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EDITOR.S NOTE
Dark and light clouds mingle over Logan Peak on a stormy summer afternoon.
Under the weather
Now I truly understand the meaning
the phrase: "Out in left field."
Shortly after deciding that the pho­tographic
spread in this issue of Cache
Valley Magazine would be focused
upon the skies above our beautiful little
corner of the world, I found myself
trapped in the outfield during a city
league softball game. I say "trapped"
because from my vantage point along
the left-field line on a Willow Park dia­mond,
I had an amazing view of what
would prove to be the most majestic
rainbow of the year to my right, fol­lowed
shortly afterwards by the most
spectacular sunset of the summer to my
left. And I, of course, had failed to pack
my camera in my bat bag along with
my glove and cleats.
Less than a couple of months later,
I have no idea whether my team won
or lost that game. And it doesn 't really
matter, because to me, that evening will
always be regarded as a loss because I
missed out on a great photographic op­portunity.
But that's kind of the way this sum­mer
went for me. Everything was a little
bit off.
Where I would normally crave
blue skies, cloudless days and lots of
sunshine, the fact is that's rather ... well
... boring. To capture really compelling
6 Cache Valley Magazine
images of the sky, you need things in the
atmosphere to be a little bit mixed up.
A rainstorm not only creates rain­bows
and lightning and towering cloud
formations, it also removes haze from
the valley, and the water in the air
makes for more vibrant sunsets. And
knowing that led me on more than
few occasions to complain out loud to
friends and relatives when looking over
a weather forecast that showed nothing
but bright little orange suns.
Fortunately, with that assignment
now completed, I can now take both
eyes off the sky and return to normal
- that being primarily watching
the skies to see how the sun and the
clouds impact landscapes and subjects
on the ground. I can also spend more
time appreciating the early autumn
days in Cache Valley where high , deep
blue skies and lots of sunshine is the
norm.
But then again , a fall snowstorm is
always nice. After all , nothing's more
beautiful - and photogenic - than
white, pristine snow nestled upon bright
red , orange and yellow leaves.
I wonder what this week's weather
forecast is.
Jeff Hunter, editor
jhunter@hjnews.com
SEPTEMBER 2010
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 8
PUBLISHER
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Valley Publishing LLC and inserted
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COVER PHOTO by Jeff Hunter
The remnants of a rainstorm linger
above Old Main on the campus of Utah
State University on a summer evening.
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Six-year-old Trae Priestly of Weston chases after a balloon on the turf at Romney Stadium during Aggie Football Family Fun Day on Aug. 21.
Ags chasing victories
usu opens season with an eye on uncertain future
While overseeing the scrimmage in
the middle of Aggie Family Fun Day on
Aug. 21 , Utah State head football coach
Gary Andersen and his assistants donned
blue T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase
"All In" on the back. Although it's clear
that the Aggies where using a term more
commonly associated with Texas Hold
'Em to help inspire an all-out, team-wide
effort to excel during the 2010 season,
"All In" seemed a bit ironic following
the major gamble Utah State University
had taken earlier in the week.
In-state rival Brigham Young, in an ef­fort
to leave the Mountain West Confer­ence
and go independent in football and
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USU athletic director Scott Barnes answers
questions from the press after the scrimmage.
land elsewhere for its remaining sports,
put together a plan with Western Athletic
Conference commissioner Karl Benson,
USU President Stan Albrecht and Ag-gie
athletic director Scott Barnes that
would have greatly solidified the future
of the WAC and reinvigorated the ri­valry
between the Aggies and Cougars.
Early reports on the morning of Aug. 18,
painted an extremely attractive picture
of a regular football series between USU
and BYU, as well as games between the
Cougars and other WAC schools.
The prospects were so thrilling that
some people predicted that gridiron pow­erhouse
Boise State might even back out
of its plan to leave for the Mountain West
- soon to be weakened by the loss of
University of Utah to the PAC-lO - and
return to a stronger WAC.
Clockwise from top left: Linebacker Jerome
Barbour pressures quarterback Diondre Borel.
A girl reacts to a big splash at the dunk tank.
Eric Moats hangs onto a touchdown pass de­spite
the efforts of cornerback Chris Randle.
Moats was then flagged after "putting" the
ball underneath Randle's knees. Ryan Bennett
watches as an Aggie signs his USU helmet.
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But before the late summer sun had
set over the Wellsville Mountains, Utah
State was already in the dark, having
been stunned by the announcement that
WAC fixtures Nevada and Fresno State
had received and accepted invitations to
join the Mountain West Conference earli­er
in the day. Now looking at a WAC with
only six schools remaining, BYU started
to rethink its best-laid plans and promptly
backed off its return to the WAC.
That meant that Utah State, which had
also been invited to join the Mountain
West but turned the offer down in order
to live up to an agreement with the rest
of the WAC that it would stay together
for the next five years or be subject to a
$5 million penalty, was suddenly facing
a very bleak future.
After going "All In," the Aggies' big
gamble now had them on the outside
looking in. That's why before seeking
out Andersen for an interview after the
Aggie Family Fun Day Scrimmage, the
gathered members of the media first
swarmed around Barnes on the turf at
Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium.
"We felt very confident in the align­ment
we had, the security we had in WAC
members and BYU, and we thought that
was the very best next step for Utah
State athletics," Barnes said. "That has
gone away obviously for reasons you've
all heard. That said, every oar is in the
water; we are exploring all possibilities.
Our focus is on making the WAC better,
but that said, we need to look at every
opportunity that is out there."
A week-and-a-half later, BYU finally
announced that it was still going inde­pendent
in football, but rather than add
it's other athletic programs to the WAC,
it planned to join the West Coast Con­ference.
As this issue of Cache Valley
Magazine was going to press, the~future
home of Utah State athletics, whether it
be in a new-look WAC or another con­ference,
was still unsettled. But with the
2010 campaign about to begin on Sept.
4, at seventh-ranked Oklahoma, Ander­sen
was trying his best to keep his and his
team's focus on the task at hand.
"We will just take it as it falls and con­tinue
to fight on," declared Andersen,
now in his second season at Utah State.
"We haven't talked about it as a team,
September 2010 9
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10 Cache Valley Magazine
nor will we because we are talking about
a thing that we have no control over, so
why do it?"
After going 3-5 in the WAC and 4-8
overall last season, most USU fans are
optimistic that Andersen has the Aggies
headed the right way. But while Utah
State boasts 20 returning starters and a
much deeper bench, two of last year's
bright spots, running back Robert Turbin
and wide receiver Stanley Morrison, are
both going to miss the entire season with
Aggie fans scramble for Rice Krispie treats
thrown into the stands at Romney Stadium.
injuries, and heralded new linebacker
Matt Ah You, who played at BYU in
2008, was recently shelved for the year
by a shoulder injury.
What Andersen does have is a senior
quarterback in Diondre Borel who put up
impressive numbers last season (23 total
touchdowns vs. only four interceptions)
with his arm and his legs; a stable of
dangerous running backs with different
skills in Michael Smith, Derrvin Speight
and Kerwynn Williams; and a handful
of defensive standouts like junior line­backer
Bobby Wagner, cornerback Chris
Randle, and local high school products
Levi Koskan and Junior Keiaho, who is
moving from defensive end to linebacker
this year.
Slated to finish fourth in the WAC this
season in the preseason coaches' poll, the
Aggies' schedule starts with the Sooners
and ends at Boise State on Dec. 4. In be­tween
there's home games with Idaho
State (Sept. 11), Fresno State (Sept. 18),
Brigham Young (Oct. 1), Hawaii (Oct.
23), New Mexico State (Nov. 6) and
Idaho (Nov. 20). Although Utah State
hasn't finished with a winning record in
a decade-and-a-half, many feel that cor­ner
is about to finally be turned this sea­son,
even if USU's future beyond that
is extremely uncertain because of the
cloudy conference situation.
"Expectations are high, from all of (the
media) and from us," Borel said of the
coming season. "Probably higher from
us just because we're are trying to get to
a bowl game, so I think we are ready for
this year."
leffHunter
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Bryan Palmer's garden plot helps maintain green space along the U.S. Hwy. 89-91 corridor. Below, black-eyed Susans grown at the Wellsville farm.
So close you can taste it
Wellsville resident heads up successful community garden
A couple of women walk by Bryan
Palmer's produce stand at the Cache Val­ley
Gardeners' Market, pausing to check
out the buckets of flowers he has sitting
next to a table filled with vegetables.
There's yellow black-eyed Susans, blue
globe thistle and purple-and-white, dai­sy-
like echinaceas.
For five dollars, Palmer will pick
out more than two dozen of the flow­ers
and sell them as a giant bouquet, an
item many customers can't pass up each
week. Upon request, Palmer will sort
through the flowers that have been cut
fresh in the early morning hours, strip off
the leaves, clip the ends, then tie them
together for customers to take home.
Meanwhile, nearby at his produce table,
two of his teenage employees are help-
12 Cache Valley Magazine
ing customers purchase squash, melons
and egg plants.
Palmer, who started selling flowers at
the market 11 years ago, has been grow­ing
them for more than two decades on
property he leases in Wellsville. What
began as a business selling dried wreaths
and bouquets has grown into Palmer's
Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA), which employs a dozen teenag­ers
in the summer and produces dozens
of different types of vegetables and about
a half-acre of flowers.
'The reason why we have the farm is
for the kids. That's the biggest reason,"
Palmer says. "A couple of them have
worked for us for probably five or six
years ."
Palmer says everything he earns from
the farm stays in Cache Valley and goes
toward paying his employees and buy­ing
seeds and products from local gar­dening
stores such as Alpine Gardens,
Rudy's Greenhoouse and Anderson's
Seed and Garden. He and the tee nag-
ers are out in the five-and-a-half acres
of land he leases every day, whether
they're focused on weeding, watering,
planting or picking.
On Friday nights, they pick a lot of the
vegetables for the market, and on Satur­day
mornings they are up before the sun
rises getting buckets ready to fill with
peppers and flowers . Palmer says it's
been a learning process throughout the
years and they try to grow new things
every summer. They are currently grow­ing
squash, peppers, cucumbers and ar­tichokes,
as well as 30 varieties of fall­harvest
vegetables. Palmer expects they
will be picking right up until Thanksgiv­ing
this year.
An Ogden native, Palmer lived in
California for several years, where he
says he and his family went to several
farmers ' markets that lasted year-round.
He commented on the various flowers
they would sell, the seafood and differ­ent
produce that was available. The mar­kets
in California spurred the idea to sell
flowers in Cache Valley, which did well
at the market for several years until the
recession.
"With the economy, we really got into
fruit and veggies," Palmer says. "The
last two years have really been hard on
flower growers. We used to be able to
take our truck and trailer and fill it with
60-75 buckets of flowers and sell out in
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a couple of hours. We would have a huge
line. It would be like all day long ."
Now Palmer only sells a third of the
flowers he used to at the market. He says
his bouquets last a little longer than those
that can be purchased at the store because
the flowers are usually fresher. Bouquets
of roses, for example, normally take
three or four days before they reach the
customer, as they are shipped from Ec­uador
to Miami, then on to Salt Lake and
Logan.
Currently the CSA can garden for about
eight months of the year, Palmer says,
but it's not like he can go too long before
thinking of the next garden. Catalogs
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mid-February he and his employees are
germinating seed in a greenhouse, and by
the first part of April they are planting.
In the future Palmer hopes to lease two
more acres of land and put in an orchard
to grow fruit and nuts.
Retired after more than two decades
in the National Guard, Palmer says the
Army and his job at Alpine Gardens in
Brigham City pays his bills. The CSA is
Top, Palmer breaks open a small, yellow wa­termelon.
Above, blue globe thistle is one of
the types of flowers grown at the garden.
just a side-venture, a hobby mostly, that
gives back to Cache Valley.
"It's really their farm," he says, gestur­ing
toward the two teenage boys behind
the produce stand. "They help us on the
farm and then actually come pick on Fri­day
nights and come sell on Saturdays.
We try to grow a few different things ev­ery
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
September 17·18
The Aggie women's volleyball team hosts
the Utah State Invitational over two days at
the Spectrum. The Aggies will take on Loyola
Marymount at 10 a.m. and Utah Valley at
7:30 p.m. on Friday, then play UC Riverside
at noon on Saturday. Call 797-0305.
September 18
The 2010 Nordic Track Top of Utah Mar­athon
begins at the Hardware Ranch in
Blacksmith Fork Canyon at 7 a.m. and ends
at Merlin Olsen Park in Logan. Spectators
can begin viewing the race at Mile 14 just
outside the mouth of the canyon, and the
awards ceremony is slated for 1 :15 p.m.
Visit www.topofutahmarathon.com.
September 18
Logan Dog Agility sponsors the Canine
Carnival and Fall Fun Run from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the Cache County Fairgrounds. Call
(801) 710-1046 or visit www.fallfunrun.
blogspot.com.
September 18
The Utah State football team welcomes
WAC rival Fresno State to Romney Stadium.
Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. Call 797-0305.
September 18·0ctober 30
The American West Heritage Center in
Wellsville presents a wide variety of autumn
and Halloween-themed activities through
the month of October, including a corn maze,
blackout maze, train rides, pony rides, super
slide, hay jump and kid's pirate hay fort. The
Haunted Hollow will also be scaring visitors
on Oct. 8-9, 15-16,22-23 and 29, for an ad­mission
of $7. Call 245-6050 or visit www.
awhc.org.
September 24·25
The Bear 100 ultramarathon begins Fri­day
at 6 a.m. Mt. Logan Park in Logan and
winds along a 100-mile course through the
mountains until reaching the finish line in
Fish Haven, Idaho. Call 563-3647.
September 25
The Utah State women's soccer team fac­es
BYU at 4 p.m. at Bell Field. Call 797-0305.
September 30
The USU women's volleyball team plays
its first home conference match of the sea­son
against Fresno State beginning at 7 p.m.
at the Spectrum. Call 797-0305.
October 1
The Utah State football team hosts in­state
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Left, one of the small cabins at Pine Glenn Cove
in Logan Canyon as it appears today. Top, child
actors present a play at the small amphitheatre
that used to sit on the grounds. Above, the interior
of the playhouse used as a child by L. Boyd and
Anne Hatch's daugther, Sydney.
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STORY & PHOTOS BY JEFF HUNTER
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Floyd OdIum was giving a speech
in Salt Lake City in 1955 before
the Conference on Intermountain
Industry when the wildly successful
businessman tried to playa small trick
on his audience.
"A fellow I have known quite well for
a long time took up his pen years ago
and wrote a rhyme about a certain spot
in Utah which was known as 'Hatch's
Camp,'" OdIum stated before reciting a
poem:
When I'm tired and sick and weary
Of the din of city strife
And am longing for the pleasures
Of a natural open life,
Ship me westward to the mountains,
Put me off at "Hatch's Place"
By the Logan in the Wasatch;
There my sorrows I'll efface.
There before the open fireplace
Or stretched out beneath the trees
I will listen to the music
Of the mountains and the breeze,
To the roaring of the waters,
To the song of melted snow
Until night has brought its shadows
And the sky all aglow
And then the shooting kisses
Of a mountain air so sweet
Will comfort me until I lapse
Into a blissful sleep.
"The author of those lines is here
with us tonight," OdIum then an­nounced
before admitting, "In fact,
I'm that fellow. As poetry, it is a very
feeble attempt. But as an emotional
expression concerning a state I love, I
stand by it."
As the head of numerous, multi-mil­lion-
dollar corporations during his
career, including the Atlas Corpora­tion,
RKO Pictures, Northeast Airlines,
Convair and Bonwit Teller, it's easy to
-envision the bespectacled OdIum behind
a wooden desk in a large office of a
skyscraper in New York City, putting his
thoughts down on paper, trying to drown
out the hustle and bustle of Manhattan
outside his window.
All the while wishing he could
abruptly replace the concrete-and-steel
canyons of Wall Street with the rock
cliffs and solitude of Logan Canyon.
18 Cache Valley Magazine
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Top, a vintage image of the living room inside
the Hatch cottage. Above, a bedroom in a
cabin at Pine Glenn Cove. Right, Floyd Odium
poses for a photograph with his son, Bruce.
Could phrases like, "I will listen
to the music of the mountains
and the breeze," and "shooting
kisses of mountain air so sweet; will
comfort me until I lapse into a blissful
sleep" actually be referring to St. Anne's
Retreat? Surely generations of Cache
Valley teenagers and Utah State Uni­versity
students would wholeheartedly
suggest otherwise.
After all, "The Nunnery," as it is often
called, is widely considered the scari­est
place in the area, primarily because
of the frightening tales surrounding the
small collection of cabins eight miles
northeast of the mouth of Logan Can­yon.
Among the many urban legends
that have been propagated since the Ro­man
Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City
took possession of the property in 1958
is that nuns who had been raped by
priests then drowned their babies in the
swimming pool, and visitors to the site
can still hear the infants' cries at night.
Another story has two nuns fighting,
with one sister pushing the other into
the empty swimming pool. The fatal fall
leads to the dead nun returning to haunt
the sister who killed her, banging on her
door at night and laughing with glowing
red eyes when her murderer would look
outside. A nun searching for her stolen
golden arm, and another sister accompa­nied
by vicious dogs are also among the
ghost stories that have prompted many
people to tempt fate - or at least fight
off a little boredom - and sneak onto
the property late at night.
This Cache Valley tradition turned
')
into a real horror story for 38 teenagers
in 1997, when after crossing the bridge
over the Logan River and heading up the
road to the retreat, they were greeted by
three watchmen armed with shotguns.
The trespassers were then tied up in the
empty swimming pool and threatened by
the guards , who were later charged with
assault for their aggressive behavior.
At the time, the retreat, which sits on
2.85 acres of land leased from the U.S.
Forest Service, was owned by a group
of families who had grown weary of
vandals and trespassers, and many of
the buildings had fallen into disrepair.
But in 2006, the site originally known as
Hatch 's Camp was purchased by Chad
Top, the playhouse used by the Hatch daugh­ters.
Above, the backdrop of the amphitheatre
included an ad for Bonwit Teller. Left, Bruce
Odium's wife sits on the edge of the pool.
Godfrey, a River Heights native who
now works in the health-care field in Salt
Lake City. Godfrey, who now refers to
the property by another of its old names
- Pine Glenn Cove - hopes to restore
as many of the structures as possible, or
at least sell the site to someone else who
can complete the project in the future .
"We're just in the very beginnings of
having it restored," Godfrey says. "About
all we've done so far is completely clean
everything out. I think we took about
28,000 pounds of junk out of there ."
While there are still "no tresspassing"
signs posted at the entrance to Pine Glenn
Cove, Godfrey did take down the barbed
wire that used to discourage visitors from
crossing the bridge. He also helped get
the site put on the National Register of
Historic Places in 2006, and Godfrey
says his hope is to one day host an "open
house and invite the entire valley."
"Once it's restored, we'll let people
come up and tour the whole thing for
three days," he insisted. "I think that
will pretty much turn off all the tres­passing
and stuff because they'll see
how wonderful it is all made up."
But Godfrey, who says he first briefly
visited what was then St. Anne's (or St.
Ann's) Retreat when he was 6 years old
- "before my mother and I were scared
off when some dogs came running down
the hill" - admits he's never spent a
night at Pine Glenn Cove.
"But I can tell you , there's no nun
with a golden arm, or dead babies under
the playhouse," Godfrey declares. "In
fact, I've had a number of paranormal
societies contact me, and they all said
there was nothing up there. Although
one of the groups did get the holy heck
scared out of them when a sheriff's
deputy came in off the road - they
check it all the time and he saw lights
- and slammed a door shut while they
were all standing in the lodge. Other­wise,
the scariest thing you'll probably
see up there is a squirrel or a pack rat."
The Catholic church took posses­sion
of what it then renamed St.
Anne's Retreat in the 1950s after
the Hatch family initially tried to donate
the site to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and Utah State Uni­versity.
The retreat served as a getaway
spot for Sisters of the Holy Cross from
the Salt Lake diocese for a couple of de­cades
before it was turned into a summer
youth camp in the 1980s. The Catholic
Church eventually sold the lease to some
families in 1993, and the site has been
under private ownership ever since.
Now close to 100 years old, the
original buildings at Hatch's Camp/Pine
Glenn Cove were constructed in the
1910s by Hezekiah Eastman Hatch,
the president of the Thatcher Banking
Company in Logan, who obtained the
original permit from the forest service.
His son, Lorenzo Boyd Hatch, would
later improve and add to the retreat,
eventually sharing the site with his
brother-in-law, Floyd B. OdIum.
Hatch, who is best known in Cache
Valley for founding the Sunshine Ter­race
Foundation in 1948, and OdIum
became brothers-in-law after marry-
September 2010 19
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ing sisters originally from St. George.
Hatch met Anne McQuarrie in 1917
while working in Salt Lake City and
married her a year later, while OdIum,
a Michigan native who attended law
school at the University of Colorado,
was employed by Utah Power & Light
in Salt Lake when he first encountered
Hortense "Tenny" McQuarrie. The cou­ple
was married in 1914, and the Hatch
and OdIum families would become even
further linked when, following the death
of his wife Georgia in 1919, Hezekiah
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financial success almost immediately,
the company grew quickly, and in 1928,
it merged with another company to be­come
the Atlas Utilities Company with
OdIum as president, Hatch as vice-presi­dent
and assets valued at $6 million.
But just months before the stock
market crashed in 1929, OdIum sold off
half of Atlas' holdings and $9 million in
new securities to investors, leaving him
with an estimated $14 million in cash
and short-term notes as the country's fi­nancial
system was falling apart. In tum,
OdIum started buying up stock from
other investment firms - often for 50
cents on the dollar - reorganized them
and sold of their assets, only to purchase
more firms, and eventually, a wide
variety of businesses from railroads to
mines and motion-picture studios to
department stores.
Considered one the 10 richest people
in the country by 1933, OdIum and
the company now known as the Atlas
Corporation, bought part of RKO Pic­tures
, the studio that turned out "Citizen
Kane" in 1941 , After taking over RKO
completely in 1942 at a price of $3 mil­lion,
OdIum ended up selling the studio
to Howard Hughes four years later for
$9 million_ The shrewd investor also
ended owning all or part of the Hilton
hotel chain, Greyhound buslines, Con­vair
airplane manufacturing, Madison
Square Garden and the Bonwit Teller
department store_
OdIum turned over control of Bonwit
Teller, a high-fashion store in New York
City, to his wife, who served as president
from 1934-40 at a time when women
were rarely found in such positions.
Hortense OdIum, referred to as "one of
the 10 best-dressed women in the world,"
even stayed on at Bonwit Teller after she
and Floyd were divorced in 1935.
Following that separation, OdIum
was introduced to Jacqueline "Jackie"
Cochran, who would become arguably
the second-most famous female pilot in
the country behind her friend , Amelia
Earhart. The first woman to break the
sound barrier, Cochran married OdIum,
and the couple later settled on a massive
ranch in the California desert near Palm
Springs in the 1950s, virtually founding
the community of Indio while rarely vis­iting
Utah. The OdIums often welcomed
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friends like Chuck Yeager and Dwight
D. Eisenhower into their home prior
to Floyd's death at age 84 in 1976 and
Jackie's passing four years later.
Hortense OdIum, who briefly remar­ried
in the later 1930s, died in Indio in
1970 at the home of her son, Bruce. Her
sister, Anne Hatch, passed away in New
York City in 1979, more than 22 years
after L. Boyd Hatch had died at his sum­mer
home in Connecticut at age 60.
Pine Glenn Cove is basically
broken up into two parts: A
lower road off of which most of
the buildings constructed by the Hatches
can be found, and an upper road, where
the OdIums' lodge and cabins stand.
Currently along the Hatch lane, just
above the Logan River, remain two
small cabins (one of which housed the
camp's maids), a larger cottage, a small
generator shed, a playhouse and the
main cabin, which was later used as
a dining hall because of its screened-in
porch. East of these structures are
two guest houses, a storage shed and
a magnificent lodge. Stone stairs and
walkways, constructed by out-of-work
masons during The Great Depression,
surround many of the buildings, and
the infamous swimming pool sits in
between the two roads, adjacent to a
two-story structure used as a pool house
and laundry.
While most of the buildings are now
in disrepair, the stone-and-wood cottage
that served as quarters for the Hatches'
daughters, has had extensive work done,
as has the OdIums' lodge. Built about
1929, is boasts a screened porch on
three sides, a stone fireplace imported
from Europe, and a huge, vaulted ceil­ing
with hand-painted iron work above
the main room. Stairs lead up to two
large bedrooms and a bathroom.
Pine Glenn Cove (or Forest Hills ac­cording
to the forest service lease) also
used to be equipped with horse stables,
an outdoor amphitheatre, and an indoor
theater that could seat 24 people and
even had its own ticket booth.
Boyd and Anne Hatch's daughter,
Sydney di Villarosa, returned to the re­treat
in the late '90s with Chad Godfrey
in tow, and she shared fond memories of
picnics by the river and putting on plays
with her young relatives with Holly­wood
movie directors, CEOs and note­worthy
politicians in the audience. Now
in her 80s, Villarosa recently returned to
Italy, the land of her late husband, after
moving to St. George for a time.
"Sydney has lived an amazing life,"
Godfrey says. "She married into noth­ing
short of Italian royalty and lived in
Milan until she wanted to come back
to her roots. Her home in St. George is
reminiscent of an Italian villa .... And
right when you walk in, there's a great
photograph of Sydney with Shirley Tem­ple
and Cary Grant, all holding arms.
"I think her sister, Betty, is also still
alive and living in New York City, and
she married into basically the equivalent
of Argentine royalty. They've lived these
illustrious lives, and they think nothing
of it," adds Godfrey, who says he's been
told that among the celebrities who vis­ited
Pine Glenn Cove are movie starlets
Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe.
Because it has almost always had a
telephone, Godfrey says OdIum and
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Hatch used to spend large portions of
their summer at the camp, conducting
business across the country and the
world from Logan Canyon. Pine Glenn
Cove is also outfitted with an unusual
water system that carries water from
springs almost a mile away in Preston
Valley, through a series of underground
pipes and eventually into a large storage
tank above the retreat.
22 Cache Valley Magazine
Clockwise from top left: The swim­ming
pool were horrified teenage
trespassers were detained in 1997.
The back side of the sleeping cot­tage
above the Logan River. Signs
of vandalism remain inside the large
Hatch cabin. The view out the upper
window of the Odiums' lodge. The
large, screened-in porch served as a
dining area when the site was used
as a youth camp. The main lodge is
believed to have been built around
1929. The fireplace in the Odiums'
lodge was imported from Europe.
"It's an amazing system," Godfrey
says. "I mean the pool is huge: 20 feet­by-
60 feet. And you can fill it in two-and­a-
half hours. If you put a garden hose in
there, it would take you until next June."
Godfrey, who says he first started
dreaming about purchasing Pine Glenn
Cove in the late '70s, clearly feels much
like Floyd OdIum when it comes to the
beautiful retreat up Logan Canyon. One
could easily see him, confined to an
office in Salt Lake City, writing a poem
similar to the one that OdIum shared in
his speech 55 years ago .
"I've just always loved the place,
ever since I was a kid," Godfrey pro­claims
with a smile. "It has an interest­ing
story behind it, and it's just full of
history. It's a very unique property, and I
just love it." m
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LOOK TO THE SKIES
TOP Clouds gathered along the southern
edge of Cache Valley soak up color from the
setting sun.
LEFT Cumulonimbus clouds build up
above the Bear River Mountain Range on a
hot summer day.
BELOW Refracted light creates a unique
sky above the northern end of the Wellsville
Mountain Range.
FACING PAGE A huge bolt of lightning
strikes the valley floor near Newton.
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of Gunsight Peak.
ABOVE A single cloud hovers over the
top of the Wellsville Mountain Range.
RIGHT The setting sun lights up the
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barn in Wellsville.
BELOW Wispy clouds race through the
sky high above Logan Canyon.
26 Cache Valley Magazine
TOP Clouds above Providence Canyon take on an eerie hue as the sun goes down.
ABOVE The skies above the Bear River Mountain Range take on a wide range of
colors as the sun rises on a summer morning.
LEFT The end of a rainbow brightens up a mountain ridge following a storm.
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ABOVE Clouds soar above
the Mt. Sterling area on a
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LEFT Wind and lingering
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But it's unlikely that many of their commercial
counterparts share the Cox family's tradition of more
than a century of association with the honey business.
That tradition began around the tum of the 19th
Century with the clan's patriarch, Henderson Cox,
tending bees in St. George, which was then a small
farming community. Henderson was eventually
joined in that enterprise by his son, Marion. In 1929,
Marion Cox founded the family business that would
eventually become Cox Honeyland & Gifts. It was
Marion who relocated his family to Cache Valley
after marrying his wife, Lucile, a Providence native,
during the Great Depression. The first headquarters
for the couple's local honey business was established
in Providence.
By the mid-1960s, a third generation of the Cox
family, represented by Marion's son Duane and his
wife Margene, had taken over the reins of the busi­ness.
They moved the family enterprise to an expand­ed
warehouse along U.S . Hwy. 89-91 south of Logan
about 20 years later and then expanded into retail
sales in 1989.
Nowadays, their son Darren has assumed responsi­bility
for tending the Cox family's bee colonies and
the day-to-day operation of the honey and gift side of
the business is handled by their daughters: Maleesa
Jacobsen of College Ward, Camille Cowley of
Wellsville and Michelle Spuhler of Providence. But
a fifth generation of the clan is also involved in the
honey business: teenaged Breanne Jacobsen is already
employed in the gift shop that is collocated with the
Cox warehouse, and her kid sister McKenzie is an
enthusiastic part-time presence there, as well.
Despite its reputation as the Beehive State, Utah
ranks 24th among U.S. states in the production of
honey. In 2009, the total American honey crop was
144 million pounds from about 2.4 million bee Stephanie Adamson puts labels on fresh bottles of honey at Cox Honeyland.
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While that may sound like a lot of
honey, the National Honey Board
reports that Americans are using more
honey-based products - ranging from
cereals to cough syrups - every year.
For example, more than 200 new prod­ucts
containing honey were introduced
in the United States since 1998, many of
them capitalizing on the all-natural and
Adamson, who has worked at Cox Honeyland
for just over a year, fills up a large jar of honey.
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and fructose. Recent research has also
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toms. Finally, honey is often used as an
ingredient in both manufactured and
homemade beauty products for skin and
hair care because honey has naturally
hydrating and non-irritating properties.
Utah's annual honey production aver­ages
about 1 million pounds and the
Cox family sells as much as 20 percent
of that crop in a good year. But it isn't
just production volume that makes
the Cox name one to conjure with in
the Utah honey business. In May, Cox
Honeyland & Gifts was recognized by
the U.S. Small Business Administration
as Utah's family-owned business of the
year.
"We were really honored to receive
that award," Margene recalls, "particu­larly
since it signaled that state officials
were paying attention to agriculture­related
businesses ... In agriculture,
your management has got to be just
right. And, even then, the weather has
also got to cooperate if you're going to
produce a crop. So a successful farmer
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But residents of Cache Valley and
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to attract them to Cox Honeyland and
Gifts. Customers have been flocking to
the little white-frame gift shop adjacent
to the Cox warehouse for nearly two
decades.
"We have a lot of customers who
come from as far away as Ogden and
34 Cache Valley Magazine
Margene Cox answers a customer's questions about honey production at the gift shop.
Salt Lake," Maleesa Jacobsen empha­sizes,
"because they say that they can't
find unique gift stores like this where
they live. They're also attracted because
we have such a wide variety of gifts. We
provide them with an opportunity to cre­ate
custom gift baskets. Our customers
don't have settle for whatever is in a gift
box at Christmastirne. They can select
exactly what they want here year-round
and we'll package it beautifully just for
them in a way that's appropriate for any
occasion."
Margene Cox attributes much of the
success and longevity of their honey
business to her family's work ethic and
willingness to adapt to the changing
business climate.
"My maiden name was Lindley," she
explains. "I was raised on the first farm
that you pass coming out of Sardine
Canyon heading north. It was a 750-acre
dairy and cattle farm. We worked hard
on that farm, but it was good experi­ence
for me. If I hadn't been raised in
an agricultural family, I would probably
have never survived being married to a
beekeeper."
Margene adds that she and her hus­band
Duane were both raised in families
where long, hard days of work were
necessary to "keep food on the table and
a roof over our heads." Given that back­ground,
the couple naturally raised their
children to have that same type of work
ethic. "That didn't mean that our kids
didn't complain about their chores," she
admits with a smile. "But they under­stood
why those things had to be done
and that they had to work until a job was
finished, not just until they were tired or
bored."
Honey bees are social insects with
a marked division of labor within the
hives they inhabit. Each colony of bees
includes a queen, drones and workers.
In the most simple terms, the queen bee
lays eggs; the relative handful of drones
mate with the queen; and the thousands
of workers feed the queen and her lar­vae,
collect nectar from plants, produce
honey and guard the hive.
According to Margene Cox, the main
difference between the honey bees and
the humans who tend them is that, in the
family of a beekeeper, everybody is a
worker.
There are roughly 300 varieties of
honey produced in America, running
the gamut from water-white fireweed
to rich, dark amber buckwheat. In
general, lighter-colored honeys have a
mild taste while darker-colored honeys
have more bold flavors. Darker honeys
also tend to have a higher mineral
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also impact the commercial value of
particular types of honey, so successful
beekeepers spend a lot of time moving
their hives from one location to another
to take full advantage of abundant
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one-third of the total human diet
is derived directly or indirectly from
insect-pollinated plants and crops. So
many commercial beekeepers like the
Cox family also spend time transport­ing
their colonies around the country to
provide contract pollination services to
farmers.
Combined with the labor involved
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in tending their hives and harvesting
honey, the aforementioned transporting
chores keep commercial beekeepers
- and their wives and children - almost
as busy as their bees, according to
Margene.
The Cox family began to diversity
their business in the late 1980s. Prior to
that time, Duane and Margene had been
selling the bulk of their annual honey
crop on a wholesale basis to a farmers'
cooperative in Iowa. But when health
problems dictated that Duane Cox take
a less active role in the business, his
wife realized that her life was about to
change in a big way.
"I had worked in several different
jobs over the years to help make ends
meet while Duane was keeping our
bees," Margene explains. "But when
Duane had to get an artificial hip, we
realized that we had to develop a retail
side of our business to support our­selves
when he eventually retired ... If
I was going to start my own company,
I knew that I was going to have to
find my own niche. Well, I knew the
gift business pretty well because I had
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Cox Honeyland was recognized as the state of Utah's small business of the year in May.
worked in a florist shop for years; I had
also done oil paintings and some inte­rior
decorating. So I had to take those
things that I knew and use them to our
best advantage."
Like many would-be entrepreneurs in
Cache Valley, Margene's first stop on
the road to launching a new business
was Utah State University. While taking
some business classes there, she also so-licited
the support of USU's small-busi­ness
development staff, who provided
both start-up advice and testing of her
initial gift product ideas.
The retail gift side of the business
started small, Margene recalls, because
the family was determined to launch
that enterprise with out-of-pocket
money rather than incurring a lot of debt
through business loans. They installed
a pre-fabricated home adjacent to their
warehouse to serve as a gift shop. All
the manufacturing and bottling of Mar­gene
Cox' first products - honey butter,
honey syrup and cream honey - was
done by-hand in the tiny kitchen of that
home. Despite those humble beginnings,
the business took off.
But Cox Honeyland & Gifts is nev­ertheless
expanding to meet steadily
increasing demand. The Cox family
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"I hope that our customers want
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friendly and have a family atmosphere,"
Margene Cox adds. "Honey will al­ways
be our trademark, but we've got
something for everybody here now. We
try to offer seasonal items along with
our unique gifts, like all the Halloween
decorations we have on display now. We
also try to fill an educational role; we've
even got films for children that explain
how honey is made." m
"If I had been willing to risk more
back at the beginning, I would prob­ably
have a much bigger business now,"
Margene Cox admits, sitting in the
cluttered office of Cox Honeyland &
Gifts. The house's small kitchen is now
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when more room was needed for
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trademark custom gift baskets is also
located in the warehouse nowadays. As
the family's product line grew by leaps
and bounds over the years, the gift shop
expanded to occupy every nook and
cranny of that structure. "But I believe
that you've got to crawl before you can
walk and walk before you run. And I'm
still just not willing to incur a lot of debt
in order to expand."
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Staff writer

The Cache County Attorney’s Office said today criminal charges most likely will be filed against three men who allegedly ambushed two groups of thrill-seeking teen-agers Friday, tied them up and terrorized them.

The charges could range from misdemeanors to felonies and will focus on assault, said Cache County Attorney Scott Wyatt.

“There is a very high probability that will file criminal charges against these guys,” Wyatt said this morning. “The initial reports are pretty incredible.”

Wyatt said the actions of the three at the old St. Anne’s retreat 8 miles up Logan Canyon apparently went far beyond legal limits.

Wyatt said his office would likely decide on the charges and issue warrants by the end of the week.

The attorney’s office is waiting for sheriff’s deputies t9o finish taking statements from nearly 40 teen-agers, the three men and others. Wyatt said he wants to read all the statements before determining charges.

“They’ve only given me the initial reports,” Wyatt said. “I haven’t seen any statements at all. But as soon as they are collected we will make a decision.”

Wyatt said St. Anne’s is a local haunted house on private property and what happened when the carloads of youngsters got there is almost unbelievable.

“It’s one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen,” Wyatt said.

The kids should not have done what they did because they were trespassing but that doesn’t justify the reactions of these guys,” Wyatt said. “Overkill is a good way to describe it.”

“The kids told authorities the gate was open or partially open when they walked through and were ambushed by three shotgun-wielding men.

In the first incident, before dawn Friday, six boys and two girls were ambushed on the grounds by the men who fired at least one shot over their heads, then marched into a lodge, handcuffed and tied neck to neck by ropes, the teen-agers said. They told sheriff’s deputies who arrived nearly two hours later that the men shouted obscenities at them and threatened to kill them and hide their bodies.

The teen-agers were handcuffed in official police cuffs and taken by squad cars by four deputies to the sheriff’s office where they were interrogated and released. Some were given citations for trespassing, a Class C misdemeanor similar to a traffic ticket.

The three men were not arrested.

The second larger group of about 30 boys and girls, unaware of what happened in the earlier incident, said they were accosted by the same men as they walked through what they said was an open gate late Friday night.

They said they were ordered into an empty swimming pool, handcuffed with plastic flexible ties and also bound by ropes, neck to neck. They said they were told that if they moved the ropes would tighten, trigger an explosive and their heads would be blown off.

One boy said he was knocked unconscious by a billyclub and a girl complained that she was fondled.

About 40 parents confronted sheriff’s deputies outside the station Saturday after demanding action.

Parents told reporters they were angry at the non-action of the Sheriff’s Office for allowing a repeat Friday night of the incident early that morning and thus placing minors in danger.

Wyatt said he has not interviewed John Jeppson, identified as the oldest of the three men at St. Anne’s and the lead watchman who was armed from time to time with a shotgun, pistol, knife and billyclub.

When told Jeppson was still living at St. Anne’s, Wyatt said, “Good, then he can stay put so we can serve him with a warrant.”

The property owner said he allowed Jeppson to live there in exchange for fixing up the place and knew nothing of the other two men or of Jeppson’s alleged actions Friday.

Legends have lured generations to site

Legends surrounding St. Anne’s have provided a thrill to Cache Valley youths for generations.

Middle-aged people, including prominent members of the local community, remember when they were kids, too, and they drove up Logan Canyon with nerves of steel to get the wits scared out of them.

They were drawn at Halloween time by stories of hosts, including one of a nun emerging from the forest and followed by two red-eyed Dobermans.

“It’s been a place where everybody’s been. I remember when I was there,” said Shannon Demler, a Logan attorney.

People around town are laying bets that just about every old-time Cache resident went to scary St. Anne’s in the October darkness at one time or another.

The compound 8 miles up the canyon on the right started as a lodge and cabins in the 1920s and was converted into a Catholic retreat. It was eventually sold by the Catholic Church and has changed hands several times.

The property, with a Yellowstone-type lodge that has a rock fireplace and winding stairs, also includes several sleeping cabins and the famous swimming pool which still abounds with frightening stories.

It is commonly known today as the “nunnery.”]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 1007288 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> Canyon watchmen identified
By Ryan Robb Oliver
Staff writer

The Cache County Sheriff’s Office this morning released the names of three watchmen accused of terrorizing a group of teen-agers trespassing at the former St. Anne’s Convent in Logan Canyon on Friday night.

John Jeppson, 50, of Pocatello, Idaho, is the head watchman that made the initial trespassing call from Zanavoo Restaurant and Lodge to the Cache County Sheriff’s Office at around 10:30 p.m. Friday.

The other two watchmen were identified as Christopher Doerr and Arthur Peasnall, both of Tooele County.

When The Herald Journal telephoned John Jeppson this morning, an unidentified woman answered the phone and said she’d leave a message for Jeppson but hung up before the paper’s number could be given.

When Peasnall was called and asked to give his side of the story, he repeatedly said, “I have no comment.”

Doerrs telephone number could not be located.

Chief Deputy Mike Stauffer with the sheriff’s office said the three men are being investigated and it will be up to the Cache County Attorney’s Office if charges are filed.

Deputy Troy Liquin, in his report of the incident, stated that when he arrived, he was met by the three watchmen each with flashlights taped to the end of their shotguns. Jeppson also was wearing a holstered pistol strapped to his belt.

When he told them to put their weapons in their vehicles, all of them complied except Jeppson, who Liquin said had to be told three times before he put his weapon away.

Liquin said he discovered the 30 trespassing youths in the pool on their knees. Twenty of them had a continuous nylon cord wrapped around their necks and if one person moved, they would all choke, he said in the report.

Some of the girls were crying and two or three other males were near tears because their hands were tied so tight with plastic cuffs, according to the report.

“As I looked at their hands, on the girls particularly, most of them were turning white in color, almost bluish in color. Visible swelling as well as red marks were observed on the majority of the individuals,” Liquin stated.

Liquin said he ordered the cuffs to be removed, and the youths complained of being hit and yelled at. One girl said one of the guards fondled her, according to the report.

One teen-ager handed a spent Federal 12-gague shotgun shell casing to an officer and said it had been shot near his head. Another said a guard shot next to his feet, the report said.

When deputies approached the three watchmen, Liquin said Peasnall used a military identification card to identify himself.

“Mr. Jeppson was very upset about the juveniles being there. He stated, ‘What am I supposed to do?’” according to the report. “Mr. Jeppson…began talking about Vietnam and how this was similar to troops being placed in Vietnam, and went on with some conversation about police powers in the war.”

Stauffer said the watchmen weren’t arrested because an investigation would need to be conducted to determine which of the juveniles were telling the truth.

“We arrested the juveniles because it was immediately apparent they were trespassing,” Stauffer said.

He said the fact the juveniles were trespassing and had to cross through a barbed wire fence to get there has been underplayed in this incident.

“Obviously, someone didn’t want them on their property,” he said.

The thirty people were cited and released for trespassing.

Another six people, three youths and three adults, were cited earlier Friday for trespassing on the same property.

Action beyond legal limits?
By Phil Jensen
Staff writer

Trespassing laws do not allow the kind of force or confinement allegedly used by three armed caretakers who terrorized Cache County teen-agers in Logan Canyon on Friday.

The Cache County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two incidents of teen-agers who said they were held captive, abused and threatened with their lives at the old St. Anne’s Retreat midway up the canyon.

Detectives said the case will be turned over County Attorney Scott Wyatt who will determine what if any charges against the caretakers will be filed.

Wyatt said he was meeting today with sheriff’s investigators and should know by Tuesday morning what action his office will take.

A Logan attorney read to reporters parts of the state law covering trespassing and what a property owner legally can and cannot do.

The use of force such as weapons against a trespasser or confining a trespasser is against the law unless the owner feels his life or the life of others is in danger, the law states.

“They could be liable for false imprisonment, assault and battery and a whole host of things,” said Joe Chambers, a Logan attorney and former Rich County deputy attorney.

Chambers said the law also covers “intentional infliction of emotional distress” against a trespasser, saying it is illegal to do something “so extreme and outrageous that if you hear about it the average person would say, I can’t believe they did that,” Chambers said.

Chambers, who has a 17-year old son, said he would have been outraged if his daughter had been fondled by the caretakers, as one of the teenagers alleged. “I’d be sitting on Scott Wyatt’s doorstep right now,” he said.

Chambers said the owner also has liability.

“You can’t just hire a bunch of crazies to take care of your property and have no liability, Chambers said.

According to records at the Cache County recorder’s office, the property was sold by the Catholic Church in 1992 to Peggy Godfrey for $120,000. Records also contain the name of Richard Salvitti of Salt Lake City as the person responsible for taxes. Efforts to contact both Godfrey and Salvitti were not successful.]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 1085016 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Wilkin, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Zsiray, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]>
To the editor:
Picture if you will, yourself driving down the highway. You are in a hurry. You’re late!

You glance in the rearview mirror and see a flashing red light right behind you, and an officer motioning for you to pull over. You glance at your speedometer and realize you are going 65 mph in an area clearly posted at be 55 mph. You think to yourself … oh my, I am going to get a ticket.

You pull over and wait for the officer to come to your car, making sure during that time you have your license, registration and insurance ID. Much to your astonishment, the officer opens your door with anger and forcefully yanks you out of your seat. He quickly turns you around and pushes you, face first, up against the car. Then he proceeds to angrily handcuff you making sure that the cuffs are good and tight (for they are flex cuffs). He wants to make sure you are truly subdued, so he puts a rope around your neck and attaches it to his steering wheel. He tells you that if you put any pressure on the rope that it will explode and blow your head off.

Fortunately this is a hypothetical situation.

This poor officer has really had a bad day, and his anger has reached the boiling point. He has already had to give 15 citations for speeding in areas that have been clearly marked. Tired of all he has had to put up with, he kicks you in the ribs, and slaps your face. He then proceeds to utter a stream of obscenities. And you say to yourself, is this what happens when you are only speeding.

What does this have to do with the incident at St. Anne’s retreat? Quite a bit. Trespassing and speeding are offenses that are both considered Class C misdemeanors. Neither should be punished by use of deadly force, abuse, or torture. Nor should the offenses be tried and convicted at the scene of the crime. Fortunately we have a justice system to handle that. We also have a justice system in Cache County that is perpetuated by people with a great deal of integrity and morals. We should be extremely grateful for that. Many people seem to think that these young people that trespassed at St. Anne’s should be punished for all the crimes committed at St. Anne’s over the past 40 years. That would be about the same as the judge punishing you for every speeding citation ever issued on that street. They should not be punished for vandalism. Only those guilty of such a crime should.

It may interest you to know that this particular group of 30 young people offered to do a service project for the owner on his property as their way of saying they were sincerely sorry. This offer was made after the charges were dropped. It was something the did not have to do but wanted to. The owner gratefully accepted.

Daily I see in the paper an advertisement entitled. “THERE’S NO EXCUSE FOR ABUSE.” In Cache Valley we have the “Dare” program which reinforces this to our children. We live in a society intelligent enough and well educated enough to realize that making a mistake does not give another person the right to be abusive, whether they are a parent, police officer, teacher or a citizen.

Aileen Lee
Smithfield

Righting the wrongs from a rite of passage

To the editor:
The recent furor over the trespassing at the former St. Anne’s Retreat has given all of us a chance to reflect on past behavior. I read comments from some former Cache Valley teen-agers who implied that this kind of thing was almost a local rite of passage. If this so, I think this is a wonderful opportunity for those who have participated to do some repenting. I think most of us recognize that vandalizing property, and even disturbing the rest of the good sisters, are simply wrong.

If we turn the situation around, and think of our own aunts or mothers going for a much needed vacation on our own property, and being frightened by people prowling outside, we could be quite angry. As grown-ups, I doubt that any of us would contemplate taking part in such an activity. Most of us realize that entering other people’s property without an invitation is wrong, regardless of the time of day, or season of the year. We expect to be in control of who enters our property. We keep sales people on the porch. We tell other people’s kids when it’s time to go home, and we expect them to leave (and they do leave.)

As adults, I expect that some who took part in those activities are feeling some twinges of guilt. May I suggest that those twinges can be alleviated if correct action is taken. Please consider making reparation for the wrongs.

What is a good night’s sleep worth to you? If you’re on a slim budget, you still have to pay about $50 for a motel room for a night. Consider sending a donation in the amount to the local Catholic Diocese. Remember that there were probably a few sisters whose rest was disturbed, and you may wish … more to make full reparation ….]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 635041 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Wilkin, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Wreckers (Vehicles)--Utah--Mendon; Wrecking--Utah--Mendon; Elementary school buildings--Utah--Mendon; Elementary school facilities--Utah--Mendon; School buildings--Utah--Mendon;]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library]]> image/jpeg]]> eng;]]> Image;StillImage]]> http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Mendon/id/3170]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Wreckers (Vehicles)--Utah--Mendon; Wrecking--Utah--Mendon; Elementary school buildings--Utah--Mendon; Elementary school facilities--Utah--Mendon; School buildings--Utah--Mendon;]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library]]> image/jpeg]]> eng;]]> Image;StillImage]]> http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Mendon/id/3169]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Zsiray, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> By Ryan Robb Oliver
Staff writer

The 911 call John Jeppson made from Zanavoo Restaurant & Lodge around 10:30 p.m. Friday when he reported that a group of kids had trespassed at St. Anne’s Retreat revealed a man on a mission to end vandalism at the site.

Jeppson is the lead watchman who handcuffed and wrapped cord around the necks of two groups of teen-agers and young adults early Friday morning and Friday night. The trespassers claimed Jeppson and two other men yelled death threats at them and fired shotgun shells above one person’s head and near the feet of another. The two other men with Jeppson have been identified as Arthur Peasnall and Chris Doerr, Jeppson’s son-in-law, both of Tooele County.

On the 911 recording, Jeppson calmly tells a Cache County dispatcher about the trespassers bound in the retreat’s swimming pool.

The dispatcher sounds shocked as she gears what Jeppson tells her. Jeppson loses his cool with the dispatcher and raises his voice near the end of the three and a quarter minute all when she incredulously repeats what he says.

When Jeppson is put on hold, he talks bitterly with one or more men at Zanavoo Lodge about his frustration with students vandalizing the property he’s tending.

He also brings up an incident involving Nick Chournos’ son where he implies that trespassers caused his death. Chournos is a sheep rancher from Tremonton.

Tremonton Police Chief Steve Hodges said Chournos’ 52-year-old son, John, committed suicide in 1992, that he would kill himself,” but it was unrelated to trespassers.

“This was a family problem,” Hodges said. “He was having a lot of emotional problems at the time.”
Hodges noted that John’s wife, who never took the suicide well, has claimed that Tremonton Police shot her husband. “She’s never been able to believe that he would kill himself.”

Jeppson also said on the tape that the St. Anne’s Retreat trespassers he detained Friday night had something to do with the earlier group of eight people he detained when they threw eggs on the property. Although, it was later determined these were two separate groups.

Cache County Sheriff Lynn Nelson said Jeppson was interviewed by his office on Monday. Jeppson thought he had a right to do a lot of what he did Friday night, Nelson said.

“He has a lot of really different views on things,” Nelson said.

But the law does allow for some of the things he did, the sheriff explained. People protecting property are given a considerable amount of latitude, he said.

Nelson said Wednesday night he and Cache County Attorney Scott Wyatt spoke with more than a dozen parents of victims in the Friday incidents.

The meeting was closed to the news media. Wyatt said afterward that he wanted to answer their questions about the case, but there were too many parents with questions to talk to individually.

Charges against Jeppson and the two other men could be filed as early as today, he said.

When asked for his reaction to the 911 recording, Nelson said “I think it’s pretty consistent with what we’ve anticipated.

“I think he thought all along he was defending his property,” he said. “He was scared of these kids. He viewed them as a danger to himself.”

Transcript:
Jeppson-Well, we’ve got at least a bus load of them.
(delay)
Jeppson-(inaudible)…to stop ripping people’s property apart-steal shit, you know?
(Dispatcher returns to the line)
Dispatcher-John
Jeppson-Yes?
Dispatcher-We’re getting a hold of a deputy. Who have you got up there with the juveniles?
Jeppson-I have two of my men.
Dispatcher-Two men. And you said you got fifty-five zero-right?
Jeppson-Five zero.
(Dispatcher breaths a slight, bewildered and incredulous laugh.)
Jeppson-Very, very close to that number. I don’t know. I didn’t take a head count. They are all handcuffed, and they’ve all got cords around their neck.
Dispatcher-Around their necks?
Jeppson-Yes, they’re on their knees in the swimming pool.
Dispatcher-You got them on their knees in a swimming pool?
Jeppson-(sounding defensive and raising his voice) Hey!
Dispatcher-I’m just…
Jeppson--This is on private property!
Dispatcher-John.
Jeppson-Do you understand that?
Dispatcher-I understand that, but I’m trying to get this information, OK?
Jeppson-Yes.
(A phone line rings at the dispatch center.)
Dispatcher-Now hold on one moment please.
(Dispatcher puts Jeppson back on hold.)
Jeppson-Damn dispatcher, where are you?
(While on hold, Jeppson talks to another or the same unidentified man.)
Jeppson-By the time the goddamn high school gets done with that place it’ll be nothing but powder.
Unidentified man-(speaking in the background)-Let their f--- parents believe they don’t do anything wrong. (He or another man continues to talk, but his remarks are inaudible.)
Jeppson-And like sophomores shoot them dead if you want. Nick Chournos does. Nick Chournos pussy-footed around with some people like this and got his son killed. And now he don’t pussy-foot. He hunts them in his…
(Dispatcher comes back on-line and cuts him off.)
Dispatcher-Hey John.
Jeppson-Yes?
Dispatcher-I’ve got ofoficers on their way. Do you want them to meet you at Zanavoo or do you want them to…
Jeppson-At St. Anne’s Retreat.
Dispatcher-OK.
Jeppson-Three-tenths of a mile past Preston Valley Campground.
Dispatcher-They know where it’s at. They’re on their way, OK?
Jeppson-I’ll be waiting.
Dispatcher-Bye bye…]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 1923197 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> By Ryan Robb Oliver
Staff writer

A packed courtroom of witnesses, family members, deputy sheriffs and reporters listened Wednesday afternoon to the testimony of five people who said they were victims of three men who went too far while protecting a Logan Canyon retreat.

The preliminary hearing in Logan’s 1st District Court had to be delayed into the afternoon because one of the defendants, Arthur Peasnall of Tooele County, failed to show. He was contacted and arrived later, saying he was confused about the hearing date. Testimony in the hearing was expected to continue through most of today.

The three men, Peasnall, John Jeppson of Pocatell9o, Idaho and Christ Doerr of Tooele County, are each charged with six counts of aggravated assault and one count of forcible sexual abuse for violently detaining 38 teen-age and young adult trespassers Oct. 10 at the St. Anne’s Retreat property they were tending.

The 17-year-old Smithfield girl who was allegedly sexually abused said in court that Jeppson felt her buttocks and under her shirt as part of a search for weapons.

“He never checked my jacket.” She said in tears. “He just went up my jacket and shirt.”
Jeppson felt her stomach and her breasts on top of her bra, she said.

The girl said she had come up to the property, a former Catholic retreat rumored to be haunted, with several friends for a Halloween scare, but when she squeezed through the gates she got more than she bargained for.
“We got to the end of the bridge, and this guy came around with a gun and said get down on the f’ing ground,” she said.

She said all three of the men were armed with shotguns with flashlights taped to them, and she said Jeppson fired his gun into a tree to show he was serious.

Like the other victims who came down on the evening of Oct. 10, the girl said her hands were bound by plastic flex cuffs and she was placed into an empty swimming pool until police arrived. All of the trespassers were bound with cords around their necks, which Jeppson allegedly said would detonate and blow their heads off if they moved.

“I felt extremely scared, like something you see in a movie. I didn’t believe it was happening,” she said.
Defense attorney for the three men tried separating their clients from the totality of allegations made by the prosecution’s witnesses. Defenders for Doerr and Peasnall pointed out neither of the two touched the girl. In later testimony, the three defense attorneys would try to separate out who exactly did what, since prosecutors have charged all three men with the same seven crimes.

A Logan boy of Asian descent was a member of the first group of eight people who went to the retreat in the early morning of Oct. 10. The other 30 didn’t arrive at the retreat until the evening of that day.

He testified in a Cache County Jail uniform, having been recently convicted on shoplifting charges.

He said when the three men caught his group on the property; Jeppson held a revolver up to his temple and told him, “I should kill you like I killed one of your family members in Vietnam.”

Jeppson then moved the gun away from his head and fired, he said.

Three more teen-agers who were in the latter group of 30 testified the men physically assaulted them during the episode.

A 17-year old Richmond girl said her head was pulled back by her hair while she was handcuffed in the pool, aggravating a spinal condition. She said she was talking to her friend at the time.

“Mr. Jeppson came up behind me and pulled my head back and said, ‘Shut up. Do you want that rope any tighter?”

A Trenton teen said he was punched in the face by Peasnall and a 17-year old North Logan boy said Doerr kicked him in the stomach when he had been forced at gunpoint to lie on the ground.

He said Jeppson hit him on the side of the head and knocked him unconscious with the butt of this [his] shogun.

One more alleged victim was scheduled to testify for the prosecution today along with a couple of deputy sheriffs. The defense is then scheduled to bring forward its case.

Neither Jeppson nor Doerr would talk with reporters when they left court, and Peasnall was booked into the Cache County Jail for failing to show up on time for the hearing.

[Photo (top) by Mitch Mascaro/Herald Journal. Caption: Assault suspects John Jeppson, right, and Christopher Doerr are flanked by a TV crew Wednesday as they leave 1st District Court following a preliminary hearing. The hearing continued into the afternoon due to the late arrival of fellow suspect Arthur Peasnall.]
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Ghost Stories
Tyler Thurston
Utah State University
Fife Folklore Archives
Logan, Utah
Mythology: Folklore
Mr. Brad Gibbons
Mountain Crest High School
Fall 2013
• Table of Contents
Release Forms
Cover Essay
Autobiographical Sketch
List of Informants
Item No. Informant Title
1 Roholt Dream
2 Peacock Nunnery
3 Roholt Oujia Board
4 Linton Logan Canyon
5 Backus Nunnery
6 Backus Haunted House
7 Nielson Haunted Closet • 8 Nielson Face on the Wall
9 Gonion Weeping Widow
10 Gonion Haunted House
11 Janet Thurston Ghosts
12 Janet Thurston Ghosts
13 Janet Thurston Ghosts
14 Janet Thurston Ghosts
15 Jake Thurston Closet door
16 Brenda Nielsen School
17 Jake Thurston Attic
18 Janet Thurston Hitchhiker
19 Janet Thurston Hillside
20 Roholt Pasture
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Cover Essay
Ghost stories have been and always will be a hot topic just
about anywhere you go. It seems like no matter who it is you talk
to either they know a guy, or they say that they themselves have
witnessed or heard something that would have to do with the
paranormal. If you believe the stories you hear or if you think that
the story you are being told is just a story that's been blown way
out of proportion just to try and get a cheap scare out of somebody
it is still fun to see the kind of reactions that you do out of people
when the story is over, so its always nice to have some good stories
tucked away just in case.
I love to hear ghost stories and I always have. I do what I can
to think that what they are telling me is 100% true because I think
it would be way cool if I knew for a fact that ghosts do exist,
however I cant do that so I just try to believe that they do. It is
interesting to hear other peoples views on what they think is
causing weird things in their house to happen because they are
certain that there is no such things as ghosts and that there is a
logical reason for everything, when really they are probably
freaking out in their house every time the wind blows, and they
just want to act like they don't believe in the paranormal.
The thing that would probably intrigue me the most about
ghosts and crazy things like that happening is because for the most
part I think I really do believe. One thing in particular really makes
me believe that the dead have a way of talking to you in different
ways. For example, during the end of summer in 2010 me and my
family were up at the sand dunes on our second day of our four day
dune trip riding four wheelers. We had all woken up and
everybody was eating breakfast. I wanted to hurry and do some
riding so I just had a glass of milk and went off by myself but
stuck around camp while my family ate. I ended up crashing my
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wheeler really bad and came very close to dying from all of my
injuries that consisted of: five vertebra in my back being broken,
shattering my spleen, lacerating my kidneys, bruising a lung, and
getting a concussion. After my full week of being in the ICU in
Rexburg I was able to go home. It was the second or third night
that I had been back when I had a dream. I was at a party of some
kind in this HUGE room that kind of seemed like a super fancy
hotel lobby or something, just a giant room. In the middle of the
room there was a giant circular center piece with a metal railing
going around it and in the middle there was like a water fountain,
and some trees. When across the room I see my aunt Tami and my
uncle Curtis, both of these members of my family were killed in a
car accident in 2008. I run around the center piece and give them a
big hug and the dream ended shortly after that. I thought it was a
pretty crazy dream but didn't say anything about it to anybody
basically because it was kind of a sad dream and didn't really want
to upset anybody. Well about a week after having that dream I was
in the bathroom one morning brushing my teeth and my mom
came in and started doing her hair. My mom begins talking to me
and she tells me that a few nights ago she had a dream. In this
dream I was at a party of some kind and she remembered a center
piece in the room with a fountain in the middle of it. She saw me
running around some kind of center piece to go and give my aunt
and uncle a big hug. As she finishes telling me this story I am
dumbfounded that she just vividly described my dream to me.
Keep in mind that I almost died and was still recovering, the
doctors had told me that 15 minutes later to the hospital and I
probably would have bled to death. The way we looked at it was
pretty much my aunt and uncle telling us that if I wasn't going to
make it through this ordeal that they would have been there on the
other side to take care of me.
Another story that I have I experienced with my friends. We
were all over at our buddies house when our friend told us that he
had a oujia board. I had always wondered about these things but
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had heard stories and I was a bit worried to try it out but curiosity
got the best of my and I was down to be playing it and see if it
worked like people said it did. There were ten of us there but only
eight were willing to play it because of all the hype that goes on
with them, two people didn't want to take the risk, I couldn't really
blame them. We sat down lit the candle and started asking it
questions, it immediately started working for us but were just
asking it things like "how many spirits are here with us" and things
like that. When we really started to get freaked out is when we
asked it where it was located and it would answer with "TV" and
you were the guy by the TV or "Couch" and you were on the
couch. The scariest part however was when we asked a spirit
where it was and it responded with "you" at that point we all
stopped and briefly freaked out, then put it away. Of course though
we had to pick it up again and keep asking stuff, nothing really
freaky happened around us at all but the answers were freaking us
out pretty good. The house that we were playing it in has got quite
a few weird things going on and our friend that lives there has told
us some weird things that go on in there and he kind of thinks that
we might have let something in with the board, so needless to say
we haven't played it for quite some time.
My method for collecting all of the material was pretty
simple. All I did was I asked around to see if anybody had a story
about something that had happened to them that they thought was
weird and that they didn't really have a logical explanation to.
Some of the stories that I had gathered, the person couldn't sign for
it because they were to young, or they were to far away so I just
had them tell the story to somebody else that I was friends with,
and then I just had that person tell me the story so that I could
record it. Then for some of the other stories I had, I already had
gotten a few stories from people and had them sign for it, then they
would call me with another story that they remembered they had
and then I would just record it over the phone because I didn't
need another signature, just their voice. Then when it came to
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organizing everything, all I did was just put everything in the order
that it happened. There is no sense in making all of the interviews
jump around everywhere because it would be harder for me to
keep track of everything and I am sure it would be a pain to grade,
plus for the most part I think I just followed the packet we were
given to go off of because I figured that you can't go wrong with
following the instructions.
The way that I look at ghost stories hasn't really changed
even after interviewing everybody and hearing their stories. Plus
all I can really do is take everybody's word for it that they are
telling the truth, however the story Kaden Roholt told about his
dad being visited by his deceased grandpa shortly after he had died
I truly believe to be true because that is not the first time I have
heard that story before. I assume that story is one that might have
actually changed the way I look at ghostly things a little bit
because that one I can actually relate a little bit to my experience
with my aunt and uncle. Now I kind of think that maybe dreams
could be some type of a (not trying to sound crazy here) but like a
window or something? I don't know, but apparently there is
something special about a dream and the dead because I know of
two accounts that involve a deceased family visiting them in their
dream for pretty crazy reasons. Kadens grandpa was there to say
goodbye and I think one of the reasons my aunt and uncle could
have been able to talk to me was because I was already so close to
death. Plus I forgot to mention this up top but I got really sick with
something called C-dif, that was the worst experience that I have
ever had. I would go through all of the pain of the four wheeler
accident again before I went through the C-dif illness again,
because that was the part out of the whole experience where I
literally felt like I was going to die. I lost 25 pounds in a matter of
about a week and was so dehydrated that I had to go to the hospital
and get two fulll.v. bags pumped into me because I couldn't keep
fluids. Around this time was when I had my dream.
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At the beginning of getting all of the information from
friends and family and friends of friends, I was skeptical. To be
honest even when I have been thinking things through as I have
been writing this paper, I have been changing my perspective on
how I look at ghosts. I think that ghosts probably do exist, whether
you read through this and think that I am an idiot for thinking that I
really couldn't care less. I know what I have experienced, I have
heard my friends discuss things for the interviews and outside of
the interviews that I believe to be true and so therefore I think I
have good reason to believe .
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Autobiographical Sketch
My name is Tyler Thurston and I am seventeen years old. I am a senior at Mountain Crest
High School and will be graduating in 2014. I was Born in Logan Utah and have lived in
the same area in Nibley for my entire life. I have one little brother and no sisters. My dad
works at Nucor steel and my mom works at Gossner Food's in the human resources
department. I also work at Gossner Food's and am on my way to my third year working
there. I am a maintenance worker and am outside doing stuff for the most part but am
indoors every now and again. I plan on working at Gossners until I am old enough to
work at Nucor steel along with my dad and my uncle, my grandpa also used to work there
until he retired about six years ago so I figured I should probably keep the tradition
going! I live for music. Metal music is something that my life revolves around, old and
new. I'm talking 80's hair metal like Motley Crue, Poison, Pantera, and so much more.
however I mainly listen to the newer type of metal that is super heavy and gets you
moving like crazy. I am currently in a band where I do guitar and vocals, and I love
everything about it. I also love to snowmobile, snowboard, go rock climbing, go to the
dunes, drag racing and pretty much anything else that involves friends and a good time.
The reason I would like to learn more about scary stories and things that involve ghosts is
because I just love getting scared, and I love "dark" "scary" things like movies, music,
and many many more. I have always been fascinated with things like that and I have
also always been confused on what to believe when it comes to ghosts. There are a bunch
of shows that are on TV that say they are all real, but I have no way of knowing if
anything is really happening in those shows because with special effects and all of the
other stuff that we have nowadays you can never tell if anything is true, and when it
comes to big budget movies that are being made that say "based on a true story" or "true
events" you never know how many of the things in the movie really did happen, or if
Hollywood just took a cool concept they heard about and decided to add a bunch of far
fetched stuff in there so that it is kind of based on the true story. Some friends of ours
actually were living in a house that they had claimed to be "haunted" and they actually
had some pretty believable stories, plus we had stayed the night there a few times and we
experienced a few things that were kind of "different" if you know what I mean. Me an
my friends have had some experiences of our own also. Curiosity got the best of us one
night when me and a bunch of my friends were all hanging out and we decided that we
would go get our hands on a Ouija board. I have always wondered about these things,
wondered if they really worked or not, always thought that maybe the people playing
them were just making them move and that everything was super fake, however I am a
believer now. That thing scared us pretty good and we have not been able to get any of
our other friends to touch play it with us again so I am thinking I might look further into
those things and learn more about them while I do more of my research on ghost stories
and encounters .
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List of Informants
Roholt- Kaden Roholt is a Senior at Mountain Crest High school
and lives in Mount Sterling which is up in the Wellsville Area. He
has lived there for about 16 V2 years because he moved into that
house when he was little. He is 17 years old and plays in a band
with me called Tr3ason where he plays bass. He enjoys playing
music, snowboarding, and hanging out with friends. He thinks his
house just might be haunted from the weird things he sees and
hears from time to time. 1, 3, 20
Peacock- Justin Peacock is also a senior at Mountain Crest High,
and he lives in Nibley Utah and has for all of his life. He enjoys
riding four wheelers, and really just being outside doing something
fun with friends. He works at the McDonalds in Hyrum and is
currently thinking of quitting his job and finding a new place to
work. 2
Linton- Robert Linton is one of the owners of the Whysound
venue in Logan Utah and is also a musician himself. Robert writes
classical instrumental stuff on the acoustic guitar and actually
wrote and performed some of the music that was on the Oprah
Winfrey show back when it was popular. However just because he
is playing acoustic stuff he certainly likes himself some super
heavy metal bands! 4
Backus- Alec Backus lived in Arizona for a few years before
moving to Hyrum about four years ago and he plays in a band
called False Witness right now where he plays guitar and My band
has played quite a few shows with them and we attend just about
every metal show in Salt Lake with them anytime there is an
awesome show in town. 5, 6
Nielson- Mckae Nielson lives up in Mt Sterling and is 17 years
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old. Mckae plays guitar really really well and does plays in the
same band as Mr. Alec Backus, and he does vocals as well. Hi
family is Mormon and attends church often. He currently works for
the Iron Gate grill catering and likes doing that and really enjoys
the fact that he gets to eat the left over's that people don't eat at the
parties he caters for. 7, 8
Gonion- Tristan Gonion lives in Hyrum Utah and is yet another
musician. He plays in the band with Mckae Nielson and Alec
Backus where he plays bass. Tristan loves to ride four wheelers
and go fast, plain and simple he likes to go fast. 9, 10
Janet Thurston- Janet Thurston is my madre and lived in
Pocatello for her whole life until she married my dad, and that is
when they moved into an apartment that they lived in for a few
years and then we moved into the house we live in now. She likes
to snowmobile, make crafts, and just do artsy type things, she is
currently employed at Gossner foods. 11, 12, 13,14, 15,17, 18, 19
Brenda Nielsen- Brenda lives in Hyrum and is retired from
work and is my grandma. Her and my grandpa care for my two
little cousins who are both 5 and 9. She used to teach at an
elementary school before I was born but now spends most of her
time keeping the young ones busy .
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Tyler Thurston
August 11, 2013
Item 1
Deceased Dream
Context: Kaden informed me that his dad had a pretty crazy
experience once when he was 8 or 9 years old and he was kind
enough to share the story with me.
Text: Alrighty so my dad told me this and its one of my dads
personal experience ghost stories. When he was about 9 or 9 his
grandpa had passed away, and when he was asleep his grandpa
came to him and he said hey Shane, im dead and I wanted to talk to
you for a minute. He had a short conversation with him and they
said their goodbyes. As his grandpa was leaving his dream he woke
up to his dad waking him up and he said hey Shane I have bad
news. Shane said I already know. His dad said what do you mean?
Shane said grandpa visited me and said he was dead.
Texture: Kaden heard this from his dad and his dad said that it is
completely true and that he remembered everything with distinct
detail.
Both me and Kaden believe his dad was telling the truth and I
think this was one of the most interesting stories I gathered out of
the twenty other stories that I have to sort through.
Item 2
• The Nunnery (Get out)
Context: Justin has a brother in law that took a trip up to the
nunnery with his friends and this came up in conversation because
about 2 weeks ago me and my friends went to the nunnery so he
told me about Rex's experience.
Text: Alright my brother in law Rex was with a group of his
buddies up at the nunnery and it was him and ten other friends, one
of his buddies had a camera and they were in a little group walking
through the nunnery, and it was really quiet then they suddenly
heard a whispered "get out", so they all freaked out and ran out of
• there and on the video you hear get out then the rest is just the
sound of a swinging arm with a camera haha pretty creepy.
Texture: Justin heard the story from his brother in law Rex but I
am not entirely sure if I am sold on this story or not. We have been
up at the nunnery and there was nothing really going on the whole
hour and a half we were up there. Who knows, maybe it was
somebody up there with another group of friends and they thought
it would be funny to go and scare the other group of people that
was up there with them.
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Oujia board
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Context: Alrighty So me and two other friends had this Ouija
board and we were playing with it and the night went on with it
and we had been playing with it for about an hour and a half before
everyone left and my one friend who owned it was to afraid to take
it home with him so I just said I would keep it here at my house.
So
then later at night I'm in bed playing X box and I am just laying
down and while im playing I notice a serious pressure going on my
arm and when I look at my arm the pressure slowly relieved and it
felt like something was getting up and moving, so i was kinda
wigged out but I didn't think much about it. So I keep playing x
box then it was late enough to go to bed. I go to take my shirt off
and my tag was sticking out and then it felt like four fingers slid
down my neck and tucked my tag into my shirt so I flip around and
there was nothing there so I got a really eerie feeling. So I am
laying in bed and fall asleep but then wake up around 3:20
which is the witching hour between 3-4, and at the end of my bed I
• hear some really heavy breathing at the end of my bed so I look
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around and don't see anything and the breathing kept happening as
I forced myself to go back to sleep.
Texture: Kaden told me this story right before we started playing
with the Ouija boards ourselves because he wanted us going in
there already freaking out even before anything started to happen.
I can buy this story because I have heard crazy stuff from people,
and on the internet about the Ouija boards so why would it be
crazy to think that it could happen to him?
Item: 4
• Ghost Dog
Context: I asked Robert if he could help me out with my
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mythology project by telling me a story that he had maybe
experienced that was at all scary, and he happened to have this one.
Text:
Hey what's going on? My friends and I were chilling up logan
canyon one night we go up there often to hang out have food and
sit around a camp fire. It just so happens this one particular night it
was kind of strange we were all sitting around the campfire and a
sound came out of nowhere that I heard like a chain rattling. And at
first I though someone parked their car down on the road and was
walking their dog up the trail, maybe even a park ranger seeing
what was going on. So as I heard the noise I kind of just jumped up
expecting to see a dog under the table like I mentioned but
instantly after I heard chain rattles there was nothing there and it
was crazy that our natural reaction was to jump out of our seats to
look under the table, see what was there and it was right in our
vicinity of where we were and after we saw nothing we went and
searched the path because we were so focused on the sound we had
• heard and this was pretty legitimate and after looking around we
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didn't find anything so it was very very strange.
Texture: I don't know what Robert heard, maybe it was a ghost of
some sorts or who knows maybe it was even a chain tied to a tree
somewhere that was blowing in wind or something I don't know
but Robert isn't the type of guy to just lie to you so I believe he
heard something that startled all of them .
Item 5
Nunnery
Context: Alec and I had gone up to the nunnery with a group of
friends and then a few days later he went up with another group of
friends and he wanted to tell us how the two experiences differed
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Text: Alright so me and 3 or 4 other friends went up to the
nunnery in Logan canyon and first off its just a super sketchy
place but so there is a main room that is a lot freakier than the rest
by where the pool is if you know what I'm talking about. And its
weird to hear creaking sounds and the main room inside of it, its
boarded off except for a hole we had to go through you get in and
it smells awful, chains hanging from the roof there is weird sounds
all over, there is no way it wasn't paranormal. There was creaking
up and down steps and nobody else was walking around with us
we were all standing still. The nunnery / St. Anne's Retreat.
Texture: I had been to the nunnery before and didn't really
experience any of these things before except for the big room
being boarded off and the chains from the ceiling but I don't know
maybe he really did hear and see and smell that stuff, it is a creepy
place however.
Item 6
Arizona Ghost
Context: Alec told me this story a few years ago when we had just
gotten done watching a scary movie because he said that it
reminded him of the same type of "ghost be gone" they had to use
in Arizona.
• Text: ok so when I lived in Arizona I was a little kid so I don't
remember a whole lot about it, but I had this really weird freaky
house we were renting and the basement was always really
freezing cold, and we felt like there was another presence there so
my parents got a weird kind of exorcism and get rid of the ghostly
presence and it worked and was gone forever.
Texture: I don't know about this one, especially because he was a
little kid at the time so it could have just been a whole lot of little
kid imagination going on that had a lot to do with it but he believes
• what he said was true so I am not going to fight him on it ha.
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Item: 7
Haunted Closet
Context: We were making fun of Mckae and what not and the
things we were saying to be funny reminded him of a story that
wasn't really what you would say is funny it's a lot more freaky .
Text: This one is about my haunted basement closet so one day I
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was down there watching TV and I noticed the door was opening
and closing by himself and I thought my little brother was playing
around so I kept watching TV and it kept opening and closing. It
brings back emotions. So I'm sitting there and I get this bad feeling
like a chill and I was like I need to check this out and I turned off
my TV so it was really dark and I look in the closet and there was
no one in there so it was weird then the door slammed shut behind
me and I was like 0 no 0 no and then I hear a voice like Mckae
Mckae and I was freaking out it was crazy then something grabbed
my leg ... .it was outta this world.
Texture: This is either a really crazy story that should be on the
news or else this is just something he thought he would say ha
either way I think it is a fun story that could be passed around to
people that is just fun.
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Face
Context: he got done telling me the other story that he told me for
7 and he said that he had another one for me so we sat down and he
let me interview him once again.
• Text: So I was laying in my bed and it was bed time and I am
• asleep. I wake up and its like 4 in the morning and im like that's
weird I woke up so I roll over to sleep again and I close my eyes
and then I open them again and I see this face on my wall that I
swear was there so I was freaking out and I was like oh no that is
crappy and so I closed my eyes and went to bed and in the morning
it wasn't there and so I was just being haunted by a ghost
Texture: I have actually heard stories about people playing with
Ouija boards and having this type of thing happen to them. I don't
know if he has ever played with one of those before, but I would
recommend he quits doing that if he does if he is getting crazy
• things like that to happen in his house!
Item 9
Weeping Widow
Context: Me and my friends went legend tripping on Halloween
night to the cemetery to see the weeping widow and see if we
could get her to look at us when we shined the light on her, and
Tristan Gonion tells us what happened
• Text: Me and my wonderful friend Tyler, and Alec and Mckae and
• Tyger all decided to check out the weeping widow in the late
afternoon in the night, so we decided to hop the fence and
unfortunately Tyler ripped his pants and so did I we got stuck and
were freaking out as cars were driving by and once we got over our
ripped pants we went to the widow and did the light thingy and
looked at it and it worked and we were very surprised because we
were very spectacle, it was quite sketchy because we didn't think it
would work and it did, and being in the cemetery was creepy
• anyways.
Texture: I was with these guys when they did it and yes indeed it
did work, we all had big flash lights and once we turned them off
we saw the statue lift her head out of her hands and look at us .... .it
was scary.
Item 10
Haunted Building
Context: Tristen heard about this haunted area from his brother
that lives in Pennsylvania and he went there so he thought he
would share it with his dear friends.
Text: I heard about this building that was haunted I don't
• remember what it was but I went to check it out with one of my
•
•
•
good old pals so we decided to go in and we got to the door and it
was chained and we broke it, and the creepy door creaked and we
got into the room and it smelled like something had been skinned
in there like hunting people lived there, it was kinda weird, so we
wondered around the building and we found a dining room area
that was way nice and had a way nice chandelier at the edge of the
table it was really weird like someone was following us but no one
was there and it looked like people had been living there recently.
Texture: I wish I knew what this place was called so maybe I
could google it or something but he said everything he told us was
true and this building was really nasty.
Item: 11
Haunted House
Context: These friends of ours live just down the road from us and
this lady has got a BUNCH of stories about ghosts that she has
come in contact with over the years and I have been in her house
and I am definitely thinking that she is being haunted all of the
time
Text: we are at our friends house hanging out one night and she is
telling me about how she has these ghosts that have followed her
- •• '00 _______ _ ___
•
•
from one house to the next, and were all sitting in the living room
all of us and she starts talking about it and all of the sudden I hear
somebody running up and down the hallway upstairs above us and
we were all downstairs so it was kind of creepy.
Texture: I believe this story one hundred percent because I was
there when it happened and there are quite a few more stories to
come that have to do with her and her ghosts .
Item 12
Old house
Context: The same friend that had the ghost running up and down
the halls also had an old house that she lived in back when she was
a little girl still living at her parents house.
Text: So this friend said she has been followed by ghosts like her
whole life anyway there was an old, old house that she lived in in
• providence across the street from the maverick where they built
- --- - - ---------
•
•
that new car wash and stuff, and she lived in there and said it was
really haunted and she said one day she came back from school
and
walked in and there was someone sitting on her couch and there
was an old lady sitting on her couch in a black veil in all black
sitting and staring forward and she ran in the kitchen and came
back and the lady was gone.
Texture: I believe all of the stories this girl tells because a fair
amount of these stories actually have proof anyways and that
makes it even more awesome .
Item 13
Old House Picture
Context: I have actually seen the newspaper clipping that has the
picture of the man standing in the window of this house and it is
one of he coolest pictures I have ever seen
Text: ok so my same friend that lived in that same creepy house
across from where the maverick was said that it was haunted by
• this old man and I guess when they tore that house down to build
•
I •
•
the carwash there the newspaper was there and took a picture of
the house and they all started freaking out because they were
bulldozing it and the newspaper guy said that there was somebody
there and anyways they printed this picture in the paper and you
could see the silhouette of the man in the upstairs window as they
were tearing it down.
Texture: like I said I have seen the picture of the newspaper with
the guy in the upstairs window and it is really creepy, but totally
awesome! That is a picture that will make a person that is curious
about ghosts a believer .
Item 14
Ghost Girl
Context: I knew this story even before my mom did because our
friend told me this herself, this happened in that old house she
lived in in providence back when she was a little girl.
Text: k so my again my friend that has been living in haunted
houses her whole life told me one morning her mom was yelling at
her to get up one morning and she was taking her time and her
mom was getting mad and she is facing the wall and her mirror is
i.
•
•
on the wall and she said she opened her eyes and this girl that
looked like she was on skates or something because she wasn't
walking went like walking by her door and shot her this big 01
dagger and just kept going on by.
Texture: I really like this story because I can actually like see it
playing through my head and it's a really cool story, personally I
think I would freak out and lose my mind and never sleep in that
house again .
Item 15
Mysterious Door
Context: I was actually in the room when this happened and saw it
with my own two eyes.
Text: So me, my dad and my brother we were all just hanging out
watching TV and out of nowhere our closet door in my parents
room opens up and it's weird because there wouldn't be a draft
or anything in there. So yeah, that's about it.
Texture: This was really freaky because we were all just sitting
•
•
•
there talking and the door just opened. It's really weird because
that closet door always swings shut after you open it so when it
opened all by itself it was creepy!
• Item 16
Helping Hands
Context: I never heard this story before but I found it pretty
interesting. I would like to find this story and read more about it.
Text: K several years ago in a small Wyoming town, this is true
but
I don't remember exactly where. There was I believe a man and a
woman that were in trouble with the law. lean 't remember why
exactly but they went into an elementary school first thing in the
morning and held the kids and the teachers hostage. And it wasn't
• a big school so but there were plenty of kids and they took them
into the gym and they had guns and urn I can't remember they
threatened to blow them up I think. And so anyway the police and
everybody found out and surrounded it but all the kids were scared
And did what the teacher told them but urn eventually I don't
remember if they one of them got shot or something I wish I could
remember better. But kids came and they were being helped out
of
the window by these different people and stuff and the kids said
• after that they had actually had seen people there that were just
•
•
•
---,- ,----------_._ .
kinda floating they didn't have legs or feet. And they saved, I don't
think anybody got hurt any of the kids or teachers. But later on
they were trying to describe who it was that helped them because it
wasn't any of the towns people or anything. And so a lot of the
families got out their photograph albums and they were looking
through and the kids would say that is the person that helped me.
And it would be their great great grandma or great great grandpa
that they never met. And that is a true true story. But there was a
lot
of them that were helped by an ancestors that had passed on years
and years before.
Texture: I really like this story and can't imagine being helped by
family that have already passed on. But then I think it would be
really cool to see some of them again .
----------------- .. _.. _ -_ ... __.. ... .
• Item 17
Footsteps in the attic
Context: I heard this story before and it's from the same people
that lived in the haunted houses their whole lives.
Text: OK so my friend Cody his mom when he was younger he
well his mom when he was younger she heard footsteps in her
attic when she was hanging out with his dad they were just
hanging out watching movies and they heard footsteps in the
attic so they thought they'd go check them out. So anyway they
• go check them out and they go walking up into the attic and
nothing was there. Then they went down and went to get some
•
flashlights came back and when they were on their way back they
heard footsteps on the ladder. So when they got back the footsteps
were gone. The very next day well not the very next but a few
weeks later they heard the very same thing but only in the attic
they didn't want to go check it out. But that is what he told me so
that is pretty much it.
Texture: My little brother heard this story from his friend that
lives in this house and he is so, so sure that his friends house is
haunted.
Item: 18
Hitchhiker
Context: I have actually heard this type of story before in my
mythology class.
Text: so I heard this story about this guy that was driving down
this road and he saw a girl hitch hiking so he picks her up and she
was pretty cold so he gives her his lettermen's jacket and drops her
off at her house and then realizes that he forgot to get his jacket
back so the next day he goes back to this house and says I need to
• get my jacket back is Susan here? And they said I am sorry Susan
died twenty years ago. He said well no I saw her last night and I
•
gave her my jacket, the mom said well I can take you to her grave
they go to the cemetery and his lettermen jacket is on top of the
grave.
Texture: I don't think I really believe this story because I have
heard it be told in so many different ways so it sounds like
everybody kind of has their own spin on it. Or maybe it is true but
some of the translation has been shifted throughout all of the times
it has been told .
•
•
•
Item 19
Maiden on the Hill
Context:
Text: ok so many many years ago in high school there has been
this story about this maiden who was in love this man, well this
man went hunting up in the mountains and never came back, so
she
went looking for him and actually froze to death up there. And
every time the snow starts to melt in the spring you can see an
outline of her and its called maiden on the hill.
Text: I have seen this mountain before I the spring and its really
cool looking. You can actually see the girl and it looks like she is
walking across the mountain side. I had seen if before but hadn't
heard the story until now .
•
•
•
Item 20
The Pasture
Context: This is a friend of mine's property that some of my other
friends go up to in the summer time to have fires and hang out that
is up in Mt. Sterling and its pretty creepy and has some creepy
things going on around it all the time.
Text: Ok so my friends own this property where it is kind of
secluded from everything else in Wellsville. And whenever we go
down there to sleep out there or just hang out. We always hear
something running across the river a few hours after we get there
and there are always just twigs around us breaking and footsteps
and we always see something white darting in between trees. One
day while leaving me and one of my friends we saw something big
and white jumping from tree to tree and after we saw that we were
out of there.
Texture: This in my eyes is all true because I have been down
there before and I agree with the things running towards us in the
river and then nothing ever shows up. I still however haven't seen
any white things jumping tree to tree there before but hey anything
is possible I guess .]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Tyler Thurston]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 11773402 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]>
To the editor:
After reading the article on the 30-plus teen-agers that had trespassed on private property in Logan Canyon, we felt compelled to present our view of a hitherto unspoken portion of this alleged violent occurrence.

The purpose of “law” is to protect the rights of the citizenry. The first principle of all law does not compel performance. Quite to the contrary, law prohibits performance. “Do not speed, Do not ill, Do not covet.” I fail to see the action of the watchmen as being as reprehensible, as we have been led to believe.

Where do the parents stand on the issue of their children breaking the law? Does this issue take a back seat because someone held these young adults accountable for their actions?

I have not read one iota of evidence where the watchmen werw outside this private property inviting anyone in. These teen-agers knew that they were trespassing, yet because they were caught and held for the police the watchmen are the ones in the public hot seat.

If my teen-ager had been among those involved, I would have been just as outraged as those parents, but at my teen-ager, not the watchmen. We, as parents, have a God-given responsibility to teach our children to respect other people’s rights, such as obeying the law and being good citizens.

Also to Mr. Chambers, Logan attorney, to teach your children that being frisked or emotionally distressed by our “now” teen-agers taking guns, knives and explosives to schools, churches, etc. The idea of making the perpetrator the victim and the watchmen the villains appears typical of jurisprudence today. Do we even need to wonder why our social structure is breaking down?

Susan Walker
Wellsville

Youths could have prevented incident

To the editor:
When we first picked up the paper and read where we could leave a message for you between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., we found your “mailbox” was full, so we decided to leave this at your office.

Incidentally, we do not know any of the parties involved in this Logan Canyon incident, so we have no preconceived notions because of any friendships.

We would expect our community to hold people accountable for their actions. Although the caretaker definitely overreacted, if the story as reported was accurate, but one must realize this would have never occurred had the youths involved not been breaking the law in the first place. We feel the youths should be required to perform some form of public service to make up for their actions, which initially caused the problem.

A reprimand to the caretaker is all that should be required, as he probably handled it the way he thought best to control the crowd which had him overwhelmed.

Monte and Eunice Merrill
Logan]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 858858 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Mascaro, Mitch]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Mascaro, Mitch]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Mascaro, Mitch]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Mitch Mascaro]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Wilkin, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Mascaro, Mitch]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Wilkin, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Wilkin, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Mascaro, Mitch]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> By Ryan Robb Oliver
Staff writer

A bench warrant was issued this morning after a man accused of terrorizing 38 teenagers and young adults at the St. Anne’s Retreat in Logan Canyon failed to appear for his preliminary hearing.

Arthur Peasnall of Tooele County was scheduled to appear at 1st District Court in Logan at 9 this morning. The two other men charged in the case, John Jeppson of Pocatello, Idaho, and Chris Doerr of Tooele County, were present for the hearing, but Judge Clint Judkins continued it until 1:30 this afternoon and ordered a bench warrant issued for Peasnall.

Judkins made his decision at 10:20 a.m. when Peasnall had still not arrived. No one in the court, including his attorney, Arden Lauritzen, could account for his whereabouts.

“Use your contacts in Tooele County and do what you have to do to find him,” Judkins said to Cache County Attorney Scott Wyatt.

Many of the witnesses set to testify at the hearing and their family members expressed displeasure at the delay.

The preliminary hearing is being held for the state to prove it has enough evidence to bring its case against the three men to trial. The men were arrested in October after they tied up and allegedly threatened to kill 38 trespassers on the retreat they were caretaking for. They are also accused of touching the breasts of one juvenile, claiming they were searching her for weapons.

The men are each charged with six counts of aggravated assault and one count of forcible sexual abuse. All three were released from the Cache County Jail shortly after their arrest on $5,000 bail each.

The Herald Journal will have a report on this afternoon’s development in its Thursday edition.]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 402589 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> By Jacob Santini
Senior News Writer

Three men accused of assaulting 30 high school students from Cache Valley, at what was once a Catholic retreat, are going to trial later this month.

Judge Clint Judkins ruled Thursday afternoon that the state had enough evidence to hold trial for Christopher Doerr, Arthur Peasnall and John Jeppson. Doerr and Peasnall are both charged with six counts of aggravated assault. Jeppson is charged with one count of forcable [forcible] sexual assault and six counts of aggravated assault.

According to one of the victims, the first alleged crime occurred at around 2 a.m. on Oct. 10. The three accused men caught a group of men and women trespassing on the property of Saint Anne’s Retreat.

Once the tree guards found them, Jeppson fired a shot into the air and told the eight to get down. Once on the ground, the individuals were retained with plastic cuffs and then taken to the main lodge room. Jeppson then wrapped a rope around the necks of the group and told them if they moved their heads would be burnt off, he said.

The second incident occurred Oct. 10 about 9:30 p.m. Three groups of local high school students say they were ambushed on the bridge and then cuffed together.

In testimony on Wednesday in Logan’s First District Courthouse, a 17-year-old girls who is accusing Jeppson of sexually assaulting her, said the group of 11 friends were walking across the bridge when a man came running at them and fired a shot into the air.

“He yelled get down on the f’ing ground; you are all under arrest,” the woman said. “Then he fired his gun in the air.”. . . [missing text] of high school students who were face down in the ground, the girl said.

Once all of the kids were on the ground they were handcuffed together with plastic flex cuffs.

Once restrained, the girl testified, Jeppson sexually assaulted her.

“He searched up both of my legs and then around my behind just patting around,” the girl said. “The then put both hands up my stomach and over my breast and then back down over my stomach.”

“I was so afraid, I didn’t know what to think,” the girls said, crying.

The group of about 30 students were then led to the empty pool on the Saint Anne’s property, according to testimony.

They made us kneel down in the pool and then they put a wire around our necks. He (Jeppson) said it would blow up if any of us moved because it was attached to an explosive, she said.

Another 17-year-old girls said she was injured after Jeppson had grabbed her by the collar and jerked her head back and then forward again.

Johnson said, “He (Jeppson) said ‘Shut up or do you want that rope any tighter.”

Jeppson’s defense attorney David Perry pointed out that vandals had caused extensive damage to the property on the Wednesday and Thursday prior to the Friday that the high school kids trespassed. The eight in the group held by the three men on Friday morning had also threatened to be back later to get revenge on the men, Perry said.

The defense attorney for Doerr, Barbara Lochmar said, “Was it reasonable for Jr. Jeppson, Mr. Doerr and Mr. Peasnall to believe that a felony was going to be committed?

“There had been burglaries the two nights prior and their lives had been threatened earlier that morning,” Lochmar said. “There was reasonable belief that a crime was going to be committed.”

For a crime to be an aggravated assault, deadly force must have been used, Lochmar said.

“Did they use deadly force?” she asked. “They shot in the air and shot to the sides of the people. I’m not so sure that deadly force was used.”

In response, Cache County Attorney Scott Wyatt said, “A loaded gun falls under deadly weapon. A felony to injure or use deadly weapon is deadly force.

“If every time someone steps in my backyard and made a noise I could shoot at them, then we live in a sorry world,” Wyatt said.

The charge of forceable [forcible] sexual assault was dropped against Doerr and Peasnall by Judkins because there was no evidence which showed they had sexually assaulted any of the high schoolers.

Peasnall is currently in the custody of Cache County Jail. Jukdkins issued a bench warrant for him when he failed to appear at the preliminary hearing on Wednesday morning. Peasnall was picked up in Tooele County and brought to the courthouse that afternoon. His bail was reset at $5,000.

An arraignment for the three will be held on March 23.]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 752004 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> All three arraigned on aggravated assault charges; lawyers may seek change of venue.
By The Associated Press

A June 8 trial date has been scheduled for three men charged with aggravated assault for allegedly using too much force to detain trespassing youngsters at a Logan Canyon retreat.

John Jeppson of Pocatello, Idaho, Chris Doerr and Arthur Peasnall, both of Tooele County, were arraigned on Monday on six counts each of the third-degree felony.

Jeppson also is charged with forcible sexual abuse for allegedly touching the breast and buttocks of a female trespasser while searching her.

The men are accused of using violence to detain 38 young people who entered the former St. Anne’s Retreat in Logan Canyon on Oct. 10 for a Halloween season thrill.

The young people, ranging in age from 16-21, initially were charged with trespassing. But the owners of the private retreat asked that charges be dismissed after hearing allegations that three men staying there terrorized the youths.

The three were bound over for trial earlier this month after a preliminary hearing.

Jeppson had been represented by public defender David Perry, but during Monday’s arraignment, Perry told 1st District Judge Clint Judkins that Jeppson has retained his own attorney, Greg Skordas of Salt Lake City.

Skordas will now have to approve the trial date.

If the tentative date works out, the trial is expected to last four and a half days.

Logan attorney Arden Lauritzen, who represents Peasnall, and Doerr’s attorney, Barbara Lachmar, said they will confer with Skordas about the possibility of asking to move the trial to another county.

Judkins said all motions must be filed with the court by April 20.]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 584071 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]>
The third and final suspect accused of violently detaining and threatening 38 people at the St. Anne’s retreat on Oct. 10 was arrested Sunday morning.

Arthur Peasnall, 22, of Tooele was taken into custody by Cache County deputy sheriffs. Peasnall is charged with six counts of aggravated assault. He posted $5,000 bail and was released from jail shortly after the arrest.

Two other suspects in the incident, John Jeppson of Pocatello, Idaho, and his son-in-law Chriss Doerr of Tooele County, were arrested last month, and both posted bail.

Jeppson, considered the lead property watchman in the assault, is scheduled to be arraigned in 1st District Court on Nov. 10. Dates have not been set yet for the two other men.

The three men are accused of tying up, threatening and assaulting young people who were caught trespassing at the cabin site in Logan Canyon.]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 288621 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass;]]> legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends;]]> Zsiray, John]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> colored photographs;]]> image/jpeg;]]> Image;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]> To the editor:

After living here peacefully for over 30 years, for some unknown reason I suddenly find myself the victim of several consecutive nights of harassment and vandalism, including screaming and pounding on the house, outdoor planters upset and damaged, large boulders landing in the driveway, etc. While I have appreciated the quick and professional response of the authorities, I am somewhat baffled by being told by two different government and law enforcement officials that “Tuesday nights are the worst because that’s the night for scouting and other youth activities at the church.” Perhaps because I’m not of the local culture, the connection there escapes me, but what does seem clear is that there must be some parents out there unaware of what their kids are doing, and I appeal to them for help.

Another factor may be the unfortunate message, misinterpreted or not, that seems to have been sent by the recent events at St. Ann’s, that teen-agers can do anything they want without fear of any consequences or accountability. This is not fairly preparing teens for their future in the real world and is definitely a problem for the rest of us in the meantime.

Jerry Benbow
River Heights]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 554198 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]> Legends;]]> legend-tripping;]]>
Newspaper hasn’t told whole story
To the editor:
It was with disbelief that I read the first article of the incident at St. Anne’s retreat. Who were these guardsmen, and what were they protecting?

My mind began to wander. Was it a drug ring? Were they members of some militia movement?

My disbelief quickly turned to disgust after watching the local news reports. Wait a minute! We haven’t heard the whole story. And isn’t that a reporter’s job? To get the story? The whole story?

You gleefully told us in great detail the accusations made by the teen-agers, while glossing over the fact that they were knowingly and willingly breaking the law. They didn’t just stumble across private property. Every single one of them knew as they were climbing through tall, locked chain-linked fences topped with razor wire and huge signs clearly stating “No Trespassing” that they were breaking the law.

Funny how the other side of the story is coming, not from your reporters, but by editorials and letters to the editor. Somebody at the Herald Journal is not doing their job!

The teen-agers and their parents were quick to whine and run to the press when they felt their rights had been violated. They failed to mention the actual “prank” or the “criminal act,” as it should appropriately be called, they were about to inflict on the property, its owners and the guardsmen that surely wo7uld have violated their rights!

The parents of these teen-agers have obviously failed to teach them right from wrong and the difference between “having fun” and breaking the law.

Maybe that comes from the attitudes expressed by some of these parents downplaying their children’s involvement by calling it a “prank.”

Some of these parents participated in similar “pranks” while they were in their youth. Perhaps if these same parents had been held accountable and taught the seriousness of their actions back then they wouldn’t be downplaying their children’s actions today.

Quit treating these teen-agers like they are the victims, or worse, like they’re the heroes. They haven’t done anything heroic.

I cannot condemn or condone the actions of these guardsmen. I can only imagine how I would have reacted to having 38 people breaking and entering my home in the middle of the night.

Stopping and detaining them would be a challenge. How does one do that? We do have the right in this country to protect our lives and our property. Thank goodness no one was killed.

It is ironic that the guardsmen will be legally responsible for the choices they made that night, while the teen-agers, who knowingly made the choice to break the law, are set free with no accountability whatsoever. I guess whining really does pay.

And now a suggestion to those teen-agers who were involved. Unfortunately, the charges against you were dropped. But if you would like to right those wrongs started by you, how about returning to St. Anne’s retreat, legally this time, and putting in some hours of community service repairing the damage inflicted on that property over the last couple of decades.

Maybe then this whole awful, scary and upsetting incident will be put to rest on a positive note.

Cindy Thompson
Logan

Incident a black eye for law enforcement

To the editor:
This incident in the canyon really put a black eye on some of the Sheriff Department (deputies) for their handling of the situation. Some of our friends say maybe they’d better take a refresher course at training school so they know whom and when to arrest.

Look at the scenario, police called, on arrival they find crying teens, ropes around their necks, handcuffed, with men standing over them with guns and knives, a definite hostage situation, same thing as the night before. So arrest the hostages, charge them with criminal trespassing.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Men with guns arrested and taken into custody and the names of the teens taken. Did they have a problem identifying the criminals? Or, as quite a few people are now suggesting, buddies of some officers?

But they go to church, one report said, fine, upstanding men. Tell me about it!

Charges should not be so hard to find. Child molesting, child abuse, death threats, kidnapping (because some of these young people had not entered the gate but were forced to enter, guns held to their heads).

If no action is taken against these men, consider what a dangerous precedent it sets. When you go to hunt, fish, hike, picnic, Halloween, some crazed landowner with a no-trespass sign could terrorize you. But maybe if such a thing happens, the right people will be arrested, charged and prosecuted.

If $100,000 damage had been done by vandals, as claimed by the owner, nothing would be left worth guarding, especially with guns, because it was stated they only paid $120,000 in the first place. How easy to justify their actions and shirk responsibility for this terror on young people.

Blame the young people for things they did not do and classify all of them as destructive and bad. These young people who came there Friday night are good, decent kids. They did not destroy his property and did not deserve the crazed treatment they received at the hands of some morons and at the hands of officers who were supposed to be in control of the situation.

I read the sheriff is trying hard to determine if these groups of frightened young people had threatened the lives of the gun-toting men. Come on, get real.

Faye Johnson
Benson

Guards roughed up by zealous media

To the editor:
The recent incident at St. Anne’s retreat brought to mind problems my husband and I endured with some youthful trespassers when we were first married.

A group of neighborhood kids continuously climbed the apple tree in our back yard and ascended to the roof of our house. They considered it their private playground. They would run around there having a grand dime until discovered.

Our pleadings, threatenings and entreatings that they could get hurt or cause damage to our roof fell on deaf ears. Their response was, “But where will we play?”

There was a public park within a block of our home with a fine playground. So the issue wasn’t really where could they play, but where else could they find excitement, danger and challenge doing something they shouldn’t, while trying to avoid getting caught?

Finally we did the only thing we could do to salvage our sanity, the roof and to keep someone’s child from ultimate serious injury. We cut down the tree. It shouldn’t have had to be.

The father of one of the “St. Anne’s 30” was reported to have said during TV coverage that if the owners wanted to keep the kids out, they could have found a better way. And what, pray tell, wo uld have been a better way? An electric fence, vicious guard dogs or land mines?

Although I can’t recommend all the actions taken by the guards, I can certainly understand their frustrations. With determined trespassers making it difficult for the caretaker to fulfill his responsibilities, and with previous vandalism and threats, can’t we understand his trepidation when 30 trespassers (the age of North Korean soldiers in my husband’s war) penetrated the security fence at 10 p.m. How are those guards to know if these night invaders onto private property were intent only on “having fun?”

These trespassers could have learned a valuable lesson concerning the law: “Want the consequences of what you want.” The incident could have been an effective deterrent for future lawbreaking fun-seekers. Instead, all charges against the teens, have now reportedly been dropped, eliminating those consequences for their actions.

Once the guards have been thoroughly manhandled by a zealous media and by a legal system seeking to appease angry parents, local floodgates will be opened, not just at St. Anne’s, but everywhere. IT’s going to take more than “No Trespassing” signs to stem the tide of disrespect for law and property.

If special consideration is to be given to trespassing teens seeking fun at someone else’s expense, then shouldn’t special consideration also be given to guards who reacted in the performance of duty to extenuating circumstances resulting from an incident they did not precipitate?

Janice H. Keeler
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Mountain Crest High School
Mountain Crest Folklore Archives
Logan, Utah
Folklore
Instructor: Brad Gibbons
Fall 2012

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Total Number of CDs in Project: 1
Equipment Used: RCA Digital Voice Recorder VR5320R
Class: Folklore
Quarter & Year: Fall 2012
Instructor: Brad Gibbons
Interviewer: McCall Hoggan
Address:
Informants: Sarah Allison Harris, Jana Hoggan, Jill Froehle, Jared Hoggan
Brief Description of Project: Started out to find out infonnation about the Logan Canyon
Nunnery, but quickly got into stories about Ouija Boards and other Paranonnal Experiences.
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Field Collection CD Cover Sheet 11
Informant Release Forms 111
Collector Release Form XVI
Table of Contents XV11
Cover Essay (Analysis) XV111
• Works Cited XXIX
Autobiographical Sketch xxx
List of Informants XXXI
Transcription w/Cover Sheets 1-13

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LOGAN CANYON NUNNERY AND PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES
COVER ESSAY
Is the Logan Canyon Nunnery haunted? We may never know, but after my brief research
maybe we'll have a better idea of what the answer is. I interviewed 2 people who had been to the
Nunnery, and two people who just had strange paranormal stories to tell. The two people who
had gone to the Nunnery, both said they didn't see anything to make the place seem haunted
besides their own fear that came only because they were expecting something scary .
The Nunnery's real name is St. Ann's Retreat; it was first used as a summer retreat for
two wealthy New Yorkers and their families. They had many guests who came to stay, including
the Czar of Russia. It was later used as a summer retreat for the Nuns in the 1950's and later as a
Children's Catholic Camp. The property has 21 total buildings on it, which include two larger
lodges, six smaller cabins, a pool house, a playhouse, and the swimming pool.
The classic myths of the Nunnery are usually quite similar and go something like this:
One of the Nuns got pregnant and to try and save her reputation and keep her faith she gave birth
and then drowned her new born baby in the swimming pool outside. After doing this she could
no longer live with what she had done, so she killed herself in the main lodge. Another story is
that the Nuns were getting pregnant by the Priests and then drowning their babies in the
swimming pool. There are many different variations of these stories .
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Some of the things that are supposed to happen when you go to the Nunnery late at night
are that if you go by the swimming pool and wait you will hear the crying of newborn babies
about to be drowned. Another is if you go into the main lodge and walk through the building you
will see the ghost of the nun who killed herself.
"You know we didn't see the nun walking around like some people say they do, so we just
basically did the tour, scared ourselves, and took off. "
-Jared Hoggan
I personally think that the stories were just made up, and that it's just a bunch of old
buildings. I do however think it would be a really cool place to see in the day
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WORKS CITED
http://www.deseretnews.com!artic1e/640196655/Legends-surround-St-Anns­Retreat.
html?pg=all
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
McCall Haylie Hoggan was born September 3, 1995 in Logan, Utah. She lived in a condo in
Black Hawk until she was three, when her parents divorced she lived with her grandparents in
North Logan, Utah. She moved to Nibley, Utah in the second grade with her father and step
mom. At this age her two aunts told her many scary stories, helping her realize she enjoyed the
thrill of being scared. She attends Mountain Crest High School where she is a junior in Mr.
Gibbons Folklore class. She has heard many stories of and about ghosts, but has not yet seen one
for herself. She loves to hear stories of the paranormal but, usually isn't interested in going to
sites where known ghosts are located. When she is not at school she enjoys taking naps, spending
time with friends and family, fine dining, and occasionally traveling.
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LIST OF INFORMANTS
Sarah Allison Harris: Allison is my mom, she works at State Farm and is a student getting her
Masters Degree at Utah State University. She has lived in Cache Valley most of her life, and is a
graduate from Logan High School.
Jana DeVone Hoggan: Jana is a graduate from Utah State University, she has lived in Cache
Valley her whole life, where her back yard led right into the River Heights Cemetary. She is
currently moving to Nome, Alaska where she has ajob in Juvenile Probation.
Jillian Marguerite Froehle: Jill was born in Cache Valley her sister is Jana Hoggan, they
played the Ouija Board together at their home in River Heights. She now lives in Nome, Alaska.
Jared Bradley Hoggan: Jared is the oldest brother of Jill and Jana, and is also my dad. He has
lived in Cache Valley his whole life. He has not been quite as into the paranormal as his sisters.
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TRANSCRIPTION COVER SHEET • CD Track: 1
Interviewee: Sarah Allison Harris
Place of Interview:
Date of Interview: October 28,2012
Interviewer: McCall Hoggan
Recorder: McCall Hoggan
Recording Equipment: RCA Digital Voice Recorder VR5320R
Transcription Equipment: Microsoft Word • Transcribed by: McCall Hoggan •
Transcript Proofed by: McCall Hoggan
Brief Description of Contents: Allison describes the time she went to the Nunnery and the
things that happened while she and her friends were there.
Reference: MH= McCall Hoggan (Interviewer)
AH= Allison Harris (Interviewee)
NOTE: Pauses during the interview such as "Umm H are not included in the transcription.
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MH: Ok, when did you go to the Nunnery?
AH: When I was 16.
MH: Ok, do you remember what time of year it was?
AH: It was fall.
MH: So it was cold?
AH: It was a little bit cold, it hadn't snowed yet.
MH: Why did you go?
AH: Well, because my friends and I had heard lots of stories about it like that it was haunted. We
heard that one of the nuns that had lived there got pregnant and drowned her baby in the
swimming pool to hide it. Umm and so we just, everyone talked about it and it wasn't gated off
and like how it has barb wire now it wasn't like that then, you could just walk through the gate
and walk up there so we wanted to go check it out just to scare ourselves kind of.
MH: Ok, umm who did you go with?
AH: My friends umm, trying to think everyone who was there when we actually went inside the
building, cause we went a couple times but there was only one time when we were actually brave
enough to go inside the building. I think my friend Jenny was there and Jake and J.R.
MH: Umm, what happened once you got to the nunnery?
AH: Well like I said we'd been there before, just we wanted to look at the swimming pool. And
we hadn't dared to go inside the building, so this time we were like we're gonna go in the
building and walk around.
MH: Was the swimming pool inside?
AH: No, the swimming pools outdoors. But so we'd been to the swimming pool before, but this
time we had a flashlight and we're like we're gonna go inside and like explore. And ,what's the
question? Sorry I forgot
MH: What happened once you got up there.
AH: Okay, so we decided to go in so we're walking around in there umm just it was scary kind
of because we'd scared ourselves not, I don't really think it's a scary place I don't think its
haunted I just think that we were scared. And we were walking around and our friend Jace who
had been waiting in the car like he was like "I'm not going in you guys are crazy." Umm he
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came up after we had gone in and like did something to scare us like he made this loud noise
outside, we freaked out everyone ran out of the building except me and I was there alone.
MH: Why didn't you run out?
AH: Ugh, I don't know I didn't know everyone was gonna leave. I left after I realized everyone
had gone.
MH: Ok, is that all?
AH: Umm ya, and I ran back to the gate like where he was parked cause I was scared.
MH: Umm would you ever go back?
AH: Oh ya, I'd like to go back in the day time just to see what it's like. I don't think its haunted.
MH: I want to go there too; I think it would be cool.
AH: So ya, I'd like to go back just to check it out.
MH: Ok.
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TRANSCRIPTION COVER SHEET
CD Track: 2 & 3
Interviewee: Jana DeVone Hoggan
Place of Interview:
Date of Interview: November 1, 2012
Interviewer: McCall Hoggan
Recorder: McCall Hoggan
Recording Equipment: RCA Digital Voice Recorder VR5320R
• Transcription Equipment: Microsoft Word
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Transcribed By: McCall Hoggan
Transcript Proofed by: McCall Hoggan
Brief Description of Contents: Jana tells some stories of X whom she talked to on her
Ouija Board, and ofthe possible ghosts that she heard in her home.
Reference: MH: McCall Hoggan (Interviewer)
JH: Jana Hoggan (Interviewee)
NOTE: Pauses during the interview such as "Umm" are not included in the transcription.
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MH: Ok, can you state your name?
JH: I am Jana.
MH: Where are we right now?
JH: We are at my house, in Logan Utah.
MH: Ok. So have you personally played with an Ouija Board?
JH: Yes, I have on many many occasions.
MH: Ok. (Phone Rings) Where did you play with the Ouija Board?
JH: I have played it in my bedroom at myoid house in River Heights, I've played it in friends'
houses, in cemetery's, in various places that we thought were maybe haunted, we would go play.
In those experiences there was one common person that seemed to always come to the board
when we would be trying to talk to people, his name was X he was supposedly the Devils right
hand man, usually whenever we'd be talking to someone or like a spirit he would come and take
over like half way through. He could just kick them off the board and take over the conversation;
he had a very distinct way of spelling things and so we could always tell when he had taken over.
MH: What do you mean by that?
JH: Because he commonly misspelled and abbreviated words, he had never actually been born so
he didn't really learn how to read and write through like a school setting. And so he just spelled
things the way they sounded, which so typically he spelled a lot of things wrong. And then
whenever we talked to spirits who had actually lived, they could spell better and were easier to
talk to than him.
MH: Who was usually with you when you talked to X?
JH: My sister, J~ll, and my friend Zandra were always with me.
MH: K. How old were you when you started using the Ouija Board?
JH: I was 16 and I only had it for about a year, just because I ended up getting rid of it because I
decided I didn't like it.
MH: What made you decide to get rid of it?
JH: After we kind of the excitement of playing it started to die out, I kept it under my bed and
when it was under my bed for about 3 weeks I was having really weird bizarre dreams about
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death and dying and serpents and it was kind of scary. And I kind of chalked it up to the Ouija
Board, so I got rid of the Ouij a Board and I had never had those dreams since I got rid of it.
MH: Hmm, so.
JH: Can you like fast forward it to ...
MH: Its recording ..
JH:Oh
MH: Its ok, so back to X do you remember anything specific things that he would say to you?
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JH: Not necessarily to me, it seemed that he had a crush on my sister which is why whenever she
was around and we were playing the Ouija Board is why he would come in and take over. Ifwe
ever started playing and she was gone to the bathroom or something that's when we would get to
talk to somebody else. As soon as she would enter the room he would take over, and he always
wanted to talk to her. I can't remember some of the specific things that he would say to her, but
kind of that he was waiting for her to die so that he could be with her.
MH: He said that?
JH: Uhh- huh, and it was just really creepy it got to the point with him where he was so, because
he was a very powerful spirit where he was supposedly you know, pretty high up on the devils
list that where he was able to overtake other spirits and kick them off the board and he would
make weird things happen every once in a while. But it got to the point that Jill wouldn't play on
the Ouija Board anymore because it was just getting to weird because he was so powerful and so
possessive that we were afraid something would happen if she continued to play, so she just
observed for a while. Some ofthe weird things that would happen, is like one time we had a
bunch of candles lit and we had asked X when he had taken over the board to show us a sign that
he was as powerful as he said he was. And right when we asked him to do that the candle that we
had at the head of the board shot up really big and all the other ones dimmed down really low for
like just a second then it went back to normal. And we asked him if that was him messing with
the candles and he said yes. And then we told him on another occasion that we wanted a sign and
right when we asked him that, a door slammed outside and there was no wind there was no one
out there, there was no reason for the door to slam especially as hard as it did. And then he once
again took credit for that also when we asked if it was him, he said it was.
MH: Did you ever see him in person, or thought that you saw him or any of the ghosts that you
talked to?
JH: No, well not I don't know not that I know of, I know there's an incidents in my parents
house after we played the Ouija Board where Jill saw somebody she thought it was me, I was not
home no one else was home. But she said she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, and
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someone came down the hallway to the bathroom and said her name and she said you know she
kind of put her finger up in the mirror and said you know hold on just a second cause she was in
the middle of brushing her teeth and she got done brushing her teeth, she went out there and
there was nobody downstairs, nobody in the house, nobody was home. And she called me to see
if I had come home and left, and I had never been home. And so Jill may have seen him, and that
was about probably the only time except for I used to wake up to sometimes when I would hear
people talking in the hallway but there would be nobody there. But I don't know necessarily who
it was, but I could always hear a man and woman talking in the hallway on several occasions I'd
wake up in the middle of the night and I could hear them.
MH: Were they loud, or quiet?
JH: It was enough so I could hear them but I couldn't make out what they were saying, cause
they were in the hallway outside my bedroom door. And then, because ya where I don't know
exactly what X looks like the one time I thought I saw a spirit, I don't know if it was him or not
but it was really scary. I was laying in my bed and it was one of those weird half-awake half
asleep things, and I dreamt that I watched my bedroom door open cause I always slept with my
bedroom door closed. And in my dream my bedroom door had opened, well then in real life I
rolled over and opened my eyes and there was a man standing above my bed like looking down
at me and I gasped because I was scared and then he like disappeared. And I sat there forever and
I know I was awake when it happened and but that was the only time I ever saw that man, which
could have been him. I don't know, it was really scary though.
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TRANSCRIPTION COVER SHEET
CD Track: 5
Interviewee: Jill Froehle
Place of Interview:
Date of Interview: November 1, 2012
Interviewer: McCall Hoggan
Recorder: McCall Hoggan
Recording Equipment: RCA Digital Voice Recorder VR5320R
• Transcription Equipment: Microsoft Word
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Transcribed By: McCall Hoggan
Transcript Proofed by: McCall Hoggan
Brief Description of Contents: Jill tells about her time playing with the Ouija board and going
to the Ogden cemetery to see Florence. She even talks a little about what some people think are
aliens in Alaska
Reference: MH= McCall Hoggan (Interviewer)
JF= Jillian Froehle (Interviewee)
NOTE: Pauses during the interview such as "Umm " are not included in the transcription.
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MH: Ok, so have you ever had a paranonnal experience?
JF: Yes, many.
MH: Ok can you tell me about any of them?
JF: One in particular that stands out is probably when I was in high school me and my friends
like sometimes just for fun would play on the Ouija Board and there was like you know we heard
weird things about the myths of the Ouija board and anyways supposedly that only bad spirits
could actually or neutral spirits could actually speak through that. And anyways there was one in
particular that would always usually talk to us and his name was X, and in the spirit world he
supposedly was pretty high up there on the, on who was in control on the other side. Or at least
who has somewhat power on the other side, but anyway so his spirit for some reason took a real
attachment to myself and we'd been told from people with experience in the Ouija board that a
lot oftime spirits will be drawn to a person with a very innocent spirit or a good spirit and to be
honest usually when we played the Ouija board I was always saying prayers in my head because
you know I'd get really nervous of the unknown and bad things can really happen. Anyway
during this time, there was one day that I was in, in my home and I was downstairs in our
basement and I was alone down there, or at least I thought I was. And anyway I was in the
bathroom with the door open, and I was brushing my teeth. And in our bathroom downstairs
there's a mirror, a huge mirror above the sink and then, so then you know as your brushing your
teeth you can see out into the hallway behind you. And then there's another mirror, and so the
mirrors can catch you know reflections of each other. Well anyway, when I was brushing my
teeth I heard my name, I heard somebody say my name. And I look up and I just see this
silhouette of a figure and it, it resembled a male figure and I assumed it was my younger brother
at the time, Lance. And I held my finger up to say one minute you know, just give me a minute
I'm brushing my teeth ill be done. So anyways when I got done brushing my teeth I went into
Lances room at the time and nobody was there, and you know the lights were off and I thought
well ok maybe he went upstairs. So I went upstairs to see what he needed, and it turned out I was
the only one home and nobody was home, and nobody had been home. And so it really freaked
me out because you know who or what was it that said my name. And that I could see, and you
know see a figure of. And at that time I kind of related it to that maybe it was that spirit that we
had you know talked to on, on the, on the Ouija board.
MH: Is that the only time that you felt like you saw something, or?
JF: No, I always felt like growing up I always saw things or heard things. But I could never
explain them, and, and sometimes you know theres people that do studies on, on people that for
some reason have people from the other side that are drawn to them, its something that usually
happens to them all their life and you know I always noticed it where ever I went or where ever I
lived. I would usually catch something out of the comer of my eye or I'd hear things, I remember
being young and being upstairs in my parents room and I could hear voices talking to each other
like a man and a woman. I could never tell what they were saying, but I could hear them and I
remember turning off the TV to make sure it wasn't the TV, you know like background noise.
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And then even as I got older, you know I would hear or see things and you know I finally got to
the point though where you know I learned, that you can either draw them more to you by
focusing on that sixth sense that you may have, I believe everyone has that if people start using
theirs and figuring out how to use it and trying to getting in touch with it I think then they can
and are able to connect with whatever is going on the other side, or energys of some sort in this
world. Because you know we know very little about our brains and the capability of what we can
do with them, and we use very little of them. And so anyways my point is, is that as I was getting
older I started to push those notions out of my head and to distance myself from wanting that
connection with the other side. Or not wanting to have that connection and I would say now that
I'm a lot older I don't have those things happen to me because I am not in tune with that side of,
of my soul or spirit anymore.
MH: Ok, so have you had anything paranormal happen to you since you moved to Nome? Or
does nothing really happen anymore?
JF: I don't, I don't think anything has happened up here. I'm trying to think back, I know that
being up here its so different when you have darkness for, for a lot of the time such as in the
winter only getting four hours oflight. I remember well just being outside seems very eerie here,
and there you know are things that go on here that are unexplained. People disappear, people
vanish up here but, there was even a movie based on it. But it was their own theory, but if you do
any type of research on Nome, they do have 20 its standing now I believe at 24 or 25 people that
have never been found. They just vanish, they have, every, everybody, the FBI even has come up
here to investigate what goes on, and everybody has their theory, but I don't believe they know
for sure since they don't have any evidence of what happens to these people. But I for myself up
here or since I've moved here have not had any paranormal experiences, but I haven't for a long
time as I said. Probably you know a while ago they stared to not let my, inner spirit connect to
that other side, and not, because I was always tired of being afraid, or of being, or seeing things I
didn't want to see or catch out of the corner of my eye, or hear things.
MH: So, would you want to tell me about the time when you went to the Ogden cemetery?
JF: That is probably one of the most vivid experiences I've ever had, and that even as I've grown
older and more skeptical of those kinds of things, that is one thing I cannot deny that I, that I did
see with my own eyes. It was, I was in, again I was in high school and some friends there was
five of us and we'd gone to the Ogden cemetery and because there was this supposed spirit that I
mean the corny part was that if you flashed your headlights three times, this spirit would appear
and walk you know towards the vehicle and the two guys at the time that had gone, that had said
they had seen it and then took myself and two other friends along. You know we wanted to see it
for ourselves, we, we believed them but to a point. Because you never believe those things unless
you see it for yourself, and anyway so we went and we drove down to Ogden you know it was 2
a.m. or something and we drove into the Ogden cemetery and we backed up into this corner and I
think you kind of sat diagonal. One of the guys was driving and then, I don't remember who was
sitting in the passenger's side, but I just know I was sitting in the back in the middle so I could
see directly you know between the passenger and driver in front of the car. And we sat there and
they flashed there lights and we sat there for like an hour, and nothing happened. And so you
know while we were sitting there in the dark we were just talking you know as teenagers do, we
have lots to talk about and anyway so then we decided oh we're gonna give it five, ten more
minutes and then we'll go home. Cause we hadn't seen anything, and I don't know ifit's because
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we started talking about like death and how you know we'd want to die, or how we wanted to be
buried, or how you know if that, if that ever happened to us and as we were talking about it all of
a sudden probably, probably ten feet in front of the car there was this three flashes, like on the
ground. A green yellowish glow and it just went FLASH FLASH FLASH! Really quick and we
were, we all saw it, and we, we were all like "did you see that?" "did you see that?" "oh my gosh
what was that?" "what was it?" and you know it like, even right now telling it the hair on my arm
starts raising. Because it takes me back to that point of being afraid of something you don't, you
can't explain, or don't know what it is. And so we sat there a little longer and within a couple of
minutes it happened again, and It just FLASH and then but it stayed. And then all of a sudden
this figure started to rise out of the ground and you could, it was a woman and you could see her
as, you could see every detail. As she rose up you could see her hair and it was long and flowy,
and then she had this gown on like, a gown from you know the 1900' s you know more of a old
style vintage gown and it, anyway when she started to rise up which you know I, I started
screaming. I was scared to death, I was terrified that if she started walking towards the car like
the myth is said too, my fear was I have these, I'm in the middle and I have these people sitting
next to me and what if she possesses one of them. And I just started screaming "START THE
CAR!" "START THE CAR!" "GET OUT OF HERE!" "GET OUT OF HERE!" And everybody
else was screaming and the guy that was driving he started the car, and I remember he turned on
his lights and you could see almost this silhouette and what was even scarier was that we had to
drive through her to get out, and we did, and I was terrified absolutely terrified. Because I could
not explain it, it was a translucent figure but you could see everything. You could see her eyes,
her nose, her mouth, her like I said her hair was long and wavy and, and as we drove back to
Logan you know one of our friends she wanted to go back, she wanted to go back and sit there
longer, and I refused, I refused I never wanted to go back, and I never wanted to see that again.
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LOGAN CANYON NUNERY AND PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES
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Jared Hoggan
Place of Interview:
Date ofInterview: November 5,2012
Interviewer: McCall Hoggan
Recorder: McCall Hoggan
Recording Equipment: RCA Digital Voice Recorder VR5320R
Transcription Equipment: Microsoft Word
Transcribed by: McCall Hoggan
Transcript Proofed by: McCall Hoggan
Brief Description of Contents: Jared tells about the time he went to the Nunnery.
Reference:
NOTE:
MH= McCall Hoggan (Interviewer)
JH= Jared Hoggan (Interviewee)
Pauses during the interview such as "Umm" are not included in the transcription.
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MH: Its November 5, we're in Nibley Utah, its 7:00 at night and I'm interviewing Jared about
the time he went to the Nunnery. Can you tell me about it?
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JH: Va, I was in high school it was probably fall, like September. And a group of friends from
high school who had always wanted to go up there, and check it out cause we had heard the usual
stuff.
MH: What's the usual stuff?
JH: Like that it used to be a, a nunnery or a convent or something for nuns, a summer retreat.
And one of the nuns was supposedly pregnant and drowned her baby in the pool to cover it up
and shortly after they closed it down. And it sat empty for a long time, anyway so a bunch of us
decided to go up there, and you go across a, you go across a bridge across the Logan River and
then down a long wind, you know dirt road down to it. And it was all over grown with trees, and
really kind of spooky at night, and we were there and it was dark. And so we walked down and
there's a big pool, swimming pool outside, and kind of a big building like kind of a, I don't know
what you'd call it just kind of a place where they could gather, and then there was three or four
cabins, smaller cabins around the big building. We went in you know went through it and looked
around, people were trying to scare each other. And that's about it you know it's definitely a
place I'd like to see again especially in the day light cause I bet it's really pretty all the
craftsmanship and the cabins and stuff was really nice, at one time it was a really pretty pretty
place. It was kind of surprising that they would just let it go, and you know let it get so run down
and beat up. There was a lot of graffiti from people who had been in there before us and lots of
damage, broken down doors and stuff like that. You know we didn't see the nun walking around
like some people say they do, so we just basically did the tour, scared ourselves, and took off.
MH: So you don't think its haunted?
JH: No. I don't think its haunted, I think it's pretty cool.]]> Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.]]> McCall Hoggan]]> legends (folk tales);]]> application/pdf;]]> 7093002 Bytes]]> eng]]> Text;]]> Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;]]> 1990-1999; 20th century;]]>