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Explore 55 haunted places in Utah. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Other
The club’s folklore includes a man who allegedly died after a lit cigar started a fire and whose presence is associated with the upper floors. Another reported spirit leaves a lilac scent in the basement and lightly touches people on the shoulder.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Hotel
During the mansion’s bed-and-breakfast years, guests reported trembling light fixtures, figures appearing in mirrors and doors that left them seemingly locked in their rooms. A former employee’s account describes the resident presence as friendly and recalls similar stories from coworkers and guests.
Ogden, Utah · Cemetery
Local stories single out a stone that supposedly glows blue-green and others said to remain unusually warm in winter. The cemetery’s reputation also includes shadow figures, odd bird calls and light spots interpreted as spirits in photographs.
Layton, Utah · Other
Accounts attached to this printing business describe laughter without an obvious source, fleeting apparitions and the sensation of an unseen person touching employees. Shadowlands adds the particular report of someone’s hair being touched.
Ogden, Utah · Hotel
Folklore ties two adjoining rooms to a drowned bride and her grieving son. Visitors describe running bathwater in an empty room, cold patches, voices and apparitions. Visit Utah explicitly cautions that the alleged deaths lack confirming official records.
Brigham City, Utah · Road or bridge
A shadow figure is reported at the historic depot. Paranormal visitors also describe recordings they interpret as disembodied voices and light spots in photographs, giving the former railway building a modest local haunting reputation.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Theater
The theatre’s resident ghost is nicknamed George and often associated with usher Richard Duffin, who died in a fire. Workers say the presence interferes with lighting, moves small objects and makes itself known through voices or the smell of smoke.
Helper, Utah · Hotel
The old hotel and former brothel is associated with unexplained sounds and a woman in a period dress. A former resident’s published account adds rattling door handles, a wildflower scent and a smiling figure interpreted as a miner near the basement lockers.
Clearfield, Utah · Other
Campus folklore puts a ball-bouncing girl and a ghostly resident adviser in Dorm E, while Dorm L is said to have an old-fashioned nurse. Former residents also describe hallway shadows, shaking beds and unseen touches in public accounts collected by UtahHauntedHouses.
Cove Fort, Utah · Other
UtahHauntedHouses records a broad local belief that spirits of former inhabitants remain at the nineteenth-century fort. The source gives no specific apparition at the fort itself; its more detailed reader reports concern nearby homes and are not relocated here.
Honeyville, Utah · Hotel
The older main building is the focus of stories about footsteps above empty rooms, closing doors and a shadowy figure on its upper floors. An account submitted in 2025 describes a tap on the shoulder in a shower with nobody visible behind the visitor.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Historic house
A little girl in nineteenth-century dress is said to hum at an upstairs window and play mild tricks on workers. The house’s second reported spirit, an adult woman sometimes called a former housekeeper, is described as fiercely protective and prone to throwing things when displeased.
Escalante, Utah · Natural landmark
A curse legend says removing petrified wood brings misfortune. Rangers receive returned pieces and letters describing injuries, accidents or breakdowns that the writers associate with their souvenirs.
Antelope Island, Utah · Other
Ranch manager Carl Aldrich told Fox 13 he had heard unexplained voices and noticed unusual smells, while avoiding a firm ghost explanation. Visitors reported feeling watched or chased inside. These accounts prompted paranormal groups to investigate the historic ranch buildings.
Park City, Utah · Other
A pale figure is said to watch diners or staff before vanishing when someone approaches. Stories from the former hotel and restaurant also include moving tableware, doors opening by themselves and unexplained footsteps; a former Main Street worker recalls a figure at an upstairs window.
Santaquin, Utah · Other
The restaurant’s signature tale is of chairs mysteriously stacking themselves. Owner accounts also describe disembodied conversations, children’s laughter and a scowling apparition called the Lady in Red. The building retains a haunting reputation after the restaurant’s closure.
Lehi, Utah · Other
Restaurant workers told of a man in nineteenth-century clothing appearing in the dining room. A related staff story describes brown boots and a figure passing through a solid wall near the rear dining area, followed by the disappearance of the apparent visitor.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Hotel
The former Shilo Inn’s stories centre on laughter echoing near its indoor pool and an unattended pinball machine reportedly playing on an upper floor. Retellings link the activity to a family tragedy at the building; the haunting account does not establish that connection.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Other
The fort’s best-known ghost is Clem, a soldier in Civil War-era clothing. Museum ghost-tour coverage describes this resident apparition, while later accounts add footsteps and German-language sounds interpreted by investigators as spirit voices from the former military buildings.
Great Salt Lake, Utah · Natural landmark
A lakeshore legend places the wandering ghost of exiled gravedigger Jean Baptiste on Fremont Island. His disappearance from the island left later storytellers room to imagine a restless return.
Eureka, Utah · Other
A storekeeper described a man and two children haunting her shop. KSL’s investigation included a researcher who felt unwelcome and declined to enter the building.
Ogden Canyon, Utah · Other
Accounts at the lodge describe an adult man disappearing when noticed and children’s voices in apparently empty rooms. Other visitors have reported apparitions and windows or doors closing without a visible person moving them.
Pleasant Grove, Utah · Theater
The theatre’s mischievous presence has been nicknamed Charlie. Stories attributed to its operators include cups thrown hard enough to smash, a sign flying across a room and stored items falling from their rack. The reputation is said to extend back to the 1950s.
Provo, Utah · Other
Library lore describes moaning and sudden temperature extremes in a reading room. A separate story concerns a chair in the Harp Room that supposedly arrived without explanation or a known owner, earning it a ghostly reputation among students and paranormal enthusiasts.