Utah's Best Ghost Towns and Haunted Places
Bullion City- not on the ghost town list |
Happy Halloween!
Utah media have caught the spirit of
the holiday and are publishing some interesting items. Here's a fun
one from the Deseret News:
The photo essay shows multiple shots of
many, but not all, of Utah's ghost towns, plus a few from neighboring
states. Here's a list of the places featured:
- Eagle City in the Henry Mountains
- Frisco, in Beaver County
- Giles, along the Fremont River in Wayne County
- Gold Hill, in Tooele County near the Utah/Nevada border
- Grafton, just outside Zion Park, appeared in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Hiawatha, in Carbon County
- Kelton, just north of the Great Salt Lake
- La Plata, near Paradise in northern Utah
- Latuda, in Carbon County
- Old Irontown, west of Cedar City
- Ophir, west of Lehi
- Osiris, near Antimony, north of Bryce Canyon
- Paria, along the Paria River in south central Utah
- Richville, south of Morgan
- Sego, east of Green River
- Silver Reef, north of Leeds (east of St. George)
- Thistle, flooded by the Spanish Fork River
- West Dip, in remote Tooele County
- Widtsoe, just north of Bryce Canyon
- Woodside, along Hwy 6 between Price and Green River
Many of these are fun spots to visit.
We could write pages...
Salt Lake Tribune has this article:
- Rio Grande Depot in Salt Lake City, haunted by “The Purple Lady”
- Ben Lomond Hotel, Ogden, haunted by “a woman who drowned in the tub of room 1102” on her honeymoon
- Southern Utah University, Cedar City, old buildings were constructed from rocks where a woman's brutally murdered body was found
- Moon Lake, Uinta Mountains, haunted by a “dripping wet girl,” plus a giant serpent lives in the lake
- Mercur Cemetery, west of Lehi, a phantom horseman gallops across the graveyard
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