From KSL.com:
Ghost hunters investigate Baron Woolen Mills
BRIGHAM CITY — Little ghouls and
goblins fill the streets every Halloween, hunting for candy in
neighborhoods around the world. But on this All Hallow's Eve, we look,
in depth, at a different kind of ghost — The real ones who, if you
believe, still haunt places on earth, even after death.
At the Baron Woolen Mills in Brigham City — built by the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1870 and operated privately for another
100 years — paranormal investigators hunted for ghosts. The abandoned
mill is considered one of the most haunted places in Utah.
"We joke that this is like the paranormal Disneyland to us," said
Wasatch Paranormal Investigator Tom Carr.
Wasatch Paranormal Investigators work and leads tours at the tattered
old mill.
The mills were designed to be a keystone of industry in Brigham City.
But you could say things went terribly wrong from the beginning.
"The day they were supposed to turn on the machines, it caught on fire and burned to the ground," Carr said.
Lead investigator Russ Cook says the mills re-opened and stayed that way
until 1996, but the spirits that haunt it never left. Russell Cook, who
works with Carr, looks for Electronic Voice Phenomena, or sounds they
believe come from spirits. In one room especially, they have supposedly
recorded a lot of activity from a curious spirit named Mary. She asks,
"What's going on?" in the recordings.
While it's never been proven, it is widely believed in the early 1900's,
she was taken to the mill, raped and murdered. Paranormal investigators
believe Mary's spirit was trapped in the building until two years ago
with her alleged murderer.
"We believe that the gentleman who actually committed the murder is
actually still in the building," Carr said. "…We know of four deaths,
four confirmed deaths in the building. A young boy was actually killed
in one of the machines during the 1920's."
As their ghost hunt begins, the investigators use a variety of
instruments to interact with spirits. And eventually, the instruments
indicate that they interact back. The investigators ask a series of
questions, determining that the ‘spirit' they're talking to is a boy who
worked in the mill a century or so ago.
"You always have to look at it with a skeptical point of view, but I
think that you can come away with a belief as you do some further
investigations and you get more responses," said investigator Jeff
Palmer.
And curiosity keeps the paranormal investigators coming back.
"And you ask a question like, ‘How many spirits haunt this place?' or,
‘Can you tell me your name?' And you capture something on there that you
just can't explain," Carr said. "That, to me, is exciting."
