Seven Utah places with a haunted reputation and a public door

Union Station, Ogden

Ogden will still take your museum money at Union Station, and it will still advertise a paranormal tour that does not tell you when.

The city's visit page, at ogdencity.gov, is the clock I would trust until somebody reconciles it. Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed on state and federal holidays. General admission is $7 for adults 18 to 64, $4 for teens 13 to 17, $3 for ages 3 to 12, free under 3, and $5 for seniors 65 and older. Members are free. The phone on that page is (801) 629-8680. The address is 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden, UT 84401.

An older site, theunionstation.org, is still up, and it does not agree. It posts Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Adults are $5, from 18 to 61. Seniors 62 and older are $4. It also prints a family day pass at $15 and a phone, (801) 393-9890. A line for a Hostlers model-railroad show says Friday, March 2, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., and it does not print a year. I am not going to treat that Friday as this year's Friday. Two sites, two clocks, two prices, two phones. The city page is the one that reads like a current operator. The older page is the one that still exists.

The ghost is not on the hours page. It is on Visit Ogden's paranormal list, and in the Deseret News. Visit Ogden says multiple murders were committed in or around the station, and that people report ghostly children, footsteps, objects moving, and spirits walking. It says the station was the site of the Bagley train disaster in 1944, with 48 fatalities. "One woman, believed to have died in the wreckage, is said to roam the halls of the second floor. Several people have claimed to see her, but apparently she will only speak to men." Believed. Said to. Apparently. Ariel Harmer, in the Deseret News on October 25, 2023, walks the same path and cites Visit Ogden for the woman upstairs. Harmer also writes that the first station went up in 1869, that it was rebuilt in 1889 and mostly burned in 1923, and that a railroad clerk was killed by falling debris before the 1924 building. That chain is Deseret's, attributed to the Ogden City Council and Visit Ogden. I did not open a council minute.

The tour page still standing at theunionstation.org/night-at-the-museum/ says professional guides will tell "the haunting history," take you into the underground vaults, and run an investigation, in the dark. Age 14 and up. Bring a camera. It says the tours are co-organized for the Union Station Foundation by the Paranormal Investigations Team of Utah. A haunted market on the same page is "free for all," even if you skip the tour. The page does not print a 2026 date, a price, or a start time. Under the tour text, the page fills with hotel names from Ivins to Snowbird. I am not going to pretend those are part of the station's hours.

Visit: 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden, UT 84401. City phone, (801) 629-8680. The older site still prints (801) 393-9890. ogdencity.gov/1337/Visit. City hours, checked in October 2026: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Adults $7. The older hours page still says Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., adults $5. If you need the door and not the argument, call the city number.

The Bigelow, Ogden

The Bigelow will rent you a ballroom, and a bistro on the corner, and, if the Standard-Examiner is right, one room on the 11th floor. It will not, on the pages I opened, tell you the room is haunted. The newspaper will.

Ryan Aston, in the Standard-Examiner on November 9, 2024, calls it the "Famous 1102," a room at the former Ben Lomond Hotel "that's purported to be haunted," now listed on Airbnb. He writes that the building went up in 1927 on the site of the old Reed Hotel, that it carried the Ben Lomond name from the mid-1930s to 2017, and that it was added to the National Register in 1990. Then two legends, and they are not the same death. One says a well-to-do mother on the 11th floor became despondent after her soldier son, home from the war, died in a train accident, confined herself to the room, and died of malnutrition. The other says a woman drowned in the bathtub of room 1102 on her honeymoon night, and that some versions add an adult son who killed himself in the next room while gathering her things. Purported. According to one legend. Another story claims. Aston does not pick a body.

Cornel Thomas, the venue and events manager, is the person the paper puts on the record. He told Aston that residents and visitors still run into things on the 11th floor they cannot explain. A medium who rented the room reported a presence. Thomas, who "considers himself a skeptic," said the medium asked about a loud noise the day before. A smoke alarm had been chirping and had been taken out for a battery. "I don't know. It's kind of like, I'm not a believer. But at the same time, she had some things to say that were odd." He said she reported that the presence liked the décor in the kitchen and did not like hanging out in the room. He added reports of animals fixed on walls, and dogs barking in corners. HauntedHouses.com, he noted by way of the paper, mentions apparitions. Thomas also said people who are not chasing a scare have missed "staying at the Bigelow Hotel as part of a historic Ogden night," and that the room is there "whether they are believers or not." The room is a booking. It is not a lobby.

Eileen Hallet Stone, in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 28, 2013, has an earlier version of the mother, and the verb changes. Sarah Langsdon, then the Weber State special-collections curator, told Stone the story of a Mrs. Eccles waiting in the hotel for a son to come home from the war. "When Mrs. Eccles learned he was killed in an accident on his way home, she killed herself. It's been said she haunts the hotel by randomly pushing the elevator buttons. People sense her presence by her perfume smell." Killed herself, in 2013. Malnutrition, in 2024. The Tribune spells the curator Langsdon, then, one sentence later, Langdon. Langsdon also told Stone her ex-husband, on night security, saw figures in the halls and felt something grab his leg on the second floor when he insisted the room was empty. In that same story Langsdon calls the Bigelow the only one of Utah's "three grand ladies" still operating as a hotel. That was 2013. The 2024 paper is writing about an events manager and an Airbnb listing. I am not going to call the front desk, because the pages I opened do not sell one.

Visit Ogden's paranormal list adds deaths the two news stories do not put in a named person's mouth. An employee who fell down the elevator shaft. A murder victim. A bride who drowned in a bathtub, and a son in the next room. The bride is close to Aston's second legend. The shaft and the murder are Visit Ogden's list. The bistro site and the venue site do not print any of them.

The door that does not need a room key is Two-Bit Bistro, which calls itself the Bigelow's in-house restaurant, at 2510 Washington Blvd. The block labeled restaurant hours says Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Brunch, on that same block, is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Other lines on the same page do not share the clock. One menu header says Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to close. Another says Saturday from 3 p.m. to close. Another says Saturday from 2 p.m. to close. "Close" is not 8:30 unless you already believe the hours block. The Bigelow venue site, bigelowvenue.com, sells the ballroom and the parlor by the hour and prints (385) 492-0711. It does not print a walk-in hour, and it does not print room 1102.

Visit: 2510 Washington Blvd., Ogden, UT 84401. Bistro, (801) 393-1225. Venue line, (385) 492-0711. twobitbistro.com. The labeled restaurant hours: weekdays 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu headers on that page argue with Sunday and with Saturday's start. The bistro is the door. Room 1102 is a rental.

Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden

The theater will sell you a seat and a $2.50 preservation fee. On the pages I opened, it will not sell you a ghost.

The box office page says the window is south of the main doors, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and that it opens one hour before performances ticketed by the theater. Phone, (801) 689-8700. Address, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, UT 84401. The FAQ says tours go through the box office coordinator at (801) 689-8634. It does not print a tour price or a tour day. The same FAQ says the house has 800 seats on the main floor and two boxes of 15 on what it spells the "mezannine." The homepage says the building opened in 1924, built to look like a courtyard between Egyptian temples. No girl. No scaffolding. No piano.

Anna Burleson, in the Standard-Examiner on April 7, 2017, is where the name shows up. She writes that Standard-Examiner archives put the theater on Ogden haunted-building tours, and on paranormal websites including HauntedHouses.com. "In 2011, Salt Lake Magazine published a haunted Ogden guide wherein it says the ghost of a girl named Allison fell off the theater's scaffolding, died and continues to haunt the halls." Wherein it says. I did not open the 2011 magazine. Burleson does not say the paper confirmed the fall.

Visit Ogden tells the fall without the name. During construction in 1923, a carpenter's daughter brought his lunch and played on the site, fell from the scaffolding, and died. "There have been several reports of her ghost being seen in the back of the theater, playing the piano, and turning off the lights." Reports of. Visit Ogden does not print Allison. The Standard-Examiner does not print a piano or a lunch pail. I am not going to decide that the magazine's Allison and the tourism page's carpenter's daughter are the same child. The theater's own site, checked in October 2026, uses neither.

Visit: 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, UT 84401. (801) 689-8700. Tour questions, (801) 689-8634. ogdenpet.com/about/box-office. Box office: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and one hour before a performance the theater itself tickets. That is the public door. The ghost is not on it.

Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City

The county will tell you the Orpheum opened in 1913, and that Ballet West and Utah Opera live there now. It will not, on the page I opened, mention a fire or a ghost.

The venue page calls it the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, at 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. The ticket office opens 90 minutes before showtime and closes 30 minutes after the show starts. ArtTix windows at the theater are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with longer hours on show days. Tickets by phone are (801) 355-2787. The general line is (385) 468-1010. You can walk up to the ArtTix window on a weekday without holding a ticket for that night. The page does not promise you the basement.

Scott D. Pierce, in the Salt Lake Tribune on August 21, 2012, is the account that names the dead. He wrote up a "Paranormal Witness" episode built on sheriff's deputies and theater staff. Dave Murphy, a Salt Lake County sheriff's deputy who had worked security in the building, told Pierce he had thought the stories were "a load of crap" until he "saw dark shadows moving through walls." He described doors slamming hard enough to vibrate windows when he was alone, and "a woman dressed in early 1900s clothes" who walked past him in the control room. He also described an "attack" by the black shadows. "It felt just like I got a punch in the chest. Literally, I could not talk." Those are Murphy's words, as Pierce reports them. They are not a finding.

Blair Fuller, then administrative and fiscal manager of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts, told Pierce about a night in 1997 when the elevator ran on its own and overhead file doors swung open a few inches and slammed. "In my experience, it's almost like a teenager trying to get some attention," Fuller said. Pierce writes that a 17-year-old usher was killed in a fire at the theater in 1947, and that Fuller suspects it might be his ghost. The county page I opened does not print the fire, the year, or the usher's name. Pierce does not print the name either. Producer Mark Lewis, in the same story, tells patrons to stay away from the men's room on the third floor, the basement, and the elevator. That is his advice for a television piece. It is not a house rule on the county site. The Tribune's box at the bottom still calls the place the Capitol Theatre, built in 1912-13 as an Orpheum, remodeled as a movie house in 1929, bought by the county in 1976. The county page says it opened in 1913. I am not going to shave a year off a fire I did not see in a fire report.

Visit: 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. ArtTix, (801) 355-2787. General, (385) 468-1010. saltlakecountyarts.org/venues/capitol-theatre. ArtTix at this building: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Show nights, the ticket office is 90 minutes before curtain until 30 minutes after the start. The window is the door that does not ask for a seat.

Utah Military Museum at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City

The museum will tell you, in October 2026, that it is temporarily closed. It will not tell you about Clem. A student newspaper did, and it quoted the staff.

The Utah National Guard page for the Utah Military Museum at Historic Fort Douglas says the museum "will be temporarily closed from July 29th to November 14th." It does not print a year. Under hours, the same page says "Temporarily Closed." It also says admission is free. The address is 32 Potter Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84113. The phone is (801) 581-1251. October 4, 2026, the day this was checked, sits between July 29 and November 14. If that notice is for this year, the door is shut this month. If the notice is a leftover, the page still answers "Temporarily Closed" when you look for hours. It does not print the clock it will use after November 14.

The Daily Utah Chronicle, on October 30, 2014, names the ghost the museum page skips. Su Richards, identified as a staff member at the Fort Douglas Military Museum, said the ghosts had been there at least two decades, and that Clem, "the spirit of a solider from the Civil War," had a 20-year history at the museum. The Chronicle's spelling is solider. Richards said the name came from a Boy Scout troop that spent the night and claimed to feel his breath, hear footsteps, and see objects move. "These aren't Halloween ghosts — they are here all year long," she said. "They don't cause problems." She also said she had never seen them. "I neither believe or disbelieve. I've never seen a ghost, but when someone reports seeing or hearing things, I don't argue." Liz Rogers, an archivist at the Marriott Library, not a museum employee, told the Chronicle the basement is "completely haunted," and that footsteps upstairs are not unusual if you are down there. Rogers is offering a place to go. Richards is saying the staff do not argue with the people who say they heard something. Neither of them is a lab result, and the Chronicle is twelve years older than the closure notice.

The history on the museum page is the fort, not Clem. Camp Douglas in 1862, barracks in 1874 and 1875, a museum opened to the public in 1976, buildings 31 and 32. The page says the Army Reserve was expected to finish a move to Camp Williams by spring 2026, and that the historic property would then go to the University of Utah. Spring 2026 had passed when this was checked. The page does not say whether that transfer is done. It does say the museum is temporarily closed.

Visit: 32 Potter Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84113. (801) 581-1251. guard.utah.gov/fort-douglas. Hours, as posted in October 2026: temporarily closed, July 29 to November 14, with no year on the notice. Admission, when the page is selling a visit at all, is listed as free. Call before you treat November 15 as an open door. The page does not print one.

Camp Floyd State Park Museum, Fairfield

The park will ask you if Camp Floyd is haunted. It will charge you to help look. It will not tell you that anyone found a ghost.

The event listing, still up for October 2026, opens with the question. "Is Camp Floyd haunted?" The public is invited to a paranormal investigation. "Because of the popularity of this program, four sessions will be conducted this year with each date limited to 40 participants." People are told to look at the museums in daylight beginning at 6 p.m., then investigate from 7 to 9. Bring your own flashlight, recorder, or camera. Staff will help you use the gear "in finding paranormal orbs, mists and sounds." At the end you can show what you gathered. Admission on that listing is $10 a person, reservations required. Finding, in that sentence, is the activity. It is not a result.

The same venue page does not stop at four dates. When this was checked it listed Ghosts of Camp Floyd on October 3, October 9, October 10, October 17, October 24, and October 31, each from 7 to 9 p.m. October 24 is printed twice. Six nights, and a sentence that says four sessions. The 6 p.m. museum look is its own problem. The park pages I opened close the place at 5 p.m.

Those hours do not quite agree with each other either. The park page and the fees page say Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. The 2026 brochure PDF says 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday from Labor Day to Memorial Day, and Monday through Sunday from Memorial Day to Labor Day, closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. October is the Monday-through-Saturday season on both. A summer Sunday is the brochure's promise and not the live page's. Day-use fees on the fees page are $3 a person and $10 a family. A separate event fee on that page is $5 a person and $15 a family. The ghost listing says $10 a person. Three prices, depending on which box you read.

The address is the part I would not guess. The 2026 brochure says the park is in Fairfield, 22 miles southwest of Lehi on State Route 73, and it prints 69 West Main St., Fairfield, UT 84013. The park's own page says the Army, the pioneers, stagecoach travelers, and the Pony Express met "at Camp Floyd and the town of Fairfield," and the map pin on that page is a Fairfield coordinate. The event venue widget prints "69 W Main St, Wallsburg." Wallsburg is not Fairfield. I am not going to send you to Wallsburg because a calendar widget filled in the wrong town. Phone, on the park page and the brochure, (801) 768-8932. The brochure also says to call that number to rent the Fairfield schoolhouse. The schoolhouse, the brochure says, is open for viewing at special events, not on the ordinary museum clock.

The park page itself does not tell a ghost story. It tells the Army post of 1858, three years, then the Civil War, and three structures plus a cemetery. The haunting, on the pages I opened, is the state's question and the state's invitation to go look.

Visit: 69 West Main St., Fairfield, UT 84013, as the 2026 brochure prints it. The event widget prints Wallsburg at the same street number. (801) 768-8932. stateparks.utah.gov/parks/camp-floyd. Website hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The brochure adds Sundays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Ghost listings in October 2026 run 7 to 9 p.m. and tell you to see the museums from 6, which is after the posted close. Day use is $3 a person on the fees page. The ghost listing says $10. Reserve before you treat a 7 p.m. slot as a plan. The listing says the nights are capped.

Old Main, Southern Utah University, Cedar City

SUU will still put Virginia Loomis on the Old Main steps at midnight. The 2026 listing calls her a legend, and then an alleged arsonist.

The event page for "See the Ghost of Virginia" is Friday, October 23, 2026, 10:30 p.m., through 12 a.m. on Saturday, October 24. It is filed under student clubs. The audience line says current students. The first 300 students get a sticker. The copy also says "Come for campus ghost tours." Students, in the audience field. Tours, in the sentence. The place is Old Main, S 300 W, Cedar City, UT 84720. The university's main contact line, on the same family's pages, is 351 W University Blvd., and (435) 586-7700. Two addresses. I am not going to collapse them.

The listing's story is labeled. "Legend states that Virginia has haunted the Old Main building on campus since it was built in 1898." Murdered by a boyfriend in a quarry east of Cedar City. Body "draped over a rock covered by her own blood." That rock, "coincidentally," became bricks, and "according to folklore" her spirit was tied to the building. "Virginia is said to roam the top floor of Old Main and in 1948 became an alleged arsonist when Old Main burnt to the ground in 1948." Said to. Alleged. The sentence burns the building and keeps her on the top floor of the building you are invited to stand in front of.

A university blog from October 25, 2016, tells the same plot with a name and a diary. Abigail Wyatt's post says Dr. Jeorde Speare, a University of Utah parapsychologist, was hired in 1948, that his diary describes the killer Steven Farr returning as a janitor, and that a furnace door shut on Farr's arm so he burned with the building. "Some witnesses claimed to have seen Virginia laughing in the flames." The post says Speare found a skeleton, and that a blood-tainted brick is in special collections if you ask. The page now carries a warning that the article is more than three years old and "its accuracy cannot be guaranteed." The 2026 listing does not mention Speare, Farr, or the brick.

Carter Williams, on KSL on October 30, 2021, says the lore is famous enough that SUU wrote about it, and then he pulls the thread. "For what it's worth, there aren't really any newspaper or other records from the past that really collaborate this story as told — although a bloody brick remains in the university's special collections." Collaborate is his verb. He traces the telling at least to a 1986 student newspaper article. I did not open that 1986 paper. Tallon Taylor, in SUU News on October 25, 2024, describes the ritual as a show. On October 18 that year, Jared Wilcken, an academic advisor, told the story on the steps, with flashing lights and sound effects, and then "a figure in a white dress with long, dark hair appeared in the windows." The figure moved to the other end of the building and vanished when the lights cut. Taylor writes that Virginia's ghost "haunts Old Main to this day" and also describes the white dress as part of the program. I am not going to call a staged window a sighting.

The place page for Old Main, in a note dated July 3, 2023, calls it "a light orange brick building, and the first original building on campus." Original, in 2023. Burnt to the ground in 1948, on the 2026 ghost listing. Special Collections, in the Sherratt Library, room 005, says it is free and open to the public, and the contact line prints 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It does not print the days. The phone there is (435) 586-7945. That page does not mention a brick. The 2016 blog does, under a staleness warning. Old Main's own pages do not print a weekday hour for walking into the building. The quad is not a ticket window. The midnight event, as posted, is for students.

Visit: Old Main, S 300 W, Cedar City, UT 84720, as the events page prints it. The university footer prints 351 W University Blvd., Cedar City, UT 84720. (435) 586-7700. Special Collections, (435) 586-7945. events.suu.edu/om. No daily public hour is posted for the building. The next "See the Ghost of Virginia" listing I found is October 23, 2026, 10:30 p.m., aimed at current students. Special Collections prints 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and does not say which days. If you need the brick and not the legend, ask. The current event page does not promise it.

How to use this

Start with the door that matches the week you are actually having. Ogden's city page will let you into Union Station Wednesday through Saturday, 11 to 4, at $7, on (801) 629-8680. The older station site still says Monday through Saturday, 10 to 5, at $5, on a different phone. Visit Ogden says a woman from the 1944 wreck walks the second floor and speaks only to men. Deseret, on October 25, 2023, repeats her and the count of 48. The tour page still says dark halls, age 14, and the Paranormal Investigations Team of Utah, and it does not say when or what it costs. The Bigelow's public door is Two-Bit, not room 1102. The labeled hours run to 8:30 p.m. except Sunday, which that block ends at 2. Other lines on the same page leave Saturday and Sunday at "close." Aston, on November 9, 2024, has a honeymoon drowning in 1102 and a mother dead of malnutrition. Stone, on December 28, 2013, has Mrs. Eccles dead by suicide, perfume, and elevator buttons, and a curator who still called the place a working hotel. Thomas told the Standard-Examiner he is not a believer and then repeated the medium. The Egyptian box office is open weekdays 10 to 6 and an hour before the theater's own shows. Burleson, in 2017, points at a Salt Lake Magazine girl named Allison. Visit Ogden points at a carpenter's daughter in 1923 and does not use the name. The county will let you up to the Capitol Theatre ArtTix window weekdays 10 to 6 and Saturdays 10 to 2. Pierce, on August 21, 2012, has Murphy's woman in old clothes and a blow to the chest, Fuller's elevator, and a 17-year-old usher killed in a 1947 fire that the county page does not mention. Fort Douglas, on the Guard's page in October 2026, is temporarily closed from July 29 to November 14, with no year and no reopening clock. The Chronicle, in 2014, has Richards on Clem, a ghost she had not seen and would not argue about. Camp Floyd is open Monday through Saturday, 9 to 5, at 69 West Main in Fairfield if you believe the brochure and not the widget that says Wallsburg. The ghost nights in October 2026 are listed six times under a sentence that says four sessions, at $10, while the fees page has other prices, and the listing tells you to tour the museums at 6 p.m. after the park says it closes at 5. The park never says it found anything. Old Main's midnight listing on October 23, 2026, is for students. The page says legend, folklore, and an alleged arson in 1948. KSL, in 2021, says the records do not really collaborate the story, and that a bloody brick is in special collections. SUU News, in 2024, describes lights and a white dress in the windows as the program. The place page still calls the building the first original one on campus. The Commons caption puts that building on the right of the frame.

If a guide adds a ghost this research did not find on the venue's site or in the news pieces cited below, enjoy it as a story and leave it there.

These seven doors are not in one town. Compact binoculars and a Utah road atlas are the practical extras if you are driving between them.