happened to all those old buildings? Wow! You’d think there would be allot of visible buildings.
Yes I think I read about her in the books I used to read about prostitutes. Maybe there’s another prostitute there too.
My dad is named is Herschel..lol