When I was a kid, around 6th grade, my family and I lived in a place called North Edwards in California, near Edwards Air Force Base (father was in the Air Force). If you know the area, it is a barren desert-like area full of brush and hills but no cacti except for the occasional yucca tree or "jumping" cactus. Old run-down houses and gas stations mix in with newer homes as well, it was really quite fun and exciting as a child to explore these boarded up places.

Often times, at night, you could see several bon-fires out in the hills. And often you would stumble upon dead sheep out in those hills. Anyhow, my 6th grade teacher took the class out on a hike to see the seasonal wildflowers, while we were out exploring we stumbled upon an old shack. It was built together using very old splintery wood. Surrounding the shack, there were animal skulls of different sizes stuck on stakes in the ground and in front of the shack in stones, if I can remember correctly, fairly large stones (at least to a 12 year old) lined up in the shape of a cross. Needless to say, my teacher quickly rounded us up and brought us back to school.

Does anybody else know anything about this area? It's fairly close to a city called Bakersfield about 6 hours East of Los Angeles.

Lots of other "strange" things happen there, but that can be attributed to the Air Force Base itself. This experience is something else entirely.

Interesting....I don't know the area but sounds like it was a place of ritual or somesort of memorial thing.

sounds like a cult is performing rituals and sacrifices where they think no one will find out

Or maybe it could belong to a serial or torture killer...They normally have mundane places to preform their killings and/or torture.

Hrmm...

Yep, Its a cult.

I really hope somebody can at least respond that they have also seen the place. Would be great if you can get the information that you want. Now I want to know what took place there too!

All I can say for certain is that North Edwards was a really strange town. The block I lived on was fine, paved streets, "normal" seeming neighbors, etc., but if you were to go across this patch of desert, it got really creepy with really run-down trailer parks and random trailers that owned a few sheep. There were tons of old broken down cars and trucks and old restaurants and gas stations, it was real horror movie kind of stuff. I can remember one ruined restaurant that was completely boarded up but you could still see inside, although I never was able to muster up enough courage to get to close to see inside or even get inside. If you google earth it or map North Edwards, it's tiny.

Anyhow, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were serial killers there, or even a cult.

I still say its an evil Satan-worshping cult!

When I was a teenager We came across a stone table in the mountains ( at least it looked like one) in the middle of a clearing a few miles in from a popular spot for teens drinking and fooling around. The table was about 6 foot long 3 foot wide. It looked like someone had carved it to look like a table. There were all kinds of strange rumors about it. It scared me to death back then, I think I was 15. I never did go back. This thread reminded me of it. I would like to go back and see if its still there now out of curiosity.

Its a CULT!

Couldn't it be just some rather eccentric homeless (well, except for the shack) hermit who had been out in the desert sun too long?

Better watch out. Flesh eating mutants might come out with shotguns and pickaxes if you're not careful about where you go into the desert, given that you want to investigate.

sounds very much like the movie 'The Hills have Eyes'.

And they'll look like Sloth from the Goonies and Gary Busey.

It definitely sounds like some type of cult is performing ritual sacrifices of animals.
At least they weren't human skulls.

Lol @ Sloth.

As other postes said,it might be a cult.

Sounds like sleep paralysis to me.