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Historic haunted places in Salt Lake City, UT. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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Founded in 1883 and named for the Alta mining district, the club is tied to a fire said to have started when a guest fell asleep on the third floor holding a lit cigar; he was the …
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This historic Army post above Salt Lake City is said to be haunted by a Civil War-era soldier known as Clem. People report feeling his breath on the backs of their necks, and some …
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Built in 1910 for the Rio Grande Western Railroad, the depot is best known for the 'Purple Lady,' said to be a woman struck by a train after she chased an engagement ring her fianc…
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Opened in 1894 as the seat of city and county government, the building is said to hold at least five ghosts, including two children believed to have died there and their grieving m…
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The industrial chapter is the Portland Cement Works, in Grimm Ghost Tours' own description "built in the late 1800s, in the heart of industrial Salt Lake City," where manufacturing "required the use of boiling liquid and heavy machinery powered by the grinding of giant gears" and "the margin for error was small." Salt Lake Magazine's account of the site, now the haunted attraction Fear Factory, gives the human record behind that summary. In 1903, worker Frank Holmes was pulled into a revolving shaft, limb by limb, until a coworker shut off the machine; Holmes lost an arm and broke his leg and jaw before succumbing to his injuries — an incident the magazine illustrates with a Salt Lake Herald clipping dated July 31, 1903. A few years earlier, 35-year-old George Howe was descending a ladder when his sleeve caught in a coal crusher; his arm was torn from his body and he fell onto the coal tower, where his body was later found. A separate county roundup collected in search puts the factory's operating span at 1890 to 1988, with multiple accidents and at least 11 on-site deaths across those years. Salt Lake Magazine records that tragic accidents continued until the factory closed, and that deaths were reported at the abandoned site afterwards as well. Fear Factory's management bought the building in 2010, on that roundup's account, and the attraction opened in 2011 on the Fear Factory record carried by HauntWorld — six buildings, up to six stories high, with two underground tunnel passages, on the site at 666 W 800 S.
The civic chapter is downtown. The Rio Grande Depot, built in 1910, is described by US Ghost Adventures' Salt Lake City list as now housing the State Historical Office, the Utah Historical Research Center, the Rio Grande Gallery and the Rio Grande Cafe. The Salt Lake City and County Building, on the same list's account, has stood since its construction in 1894 and is called the finest example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Utah. Grimm Ghost Tours' Old Town route strings those buildings together with Washington Square and the Salt Lake City Cemetery, which the operator describes as the largest municipal cemetery in the United States, holding the graves of Porter Rockwell, Jack Slade and the Sundance Kid on its cemetery tour's account. East of downtown, Fort Douglas was established in 1862, per Salt Lake Magazine, and its cemetery and museum form another of the city's documented stops.
Against that ground, the city's haunt industry is itself now decades old. Nightmare on 13th states on its own site that it is Utah's longest-running indoor haunted attraction, with over 35 years of operation; its history, carried by Haunts.com, is that it started out in 1990 as The Institute of Terror Haunted House and grew into a 36,000-square-foot attraction. Its own site records tickets on sale for its 36th season in 2026.
This section is folklore — reported by the magazine, the tour operators and the haunted-place accounts cited, and never asserted as fact here.
Fear Factory is the one Salt Lake attraction whose reported haunting is investigated, on the record, by another business. Salt Lake Magazine reports that Sarah Jamieson, owner of Grimm Ghost Tours, leads monthly paranormal investigations of the Portland Cement Factory site: "There's so much activity there, we haven't had a single night where some event doesn't occur." Her team, the magazine reports, has recorded electronic voice phenomena of voices warning them to "get out," heard rattling chains scraping across catwalks, and become familiar with a playful entity in the underground tunnels; in the tunnels, the spirit of George Howe is said to reach out to investigators with a phantom brush or a playful ankle grab — "He's a very touchy-feely entity," Jamieson is quoted as laughing. The magazine also reports shadows pacing the factory catwalk, sudden illnesses experienced by women inside the so-called "hell" silo, and a 2014 visit by the Ghost Adventures team, whose investigation recorded loud bangs, dark laughter and bright floating anomalies. Fear Factory's own management, on the county roundup's account, reported hearing odd noises and disembodied voices and feeling watched after buying the building in 2010. All of that is reported experience, carried here as such; the documented record underneath it is the factory's accident history set out above.
The Rio Grande Depot's Purple Lady is the city's best-known single ghost, and she is a legend in the strict sense. As US Ghost Adventures' list tells it, a woman and her fiancé argued at the depot, her engagement ring was thrown onto the tracks, and she climbed down to retrieve it as a train pulled in and was killed; she is since said to wander the depot, with faucets turning on and off in the women's restroom, flickering lights, disembodied footsteps in the lobby and basement alarms among the reported phenomena. The Utah Review's account of a Grimm tour tells the same story — a woman struck and killed by a train while trying to reclaim a ring her fiancé had tossed on the tracks, said to walk the depot's halls in vibrant purple, appearing in the ladies' restroom mirrors and at windows. A sceptical check is part of the collected record and is kept with the legend here: HauntedUS's account notes that recent research suggests the Purple Lady story may have come from an imaginative tour guide in the 1980s rather than from an actual death.
Grimm's other repertoire is published by the operator itself, in deliberately open terms. Its Old Town tour visits a bride who roams looking for her lost husband — "Try to summon her yourself to see if she comes out!" — and a City and County Building that is "home to a few lost spirits"; its cemetery tour promises the real story of grave robber Jean Baptiste and the legend behind Emo's Grave. Salt Lake Magazine adds, from its Fort Douglas account, that Grimm's guides have interacted with Col. Patrick E. Connor through spirit boxes and dowsing rods at Fort Douglas. Nightmare on 13th, by contrast, publishes no lore about its own building at all: nothing in the material collected attributes a haunting to its site, and its story below says so plainly rather than inventing one.
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