Folklore
Moab’s Haunted Road: Racing the River Witch on Kane Springs
Moab’s River Witch haunts Kane Springs Road, challenging the brave to race her spirit on dark, winding nights. Locals recall eerie tales of a vengeful ghost racing between cattle guards,…
Haunted History of Park City Mines: Ghosts, Legends, and Underground Tunnels
Beneath Park City’s mountain trails, nearly 2,000 miles of abandoned tunnels stretch into darkness—once buzzing with miners, now home to ghostly legends. From tales of the Man in the Yellow…
Frisco, Utah: The Untold Story of the West’s Most Notorious Ghost Town
Once a wild silver mining town, Frisco, Utah, was infamous for its nightly violence and lawless streets. Known as the “toughest mining town in the West,” its fortunes changed after…
Utah’s Most Haunted Secrets: Spine-Chilling Stories and Unsolved Mysteries
Utah’s haunted locations are a blend of history, mystery, and the supernatural. From ghost tours to immersive haunted experiences, the state’s eerie past is replete with the unexplained. Visitors are…
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…
Exploring the Myth and Reality of Butch Cassidy in Moab
Butch Cassidy is likely Utah’s most celebrated outlaw, and is sometimes referred to as the “Robin Hood of The West.” Cassidy, whose birth name was Robert LeRoy Parker, was born…
Is The Rio Grande Depot in Downtown SLC Haunted
Salt Lake City has its share of ghost stories, and one of the most persistent is the story of the Purple Lady at the Rio Grande Depot. Is she real…
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…
The Scariest Place in Utah
Paranormal investigators and ghost hunters have said they saw strange things at St. Anne’s and that it is the scariest place in Utah.
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…
Secret Tunnels under Ogden’s 25th Street
Many businesses on 25th Street in Ogden still have basements in use and many of them have boarded-up, cemented-in, or closed-off openings in the walls, which were obviously entryways to…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.…