Joshua Tree then and Now

This early UFO and occultist site is a little outside Joshua Tree CA and just down the road from the celebrated weirdness of the Integratron.

https://www.integratron.com/

Gram Parsons, an influential 70's musician, was cremated in the desert outside Jushua Tree, by his manager and others who kidnapped his body from a hearse parked at LAX.

When bodysnatching crew stopped to buy cremation gas, somebody asked, "Should we get regular or premium?" "Premium. " said the manager. "We don't want Gram to ping."