Danny B. Stewart
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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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TOP FIVE HAUNTED PLACES IN UTAH
Utah is a haunted state. More so than most people realize. There are all manner of folkloric and legendary spooks and boogies lurking about in our backyard. Here is my…
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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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The Monster Rabbits of Washington County
I was contacted by a gentlemen who saw two monster rabbits in Washington County, St. George back in 1965. What were these creatures for real?
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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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Bigfoot In Mormon lore … is Bigfoot Cain?
Who is this hairy hominid? The Sasquatch or Bigfoot (both terms are plural and singular) is North America’s largest cryptozoological mystery. The name “Bigfoot” has come to denote any…
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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.
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The Significance of the “Salamander” In Mormon and Occult Lore
Most of us have at least heard of the “Mark Hofmann murders” and the related “Salamander Letters,” but what’s the deal with this so-called “Salamander?”