Salt Lake City, UT

Because we're starting this blog after we've already done several years of research and investigations (independently and together), I'm going to surmise most of it in 1-2 blogs.

We started together in Salt Lake City, UT. I lived in the Avenues which is the oldest neighborhood in the area. I was literally less than a block away from the Salt Lake City Cemetery. This became a natural place for us to start our investigations together.

We started with the local "urban legends" and went to several of the notorious graves. We were unorganized and mistakenly allowed some people to come who didn't respect the seriousness of our research. This meant not only did we never encounter anything paranormal, but we could have gotten ourselves into trouble. Lesson learned!

We found a friend of Larry's who was older and well informed on actual "hot spots" around the city. The Old Mill near Cottonwood Canyon was too dilapidated to even go into (but I'd put money on there being actual hauntings there) and the old asylum-turned-children's-hospital-turned-hotel in the avenues was under construction with watch guards. There were many misses and very few hits.

We wanted to investigate the Fort Douglas Military Museum, where a reported ghost haunts the hallways, but because of Veteran's Day it was next to impossible to get in touch with anyone willing to give us a shot. Refusing to let our mistakes and lack of activity where we went get us down, we decided to investigate the cemetery instead.

On the night before Veteran's Day 2008, we visited the Fort Douglas Cemetery (aerial pic). It was too well lit, but had a very serene and calm atmosphere. We did not think we would get any activity at all, but did some EVP work since we were out there already. After about 20 minutes of investigation, we continued on to the other sites we had planned for that night.

We were pretty surprised to find that that we actually caught something on the digital audio recorder that night. Trying to debunk the sound the best we could, it could not be remade. We caught what sounds like an older man sighing. We were standing next to a general's gravestone, just listening. Larry had the recorder in his hand down by his waist, he wasn't even holding it up. We really didn't think this place had anything to offer. Here is the EVP we caught, you can decide for yourself whether it's paranormal or not:

The rest of the time we were in Utah, we did not catch any type of paranormal activity. But we really didn't cover many places and we weren't organized, so we have a lot more work to do once we go back. This time with more organization and more equipment. We WILL be revisiting Fort Douglas.