One of the distinguished landmarks in Coal Mine
Canyon is a White Hoodoo. Although this hoodoo is not as spectacular as
the Wahweap Hoodoos in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, this
mystical object still captures people's imagination.
According to a Navajo's legend, once a Navajo
woman and her family walked along the rim. Unfortunately, her husband
and child accidentally fell into the canyon and died. The heart-broken
wife returned to the spot every night for the rest of her life, and
eventually turned herself into a figure-rock.
Hopis believe that the figure was a woman who fell and died in the
canyon while attempting to touch the spirits. She was buried there, but
later she rose from her grave and now appears under the moonlight once a
while.
