salt lake city

Reading Time: 6 minutes Urban legends tend to be typically harmless rituals that people perform for a thrill or a challenge. Every now and then, however, there are legends that make a person’s life…

Reading Time: 10 minutes A 97-Year-Old Mystery It had all the makings of a made for TV movie. On a stormy October night in 1920, Francis Korous, a 40-year old nurse from Salt Lake City boarded…

Reading Time: 1 minute This weeks’ Posthumous Profile is a really short one, but I love headstones with photographs and couldn’t resist. Anna Dodas was born in Kranidi, Greece on July 15th, 1895. In…

Reading Time: 3 minutes I stumbled upon this grave in the Salt Lake City Cemetery over the weekend while looking for someone else’s final resting place. One of my favorite things when wandering around…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Legend: If you circle the Moritz Mausoleum three times while chanting “Emo, Emo, Emo” and then look into the mausoleum you’ll see the red glowing eyes of “Emo” staring…

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Legend: Jean Baptiste’s ghost is said to walk the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake. The History: The story of Jean Baptiste is one of the most intriguing Utah legends,…