Haunted Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah

Ancestors of Mormon Pioneers are justifiably proud ofminutes.
the heritage and history of the brave people whoCapitol State Police are the security for the Museum
settled Utah, Nevada and California in the 1800s.so they sent Officers to investigate and found the
One terrific organization devoted to preserving thatMuseum secure each time they saw unusual images
heritage is the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Websiteor motion detectors went off.
for DUP.In an interesting side story, the Museum director
Maureen Smith, the vice president of the Daughters ofspeculates that she may know who it is in the image.
Utah Pioneers took a few minutes to talk with me20 Years ago a "sampler" was stolen from the
about the recent ghost sightings at the museum.Museum. A "sampler" is an embroidered piece of cloth
On October 10, 2007 Utah Capitol State Police saw anthat students of embroidery used to prove that they
image on the monitors which come from theknew their stitches.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum.A Museum staffer recognized the Sampler listed for
One of the officers actually took a photo of the imagesale on eBay, and that staffer contacted eBay, and
in the monitor, and gave the photo to the Daughters ofsent documentation that the item was stolen, so eBay
Utah Pioneers Museum.See the image here.contacted seller. The eBay seller, who's family had
The monitors are in the Utah Capitol building, and thepurchased the sampler in good faith years earlier,
images come from the cameras in the Museum a fewimmediately returned the sampler to Daughters of
blocks away. State Police watch the monitors, andUtah Pioneers.
respond if there appears to be an intruder.During the interval of the images appearing to the
The image appeared four times over an 8 day period,State Police, and the return of the sampler, a
and always appeared between about 11:00 PM andCustodian reported that on one night he saw a young
3:00 AM. During these hours the Museum is closed andlady, dressed in black sitting on a bench in the museum
empty, no one is inside accept cleaning orfoyer.
maintenance.The custodian explained that the museum was closed
During this 8 day period the motion detectors in theand she must leave, he unlocked and opened the front
Museum were set off several times, and the imagedoor for her, she never spoke but arose and walked
appeared 4 times. The ghostly image appearedout the door, BUT NOT DOWN THE STEPS! The girl
without setting off motion detectors sometimes, otherfloated above the steps, and sidewalk, until she
times motion detectors went off without showing thedisappeared!
image.This story was brought to our attention by Carolyn
Each time the image was seen it looked like the sameRichardson, a Daughter of a Utah Pioneer. The story
person, and the image always persisted for severaloriginally appeared in their newsletter.