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Article #437: Haunted Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Ancestors of Mormon Pioneers are always persisted for several minutes.
justifiably proud of the heritage and Capitol State Police are the security for
history of the brave people who settled the Museum so they sent Officers to
Utah, Nevada and California in the 1800s. investigate and found the Museum secure
One terrific organization devoted to each time they saw unusual images or
preserving that heritage is the Daughters motion detectors went off.
of Utah Pioneers. Website for DUP. In an interesting side story, the Museum
Maureen Smith, the vice president of the director speculates that she may know who
Daughters of Utah Pioneers took a few it is in the image.
minutes to talk with me about the recent 20 Years ago a "sampler" was stolen from
ghost sightings at the museum. the Museum. A "sampler" is an embroidered
On October 10, 2007 Utah Capitol State piece of cloth that students of
Police saw an image on the monitors which embroidery used to prove that they knew
come from the Daughters of Utah Pioneers their stitches.
Museum. A Museum staffer recognized the Sampler
One of the officers actually took a photo listed for sale on eBay, and that staffer
of the image in the monitor, and gave the contacted eBay, and sent documentation
photo to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers that the item was stolen, so eBay
Museum.See the image here. contacted seller. The eBay seller, who's
The monitors are in the Utah Capitol family had purchased the sampler in good
building, and the images come from the faith years earlier, immediately returned
cameras in the Museum a few blocks away. the sampler to Daughters of Utah
State Police watch the monitors, and Pioneers.
respond if there appears to be an During the interval of the images
intruder. appearing to the State Police, and the
The image appeared four times over an 8 return of the sampler, a Custodian
day period, and always appeared between reported that on one night he saw a young
about 11:00 PM and 3:00 AM. During these lady, dressed in black sitting on a bench
hours the Museum is closed and empty, no in the museum foyer.
one is inside accept cleaning or The custodian explained that the museum
maintenance. was closed and she must leave, he
During this 8 day period the motion unlocked and opened the front door for
detectors in the Museum were set off her, she never spoke but arose and walked
several times, and the image appeared 4 out the door, BUT NOT DOWN THE STEPS! The
times. The ghostly image appeared without girl floated above the steps, and
setting off motion detectors sometimes, sidewalk, until she disappeared!
other times motion detectors went off This story was brought to our attention
without showing the image. by Carolyn Richardson, a Daughter of a
Each time the image was seen it looked Utah Pioneer. The story originally
like the same person, and the image appeared in their newsletter.






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