Ghost Adventures: The mysterious and haunted Casa Grande Domes

Situated halfway between Phoenix, Arizona and Tucson, Arizona on 135-acres of remote isolated desert sits the Casa Grande Domes. Reportedly, once a hot spot for Satanic rituals. Now the current destination for the Ghost Adventures crew investigation.

Warning! Possible spoilers for recent episodes of Ghost Adventures follow. Read on at your own discretion.

In 1982, Patricia Zebb, the owner of InnerConn Technology, announced that she was going to relocate their California headquarters to Casa Grande, Arizona. Zebb had chosen a 135-acre parcel of land a little over seven miles from Casa Grande off Thornton road. InnerConn who built circuit boards for computers and watches ran into one small problem. InnerConn declared bankruptcy, and the dome buildings initially built soon became empty abandoned shells.

Empty shells that soon attracted Satanic worshippers according to local rumors.  The Satanists began using the domes for worshipping and conducting both animal and human sacrifices. In Season 11, Episode 9 of Ghost Adventures, our intrepid investigators attempt to verify these rumors.

The crew sets up numerous interviews with paranormal investigators who had investigated the domes before. An interview was also set up with a former Satanist who claimed to have conducted satanic rituals in the domes himself.

The first to be interviewed was Palmer Miller, a former marine and paranormal investigator who revealed that the police had discovered the remains of a dog on the premises. Miller stated the police even found pieces of a body hidden inside a plastic bag.

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The Domes have a history of being used as a dumping ground for any passerby’s garbage. The owners of the domes — Daniel and Karon Peer — were ordered by the local government to clean up the trash that had been dumped on the property over the years, before the Peer’s purchased the property.

Nothing had been published by the police to support the rumors of dog remains or human remains were discovered at the domes but they may hold some truth. The site has a history of people using the land over the ensuing years as a place for them to get rid of their waste. If remains were found, they could very well be parts of a human body killed at another location and dumped there by someone trying to hide their terrible activities.

Another interviewee, Jesus Gonzalez claims to have belonged to a satanic group and advised Zak Bagans that they did indeed perform satanic rituals requiring animal sacrifices. Gonzalez states he is half Tohono O’odham; a tribe that used to dwell in the Sonoran Desert near the Gulf of California, but now occupy four reservations in Arizona.

Gonzalez also claims that a medicine man of the Tohono O’odham tribe cursed the 135-acre lot which was why InnerConn went bankrupt. No documentation was found to either support or deny this claim. But it does bring up the question of why only this land was cursed and not the entire city of Casa Grande.

The Ghost Adventures’ crew capture conflicting reports from witnesses

Another paranormal investigator, Adam Forger claims that since his interactions with the domes he has stopped investigating the domes. Forger has complained of physical attacks which scared him so badly that he stopped his investigations of the domes. In fact, during his interview with Zak – Forger began complaining of uneasy feelings and difficulty breathing. Soon after Bagans was also complaining about difficulty breathing as well.

Casa Grande Domes has had numerous reports from other visitors about strange whispering in the night, a mysterious dark figure that wanders the grounds stalking unwary prey. Visitors who have parked off Thornton road have heard tapping on their rolled-up windows and some even had claimed to hear children crying.

Children crying is extremely curious as InnerConn didn’t employ children, and there is no homes or schools near the domes. So, where did the children come from? Could they be the spirits from the Tohono O’odham tribe haunting the land?

Needless, to say the Ghost Adventures crew captured some interesting evidence from their night-time investigation that suggests the Casa Grande domes are haunted, or are they?

Debunkers have provided just as much evidence to support that the domes are not haunted. That it is the unique shape of the buildings which creates unique and interesting acoustics. Acoustics that amplify sounds and make them carry throughout the domes. It isn’t just the shape of the buildings that affect sounds either. The desert being a wide-open space can also carry sounds from miles away making them sound like they are coming from right next to you.

Evidence debunks the noises and sounds but doesn’t explain the mysterious shadow figures multiple witnesses have described. Did Satanists conducting rituals in the domes open doorways or portals that are still open?

Unfortunately, finding answers seems to be running out on the mysterious domes. The Pinal county board supervisors unanimously voted that the slowly decaying domes are a safety hazard. Parts of the buildings are beginning to collapse — slabs of ceiling falling dangerously close to the curious investigators that stream in and out of the domes.

The supervisors fearing for the safety of dome visitors, strongly pushed to have the domes to be torn down. Dan Peer, the domes manager was fined for dragging his heels on the direct order. The domes have garnered quite a bit of media attention having paranormal groups investigate the site, curious kids, and adventurers.

The Casa Grande Domes has built itself a legend in Arizona’s most haunted and creepiest places of the Southwest. It has become a mystery in the desert that has captured the imagination of us all — so makes perfect Peer wouldn’t want the site tore down. Haunted? That’s a question you will have to answer yourself.

Do you believe the Domes could be haunted? Let us know in the comments section below.

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