The Ghost on Mineral King Road
By Louise Jackson The Sierra Nevada mountains are filled with tales of ghosts and spirits. Several prominent Tulare County citizens told stories of ghosts in the early days, and even John Muir had tales to tell of spirits that guided him in his mountain travels. But there is one local story that persists to this day. It seems there is still a ghost that resides halfway up Mineral King road at what is now called Mitchell Ranch, just below Oriole Creek. The ghost wasn’t always there. After the two-story house was built by the Grunigen family in the late 1800s,