<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>ghosts Archives - The Utah Statesman</title> <atom:link href="https://usustatesman.com/tag/ghosts/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://usustatesman.com/tag/ghosts/</link> <description>USU's Student Newspaper</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:34:18 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <image> <url>https://usustatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-screen-shot-2017-10-19-at-4.33.29-pm-32x32.png</url> <title>ghosts Archives - The Utah Statesman</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/tag/ghosts/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>The haunted past of Logan</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/the-haunted-past-of-logan/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[LeiLoni De Pew]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ghost Tours Logan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ghosts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category> <category><![CDATA[haunted]]></category> <category><![CDATA[historical downtown Logan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Logan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[super natural]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://usustatesman.com/?p=22121807</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Laughter comes from an empty room. The lights flicker. Something falls. A child runs through the hall, then disappears into…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/the-haunted-past-of-logan/">The haunted past of Logan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1">Laughter comes from an empty room. The lights flicker. Something falls. A child runs through the hall, then disappears into thin air. Stories such as these, those of spirits trapped on Earth, are often shared throughout the month of October. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">One group of passionate storytellers has taken it upon themselves to join in this effort of sharing stories of the great beyond. Members of the Bridgerland Chapter of the Utah Storytelling Guild come together each year in Logan, to share bone-chilling tales of suicide, murder and tragic accidents that have supposedly left the spirits of those involved to dwell on Earth. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">Ted Erekson, a professional storyteller and member of the guild, said they share different stories each year, though the story of Everett, who is a permanent resident of the Caine Lyric Theatre, tends to be told year after year. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">The story, as Erekson tells it, goes like this: a man named Everett was cast to play the second gravedigger in Hamlet. Everett wanted to make the best of the role, and got all the laughs, even though he did not have any lines. The actor playing the first gravedigger was jealous and murdered Everett one night after performing at the theatre. Many since have reported out of the ordinary experiences, such as hearing laughter when they messed up lines, seeing someone walking on the catwalk, or even seeing blood stains on the stage. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">Erekson shared that a small fire once started backstage during a performance, and the audience and actors say they saw a young man run across the stage in Shakespearean garments, put out the fire, then disappear. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">Erich Olschewski, who was house managing at the Caine Lyric Theatre during the tours on Oct. 14, shared that he experienced the lights in the basement flicker on and off without explanation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">For those scared of ghosts, don’t worry “The ghosts here, at least as far as we can tell, are harmless,” Erekson said.</p> <p class="p2">Other stories told this year include the haunted tree cursed by a supposed witch, a young boy named Scoot who haunts the area around the Crepery, and the ghost currently haunting the location that used to house the Thatcher Opera House. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">DeAnn Johnson, an assistant with the ghost tours, said that while some of the stories may seem hard to believe, they are all documented and based on facts. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">“Part of the folklore and the storytelling is the ‘is it real or is it made up?’ but every story is based on facts,” Johnson said. “Something people have shared. It may have been from a family member passed down through four generations. Like Everett here. We’ve got the playbill. We’ve gotten notes from the actors that were with him, so they’ve been able to document that something really did happen.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">Those interested in hearing these stories for themselves can attend a ghost tour any Friday or Saturday evening throughout the month of October. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2">Visit logandowntown.org/ghost-tour.html for more information or to buy tickets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/the-haunted-past-of-logan/">The haunted past of Logan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Logan hosts annual historic ghost tours</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/logan-hosts-annual-historic-ghost-tours/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brielle Carr]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Ward]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Sidwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[downtown Logan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ghosts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historic ghost tour]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lauren Shanley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leah Atkins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Logan Downtown Alliance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://usustatesman.com/?p=22116348</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Every Friday and Saturday night in October, the Logan Downtown Alliance holds ghost tours in Logan. David Sidwell, a local…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/logan-hosts-annual-historic-ghost-tours/">Logan hosts annual historic ghost tours</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every Friday and Saturday night in October, the Logan Downtown Alliance holds ghost tours in Logan.</p> <p>David Sidwell, a local drama director, teamed up with the alliance to bring to light infamous stories of ghosts and spirits in the community. The alliance said they work to preserve the commerce of Logan and strengthen businesses.</p> <p>The tour is a family-friendly event and usually runs about two hours. The tour begins at the Bullen Center Carousel Ballroom, located at 43rd S. Main Street, or the Caine Lyric Theater on 28th W. Center Street depending on the night, and the tour guides lead the participants from there.</p> <p>Lauren Shanley is a tour guide — or storyteller as they like to say — and has been since the tours opened. Shanley told the story of George W. Lindquist who, in 1913, was operating an embalming parlor and funeral service in the basement of a building that we now know as Stacked, a pancake restaurant on Main Street.</p> <p>When Lindquist was out of town, his daughter, Paula, would run the funeral service in his stead.</p> <p>“She was a kind woman. Little. Small,” Shanley said. “She loved the dead as much as she loved the living.”</p> <p>While embalming a body on her own for the first time, Paula saw a large black cat with one white paw and a splash of white on its tail just outside the basement window.</p> <p>Paula let the cat in and — with a combination of hissing, scratching and purring — the cat lead Paula through the embalming process.</p> <p>Many years later, Paula died and the large black cat with a white paw, who they named Anubis, passed away shortly after in the basement. Shanley explained that people still say they can hear the scratching and hissing of Anubis, while others have seen the ghost of the cat stalking around downtown Logan.</p> <p>Stacked is not the only building on Main Street where paranormal activity has lingered. A ghost named Emma roams the Ellen Eccles Theatre.</p> <p>Emma was an actress in her family act known as the Mighty Millers. This was a time, in the mid 1920s, when traveling vaudeville shows were the most popular form of entertainment.</p> <p>The Mighty Millers were known to put on a great show, but eight-year-old Emma could never get her one line right. As the story goes, one evening after messing up her line once again, Emma made a pact with herself that it would be the last time she was going to mess up that line.</p> <p>The theater her family traveled to next was the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan. It was a chilly day in Logan and therefore Emma decided to practice her line in the warm and cozy boiler room.</p> <p>The door slammed. Someone or something locked the door. Gas hissed into the room. No one could hear Emma’s cries. No one could hear her banging on the door. Her family found her lifeless the next day.</p> <p>Ben Dawson, the facilities manager at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, has heard of the spine-chilling stories of little Emma haunting the theater.</p> <p>“I’ve heard of multiple sightings of Emma, how she likes to play and have fun here,” Dawson said. “How she’ll watch people perform, and sometimes she’ll dance on stage”.</p> <p>Dawson is not the only one who believes in spirits. Shanley has also experienced what it’s like to be in the presence of a spirit.</p> <p>“I’ve seen them,” Shanley said. “They’re all around us. So, the question is whether or not you’re aware enough to see them.”</p> <p>Another local storyteller, Leah Atkins, has been doing the tours since they started in 2012 and this year told the story of another performer who died in a fire.</p> <p>Atkins has experienced her fair share of paranormal events as well and believes in ghosts.</p> <p>“My whole life I’ve had experiences,” Atkins said, “I’ve lived in several haunted houses. With ghost tours, three years ago, I was telling over in the bottom of the old First Security Bank Building. Afterwards, we were doing a paranormal investigation in the J.R. Edwards Building. And with the paranormal investigation they have divining rods. And they asked, ‘Did anyone bring someone with them?’ And every divining rod in the room went straight to me, and I moved, and they moved with me.”</p> <p>Despite the pandemic, the tours have been able to continue. The Logan Downtown Alliance said that due to the pandemic they had to reduce the size of the tour groups and increase the size of their venue locations.</p> <p>Andrew Ward, a student at Utah State University, attended the ghost tour during the third weekend they opened. Ward said the tour captured his interest and the locations were really cool.</p> <p>“It was eerie and intriguing all around,” Ward said. “I would definitely do it again, maybe even this year.”</p> <p> </p> <p>-Brielle.Carr@usu.edu</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/logan-hosts-annual-historic-ghost-tours/">Logan hosts annual historic ghost tours</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Ghosting is not the answer, literally</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/ghosting-is-not-the-answer-literally/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Bell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:41:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ghosting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ghosts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Bell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[no]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rejection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social etiquette]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22005017</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The art of rejection has always been a difficult and uncomfortable one, but an absolutely necessary part of human interaction.…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/ghosting-is-not-the-answer-literally/">Ghosting is not the answer, literally</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The art of rejection has always been a difficult and uncomfortable one, but an absolutely necessary part of human interaction. Ghosting is the term given to a new and atrocious form of rejection, in which you simply ignore an individual asking something of you. You treat them as a ghost. </p> <p> To be clear, ghosting is not only seen in dating, although it is certainly popular in that realm. It can be experienced any time that one person requests something of another. In it’s mildest forms, friends can even ghost by acknowledge plans you try to make with them, but never committing fully. That way when they back out they can claim that they never said they were coming. </p> <p> Its application in dating, however, can be related to every other instance. When we examine dating in its most primal form, it is a very simple process. One person encounters a person with whom they think they may be compatible. They then work up the courage to express that idea to the other human and, assuming that that idea is well-received, the two spend time together to mutually decide if they are in fact a good fit. We have built and abide by a set of rules in this process we generally refer to as “the game.” The game dictates the proper behavior during every step of the way. The proper way to express your interest, how long you have to wait until you contact the person afterward, the after-date texts you must send and when you send them, the exact amount of forward and not caring, and so on. In all that hubbub, saying no has turned taboo. </p> <p> When all the games and cultural rules of dating are stripped away, saying no is just one person saying to the other that they don’t feel the compatibility. It is not a failure. It does not mean that one person is of less value than the other. It could even be said that it is a good thing. Both people in the party can move on their way to finding something that will work better for each. </p> <p>This same idea is applicable in any instance. Simply saying “no” when a request is not something you want to do diffuses the situation and adds clarity for everyone. The only thing you communicate when you ghost is that you can’t communicate effectively. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/ghosting-is-not-the-answer-literally/">Ghosting is not the answer, literally</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Haunted history surrounds Utah State campus</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/haunted-history-surrounds-utah-state-campus/</link> <comments>https://usustatesman.com/haunted-history-surrounds-utah-state-campus/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:31:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ghost stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ghosts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Logan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Logan Canyon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the nunnery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Weeping Woman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USU campus]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=1132</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>On a campus haunted by history, students don’t have to look far for ghost stories steeped in Utah State University…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/haunted-history-surrounds-utah-state-campus/">Haunted history surrounds Utah State campus</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a campus haunted by history, students don’t have to look far for ghost stories steeped in Utah State University tradition.</p> <p><b>House Ghosts</b></p> <p>The Kappa Delta sorority may house more than just the living. Lights flickering, doors slamming and items moving on their own have all been attributed to the house ghost, Patty. </p> <p>“She just likes to mess with people, but it’s always ‘don’t be stupid’ kind of stuff,” said Kasidie Hill, a Kappa Delta member and junior in family and consumer science. “Like if anyone is gossiping, like being snotty, that’s when the lights start to flicker. If anyone is rolling their eyes during meetings, that’s when the light start to go off. She just likes to keep us in line and make sure everyone follows the rules.”</p> <p>How Patty died and came to haunt the house are unclear, Hill said, though it’s believed she didn’t die in the house. Rather, residents of room 13 have shared the same dream of a girl in a white dress trying to enter the house.</p> <p>“Everyone in room 13 thus far, at least one girl a year, has had this dream where this girl in all white is just coming,” Hill said. “Like standing on the tree branch outside, trying to get into the window. It’s not a scary dream, like nobody wakes up scared; it’s just she’s always trying to get into the house.”</p> <p>Believed to be a benevolent ghost, Patty is known to wander the house at night, often checking on the girls. </p> <p>“Both of my roommates will go to sleep around midnight, and I’ll come home around one,” Hill said. “I will close the door, push hard because with our door you push really hard to close it. I’ll walk around my bed, put my pajamas on, the door will open. It’s always creepy when it opens because it opens real slow. And I’m like, ‘Patty! Get out!” and she will slam the door.”</p> <p>The supernatural fun isn’t reserved exclusively for girls. The Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity house has their tale of the Eternal Brother, John Levi Liechty. According to a special collection document authored by former Phi Kappa Alpha member, Ernest Cooper, Liechty died in a car accident outside the fraternity house. In the document, Cooper wrote of his own experience when he was about to sleep through his final exam, but awoke to what he thought was someone singing in his room. Cooper believed it was Leitchy, because the singing stopped when he woke to find the room empty.</p> <p>Whether or not actual ghosts reside in USU sorority or fraternity houses, the stories tie students together, said Randy Williams, curator of Fife Folklore Archives.</p> <p>“That’s the beauty of folk culture,” Williams said. “We shape and we utilize legends and stories to help us culturally understand the world around us. People come back and told them about these stories to create connections over time.”</p> <p><b>Campus Ghosts</b></p> <p>Organ music drifting from inside Old Main or piano music echoing through the Caine Performance Hall may indicate the presence of two musicians still practicing for performances that will never be. </p> <p>Thurza Little, a talent pianist, would often play “Rhapsody in Blue” on the grand piano in the college auditorium. However, a USU special collections report, “The Local Legends of Logan, Utah,” tells how Little died of a rare, unnamed disease before graduating. Still, “Rhapsody in Blue” has been heard playing in the performance hall when no one is there.</p> <p>“People reported that they will hear piano music in the middle of the night, coming from the performance hall,” said Lynne McNeill, a folklore instructor and faculty adviser of the USU folklore society. “Still playing, still practicing for the graduation that she will never get to have.”</p> <p>A similar story describes a woman, her name unknown, destined to play the organ at the senior prom, according to “The Legends of Logan, Utah.” According to the special collections report, the unnamed woman would practice in the Old Main bell tower. Though she never performed her piece while alive, organ music can be heard coming from Old Main on graduation night.</p> <p>Campus ghost stories do more than make students reluctant to look at Old Main at night, McNiell said. Hidden in the stories is the fear of not progressing beyond college.</p> <p>“The college experience is meant to be one step on a path to somewhere else,” McNeill said. “This is meant to be a time of learning and growth and evolving and growing up and getting educated, and they you move on from this and you are prepared for whatever’s next. I think in a lot of campus ghost stories you see the fear of not being able to move on. Of being trapped in a limbo of almost adulthood.”</p> <p><b>The Weeping Woman</b></p> <p>It began on March 22, 1889. Julia Emelia Cronquist’s twin boys, Olif and Oliver, died the same night. Five years later, another child died, Lilean, who was only an infant. Seven years later, two more children died. Cronquist, unable to cope with the deaths of her children, would often go to their graves and weep. When she died, her husband Olif had a statue of a kneeling woman built to honor her. </p> <p>“The belief is that if you show up to that statue at the right time you will see that she is crying real tears or sometimes tears of blood,” McNeill said. “People try to make this happen by going at the ritual times. You can go at midnight, on a full moon, on Halloween. If you stand around the statue, you know, make a circle around the statue with your friends and say ‘weep, woman, weep,’ or ‘cry, lady, cry,’ she will begin to actually cry real tears, and it’s kind of creepy actually. I think they just cleaned it so it might not show up as well, but it’s pretty evident that there’s water staining all around her eyes.”</p> <p><b>Logan Canyon Ghosts</b></p> <p>St. Anne’s Retreat, once owned by the Catholic Church, sits abandoned. However, the tales that the now-empty swimming pool was once the site where nuns drowned their babies, are very much alive.</p> <p>“The swimming pool up at the retreat is really the epicenter of where it’s haunted,” McNeill said. “Supposedly that’s where a lot of babies were drowned. The story goes that one young nun that was sent to the retreat because she was pregnant didn’t want her baby to be drowned and fought back and ended up being drowned herself. She and ghosts of all these babies that were killed there haunt this area, especially the swimming pool.”</p> <p>Another ghost, Witch Hekeda, is known to reside in the canyon. The stories of Hekeda’s demise vary. According to “The Legends of Logan, Utah,” Hekeda was said to be a rich, but reclusive woman living alone in Logan Canyon. One night, two burglars broke into Hekeda’s cabin, killed her and stole her money. Another account says Hekeda was tied to a tree and was left to be eaten by dogs.</p> <p> “You can summon her if you drive up Logan canyon and pull off, I think it is Temple Fork, and what you are supposed to do is get out of the car and take your keys out of the ignition and put them on the roof of your car and say her name three times,” McNeill said. “So you would say, ‘Witch Hekeda, Witch Hekeda, Witch Hekeda,’ and you know she is approaching because you either see a green light or because you see these glowing red lights and those are the eyes of her dogs. So bizarrely detailed, but we have so many records in the archives of people who have seen this happen.”</p> <p>The purpose of placing the keys on the vehicle’s hood unclear, as is the reason cars often won’t start once the witch is sighted.</p> <p>“I don’t know why you have to take your keys out of the ignition to summon her,” McNeill said. “Maybe it’s a sign of good faith, because pretty much all the stories say you have from the moment you see her and she starts approaching you to grab your keys, get back in the car and drive away as fast as possible.”</p> <p>Whether a skeptic or a believer, McNeill said reluctance still remains for many to engage in supernatural beliefs.</p> <p>“A lot of people, even the ones that don’t believe it, will say ‘better safe than sorry,’” McNeill said. </p> <p>— <i>katherine.l.larsen@gmail.com</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/haunted-history-surrounds-utah-state-campus/">Haunted history surrounds Utah State campus</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://usustatesman.com/haunted-history-surrounds-utah-state-campus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>