Halloween conjures up ghost stories and there are many in the Inland Empire. Considering this is a family-friendly column, I will include a few popular ones that are not all that scary … or are they?

Directly behind Cal State San Bernardino and now used by the state’s water system is Devil Canyon. It has been known by that ignominious name for more than a century. There is a story that claims responsibility for naming this mountain crevice.

According to Don Ygnacio Reyes (1816-1912), who worked during the 1840s as a vaquero for the Don Antonio Lugo family, owners of the Rancho San Bernardino, the story went like this:

Reyes and some other vaqueros were in the canyon “sporting” with the grizzlies when a mysterious woman on a cream colored horse suddenly joined them. Baffled as to where s

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