If you're new to the Grand Valley of Colorado, there are great places to visit, things to see and other rad things that make this such an awesome place to live -- until you stumble upon the 'curse.' Should this 'curse' concern you?
If you moved here, you should be fine. The curse seems to only affect those who were born here.
The curse states:
Local legend states, the valley was cursed by the native Utes upon their forced exodus to federal reservation grounds in Utah. The legend states, among other things, that no person born in the valley may leave permanently unless a small amount of sand is collected from the Grand Mesa, Bookcliffs, Colorado National Monument, and/or the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers.
The sand is supposed to alleviate the curse's effects of a supernatural and metaphysical attraction by the valley's soil to the native individual. Of course, this is a myth and cannot be confirmed. However, many exiting locals, native and non-native alike, prefer not to take their chances with the alleged curse and keep the sand long after emigrating from the valley.
It may not be a bad thing to be cursed to stay in such a beautiful place like the Grand Valley.
Do you know anyone who has taken sand from the aforementioned areas, and did it break the curse?
Famous declassified government secrets
More From 92.9 NiN
![Video Appears to Show UFO During Flight From Denver to El Paso](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2023/06/attachment-attachment-el-paso-ufo-featured.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Colorado is Bracing for a Wet Monsoon Season But It’s Bone Dry](http://townsquare.media/site/1162/files/2023/05/attachment-attachment-monsoon-season-colorado.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Weather Radar Picks Up Miller Moth Migration in Colorado](http://townsquare.media/site/1162/files/2023/05/attachment-attachment-Untitled-design-2023-05-22T163951.637.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![See Every Strange Discovery from the Oddities and Curiosities Expo in Denver](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2022/10/attachment-oddity-and-curosity-expo-denver-2022.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![America’s Highest Cave is in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Southern Colorado – and It’s Haunted](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2022/09/attachment-raisa-nastukova-BLhlvxe6bLo-unsplash.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![I-70 Traveler Tells of Freaky UFO Encounter Just Outside Grand Junction, Colorado](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2022/08/attachment-joshua-sukoff-79TRU2MIL34-unsplash.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Tales of Dancing Orbs + Glowing Graves at Old Colorado Cemetery](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2022/09/attachment-haunted-colorado-cemetery.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![The Navajo Skinwalkers who Haunt America’s Four Corners Region](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2022/08/attachment-skinwalker.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Ridge Home: The Sinister History of an Abandoned Colorado Institution](http://townsquare.media/site/999/files/2022/08/attachment-ridge-home.jpg?w=980&q=75)