THE INFAMOUS "LA RUMOROSA", Baja Racing News LIVE Archives
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Original Posting: November 18, 2008
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Original Publish Date: May 12, 2018
By Jorge Hugo Garcia
This legend was told to me by my 60-Year-old grandparents, some native descendants of the Kilihua Indian Group, south of Ensenada, Baja California.
Many years ago, when the salt lagoon (Laguna Salada) connected with Salton Sea of the Imperial Valley forming a huge sea port, from the entire central mountain range of Baja California to Northern California was full of pines and gigantic spruce.
This era is known in geologic terms as prior to the Colorado River overflow into the Salton Basin, pre-1909. At one time, the Sea of Cortez reached far north into the valleys north of modern Imperial County.
A massive fire that lasted more than six (6) months consumed all the vegetation. Thousands of their inhabitants disappeared or died, burned. Before this event they said that the branches of the pine trees sang the stories of their ancestors. The winds, blowing through the trees.
In their ancient ceremonies, we would worship the acorns and the pine nuts that fed them. The whole area was known as "the mother earth who sings". But after the fire, this voice was turned off. Through the years, there was only the moan of the stones that at night howl with almost human cries, the pain of them overwhelms the descendants of those who perished.
Currently, to those winds that run between the rocks, caress the pines that go rising, they are known as
"the rumors/sounds of the mother who cries".
"The emotions of Mother Nature, whose winds cry in pain".
The Legend Of La Rumorosa Of Baja California, Mexico
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La Rumorosa Closed!
Baja Racing News BULLETIN!
Snow closes road. Original:
Truck Tragedy Closes Road
Original Publish Date: February 10, 2009
UPDATE: The La Rumorsa grade was closed today, Tuesday, February 10. Officials expected the road to re-open late this afternoon.Original story: February 5, 2009
Raul Bello, 35, died today, when he was driving and crashed his Pemex gasoline carrier on the infamous La Rumorosa grade in Baja California, between the towns of La Rumorsa and El Oasis.
The road was closed overnight and re-opened minutes ago. The east bound section of the grade was covered with fuel and burned debris.
At KM 54, with 62 million liters of petrol onboard, authorities say, he lost control of the rig and the crash caught fire, burning the victim to death.
Another La Rumorosa ghost joins the realm. CLICK HERE for the Baja Insider story on La Rumorosa
Cool Video from the Baja 1000 2008 back in November on the original La Rumorosa (watch in HD)
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The 'La Rumorosa' Ghost Stories "License to Kill" Baja 1000 Insider Stories
Original Publish Date: November 8, 2008
The Baja Insider: Baja 1000 2008: La Rumorosa Grade
Baja Safari has worked on many Hollywood Baja shoots, including Troy in Cabo San Lucas, yes ladies, with Brad Pitt. We did most of the horse wrangling and lots of 'lost' pilot shoots. The E! Entertainment 'Celebrity Adventure' pilot, in the southern Baja waterfalls, was one of our favs.
One of our first technical jobs was the "License To Kill", finale scene at the La Rumorosa grade. The film company had hired us for general field work, since the crew would be there for over a month and we spoke english. Most of the crew was from England and had never been in Mexico before and didn't speak spanish. We showed them the more entertaining haunts of Mexicali, Tijuana, Ensenada and Tecate. The town of Rumorosa, the coldest in Baja, has a great bakery and serves Cinnamon Coffee.
All of the semi-truck stunts, explosions and various stunts for the film was done at the La Rumorosa grade, Baja California Mexico. This years, 2008 Baja 1000 hits the grade area again!
We also had special 'talents' handling the local challenges, lets say. In those days the grade was made up of two asphalt lanes from the top of the grade, in pinon pine forests, to the bottom of the grade, in the lower Mexicali desert. Almost as dry as Death valley. Because the government was just starting to realign and rebuild the highway, the film crew had permission to use the newly closed road to do all its dangerous film shooting. Including stunts, explosives and time consuming star film work.Now the highway to the bottom is a wide, safe, super-toll road. Except for the trail the racers will use in just a few days!
Baja Safari was able to make things easy for everyone with our intimate local knowledge and respect for the local culture. Including the spirit caves, curses and stories of the souls who had passed in car crashes on the very dangerous La Rumorosa road.
If you get a chance to visit the exhibit at La Rumorosa, of INAH work there, maybe you'll see a ghost.
I have just acquired the DVD of the James Bond film, License To Kill. The documentary on the making of the film contains a very interesting story about how one area where we filmed was supposedly haunted.For the film's climactic truck-chase scene, where Bond has to destroy a convoy of large trucks that are loaded with drugs, the producers were given permission to use a stretch of road in Mexico that had been closed due to the alarming number of fatal accidents there. The stretch of mountainous road consisted of many twists and turns as well as wide,level sections.
During filming, many accidents occurred, some minor and some quite serious. This is to be expected, you might say, in a movie with many dangerous stunts. However, some of these accidents were quite bizarre. A man fixing telegraph poles TWO MILES from where we were filming was hit and injured by a missile that went astray from the set! Timothy Dalton was close to death when a truck he was driving narrowly missed going over the edge of a cliff when another truck that shouldn't have been there veered into him.It was the stories of ghosts and apparitions that really interested me. Strange, ghostly figures were seen in the area where the trucks were parked overnight. When challenged by the security guards, they simply vanished. A truck moved by itself and parked itself somewhere else! 
But the best story came from Albert Wooster, the Second Unit Director. While filming the explosion in which the baddie (Robert Davi) is killed, he explains that behind him, one of the stuntmen was taking snapshots of the explosion for himself. Wooster (and the rest of the crew for that matter) was astounded when he was shown one particular photograph. It clearly showed a giant, flaming, clawed hand reaching out of the explosion! He was so amazed that when he tried going through the film of the explosion, frame by frame , to see if the other cameras had caught the bizarre phenomenon, none had."
During filming, many accidents occurred, some minor and some quite serious. This is to be expected, you might say, in a movie with many dangerous stunts. However, some of these accidents were quite bizarre. A man fixing telegraph poles TWO MILES from where we were filming was hit and injured by a missile that went astray from the set! Timothy Dalton was close to death when a truck he was driving narrowly missed going over the edge of a cliff when another truck that shouldn't have been there veered into him.It was the stories of ghosts and apparitions that really interested me. Strange, ghostly figures were seen in the area where the trucks were parked overnight. When challenged by the security guards, they simply vanished. A truck moved by itself and parked itself somewhere else! 
But the best story came from Albert Wooster, the Second Unit Director. While filming the explosion in which the baddie (Robert Davi) is killed, he explains that behind him, one of the stuntmen was taking snapshots of the explosion for himself. Wooster (and the rest of the crew for that matter) was astounded when he was shown one particular photograph. It clearly showed a giant, flaming, clawed hand reaching out of the explosion! He was so amazed that when he tried going through the film of the explosion, frame by frame , to see if the other cameras had caught the bizarre phenomenon, none had."
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