Tombstone
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Oct 3, 2026
Steve StocktonHOST
The transition from myth to cryptozoology is largely thanks to one sensational, though likely legendary, story from 1890.
Steve StocktonHOST
The legend, centered around Tombstone, Arizona, tells of two cowboys who shot and killed a gigantic pterodactyl-like bird with smooth skin and featherless wings.
Steve StocktonHOST
They allegedly dragged the massive carcass into town and had it photographed with its wingspan stretching the length of a barn.
Steve StocktonHOST
The photo, allegedly published in the local newspaper, the Tombstone Empathy, showed several men standing underneath one wing.
Steve StocktonHOST
This Tombstone Thunderbird photograph has since become the holy grail of cryptozoology But despite decades of searching, no copy has ever been found, and the original newspaper article remains missing.
Steve StocktonHOST
Skeptics argue that modern Thunderbird sightings are misidentifications of known large birds.
Steve StocktonHOST
The prime suspect is the California Condor, a majestic bird with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet that was once native to Arizona.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
So there was this confrontation.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
It was in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
And yes, it became one of the most famous gunfights in American history.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
This town marshal, Virgil Earp, and yes, his brother Wyatt and Morgan and their friend Doc Holliday.
Kenneth HiteHOST
We are certainly not gonna create trouble while Wyatt Earp is watching.
Kenneth HiteHOST
Let's go, oh, I don't know, plant a death tree on the edge of Tombstone, and then he won't pay attention to us." And that was their decision.
Kenneth HiteHOST
The other great character in Tombstone at that time, there...
Kenneth HiteHOST
I had all of them, but the other one that they really liked, I decided that Ah How, who was Emperor Norton's chancellor, uh, had moved to Tombstone and sort of taken over the laundry in Tombstone.
Kenneth HiteHOST
There was a, a fairly large Chinatown in Tombstone during its boom years, and so I said, "Well, let's move historically attested, if not necessarily verified, Ah How to, um, Tombstone and, and put him in there." And, uh, that was great fun.
Kenneth HiteHOST
But I think the most fun that we had was when we went back East and they met, uh, young Robert W.
Kenneth HiteHOST
Chambers and young Charles Dana Gibson, and that was great fun because they were, of course, art students up to reality tearing no good in, uh, New York City at the time that there was a liter- This was an actual historical thing.
AshHOST
... it's amazing.
AshHOST
And we, this last time we were there, we had stopped in Tombstone, Arizona on our way to White Sands.
AshHOST
We were coming from like the Tucson area and Saguaro, and we stopped in Tombstone and did like our favorite things that we like to do there, and got some bottles of sarsaparilla-
JohnHOST
Uh-huh
AshHOST
... which John always makes us buy when we're in that, [laughs] in that town.
EmilioHOST
And this week, we continue our current cycle highlighting comfort movies from the 90s with a category we call Mise Un Seen, where the three of us co-hosts watch a film that we have not seen before, and we discuss our impressions and main takeaways from that first viewing.
MadelineHOST
And today we are going to be discussing Tombstone, released in 1993, directed by George Cosmatos, George P. Cosmatos, and starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Booth, so many others, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, again.
MadelineHOST
Again?
EmilioHOST
Dude, we're in the Zane zone right now.
JulianHOST
About the Von Eric wrestling family that there, there was a fifth brother in that family that was left out of the movie for reasons that I'll leave it to you to see it, to understand.
JulianHOST
Got it.
JulianHOST
But Wild Tombstone deals with some pretty well-trodden history of the American West.
JulianHOST
And also when we're talking about Westerns in the 90s, Tombstone is not to be confused with Wyatt Earp.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
But There was certainly devastation.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
There was a town of Charleston, Arizona, which is an old mining town just south of Tombstone, Arizona.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
And we all know Tombstone from the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
And that gunfight had happened six years before the earthquake.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Charleston was about 10 miles away from Tombstone, and it was a very rough and tumble town.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Tombstone had society.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had an opera house.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had churches.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
But, um, there was certainly devastation.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
There was a town of Charleston, Arizona, which is j- an old mining town just south of Tombstone, Arizona.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
And I know-- we all know Tombstone from the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, and that gunfight had happened six years before the earthquake.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Charleston was about 10 miles away from Tombstone, and it was a very rough-and-tumble town.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Um, Tombstone had society.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had a opera house.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had churches.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
We looked outside toward the mountains in the west, toward the Sierra Madres, and we could see dust rising caused by falling rocks." And another, um, Mormon historian later, Nell Hatch, told stories that she had heard from her family.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
But There was certainly devastation.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
There was a town of Charleston, Arizona, which is an old mining town just south of Tombstone, Arizona.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
And we all know Tombstone from the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
And that gunfight had happened six years before the earthquake.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Charleston was about 10 miles away from Tombstone, and it was a very rough and tumble town.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Tombstone had society.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had an opera house.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had churches.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
But, um, there was certainly devastation.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
There was a town of Charleston, Arizona, which is j- an old mining town just south of Tombstone, Arizona, and I know...
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
We all know Tombstone from the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, and that gunfight had happened six years before the earthquake.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Charleston was about 10 miles away from Tombstone, and it was a very rough-and-tumble town.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
Um, Tombstone had society.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had a opera house.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
They had churches.
Mary Elizabeth ReynoldsGUEST
She said that a fire like a volcanic eruption spurted from the impact of the earthquake and jostled rocks hurtling against boulders and set the mountains aflame as if trees were touched off by fiery darts.
Bridget MarquardtHOST
Where did you go in Arizona?
Amanda PaulsonGUEST
So Arizona, I went to Tombstone with Strange Escapes, Amy Bruni's company.
Amanda PaulsonGUEST
And so we explored Tombstone and I got to lead the investigations in a mine in Tombstone, which was very cool.
Amanda PaulsonGUEST
Um, the coolest part was that we had multiple groups.
Amanda PaulsonGUEST
We had like four groups that had to investigate in this mine.
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