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:

A haunting past: A photographic look at some of Utah's ghost towns

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:

Here are 5 legendary Utah haunted places

• 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