Utah
The Purple Lady of the Rio Grande Depot — Salt Lake City, UT
In Salt Lake City, the Rio Grande Depot does not merely stand; it broods. Opened in 1910 as the grand station of…
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Rocky Mountain Ghost Stories
The Rocky Mountain States are west of the Pacific Coast States. There are six Rocky Mountain States. Clockwise, they are Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
Stories from Rocky Mountain Ghost Stories
Utah
Jean Baptiste, the Grave Robber of Salt Lake City Cemetery — Salt Lake City, UT
In 1862, Salt Lake City Cemetery lay on the high bench above the growing settlement, where the valley rose toward the mountains…
Utah
The Restless Voices of Mountain Meadows — Enterprise, UT
Mountain Meadows lies high in the southwestern reaches of Utah, a long valley lifted into the thin, watchful air of the plateau…
Wyoming
The Unquiet Cells of Wyoming Frontier Prison — Rawlins, WY
In Rawlins, Wyoming, where the wind comes down hard and clean across the high plains, the old prison stands with the patience…
Colorado
Annabelle Stark Still Watches St. Elmo — St. Elmo, CO
High in Chaffee County, where the mountains rise with the stern patience of old witnesses, there is a place that seems less…
Montana
The Girl in the Window of Hotel Meade — Bannack, MT
Bannack had the look of a place that had been told to stand still and had obeyed too well. The street lay…
Wyoming
The Green Lady Who Keeps Watch at Old Bedlam — Fort Laramie, WY
The wind had a way of arriving in Fort Laramie before anything else. Before the sun cleared the cottonwoods, before the first…
Montana
The Bell That Rings for No Guest — Terry, MT
There are towns that sleep when the sun goes down, and then there are towns that only pretend to. Terry, Montana, lies…
Idaho
Footsteps in the Empty Halls of Albion Normal School — Albion, ID
By daylight, the old Albion State Normal School looked like something that had been left behind by mistake. Not abandoned, exactly. Albion…
Nevada
The Widow in the Washoe Valley Mansion — Washoe Valley, NV
By daylight, Bowers Mansion looks almost reasonable. That is the first trick it plays. It sits there in Washoe Valley with its…
Idaho
The Phantom Guests of the Enders Hotel — Soda Springs, ID
In Soda Springs, Idaho, the earth has never learned to keep quiet. It mutters under the streets and sighs in the cellars.…
Nevada
Footsteps in the Desert Courtroom — Belmont, NV
Belmont, Nevada, did not die all at once. It dwindled. That was worse, somehow. A town that burns leaves ash and black…