Queen Mine Tour

Miners worked the tunnels beneath Bisbee's Mule Mountains from 1880 to 1975, in one of the richest copper camps in the world. Since 1976 retired miners have taken visitors 1,500 feet in by rail car, into workings that hold a steady 47 degrees; tours run daily. Reports of a headless figure underground go back to late 1909, after a miner was found dead on a pile of timber, and the guides — many of whom worked the mine themselves — have passed the story down ever since, pointing out a human profile in the rock they call Headless John. Visitors describe the sense of being watched, faint whispers, and shapes just beyond the lamplight.