[citation needed] Many people claim to have had strange experiences on the mesa including being attacked by invisible forces.

There are also rumored to be a number of ghosts including that of a Boy Scout who can never return to base camp, and of a Navajo shaman who protects the two remaining cat totems[4] on the mesa to keep the demons from escaping.

[5] At the foot of Urraca Mesa is Casa del Gavilan, a historic inn built in 1911 by John "Jack" Nairn in the Pueblo Revival style.

[6] The Casa del Gavilan Inn is visible from Philmont Scout Ranch tent city as an inexplicable white structure apparently suspended in mid-air below the mesa.

Urraca Mesa is relatively flat with the exception of a protruding plateau, which contains a small intermittent spring at the base.