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Strange Things From Hidden Sources
Read AnomaIogist Danny B. Stewart’s take on the anomalous and spooky in Provo, Utah.
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Danites: Inside the Legend of Mormonism’s Secret Enforcers
Whispers of a secret Mormon militia still echo across the American West. Once active for only a moment in 1838, the Danites left behind a legend far larger than their…
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The Monster Rabbits of Washington County
In 1965, a man in Utah claimed to see two giant rabbits—an unbelievable sight that still sparks curiosity today. With ongoing reports of strange, out-of-place animals, could there be more…
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Death Pays a Visit in Logan, Utah
I spent the last two years collecting folklore in the Cache Valley area, Logan mostly. I have collected thirty-five new sightings and tales of the folkloric and anomalous. Here are…
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Jay’s Journal, Fake or True? Utah Teenager Experimenting with Drugs and Satanism Commits Suicide
Jay’s Journal, written by “Anonymous,” and “edited” by Dr. Beatrice Sparks, is a book published in 1978, about a Utah County teenager who experimented with drugs and Satanism. Eventually, he…
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Utah’s Top Five Strange Creature Encounters
Top five strangest sightings in Utah. We present to you the Top Five most Interesting “Monster/Creature” encounters in Utah.
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A Jackalope Sighting in Utah? Horned Rabbits are the Mascots of the American West, but are they Real?
The legend of the Jackalope, or variations of it, can be found all over the United States, but it is familiarly found hopping about in the lore and legends of…
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The Great Cache Valley Ghost Tour
After some consideration and the backing of Utah State University’s Folklore Program, I have decided to create a ghost tour/walk for Logan, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
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Leprechauns in Utah? Where else but Leprechaun Valley?
Maybe we had an encounter with some Utah-based “leprechauns?” After all, the wee folk does have a home in Utah’s redrock landscape and they are said to guard a huge…
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Spooky Dating Ideas for Valentine’s Day or any other Day
One sure way to peer through one’s dating façade is seeing how they react to fear. Here a few spooky and reasonably safe spooky dating ideas.
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Meet Krampus, the Anti-Santa Who Seeks Disobedient Children this Christmas Season
Krampus is the counterpart to the immortal Santa Claus. Krampus, a massive anthropomorphic “Goat-Beast” seeks out misbehaving children and swats them with his thorny switch every Krampusnacht, or December 5th.…
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Strange Sightings In Utah County: Don’t Walk Alone After Dark
Since 2011, I have been documenting sightings of a few chimera-like beasts lurking about in Utah County. Here are a few creepy encounters.
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The Last of The Hobos and Utah Phantom Train
the “Last of The Hobos!” They began to tell me about some of their travels and adventures. Somehow, ghosts and folklore came up during our discussion and they told me…
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10 years of collaboration!
For 10 years now, Utah Stories has delved into the shadows of the investigative; substantiated the unsubstantiated by asking the hard questions, the real ones—questions other publications don’t or won’t…
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The Giant Flying Manta-Ray of Provo Utah
About eleven years ago a woman shared an interesting story with me. Late one June night she was walking along University Ave., a little after 10 PM and near 300…
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The Faerie Folk of Utah
For centuries we have heard tales and people have had sightings of enchanted-diminutive humanoids. Their stories are found all over the globe… Even in Utah.