Do you believe in ghosts? How do you react when told a "true" ghost story? They seem anachronistic in our scientific society, and yet they endure. In one of the most unlikely of U.S. cultures, read the supernatural belief tales that persist:
- A spirit, cursed by Brigham Young, who watches over the young males living in a Salt Lake City house
- A Logan Canyon campground that reverberates with the obscene carnage of innocents--or does it?
- A Salt Lake City chapel possessed by something dark and malevolent
- A theater in Logan with a resident, and permanent, critic
- A Salt Lake City park that replays a bloody accident
- A broken urn in a Salt Lake City ossuary, guarded by the angry occupant
- A monument in Logan Cemetery that paces protectively around a family's graves
- A mine near Scofield still echoing the horrors of the worst industrial accident in Utah history
Ghost legends act as a declaration of faith. Even the most dubious of tales contain a kernel of truth, surrounded by what we want to be true. Repeating them is a type of group support and affirmation of that faith.
