1 50 101 https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/76b5f6fc2b57d7d151695abc8ff6ac7e.pdf bed0c08568c49f89f398062d02a08eb1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document A Haunted Retreat By Diane Browning Correspondent LOGAN CANYON—Maybe it is a legend. Maybe it isn’t. But some of the locals here in Cache Valley believe that St. Anne’s retreat in Logan Canyon is haunted. The particular details vary, but a general theme repeats among the different versions—the area is frequented by the ghost of a nun. In broad daylight, St. Anne’s retreat looks innocent enough. A carefully maintained set of cabins with their window covered with shutters, St. Anne’s grounds include rock-lined pathways and manicured lawns. It is the kind of place to seek out in order to “get away from it all” and to find some peace in the forested hillside. In addition to the cabins, there is a main lodge on the property and a small swimming pool. Overall, there is nothing particularly ominous about the setting—in broad daylight. But according to legend, St. Anne’s, which had been used in the past as a retreat for nuns, is haunted: One version holds that one of the nuns had been raped and murdered at the retreat at the retreat. Another version holds that a nun had given birth to a child while at St. Anne’s and had drowned the baby in the swimming pool. Regardless of which happened—if either ever actually did—the ghost of a nun was born. According to Nancy Bodily of Logan, local high school students used to travel up to St. Anne’s at night “mainly just to scare each other.” Bodily never saw the ghost. But she said legend has it that a nun comes out of the woods accompanied by two white Doberman pinschers with red eyes. “If you see the nun,” Bodily says, “and if you’re a first-born son, it means you are going to die.” The nun has been said to appear along the road going through Logan Canyon. And the danger of seeing her there is just as great for first-born sons as of seeing her at St. Anne’s, Bodily says. “If you’re coming down the canyon,” Bodily says, “she’ll appear out of nowhere.” The lodge at St. Anne’s also is haunted. According to the legend, a person who tries to spend a night in the lodge will be “bodily disturbed.” No further details were provided. “It’s just one of t hose things you talk about when you’re a teenager,” Bodily says about the St. Anne’s ghost. “I would imagine that the legend still lives on.” A note to the adventuresome: St. Anne’s is located on private property and is patrolled regularly by a night watchman. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1980-1989; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Cache Magazine/Herald Journal newspaper article by Diane Browning (1986) talks about "A Haunted Retreat," otherwise known as St. Anne's Retreat. A Haunted Retreat By Diane Browning Correspondent LOGAN CANYON-Maybe it is a legend. Maybe it isn’t. But some of the locals here in Cache Valley believe that St. Anne’s retreat in Logan Canyon is haunted. The particular details vary, but a general theme repeats among the different versions-the area is frequented by the ghost of a nun. In broad daylight, St. Anne’s retreat looks innocent enough. A carefully maintained set of cabins with their window covered with shutters, St. Anne’s grounds include rock-lined pathways and manicured lawns. It is the kind of place to seek out in order to “get away from it all” and to find some peace in the forested hillside. In addition to the cabins, there is a main lodge on the property and a small swimming pool. Overall, there is nothing particularly ominous about the setting-in broad daylight. But according to legend, St. Anne’s, which had been used in the past as a retreat for nuns, is haunted: One version holds that one of the nuns had been raped and murdered at the retreat at the retreat. Another version holds that a nun had given birth to a child while at St. Anne’s and had drowned the baby in the swimming pool. Regardless of which happened-if either ever actually did-the ghost of a nun was born. According to Nancy Bodily of Logan, local high school students used to travel up to St. Anne’s at night “mainly just to scare each other.” Bodily never saw the ghost. But she said legend has it that a nun comes out of the woods accompanied by two white Doberman pinschers with red eyes. “If you see the nun,” Bodily says, “and if you’re a first-born son, it means you are going to die.” The nun has been said to appear along the road going through Logan Canyon. And the danger of seeing her there is just as great for first-born sons as of seeing her at St. Anne’s, Bodily says. “If you’re coming down the canyon,” Bodily says, “she’ll appear out of nowhere.” The lodge at St. Anne’s also is haunted. According to the legend, a person who tries to spend a night in the lodge will be “bodily disturbed.” No further details were provided. “It’s just one of t hose things you talk about when you’re a teenager,” Bodily says about the St. Anne’s ghost. “I would imagine that the legend still lives on.” A note to the adventuresome: St. Anne’s is located on private property and is patrolled regularly by a night watchman. 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Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 32 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource A Haunted Retreat Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/5f1aab5923b39f834ba631e57ac46932.pdf 3a0e060d8cf4138276c12e99caff402a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; 1980-1989; 1990-1999; 20th century; 2000-2001; 2000-2009; 2010-2019; 21st century; Description An account of the resource Undergraduate assignments from introductory folklore classes where students are assigned the task of collecting stories about St. Anne's Retreat. Legend "St. Anni s Retreat" Natalie Hamson Logan, Utah April, 1984 Natalie is twenty-one years old. She has lived in the Cache Valley all her life. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was Natalie Boehme before marrying Dale Hamson in 1979. She's been married four years and has a daughter that is two years old. Dale and Natalie were at our home watching television when Natalie first told my husband and me this story. Natalie said that she had been a sophombre at Sky View High School when she first heard it. After I heard the story I was really interested in the retreat, but not totally convinced the story was true. Since that time I have heard many other Cache Valley residents say that St. Anne's was haunted. Most of the people that could tell me anything about St. Anne's had lived in the Cache Valley many years or all their lives. St. Anne's is a Catholic Retreat that is located up Logan Canyon. The story that Natalie told me was that a male friend of hers and a bunch of other guys went up to St. Anne's one night to see if it really was haunted. They took with them loaded shotguns, rifles, and pistols. They were exploring around the place and saw some dogs. The dogs were Doberman Pinchers and when they saw the group of men,they be­, an barking at them. ~he dogs started chasing the men ready to attact~ The men started firing at the dogs with their guns, but the dogs wouldn't drop. The dogs· chased the men back to their truck. The men jumped in and left St. Anne's Retreat. Natalie told me that she knew other people who refuse to go to Sto Anne's because of the stories they have heard about it. Shei;aY's ·there"are other's'tories of visitors seeing St. Anne walking along a cliff with a lantern for a light, then just vanishing. Natalie also told me that she would like to visit St. Anne's some time, but not at night. She said that last summer there was some kind of a Catholic childrens overnight meeting at the retreat, and that you wouldn't catch her up there overnight because she believes the stories she has heard. Marion Dart Logan, Utah Pasco, WA Utah &tate University Intro. to Folklore Spring, 1984 Urban Legend "Disappearing Babies" Informant Datal Betty Warner Logan, Utah January 21, 1987 Betty Warner was born c;n January 31 1963, in Logan Utah. She grew up in a near by town called Smithfield. She now resides in 10gan and is attending USU. She is an active member of the LDS church and is working as a Nurses Aid at Sunshine Terrace Rest Home. Contextual Datal This story was heard during a childcare class at Sky View High School. We were all working on quiet books and to pass the time we were telling stories of things that had happened to us or our friends. **************************** I once heard of some kids from HIyum that went up to the old Catholic Nunnery in Logan Canyon. There was three boys and three girls. It was really late at night when they went, the guys had wanted to really scare their girlfriends. They got out. of their car, walked down the path towards the Nunnery. Along the way was a couple of ponds, When they walked past the ponds little hands reached up.·and grabbed all of them around the ankles. They were all so scared that they took off running back to the' car. Some of the guys started asking around as to why this happened. An old Pr ist that lives here in the valley told them that when there were people from the church living there, some of the Nuns became pregnant. by the Priests. The Nuns would carry the baby to full termJand then to save the Church from embarrassment, they would drown their babies in the ponds. When strangers enter \ the property and walk by the ponds the babi~s spirits will grab at them, they try and pull themsel~ out of the water to keep from drowning. L ~ , I. I ~. I. I 7 Betty Warner Logan, Utah ~rgt~~sa~tt~4i987 ( , ( Urban Legend "The Old Nun" Informant Datal $IVI'/ Betty Wa..-rner Logan, Utah January21, 1987 Betty Warner was born on January 31,1963, in Logan Utah. She grew up in Smithfield, Utah. She now resides in Logan and is attending USU. She is an active member of the LDS church and is working at The Sunshine Terrac, Rest Home. Contestual Datal This story was heard while my child care class in high school was working on their quiet books. For entertainment we would pass time by telling stories. ************************ I once heard of some girls that went to girls scout camp up Logan cany:on, a few years ago. There was about 12 girls plus a few leaders. The girls were between the ages of tweleve and fifteen. They were 6i tUng around the campfire telling ecarey stories, one of which was the "Old Nun" story. This story is about an old nun that died very angry that she had lost her youth and beauty. She had resided at the nunnery, also in Logan canyon. Before she died, the nun would walk past the girls scout camp and long for the days of her youth. She became so obsessed by this idea that she decided . by drinking the youths blood she would again be young. Well, the kids of the camp tried to laugh off their fear not wanting to admit to apy.one that they really were scared. The group broke up after the story telling finished and went their seperate ways. The leaders of the camp became increasingly concerned as the girls began to disappear one by one. They called and hunted for the missing girls not getting any response at all. A couple of girls from the camp had gone on a walk together. Suddenly they came running back into the camp screaming and shaking terribly. ( . ( page 2 The Old Nun The girls reported seeing an old lady dressed as a nun, with an ax and blood dripping from her face walking near the camp. The next day when the sun came up six of the tweleve girls were found murdered around camp • Betty Warner Logan, Utah Utah State University History 124 Winter Quarter 1987 L::<. I. /~. I. :lB. ( ( ( Urban Legend "St. Anne's Retreat" Informant Data: Unknown 1976 High School friends from Sky View High School, Smithfield, Utah. Contextual Information: Myself and some friends from Sky View High School were dragging Main Street in Logan. We decided to drive up Logan Canyon because someone had heard that there was a pla'ce up there that was haunted. All teenagers are interested in haunted houses or buildings. ******************************* While driving up the canyon, someone told the story about how a nun had become pregnant while staying at St. Anne's Retreat for nuns. When the other nuns found out about what had happened, they told the unfortunate young girl that she could no longer be a nun. The young girl was distraught. That night the girl took an ax and killed everyone. When she was done she drowned herself in the swimming pool. Her ghost is thought to still be wandering the area, haunting St. Anne's Retreat forever. Scott Lambert Logan, Utah Utah State University English 124 Winter Qtr. 1987 L <, I, I.? I. ~ 1 ( I Urban Legend "The Nunnery" Informant Data: Jalyn Rinderknecht Logan, Utah January 21, 1987 Jalyn Rinderknecht was born January 16,1968 in Logan, Utah. She is a member of the L.D.S Q1urch and is partly an active member. She attends Utah State University and is majoring in Pre-veterinary Science. Her hobbies include horseback riding, skiing, fishing, hunting, camping, animals and rodeo. Contextual Data: On our way up to the Nunnery in Logan Canyon everyone was telling stories about what had happened when they went up last. This story was one told. One night a couple of my friends and I came up here to check the Nunnery out. We psyched ourselves out so bad that we were a little scared when we got there. Walking toward the Nunnery we heard dogs barking from the distance and a scream. It had been said that this nun used to kill the first son of the family and little babies. We heard another scream and decided we'd better get out of there, so we ran back to our car but when we tried to start it we couldn't get it to turn over. Feeling really scared, we took off down the canyon and came back the next day to get the car. When we got there it started like a charm. Jalyn Rinderknecht Logan, Utah Utah Sta~e University Winter Quarter 1986-87 ( ( ( Folk Story Nunery up Logan Canyon Informant Data: Martin Mendenhall Logan, Utah April 22, 1984 I don't know where Martin was born, but he has lived a good part of his life in Cache Valley. He is going to school at Utah State University majoring in Food Science, he is presently a Junior. He comes from a religious background and is a mormon. He married my best friend, and they have now been married for 1 year. Me and my boyfriend used to double date with them quite often . He is the second child of 4. His hobbies include, snow and water skiing, and all out­door activities and sports Contextual Data: This story was told to me on another double date with Martin . This was told on one particular night after visiting the nunery up Logan Canyon . It had been quite a frightful evening. Text: This story starts like this . . .• .... A long time ago, there was a building called3 a convent where nuns lived. For many years it was a very holy place, and only practices of good were taken place. The nun's were forbidden to see any men and were to stay virgins. Things began to get out of hand and the nun's began sleeping around, after which a few became pregnant. If they were ever found out it would become a disgrace to that individual. Therefore they began giving themselves abortions. In the convent there was a swimming pool that had been emptied of all its water . This is where they would bury the aborted babies. The problem finaly got out of hand and they closed it down. But, because of the evil that went on there it is now haunted with all kinds of spirits, and you can hear them to this day if you dare to visit. Michelle Sampson Nibley, UT 84321 Utah State University English 124 Spring Quarter 1984 April 22, 1984 L:< . / /,(,1,31 ( Diane Stenquist Logan , Utah Fe buary 1985 Legend The old Nunery Informant data: Diane Stenquist was born in Tremonton, Utah. She is of Swedish decent. She is now attending Utah State University where she is a senior in bussiness. She is a member of the Mormon church. Contextual data: Text: Diane and I were on our way skiing one day, up at Beaver Moutain and as we passed this area she told me this story. She says she heard this story alot while she was growing up, the big kids always told the little kids this story to scare them. There is an old nunery up Logan Oayon. Years and years ago the nuns were sent up here who got prenant by the priests so no one eles would find out about thier indiscreations. There was a main house were everone would meet and there were also four smaller house were they would sleep. And there was also a big swimming pool. And as soon as the babies are born the babies were to be drowned in the pool. Now this is an old and deserted, but if you go there at night you can still here the babies cry. ; Natalie Harman Utah Stste University Folklore Spring 1985 1-:<. If /:(, If 3:;" ( ( + Plouirunu) c.J-}Qh USu tbWoLL WlfItVu OUClfl.tv0 tf3~cJ> ( ( Ghost story St. Anne's Retreat Larry Cantwell Smithfield, Utah Approx. 1979 Larry Cantwell is the speech teacher at Sky View High Schoo1. He loves stories, and one of his hobbies is to go around the Valley to different groups and share his talent. He does a marvelous imitation of Mark Twain. He tells great ghost stories, and has many humorous readings. He is active in the L.D.S. Church, and communtiy affairs. One day in Speech, we turned the lights off and got out a candle and lit it, and told ghost stories. Mr. Cantwell told us this version of St. Anne's Retreat. St. Anne's Retreat was originally established up Logan Canyon for Cache Valley's Catholic nuns who needed to "get away" from things for awhile. One nun got herself in trouble and as time passed her problem became more noticeable. He superiors knew that something needed to be done-- she couldnlt walk the streets in her condition, so she was sent to St. Anne's for the duration-. 6f" · her:~ pr~gnam::::y. The Mother Superior at St. Anne's talked this nun into putting up the baby for adoption when it was born, because she thought this sort of thing was horrible. If the nun would agree to do as the Mother Superior said, the Mother Superior would help her. If not, then she could fend for herself. Well, as time went by and this nun spent her time reading, thinking, swimming in the pool, and walking around the retreat and in the nearby woods, she began to think of this child and knew she could never give it up. She decided to leave the order and raise her baby. When the baby was born she told her decision to the Mother Superior. The Mother Superior did not agree and felt that she had to end this situation. One day when this nun was sleeping, the Mother Superior took the baby and drowned him in the swimming pool. The nun took it very hard, but couldn't believe the Mother Superior would actually do this. She thought the Mother Superior had taken the baby and given him to a family, or was hiding him on the retreat somewhere. As she was recovering, she would take walks around the retreat to see if she could find her baby. As she walked by the pool one day, the Mother Superior pushed her in and she drowned. The Mother Superior thought she had rectified the problem, and now could live with herself after taking care of this nun. About three weeks later another nun was sent to St. Anne's to rest and re~ax for a couple weeks. One day as she was walking past the swimming pool she saw a nun floating face down in the pool. She screamed, and the Mother Superior came to see what the problem was. The Mother Superior tried to grab at the nun in the pool, but the nun disappeared. The second nun wanted to know what had happened, but the Mother Superior would not say anything. The second nun called the Father and told him to come up to St. Anne's because there was something wrong. the Father came and got to the bottom of what had happened and soon after, the Mother Superior was taken from St. Anne's. Shortly after this happened, the Catholic church sold St. Anne's Retreat. L ~ I I, I~, / I .3Lj ( ( St. Anne I s is still used as a get away place for various groups and there have been reports that the one nun is still looking for her baby. Some have seen her walking around the retreat, and some have seen her floating in the pool. While there are no reports of anyone talking to this nun, there are plenty of reports of people who have seen her, so as you go camping in this part of Logan Canyon, beware of the nun. Alenda Jolley Providence, Utah Utah State University English 124 Winter 1984 2 ( ( Ghost story St. Anne's Retreat Alenda Jolley Logan Canyon approx. 1976 Alenda was born in Logan in 1963. She lived ~n Logan for a couple years, then moved South of Logan to Providence where she has lived for fourteen years. She is active in the L.D.S. Church, and community affairs. She loves the outdoors and has spent many hours in io9an Canyon hunting, fishing, camping, and enjoying nature. When I was ~n mutual, my ward took all the youth leaderships up to St. Aime' s Retreat for a leadership meeting. We spent two days and one night at the retreat. Just before dark the leaders took us on a hike to a meadow overlooking St. Anne's. There was a cave on the cliff above us. In this setting one of the leaders told us this story. St. Anne's Retreat is the place where all the Catholic Nuns came for a little rest and relaxation. There was cabins, the beauty and recreation facilities of the canyon, and a swimming pool. All the Nuns loved this place. On the cliff to the East of St. Anne's is a cave where a hermit lived. This hermit hated people and he hated nuns worst of all. He devised d plan where if he killed off a few nuns at a time, no more WDuld come up to the retreat because they would be too scared. This hermit came down to St. Anne's on a particularly dark night and caught a nun unaware as she was going from the lodge to her cabin. He dragged her to the swimming pool and drowned her. This happened about three more times before higher officials got word of what was happening. A search was made for the hermit, but he COUldn't be found. The Catholic church got spooked and sold St. Anne's so there WOUldn't be anymore nuns in Logan Canyon. There were reports of two or three other people killed in the same manor while using St. Anne's. The hermit was never found, and it is said that he still haunts St. Anne's and neghboring campgrounds, so be careful when staying in this part of the canyon. Alenda Jolley Providence, Utah utah State University English 124 Winter 1984 L.:<. /, /d;J.1. ..:l,s- ( ( Horror Story Saint Ann's Retreat Informant Data: Mary Leisa Pp.ters en Hyrum, Utah February, 1979 Mary Leisa Petersen, 20, grew up in Hyrum, Utah, a small Mormon town. She is of Danish and Swedish decent. She is the first child of a Mor­mon family, and she is a active member of the Mormon Church. Presently, she is a Lambda Delta Sigma Chapter president. A junior at Utah State University majoring in Elementary Education. Background: Terry Hansen of Logan told Mary Leisa this story to entertain her (or to scare her, she didn't know which it was) in 1976 while on a ride through the Logan Canyon one night. After Mary Leisa told this story to me she said," It's a good scarey story but I sure don't believe it." I have tried to record it as closely to the way she told me as possible. Text: During the past summers Nuns lived in this old house in Logan Canyon. But before it was a Nunnery it was haunted. And before it was haunted a very wealthy man and his wife bought it and fixed it up and lived in it. The winters were really harsh so the man always took his wife in their horse and buggy to town to shop. Many years passed and her husband died. The towns people wanted her to move into town but she wouldn't. So at first the towns people took turns on a irregular schedule bringing her into shop. After awhile nobody s topp ed by to bring her into town and she was more or less for­gotten about. Then one day the towns people started wondering about her, so a couple of men went out to check on her. They found the doors open and the house dusty and filled ~vith cobwebs, but she was nowhere to be found. ' Outside · th~ house they found some tiriy footprints, but not her, so they boarded up the house. Years passed and the house also was forgotten. Then one day late in the fall, during the first snowfall, two hunters ran across it while looking for a place to camp the night. They unboarded the house and entered. Then one of the hunters went outside to get some fire wood while the other hunter stayed in and cleaned the fireplace out so they could build a fire. As the hunter outside was chopping wood he heard a very loud, horrid screem from the house. He quickly ran to the house and as he entered the only one there was his hunting part­ner die on the floor with a clever in his back. He ran out and as he did he heard someone in the bushes crying. He looked down ._and there jn the snow. he saw 'some tiny footprints. Without looking any further he ran frantically to the highway for help. Bonnie Vance Logan, Utah Mapleton, Utah Winter, 1979 ( ( Supernatural Legend "Saint Ann's Retreat" Informant Data: Maria Nielsen Hyrum, Utah July, 1984 Maria Nielsen, 21, lives in Hyrum, Utah. She was born February 21, 1963, in Logan, Utah. She is a Senior at Utah State Univeristy, majoring in Elementary Education. She is an active member of the Mormon church. She is married to Clayton Nielsen. Contextual Data: I can not member who told this story to me. The story was told to me just before I visited Saint Ann's Retreat. I remember it was a very dark night and I was with my boy friend and three other couples. I'm a scardy cat anyway and after I heard this story I was scared to death to go into Saint Anns. I don't really believe the story is true but it scared me just the same. I could imagine some crazy man jumping out of the bushes with a big knife and killing all of us. I decided if there was one place a mad man would hang out to kill somebody it would be at Saint Ann,s. One thing waB sure, I was not going to stay in the car by my self, so I went with the others to explore this place. Nothing happened to us, but I was sure glad when we finally pulled away from that place in our car. Saint Ann's is about fifteen minutes up Logan Canyon. * * * * * * * * A long time ago there used to be a nunnery at Saint Ann's. One of the nuns got pregnant by a young priest. She hid the fact that she was pregnamt for a long time. When she had the baby she was told she had to leave the nunnery. She was grieved at what had happened and went out and drowned her baby in the swimming pool, thp.n hung herself. Her spirit haunts the place in the form of a dog. Sometimes people can hear dogs howling at Saint Ann's. Nobody has ever seen the dogs. Maria Nielsen Hyrum. Utah Same Utah State Unlverity English 124 Summer 1984 L ;;, I If /:;, /. ~ 7 ( ! ( ( L;(, I, 1:(, /, 38 l)~ ! ( Supernatural Legend "The Nunnery" Informant Data: Jimmy west Nibley, Utah April, 1988 Jimmy west is a High school senior who enjoys anything that has a challenge to it. He hung around the guys the night they went to the nunnery, but no longer associates with them. He loves the outdoors and hates school. He works for the Bishop in the ward and comes from a gigantic family as he put it. Contextual Data: I told Jimmy I WaS doing this for my folklore class and I asked him if he could remember the story as if he were there that day. We were sitting outside on the front porch steps as he related the story. Text: Last summer we did travel up to the nunnery to find out if you looked in this mirror you would see the ghost, supposedly green. I didn't travel inside so I never found out anything, but the guys who did go in came running back to the car screaming, "Let's go!" "It's behind us!" The car wouldn't start at all, everyone was screaming and panicking, then all of a sudden it started. The whole thing was weird. As were driving away we felt a bump on the back of the car. The next morning I went over to see what it was and a big long black mark was on the car. Sherry Anderson Nibley, Utah 84321 USU Folklore Spring 1988 /?, /. /2 .. f. 31 ( Supernatural Legend "The Nunnery" Informant Data: Clint Yonk Nibley, Utah April, 1988 Clint Yonk was a classmate in High School. We both graduated in 1987 from Mountain Crest High. He workd for Bourns during the afternoons. He enjoys going to late night shows. He's from an active LOS family, and he loves the outdoors. Contextual Data: We were sitting in a movie theatre going to watch the Mid­night movie. I asked Clint to tell me the story about when he and a few others went up to the nunnery. I had heard the story before in a Sunday School Class after it happened. I was just interested in if it had changed any since then. Text: A couple of friends told me this story. They went up to the nunnery located in Logan Canyon during the summer last year. It's said that if you go into the surrounding area, a ghost will chase you out. A whole group went up to find out if this was true or not. Two of the guys were the only ones that had decided to go. They were running back to the car and the car wouldn't start up than all of a sudden it started. Everyone was screaming, "Let's go!" As they were driving away they felt a bump on the back of the car. The next morning there was a big long scratch that looked like something had been dragging on to the car. They swore to never do that again. Sherry Anderson Nibley, Utah 84321 USU Folklore Spring 1988 ~;2. //2. I. &/0 ( ( Local Legend "Killer Nuns" Informant Data: Sally Drollinger Richmond, Ut April 3, 1988 Sally Drollinger is twenty-four years old. She was born in California but moved to Richmond when she was small. There she attended grade school through high school. She is single and lives with three of the good friends she grew up with. Sally came from a family of eight children. When they were young, their father would tell them stories. From this experience, Sally learned to love listening to and telling stories. Contextual Information: Sally heard this story when she was in junior high. She and her friends were at a slumber party where ghost stories were being told. This was her favorite scary story about the nunnery in Logan canyon. Text: There was this nunnery up Logan canyon. Nuns use to go there for religious schooling. Then it was closed because of not enough money to keep it in shape. So, the nuns were divided up among other convents. There was this one convent that wasn't too far away. Somehow the nuns that went there were getting pregnant. These nuns were sent back to the L Logan nunnery to have their babies. After they had them, the nuns would throw them into the swimming pool to kill them. Now when you go up there at night you can hear the babies crying out. Valerie Drollinger Logan, Ut Spartanburg, SC Utah State History 124 Spring 1988 /,2, / 12, I fl ( ( Local Legend "Cry of Babies" Informant Data: George May Richmond, Ut April 5, 1988 George May is twenty-three years old. She was born and raised in Richmond, Ut. She received all of her schooling there. She is single and lives with Sally and two other girls she grew up with. She has two younger sisters, one of which still loves to sit around and tell ghost stories at night. Contextual Information: George is the girl at the slumber party Sally went to who told the story about the nunnery in Logan. She learned about the nunnery when she and some of her friends wanted to go camping over night in the canyon. Her father told this story to her. Text: Up Logan canyon there was this nunnery. Everyone knew it wasn't a normal nunnery because the nuns that went there were pregnant. Yet, when they left, the nuns didn't have a baby with them. There were all kinds of speculation about what happened to the babies. Most of the people figured that the nuns threw their babies over the cliffs because they could hear the cries of the babies as they were falling You can still hear them if you go up there at night. Valerie Drollinger Logan, Ut Spartanburg, SC Utah State Univ. History 124 Spring 1988 ~.L. /./,2. I, //L ( Local Legend "Dead Babies" Informant Data: Gordon May Richmond, Ut April 7, 1988 Gordon May is fifty years old. He was born in Smith­field and moved to Richmond after he was married. He has been married for twenty-five years and has three daughters. Gordon works at USU in the engineering dept. He enjoys his work and is a good mechanic. Contextual Information: Gordon May heard this story about the nunnery from a man he worked with. One day everyone was talking about things that Logan was kind od historical for and this came up. He told this story to his daughter to scare her from going camping instead of saying "NO" again. Text: There's this nunnery up Logan canyon. It was a kind of hideout for pregnant nuns. They would stay there until they had their babies. After these babies were born, the nuns would take them and kill them. They did this by throwing them over the cliffs or down in hidden tunnels. These babes still cry out at night and their spirits seek revenge on anyone that goes to the nunnery. Valerie Drollinger Logan, UT Spartanburg, SC Utah State Univ. History 124 Spring 1988 ~,2./,/,l.1. ~3 ( ( ( Legend Saint Ann"s Retreat InfDFrnant: Date of Bi r-th: Place Gf Bir-t.ti~ Ethni c Ances t t-:l i Education: Occupation: Hubbies: Church Membership: CiHlt-Cf. Activity: i1ark LeBar-on 08/05/68 Logarl; Utah Logan J' tJ"Lah 4/-12/-1987 European(German. Swedish. French, English) Public high school education Student (Utah State university) Music. Sports & Athletics Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Very Active *************************************************************** The following legend is one of those stories that one often hears, but can't remember from whom or where he heard it first. I do know that there are several versions of this story. below is the one I have hear tne most. The story concerns an old local nunnet-y Dr retreat for catholic nuns known as Saint complex is now used for youth summer camps Ann*s and ***************************************************************** to the stOFy I heard. a young nun named Hekida, who is residing in the retreat. becomes pregnant (nobody ever says by who). Hekida is hated by the other nuns because of the shame she has brought upon her office. When the child is born, Hekida throws the child off a cliff and kills herself in the same irIan}l!? t- ~ dirlnlft Hekida had tnese pet hounds and the nuns -= ___ t' know what to do with them so they chopped dff the LV::/" The story also says that there is a crude cross marking the child"s grave and that the spirits of Hekida and her haunt the grounds between midnight and one o' ciock a.m. dogs t1ar-k LeBat-on Hist -124 ,i/. /. /.t . / .v~ ( GENRE: LEGEND TITLE: ST. ANN'S RETREAT Jamie Smi th Kamas, Utah 84036 CONTEXT: Jamie Smith Logan, Utah 4-22-87 We were sitting around telling ghost stories. Jamie told us about something that happened to her friends up Logan canyon. It was at a place called St. Ann's Retreat. The following story is written in the manner in which it was told. STORY: The legend says that one of the nuns who lived there became pregnant. Well, the other nuns let her have the baby but made her drown it once it was born. As a result of the baby been drowned, the mother went batty and killed herself. After all of this stuff happened, they closed the nunnery but her ghost still remains. This happened to some friends of mine, James These guys went up up there to set up this deal. to take these girls and get them scared. So they all these rocks so when someone tripped the wire, and Roger. They were going went up and set all of these rocks would come flying down. They went into the convent and set things up in it. Later that night, they brought the girls up. Someone tripped on the wire but instead of little rocks falling, a big huge boulder came rolling down. Well, this really scared them so they decided to go check things in the convent. They went into the convent and the door slammed behind them and locked. They had to bust the boards off of a window to get out of there. After all of this happened, they just picked up and left. The next day, after everything had happened up a St. Ann's, they decided to go back in daylight. The rope that had been set up was cut and all the little rocks had been moved aside. They couldn't see how the boulder was moved: it hadn't been there the day before. All they know is that boulder rolled down at them. Well one night, they were going to take us up there. One of the guys swore he would never go up there again. He is all buff about it--a jock you know-- but it scared him shitless. MY NAME: Debbie Jenkins S.L.C. Utah 84121 Utah State University / ( ( History 124 Spring 1987 ( Legend Saint Anne's Retreat Informant Data: Kris Harris Logan Utah October 1981 Kris Harris,21, was born in Logan Utah, but moved to Newport Beach California when she was seventeen. Her religious background is Mormon, but she is not a practicing Mormon. Kris is single and attends Orange Coast College where she is studying commercial art. At the time she told me this legend, she was really into sppoky stories, and loved to tell them at parties and social gatherings. Kris has a talent for telling stories or jokes at the best possible times. Contextual Data: When Kris told me this legend, we were up the canyon drinking beers with about 5 other people. There were no boys with us because once a week it would be the "girls iiight out." As we were drinking, we started telling scary stories or scary experiences we had or had heard. When it was Kris's turn to tell a story, she asked if any of us had heard about Saint Anne. None 0tlhad heard the legend, so she said she would drive us to the place where the legend actually happened. We went to a Eatholic retreat about 3 miles up Logan canyon. There is a swimming pool in the back and ~ris made us sit on the diving board while she told her story. We were pretty scared by now, since it was dark out and the old buildings were really creepy. Kris told us that her Aunt's friend wen to the Retreat 1 year after Saint Anne, and Catholic priests had to there were evil spirits there. Kris's mom told her tnt;...--±-c~ wouldn't go up there to drink and mess around. After she told us the legend, we were so scared that we coul~~move off:.the diving board. Finally we ran back to the car and locked all the doors and drove back to Logan. I have never been up there again, and I doubt any of the others have either. Item: About 3 miles up Logan Canyon there is an old, abandoned Catholic Nunnery which locals call Saint Anne's Retreat. Saint Anne was a nun living at the LL /. I~,/- rtf J' ( Retreat for the summer, when she mysteriously became pregnant. She didn't tell anyone she was pregnant, but one of the sisters found out and asked Saint Anne how she became pregnant. Since Saint Anne was a virgin, the other sister assumed it was a child of the devil, and God was punishing Saint Anne by making her pregnant. The other sister sooned moved to another Retreat, leaving Saint Anne and her secret pregnancy unknown. One night in August, Saint Anne had her baby, She took it and wrapped it in sheets and threw it into the swimming pool. When the other sisters found the baby, it was dead and Saint Anne was gone. Now, if you go to the ~etreat in August, you can hear a baby crying. If you call for Saint Anne(usually three times) she will come down from the mountains looking for her child. Sometimes you can see her looking around the swimming pool, a ghostly shape wearing a habit, calling for her poor little child. Meridith Sorensen Logan, Ut 84321 Logan, Ut 84321 Utah State University History 124 Spring 1987 l 1 ( ( S hpho\V"I-I Wh:,e LO~4 n LA To, A.. "5ephl""b-€, IllS/.[ '::01 k 15el,~f St. .t\nVl'S e~tt(Ck r-nRafY"\Q"" + '!JC\.+q: Sf-E'rhG\ni~ LU"''+e f~ CA 5'-e\l\ ICn 0.+ U+"A. 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Contextual Information: I heard this Legend in a class while attending High school. I was in a psychology class; we were studying a unit on parapsychology. Students were telling stories that they had heard from friends, relatives, and from scouting camps that deal with the supernatural. Text: Near Saint Anne's retreat up in Logan Canyon there is a small canyon. It is sai d if you go to thi s canyon around mi dni ght, wi th the moon full in the night sky, and you call the name Heckata three times she will appear. She is to come in a hooded black robe that whips in the wind. She comes toward you 1 aug hi ng. She floats above the ground. I n her hands she hold the hounds of hell. They are two large black dogs with eyes that glow red w1th the flames of hell. She is angry at those who enter her canyon ( ( I \ and di sturb her rest. She chases those who enter her canyon away. Nathan N1 ederhauser Logan, Utah USU Engli sh/Hi story 124 Winter 1990 lONf ,e.£./.12./. tV<f' ( Legend Statue at St. Anne's Retreat Informant Data: Nancy Lloyd Young Ward, Ut. Nov. 2 , 1988 Nancy Lloyd was born in Logan, Utah and has lived here all her life except two years in Idaho and 18 mont~in Ecuador, + a year in Provo at school. She is a senior at U. S. U. majoring in English. Context Data: This story was usually told to her in situations like slumber parties, walking home from late mutual activities and at girls camp . Item: At St. Anne's Retreat for nuns, in Logan Canyon, there is a very strange statue. If touched at the right moment, 12:00 midnight, it will be warm, as if it were alive. Matthew Lloyd, 18 Young Ward, Ut. 84339 Utah State University English 124 Fall 1988 ( Local Legend "Heckada" Informant Data: Rex Womack Nibley, Utah July 1980 Rex Womack is three years older than myself He lived in my LDS ward while I was growing up. He was really a cool dude. He would hang out with us younger boys and bring us up to date on what's hot and what's not. He was somebody that we all looked up to. He always had something to say. Contextual Data: ( We were at a camp out for our scout group and Rex was one of the junior leaders. We were up Logan Canyon camping at the Girl Scout Camp up Right Hand Fork. We were in the little cabin in our sleeping bags, just talking. Everyone was trying to scare each other with stories. Rex succeeded. Text: About 40-50 years ago the winter came really early. So early that the deer hunt in October had 2- 3 feet of snow. Back during the 1930's, hunting deer was very popular because of the meat. People would kill a deer and store the meat for use in the winter months. This one man went out to get his winter meat for his family. He headed up towards Spring Hollow by Third Dam up Logan Canyon. He went up early in the morning as most hunters do. He was expected back around 3:00 or 4:00 at the latest. He was known to be a great hunter and always shot a deer early and was home by 3 :00 p.m. On this snowy hunting day he didn't make it home. His wife went up to look for him that night but no body was found. She went back into Logan to get help, but nobody would go out in the blizzard. She refused to leave her mate up in the snowy mountains so she went home and got her dogs. She took them up the canyon with her to Spring Hollow and was never seen again, nor was her husband. If you go to third dam and look up into Spring Hollow on a full moon and yell Heckada, Heckada, Heckada, you will hear her dogs barking, still in search for her lost husband. 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Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Images featured in Cache Valley Magazine shows Pine Glenn Cove (Logan Canyon) also known as Hatch's Camp, The Nunnery, and St. Anne's Retreat. WE'VE NAILED IT. Since 1911 Burton Lumber has been the first choice' for building materials all long the Wasatch Front. Step away from the the "big box" and experience the kind of service you only get from a 3rd generation family owned business. ~INEL FENCE Come see us at our showroom! 435-774-1234 Price, from $2995 390 N 1000 W • logan· licensed & Insured Vinyl· Wood' Gates· Farm' Chain Link Automatic Gates· Ornamental Railings' Sport Courts THE BOOK TABLE I ~ 11202 South U.S. Hwy 89·91 & Suite 130 • Logon jbflooringomericostore.com • 435-753·6106 • LANDSCAPE~XPRESSIQNS A DESIGN/BuILD COMPANY GRADING/ExCAVATION BOULDER/ROCKVVORK RETAINING VVALLS DESIGN/CONSULTING HARDSCAPES DECKS/GAZEBOS 7- \ -kVVl L-/.3 lTIJc@ ~~ ilimillJ @]t{ [J[Qll]~[]) ~Diij lliij) ~ ~~DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD [t[)~~ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ~DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ~ ~D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A member of the Richmond Road Runners team competes in the Cache-Teton Relay race alongside U.S. Hwy. 91 between Smithfield and Richmond on Aug. 13. The Road Runners completed the 189-mile course between Logan and Jackson, Wyo., in just under 30 hours. 4 Cache Valley Magazine o 0 0 0 ~ DOD 0 ~ DDDDDDDDDD® (0)0° DDDDDDDDDD~ o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11~ Ci't:O)Oo DDDDDDDDDD~ "CACHE VALLEY'S MOST AMAZING PRESCHOOL & CHILDCARE CENTER" j i j- "WHERE CHILDREN LOVE TO LEARN" -_ -lflii CORNER OF 3200 som & MAIN IN NIBLEY [3 shin 10IIIs frllO lagloJ -152·2266 - OPEN MON·nI611· 6PM September 2010 5 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 Bruce Smith EDITOR Jeff Hunter ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Shawn Brady SALES MANAGER Debbie Andrew ADVERTISING DESIGN Ashley Carley CIRCULATION Russ Davis PRODUCTION SUPPORT Paul Davis BUSINESS MANAGER Kristy Amado Cache Valley Magazine is pub­lished 10 times annually by Cache Valley Publishing LLC and inserted in The Herald Journal newspaper in September 2010. Subscrip­tions are available for $12. Please write to Cache Valley magazine, p. O. Box 487, Logan, UT 84323- 0487 or e-mail Jeff Hunter at jhunter@hjnews.com. To advertise, call Debbie An­drew at (435) 792-7296 or e-mail dandrew@hjnews.com. For photo re­prints, call (435) 792-7299. Visit us on the Web at www.cachevalleymaga­zine. com. All rights reserved. Reproduc­tions of Cache Valley Magazine in whole or part is strictly prohibited without consent of the editor or publisher. 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. . \ FROZEN CUSTARD ITALIAN WATER ICE CONES & SHAKES NOW OPEN! 435-753-9554 555 W 100 N Suite B • Providence Mon-Thurs 11AM to 10:30 PM Fri-Sat 11 AM to Midnight Closed Sunday 1219 No. Main • Logan 753-4355 r IN THE VALLEY 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 8 Cache Valley Magazine 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. IN THE VALLEY 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 IN THE VALLEY 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 IN THE VALLEY September 2010 11 F IN THE VALLEY , :;.tr......L& 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 IN THE VALLEY 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 come around Christmastirne, and Palmer Your q,JeciaC rfay aeserves tfie 6est, wFietfier on or off campus. 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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 year. You learn as you go." Manette Newbold 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 powerhouse BYU at Romney Stadium beginning at 6 p.m. Call 797-0305. IN THE VALLEY £ {5}Fauid rM: O£i:?~fWl. ~ (~--:-: ~~~ Weddings For Information & Reservations Call (435) 797-2055 'r Utah State Historical President's Home Special Celebrations Makers of Fine EyeWear For Over 70 Years September 2010 15 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. Also known as Hatch's Camp, St. Anne's Retreat and 'The Nunnery,' the history of the curious collection of buildings in Logan Canyon isn't nearly as scary as you may have heard STORY & PHOTOS BY JEFF HUNTER 1- -- -- - - 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 ---_ .. - - ---- - 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 =--=======----- . - - ---- - -------- 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 • Ideal for large areas/heavy snowfalls • Throws snow up to 45'/13.5 m • Quick Stick® changes chute direction effortllessly • Headlight comes standard • Powerful auger system • 3-Year Limited Warranty" Eastman Hatch married Hortense's widowed mother, Ella McQuarrie. A third McQuarrie daughter, Zella, was the mother of Robert Walker, a popular movie star in the ' 40s who was married to actress Jennifer Jones before dying in 1951 at the age of 32. 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Advertised products, as well as financing. may not be available at all dealers. Pr1ces shown are manufacturer's suggested promotional prices and are subject 10 local dealer option. 20 Cache Valley Magazine 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 ' j ' j 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 We've taken a vow of silence. 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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 \ 1 { .... ' FARMTASTIC FALL' i I CORN MAZE & MORE Corn Maze • Train Rides • Pony Rides f Authentic Heated Restrooms! Blackout Ma~e fds Hay Jump • Kids Maze living His'ory Weekends • Storytelling Wagon Rides • Super ,slide • Gourd launcher Petting Zoo • More! SEE OUR CALENDAR OF EXCITINq FARMTASTIC FALL! EVENTS! WWW..AW.Hq .ORG Reason #18 Moolah for kids We've got an awesome idea ... let your kids pay for college. With a little guidance. a little help from you, and some rewards from us for achieving milestones, your kids will be well on their way to fi nancial independence ... all this courtesy of the Moolah for Kids program at USU Charter Credit Union. Another reason, we're with you. smart. local. convenient. September 2010 23 I, 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. f'" L . TOP Lightning strikes pummel the flanks of Gunsight Peak. ABOVE A single cloud hovers over the top of the Wellsville Mountain Range. RIGHT The setting sun lights up the bottom of a set of dark clouds just above a 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. September 2010 27 ',I ABOVE Clouds soar above the Mt. Sterling area on a spectacular summer evening. LEFT Wind and lingering smoke from a fire create an unusual line of clouds near the western shore of Bear Lake. RIGHT A full moon gives way to the morning sun and drops behind the Wellsville Mountains. FAR RIGHT Altocumulus clouds create a stunning pat­tern in the sky above Logan Canyon. I' 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. H o M E s AsSISTED LIVING IN A RESIDENTIAL SETTING (435) 787-1484 352 5 500 W . Logan Our quality of service focuses on personal attention to each resident. BeeHive Homes was recognized In Utah Business In 2009 for being one of the states top rated assisted living businesses. BeeHive Homes really Is the next best thing to home! 32 Cache Valley Magazine Resident of ? -:5 ([) Grace Smith Age 102 on August 27 2010 $ o ::J r-+ :::J colonies, for a total value of about $208 million. Commercial beekeepers like the Cox family, who tend about half of all bee colonies in the United States, produced about 60 percent of that crop. 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. wholesome image of honey. Nutritionists agree that honey is a natural source of energy because it contains a unique mixture of glucose and fructose. Recent research has also shown that, unlike most other sweeten­ers, honey contains small amounts of a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. The unique blend of sugars in raw honey has been proven helpful in com­bating fatigue and enhancing athletic performance. Honey can also be used to treat minor abrasions and bums. Since many types of honey contain traces of pollen, medical researchers are inves­tigating the possibility that eating local honey may help to relieve allergy symp- MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY $26/ $30 I $341 $38 BAR J WRANGLERS $16/$18/ S201 $22 ScrapArtsMusic $171 S22f 5241 $27 THE 5 BROWNS $261 $30 I 5341 $38 REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE $16/$18/520/$22 JANIS IAN $17/$221$24/ S27 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF $26 / 530 1534 1538 NOVEMBER 12 & 13,2010 ~ ... ';'1 ~;:; .. r~,",,~,'. , ': ' -3~ ;:; '~ ~ DECEMBER 18,2010 ~ \l v R L1A\ ..~ t j 3 ....l p 't &; '3l1pr~1 ~"'\i',,,,~~~ MNUAHY 26 & 27. 2011 WEDNESDAY & THORSDAY;,""i1ipm~ , FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 1. 2011 MONDAY I]. TUESDAY dt 7-30 p.m. MARCH 15 & 16. 2011 TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY at 7.30 p.m. MARCH 22 & 23. 2011 - ~ I.. • • ' \ : . ::: ',;:-" .::' , September 2010 33 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 has got to be a good businessman and that's something that most people don't realize." But residents of Cache Valley and northern Utah didn't need a state award 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 content and antioxidant potential. Those variations of taste and content 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 SPORTS GRILL sources of nectar in crops or flowers growing nearby. In addition to producing honey, wandering bees also help to pollinate agricultural crops, home gardens and wildlife habitat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 80 percent of insect crop pollination is accom­plished by honey bees and that approxi­mately 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 September 2010 35 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 Open September 10 36 Cache Valley Magazine 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 now ships an average ton-and-a-half of honey products to locations around the world each week and sells about a ton of fudge annually. Their selection of gourmet food items includes creamed honeys, honey butters, honeyed pop­corn, flavored honeys, honey caramels and other types of candy. In addition to custom baskets, their available gifts include toys, candles, massage bars and many other items. "I hope that our customers want to stop here and shop because we're 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 gone, transferred to the adjacent ware­house when more room was needed for manufacturing. A separate department devoted strictly to creating the family's 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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Text Any textual data included in the document Canyon scare charges likely By Phil Jensen 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.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource The security guards responsible for the ambush of 38 trespassers at St. Anne’s retreat likely to face charges. Canyon scare charges likely By Phil Jensen 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.” Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 1007288 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/17 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0008.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource Utah State University Folklore in the news collection, 1973-2012, FOLK COLL 32 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04849 St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 32 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource Canyon scare charges likely Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/bd15a05c9c3c507ef1d3cd1844b3f5f7.pdf 0cb452a67c9d71d0751dc40453f51946 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The Herald Journal 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Herald Journal article identifies the guards involved in an armed standoff involving 30 trespassing legend-trippers at St. Anne's Retreat. The Herald Journal 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 1085016 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/14 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0005.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/146 Title A name given to the resource Chris Doerr, center, and Arthur Peasnall seen partially on the right at preliminary hearing Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkin, John Description An account of the resource Chris Doerr, center, and Arthur Peasnall seen partially on the right at preliminary hearing. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 19980312-Mascaro-003 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/c5e6f782d991c95d86bf06164392e63d.pdf 1a6c6fbe23aa204241b4166cd37b8bd0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; 1980-1989; 1990-1999; 20th century; 2000-2001; 2000-2009; 2010-2019; 21st century; Description An account of the resource Folklore fieldwork collection assignments featuring St. Anne's Retreat in Logan Canyon. Supernatural Legend "The Nunnery" Informant Data: Cory Ballard Nibley, Utah April, 1988 Cory Ballard was another classmate and graduate of Mountain Crest High in 1987. He likes fast cars, working for his Dad and outdoor games. He likes to have a good time and be wild sometimes. He is very active in the LOS church with his family and plans to serve a mission. Contextual Data: Cory lives in my ward so I went over to his house when I saw him sitting outside catching some rays. I asked him to relate the story once again as he did one year ago that day after it happened. It was the first time he had talked about it since then. He said he would never do that ever again. Text: We did go inside the gate, but not very far. We both were toOchi7hken to go any farther, then something started chasing us .. ' out the gate. We were running to the car screaming, "start the car" and it wouldn't start at all then really weird it started right up when I jumped behind the driver's wheel. As we . were driving away we all felt a bump on the back of the car. The next morning my Dad came in and asked me where I had been that night because there was a long black mark on the back of the car on the drivers side and it wouldn't come off. I told him what we had been doing and swore to him I would never do that again. The whole thing was like a nightmare come true. Sherry Anderson Nibley, Utah 84321 USU Folklore Spring 1988 ( Logan Canyon Witch Infonnant: James Milligun Logan, Utah Oct. 22, 1997 James Milligun is from Logan Utah. He has resided there his whole life. He is twenty two, working and thinking about going back to colleage. He is from a L.D.S. family and currently getting reinvolved in that church. He is of Gennan disent. He loves the outdoors, rock climbing, hiking, fishing, snow boarding, and camping. Context: I gathered this information while talking about bizarre things, family secrets, scary stories, mysterious happenings, and stupid jokes, with a group of my guy friends. He was told this superstitions by his friend Larry Soule. They were at a boy scout over nighter (camp) in Logan Canyon, June 1991. I'll tell it how he told it. He claims it to be true. Text: "This friend of mine, Larry he was kind of into satanic stuff, he said that there is lady that lives in Logan Canyon. She is supposedly Satan's wife. Her names is Hekida (Hekita). He said If ( you say Hekida three times terrible things happen. And he made sure to say Hekida three times (kind of like I just did, except we are not in the Canyon). So right after he said her name the third time, rocks started falling down the mountain. Not just little rocks but big boulders. Later on, during that trip he told someone else that superstition saying her name three more times. And just after that one of the boys almost fell of a cliff. It's true, I was there." Texture: James told me this story totaling believing in every word. The others just laughed at him and started shouting "Hekida, Hekida, Hek. .. I don't dare finish it. But I'm convinced that there may very well be-a strange power in Logan Canyon that I don't want to mess with. D'On Elizabeth Bybee Richmond, Utah 84333 USU Eiglish 124 Professor Toelken Fall 1997 ( ( I .~ .. _ "_" ____ .1. r ... _.l. _ ifHurrfltHil LHjlll: tDgett-n::r. r-'-le I! ~;SB '=/:iBS ei gf-~t8en yeers [lId Vif-H:~n thi s event r-Itlppeneu. She carnes frorn a f8rnily of t\i&/o t!rotr-,ers end one sister. !"-"ielisstfs fernily \~leS "fiery \l\iell-to­IJO BrnJ r-itHJ 1 i ved in CO':le for Btiout Sf ;~teen yeBrs. i-'-le 1 i sse 1 i ke rnost gi (1 sin t-ii gh couple of tt-iB guys \i'll8 \lvere talking to tried to rnake thin!J:3 B little rnore thrillin!~ tty sneaking around Det-,ind us end grEltluing our ritis to scare us. Tf-ie fri~~ht of tr-Jese pet ty j ekes gave r-'-le 1 i s::;e an i dee to rea i 1 Y scare e\;;eryone. ~a-Ie su!~gested tr-!at vve Bll go to Tf-Ie r~unnery ane! v=iBlk~ around. Ti-itlt is ell it took: .. everyone jurnped into fier- Bronco tin!J r·JeBued up LD~~an [:anyon. As 'tie drove to Tf-Ie r~Junnery .. r"'lelissa .," ( ( ( ( Local Legend The Nunnery Informant Data: Stephanie Bramwell Logan, Utah Winter 1993 Stephanie grew up in Washington state, she is twenty years old and carne to Utah to attend Utah State University. Stephanie is known in her family as the prankster. She enjoys hiking, camping, and sports. Stephanie is a very social person and is a member of a sorority at USU. Contextual Data: Stephanie relayed this story to a bunch of her sorority sisters and some fraternity boys. They were all messing around one weekend, and were up late that night telling stories of ghosts, hauntings and personal experiences. Upon the need to do something, Stephanie encouraged the group to make a voyage up Logan Canyon to the Nunnery. On the way up Stephanie told the legend of the Nunnery. Text: Sometime before most of Logan had been settled. There was this delivery that carne up to Logan Canyon to bring supplies to the isolated nunnery. This was a place of seclusion for the nuns and also the place where they sent the troubled children to be taken care of. The only means of supplies and food for the nuns and children was this delivery truck. Well, one winter, the snowfall had gotten so bad that the delivery truck was unable to get through to the nunnery. It tried and tried, but was unable to get through until the next spring. When the delivery and help finally made it up to the nunnery they discovered all of the children and nuns were dead. It's believed that the nuns out of desperation, ate the children and then went mad themselves. They killed each other and then killed themselves. Supposedly their spirits are still wandering aimlessly about at the nunnery today. Jennifer Wheeler Logan, Utah 5916 South 3750 West Roy, Utah Utah State University · , ( Anthropology 526 Fall 1994 ;; , /, /;; , I , 5"7 ( Local Legend "Nunnery" Informant Data: Kent Lundberg Logan, Utah Spring 1989 Kent was a senior in high school when I knew him. He was born and raised in Logan, and came from a large family. He spent a lot of his time in the mountains and rock climbing. It is hard for me to give any current information because I haven't seen him for quite a few years. Contextual Data: One Friday night when Kent and I were dating, he took me up Logan canyon about ten miles to some old abandoned cabins. Although they are directly off the main road they are hard to see because of heavy overgrowth and trees. I had never noticed them before. There is a main lodge with a swimming pool and several cabins all around. It was dark so he was trying to scare me and he told me the story that went with the old abandoned camp. Text: Back in the 1970's there used to be a camp run by nuns for catholic girls during the summers. One summer a nun went crazy and one night she convinced several of the children they needed to come with her for a very special assignment. She then took the children one by one and drown them in the pool. She killed twelve children before she was done. The next morning the early morning campers found the twelve dead children floating in the pool and the crazy nun hanging from the flagpole. The state shut the camp down after that and that's why it is now abounded. They rumor is that the spirit of the dead nun still walks the ground and every night she sits by the pool and weeps for what she did. They say that if you are wandering around up there and she see you she will show herself to you in the form of an all white nun. c:;,/,/;)./,S" t' I. ( ( And if you see this white nun it means that you will die within the next year. 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( I (j I City ...... \.. .~. .. :~)., ... (.,.! .............. ~. . ... .....................................................S tate .... ..... ..... ... ..... ...... ... .. ..... .. .. . I I I ;; 1 I ' I } 1/ ' 59 ( ", Re;ligiou$~ .r..egend _ II 'I'l-te" -Nunneryll Informant Data: Tonya Griffin Logan, Utah April, 1989 Tonya Griffin is a 23 year' and is living in Logan but is from Newton, Utah. She went to Sky View High School and graduated in 1984. qer religion is L.D.S. and l-ter families descents are Dutch and Danish. S~ e's attending Utah State University and is majoring in Marketing and Economics. She's a great at1lete and enjoys all kinds of sports. Contextual Data: I collected this story while talking to my friends about the w'ummery. " Host of us were all familiar wi t1-J the nunnery and each started t share their experiences that they ha~e had. Tonya's was quite different s o I decided to tell hers. She heard of this story her senior year of 1ig1 school. She was coming home from a basketball games on t he bus, and everyone was telling spooky ~tories about the nunnery. One of her friends told her about this story. Text : In Logan Canyon there's a place called st. Ann Retreat, where the I lNuns would go for the summer. It's told that two Nuns became pregnant and t1eir babies were drowned in the pool there. The {uns don't use the place anymore but who really knows. At night there are many lights on around the place and it's said to be guarded by a two headed dog. At times you can even hear the bab~Cries. As I was talking to Tonya about the Nunnery she told me of an experience her friend told her. A coupld decided to go to the Nunnery one night. As they pulled there car on to the bridge the gate was locked. T~ e y went to get out but heard a Strange sound on t he top of t heir car so they stayed inside. They both became very frightened and tried to drive out of their but they felt a strong force. They could hear scratching noises like something was slowly falling off the car as it drove aw~y. W~ en the couple got back into Logan they looked at the top of their car ( - 2- and found long scratches across the whole top of the car. It was probably t he two ~ eaded dog. Tonya talked to someone about it and t hey swear t hat it is true. Kristie Murdock Anderson North Logan, Utah . North Logan, Utah Utah State University English 124 Spring 1989 c>'? I I,;;) ,/,UO J ; , Texture --- Every time I tel this legend it still gives me the creeps. The way in which this story is told is important becau e-it aJmost has to be eerily quiet so that all th _details canoe heard. The quietness almost lets Y0u.jl,!mp into th~ssene-oftlie legend and actually visualize what is going on. I also think t at--it:-srather freaky for young girls to hear it because so many us come in ate« night into the dorms and are quiet trying to get ready to go to bed or someti es even going to our boyfriend's hOuse. So that makes the legend even m re--of~ity. ----~ -------- -- "The Nunnery" Informant Kaleo Penoke who currently attends school here at Utah State told this legend to me. He is a 23-year-old male who is majoring in psychology and will graduate in the spring. He is Filipino and comes from a rather large family who is Mormon. His hobbies include riding motorcycles and hiking. Context Kaleo told this legend to me last summer when we had decided to go up into Logan Canyon on a short hike. This legend was not told in any particular way, but just told as fact and something that really happened. There were three other people who were with us; two of them knew the story. I think that these others were part of the story because they could back it up that they to also have heard it. Which gave the legend even more backup. As we were hiking up into the Canyon, Kaleo begins telling the story of "The nunnery" and decides that it's best if we go try to find it. So as we are hiking up to find this place he starts telling us that back in the 1800's this nunnery was used by the Catholic nuns as part of a retreat camp. And that sometimes the nuns wouldn't behave themselves and they would have sexual relations with priests or other Clergy. And that some of the nuns became pregnant, well legend has it that they would have the baby but then leave these babies in underground tunnels that were beneath the nunnery and let L D, \,It) &;1 E(in ~rri~ / them starve to death. It's even been said that when the nunnery closed for good that along with the tunnels that were found so were the baby's skeletons. And at night you can still hear the baby's wails if you get close enough to the nunnery. Texture When Kaleo was telling me this story I began to feel a little uneasy. I think it was because the situation he was telling it in. We were hiking up to find this place and the sun was beginning to set. All of it tied into the legend and the feelings of being scared or a bit unsure of the whole idea of a hike after all. The setting in which it was told only made it seem more likely that it happened. We never did find the nunnery after all, we searched for about 45 minutes but gave up and I can't say I was the least bit sorry about it. Erin Harrison Logan, Utah 84321 Elk Grove, Ca 95624 Utah State University Eng! AnthrolHist 526 Roush Spring Quarter 1998 Supernatural Legend Saint Anne's Retreat Informant Data: Brett Bluth Logan, UT 1990 Brett Bluth is from Logan, UT. He is LDS. We were friends throughout high school. He now lives in Provo, UT. Contextual Data: When Brett was a child, his babysitter told him this story and said that it happened to her. Text: One day the babysitter and her friends went swimming in the pool at St. Anne's Retreat. They had been swimming for about 10 minutes. They all got frozen in the pool, so they couldn't move at all. After a minute they could all move again, and they got out and left. Laura Sozio Logan, UT Logan, UT Utah State University English 124 Fall 1990 LJ ,(, I2. .! cP2 Urban LegEncl Aa r~)1_ f:'!" c;t· LDqan Utah FEB :' ~ 1993 "f;t. {~r~'1e's S:"3.ugrter ' A6rcn leislman is ~1 years old. He was barr 11 Ugden U~a1 an~ has Ilved:r Losan ~or abo~t L5 years. ~e IS a s~Lde'1t at Utat' Bta.;e . Lniver,~lty n2 ... ?orinq in ~lect;T"lccd fechrology" HE'~ has ro religious pre+erence and s a memb2r uf the Sig~a ChI .( rl t?r-r-" .;y, Cor tc )'I.Ld" Ddt3: une C" Y tr'lJ? .~?i~Ji"'1a ChJ hOLt "::; (:;:. u wt·tCj~r-,ODn [ (·,)a c::; S::.tt1.l1~1 11"'1 t1e fror't ""OWl) 01' Aaron W25 i'1 the rOJM and we ~ere a~l Cary,)f"! and rO(l) m~tc'''i ,! .. e all l.i.kE?d 90::'1'19 up ~:ie::.:idE'!d to te.ll u.~, (flat hE~ '1.:td rIE',.""d <.1f'd dCj~12 ~rl n 1S tl)I ·12.t he £:.,'.10, t·2 1.:: l ' H,j about Loc)an there. Aaron tner LP In LDgar' Canyon. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ThaT-.(? u':::2d to Lc' <.l f'Un"l :;ry up LbcJcl.f, C".f'Y01,! a .1.org timr <:'(,10 up the-e and rstreated One ~;5l.t("I'Tler t'1ey had some orphan ~::.ds that tre ::ic:!s ~hrew t~e~ into the sWImming pool I ;'U11 ~t1i'0n L~lU~d ths? rJtrier nLlr's tine:! kl11"2d h:~r-s,p1.f 3.150. I<' you you and thr-ow you 1rto the po~l also. L.. CJ\. .1 .1 r ~.i -I ~3L1·3::::~. ,··:,hthr c: ~3:~)t ~ .',11 r·tc"!' 1. 993 Supernatural Legend Saint Anne's Retreat Informant Data: Justin Eborn Logan, UT 1990 Justin Eborn is from Montpelier, Idaho. ~e is now serving an LDS mission in California. Contextual Data: I worked with Justin. He told me this story one day at work. Text: Justin and his friends decided one night to go to St. Anne's. They heard dogs barking in the distance; it kept getting closer and closer. They were standing by a fence and the fence started tilting like there were dogs jumping against it. They got scared and ran back to the car. Justin couldn't find his keys, and they weren't in the ignition or in his pocket. They went back by the fence to find the keys. They couldn't find the keys by the fence and went back to the car. The keys were swinging in the ignition. As they drove away, they heard scratching on the car. When they got back to Logan, there was a scratch on the car. Laura Sozio Logan, UT 84321 Logan, UT 84321 Utah State University English 124 Fall 1990 The Nuns' Baby Informant: Rita Gafford 05/05/98 Rita Gafford has been my roommate for seven months. She participates in various types of recreation, many of which are up Logan Canyon. Rita was raised in Bountiful Utah in the LDS religion. She is an Exercise Sport Science major at Utah State University. Context: I asked Rita where she was going biking one day and she replied, "up near the catholic convent". I asked her where that was had she said, "haven't you heard about the Nun up there?" I replied no. She then proceeded to tell me what a friend she described only as a "Logan local" had told her. She told the story as if she personally did not believe it but those who told her wholly believe it. Text: Up Logan Canyon there is a convent of some sort. It was a retreat for Nuns. A long time ago there was a Nun who went and stayed up there to hide out because she was pregnant. She had her baby and was going to keep it and quit being a Nun but she was overwhelmed with shame so she had the baby and then killed it and buried it up by the convent. She was so overcome by guilt that she killed herself. Late at night, near the convent, you can hear the cry of the baby and many people have seen the Nun, wandering in the trees in eternal search for her child. Texture: Coming from someone who was raised in faith besides the Catholic religion, I think the story is told with a hint of believability. As it is every Nuns vow to be celibate, sex and especially pregnancy is so taboo for a Nun. It makes you feel sad to hear such a story of a mother killing her child out of guilt but leaves room for a haunting feeling because of this woman wandering Logan canyon in some sort of eternal shame and misery. It is almost as if this woman is in a type of eternal damnation and that makes seeing such a being very scary. Jennifer K. Morrill Logan, UT. Sandy, UT. Utah State University Supernatural Legend Nunnery in Logan Canyon Informant Data: Robert Trahan Logan Utah Summer of 1994 Robert Trahan is from Louisiana, he is 21 years old and is studying Industrial Hygiene at Utah State University. He likes hiking, loud music, and plays in a rock band called Chubby Amigos. He comes from a family of 6 with 2 other sisters and his parents who are divorced. Roberts family still lives in Louisiana and he wants to return there after graduation. Robert is also about as straightforward as they get, he rarely believes anything he hears and jokes about only serious matters. Contextual Data: Robert told this story to four or five of us while we sat on his porch one summer explaining recent hikes we had been on around the Cache Valley area. The other people in the group had also heard this story from various people. Some of the people said they heard a different version of the story about the same place from their parents, brothers and sisters. Supposedly the Man with the dogs had also taken care of the place in the 1930's. The man was accused of molesting girls there. Once the towns people found out a search held and somehow the old man was found and killed. by the angered people of the local towns. It seems that all supernatural encounters come from places one should be in the first place, Le. trespassing on someone property. With all the different variations to the story and the long history of the Nunnery up Logan canyon I suppose some parts of these stories have some validitity. Text: A friend of Roberts, Tim, had the job of taking care of the Nunnery the one summer. Tim had only been there for one day when he heard a vehicle driving up the d~ward the Nunnery while he was going for a swim. So, Tim got out of the pool and dried off so he could confront the people about the no trespassing signs posted at the rcrle\ leading to the Nunnery and on the land around the buildings. When he greeted the vehicle, it was just a bunch of teenage kids out checking the place out. Tim explained to the young group that they were not supposed to be up there and to tum around and leave promptly. Then one kid replied that they had already talked to the land tenant, a old man with two dogs, and he gave them permission from them to visit the buildings as long left everything without a scratch. Tim replied he was land tenant and had been in the pool swimming for the last 20 minutes. Plus he had haven't seen anyone up here all day and he never seen& ld man with two dogs. ]effNorgord Logan Utah, 84321 English 124 Fall '94 1 I ( Supernatural Non-religious Legend "Saint Ann's Retreat" Information Data: Robert Todd Starks USU Library January 18,1991 Robert, who goes by Bob, was born in Long Beach California. He spent most of his childhood in Cache Valley. Bob graduated from Logan High School and attend Utah State University for a year. He served as a missionary for the LDS church in Peru for two years. He is 22 years old and a junior in History at USU. Bob comes from a white LDS family. He is number five of six children. As a student, Bob enjoys activities and hobbies such as smgmg, story telling, motorcycling, and studying languages. Contextual Data: Bob first heard about this in his sophomore year of High School. He was with a group of friend at a party one evening during the summer. He was told about the story after they had just watched scary movie. He also heard it several times later through high school. I have known Bob since his first year at USU. We prclormed together in a music group. Bob told this to me in his ow'iI words while I recorded it on tape. Text: These guys went up Logan canyon, up to Saint Ann's retreat. And they were up there and they didn't know about all the stuff that had happened up there. They were up there playing ball. One guy threw the ball too far and the other guy ran to catch it. He didn't catch it. It went in the little pond up there, a little fountain. It's only about ankle deep and he jumped in the fountain to get the ball and carry it out, but when he got in the water, he feel in the water and he couldn't get out. He drowned there in the ankle deep water. l 2../' IZ. /.1P7 ( Jonathan R. McEntire River Heights, Ut 84321 Utah State University History 124 Winter, 1991 Religious Legend "A Haunted Nunnery." Informant Data: John Weaver Logan, Utah Summer, 1990 John Weaver is a junior at Utah State University majoring in pre-law. He is the oldest of two children. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but at the age of twelve his family moved to Clifton, Idaho. John is an active member of the LDS Church and has served a mission to North Carolina. Contextual Information: John heard this story from one of his roomates. He related this story to me one day as we were talking about folklore. The nunnery that is in this story is called St. Ann's and is located up Logan Canyon in Utah. Text: Many years ago and no exact date has been given, a priest went up to St. Ann's retreat to visit the nuns. Before he left an early snow storm hit and he was trapped at the retreat for the winter. When spring came several of the nuns delivered babies. Because of the disgrace, the mother superior took all of the babies and put them in the swimming pool. As the legend has it, if you were to go to St. Ann's during a full moon, you will see these nun's ghosts wandering around the pool crying and the faces of the babies in the pool. KaraLyn Litz Trenton, Utah 84338 Utah State University History 124 Fall 1990 ., In/omumJ DIItII: JIUOIIP~ LogIIII, Ut November, 1996 Jason Painter is a mend of mine. He is twenty-five years old and lives in Logan. I met him through a mutual friend and we have been friends for twelve years. He grew up in Logan such as I did, and lives here still . I was ml1cing to Jason in the grocery store and we were reminiscing about our past. We both grew up having wild mends, especially Jason. Growing up in Logan there is not a lot to do, so sometimes kids would have to make their own excitement. Jason told me this story that his friends told him when they were in high school, beck around 1987. Text: Word was out all over the local high schools that St. Anne's Nunnery up Logan Canyon, which has been deserted for years, was haunted by the nuns that once lived there. No one had ever gone to check it out, however. until one night some teenagers from Preston were drunk and drove to the nunnery. Some of the boys broke open a door to one of the buildings just as another boy tripped over a rock and fell into the empty cement swimming pool, cracking open his head. The party rushed the boy to the hospital, and s the doctors were shaving the boys head to stitch it up, his friends were shocked to see the cut was in the figure of a perfect large cross, like that of the catholic church. The kids were all busted for drinking and had to call their parents to come get them. T#'.XIIII'e: I think this legend was told to scare kids from trespassing and vandalizing St. Anne's. The fact the kids were dnmlc (sin) and vandalizing a sacred place of tile nun's set up tile stoJy for a climax. 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Because Jeff has lived in Logan for quite a few years now, he is more than familiar with local stories and , he asked me if had heard about this one. I said no, and he proceeded to tell me that. .. St. Ann's is haunted by all the nuns that used to be there at the beginning of the conventb history. You see if a nun got pregnant and they needed to keep it hush, hush they would send her up to this nunnery in the canyon where they could keep it quiet from society. Anyway, when the babies were born they would drown them in the fountain and then throw the bodies off the cliff. Now days, when the wind blows you can hear the crying of those babies and the nunnery is always completely clean because for penance the ghosts of the nuns must clean it for eternity. Yeah, man. I guess you can still see the blood in spots around there too. Eric Jensen Logan, Ut. 84321 S.L.C. Ut. 84105 History 526 Spring Quarter 1996 Campfire story saint Ann's Retreat Informant Data: Chalyce Petersen smithfield utah July 1990 I am nineteen years old and attending utah state University. I was born in California and lived there for several years before moving to Utah. My father is a Professor of Economics at USU. I am the oldest of four girls and I love to dance, sing, and play tennis. I really enjoy being outdoors, yet I hate insects and have discovered that I am still afraid of the dark. My friends always love to take me camping because I scare easily and make a big deal out of everything. Contextual Data: My friends and I had planned a camping trip one weekend, but on the day scheduled for the big trip it rained really hard. We decided that we were "rugged" enough to brave the rains and headed up smithfield Canyon anyway. I didn't get off work until nine, so by the time we got to a good spot it was already late and too dark to set up our tent. We figured we would have to sleep under the stars. After several "animal attacks" we snuggled down in our sleeping bags. Brian (a friend) began telling the story of the retreat called st. Ann's which is just up Logan Canyon. I had heard several versions of the story before, but his had a "fact" at the end which I had never heard before. This is his version of the story: Text: About forty years ago, a retreat was founded up Logan Canyon by the families of children who were what you would call "problem children." A group of nuns headed by a "Saint Ann" were responsible for the kids. One girl, who was fifteen, had been sent to the retreat because she was pregnant and was an embarrassment to -her family. When she finally gave birth to the baby, she was instructed to sign the child over to the state for adoption. She refused because she wanted to keep the child for her own. When the Church officials insisted that she sign the necessary papers, she decided that if she couldn't have the child, no one would. She flung the baby off the roof of the housing quarters. The sisters tried to clean up the mess, 9 but the blood stains would not come off. They tried everything and finally decided that the child must have been Satan's. One of the sisters took the baby's body and bricked it up in the wall of the chapel where you can still hear it crying. Many strange things have reportedly happened there since then. Many believe that the retreat never was controlled by a "Saint Ann", but that the real name of the guardian of the retreat was actually "Satan." 10 Chalyce Petersen Logan, Utah Utah State University Hist 124 Summer Quarter 1990 Supernatural Non-Religious Legend "The Nunnery" Informant Data: Carrie Anderson Logan, Ute February, 1987 Carrie Anderson is 15 years old and a sophmore in high school. She was born and raised in Cokeville, Wyo. She is currently living in Logan Ute with her father, my husband, and myself through the school year, and in Cokeville, Wyo. in the summer. She also has a mother that lives in Salt Lake, and a married sister that lives in Fort Bridger, Wyo. Carrie is active in school sports, and enjoys play­ing the piano, and riding horses and motorcycles. She has no religious preference at this time. ~ntextual Data: I gathered this story from Carrie a year ago when I was looking for urban legends for a storytelling class I was taking at USU. She had heard this story from several of her friends at Sky View High School. Text: The nunnery is a place up Logan canyon where priests and nuns go for a rest. If you go up there at midnight, you can see dead babies floating in the swimming pool that were drowned by the nuns. These are babies that the nuns had had in sin. You can also hear the cries of the nuns and the babies when you go up there. There is also a ghost of a guy with an ax that runs around up there chasing anyone who comes up there. Tona Anderson USU History 124 Spring, 1988 "St. Anne's Retreat" Local Legend Informant: David Francis Logan, Utah Fall,2000 David Francis is twenty-five, he's my brother-in-law. Previously, he has been very active in the Boy Scouts of America. He, himself, was an Eagle Scout. David was also a scoutmaster for many years, as well as a camp counselor. He has a real love for the scouting tradition and for sirting around the campfire and telling stories. It's really hard not to think of Dave when I think of the Boy Scouts. Context: David was giving me the legends he had heard about St. Anne's and the witch, Hekkadi. He wasn't sure of the connection between the witch and the nunnery, but he was able to give me some information about it. Some of the information Dave got from his involvement with scouts, and some he got from his mother. Text: You've heard of the nunnery, up by Second Dam. Well, kids used to go up there in groups and try and scare each other. It was supposed to be haunted, because supposedly the nuns a lot of times would get pregnant from the priests, but to hide their sins, they would kill the babies and bury them so no one found out. That's why it was supposed to be haunted. Also up there, there was a witch. Her name was Hekkadi, and she would chase you if she got the chance. There are two different ways that I heard the Hekkadi legend. In both versions though, she has these two huge black dogs with glowing, red eyes. In one version, if you go up to the nunnery and Hekkadi finds you, she'll chase you, but if you can out run her and the dogs and make it to the road, they always stop at the road. In the other version, Hekkadi and her two dogs would be out in the middle of the Logan Canyon Road, and it would look like you were going to hit her, but then by the time you went to- swerve, Hekkadi and her dogs were gone. Textu-re: ( I tried to follow Dave pretty close on this one, because it's one I heard about almost from the time I first got to Utah, in fact it was the first piece of local color that I had learned. I never did get a sense of whether or not David believed the legends and he, himself, has never been up to the nunnery. However, he was pretty calm as he told it, and he didn't seem to nervous or anything like that. This was another narrative that I got from Dave when he, Carrie, Ann-Michelle, and I were at McDonalds, having a "cool treat" as David calls them. Rob Gombach Logan, UT USU History 3700 Professor Thomas Fall 2000 supernatural Legend "st. Anne's Nunnery" Informant Data: Tyler Singleton Providence, utah April 8, 1994 Tyler is nineteen years old and is a good friend of mine. He is the second of five children. He is a member of the LDS Church and lives in Providence, utah. He attended Utah State University earlier this year (1994), but now is serving a LDS mission in Berlin, Germany. Tyler's hobbies are snow skiing, water skiing and camping. Contextual Data: st. Anne's is an old abandoned convent near the mouth of Logan Canyon. It is commonly called the nunnery. It seems to be a "rite of passage" with high school kids to go to the nunnery and see if they dare to perform the "rituals" associated with it. One of the "rituals" is to take a glass bottle to the nunnery and throw it into the empty swimming pool. They say if it doesn't break, then you are safe, but if it breaks then Satan is with you for the rest of the night. If the bottle breaks then when you drive down the canyon you can see two pair of red eyes in your rear~iew mirror (the eyes are from the two dogs that attacked a nunn) and you can see a nunn ~standing on the side of the road holding a baby. Tyler told this story while we were camping in Providence canyon. Everyone was sitting around the campfire telling stories so Tyler told this story to try to scare the girls and also to dare anyone to go to the nunnery with him that night. Tyler was told this story one night by some older kids (he was fourteen then) while they were on their way to the nunnery. Everyone who had heard the story already didn't think anything of it, but those who hadn't, mostly the girls, were scared and absolutely refused to go to the nunnery that night. Text: There was this old nunnery up Logan Canyon where there were some nunns. Some of the nunns would get pregnant and have their babies there, then kill them and bury them out behind one of the buildings. One time one of the nunns wouldn't kill her baby so she was kicked out of the nunnery, so she went back into the valley and raised the baby. One day she went back to visit her friends at the nunnery. All of the nunns loved the baby and would sit and play with it. This made the head nunn mad and worried that the other nunns would want to keep their babies. So she asked to hold the baby. When she got the baby, she threw it into the swimming pool and killed it - that's why you can see a red spot on the side of the swimming pool. The nunn who's baby it was started running away, so the head nunn sent two dogs after her to kill her. In the morning when the head nunn got up the two dogs were skinned, hanging in the trees. Justin Jacobson Nibley, UT Nibley, UT Utah State University History 124 Spring 1994 .:.:: .• !. :"'. r.'i .. .... ,'-), ::.:': , ••••1' . .. ' ,-. ,:::.:. .... + '.. . '.}::.:.:."('; .::::.f t .. :.:.:"1'" E~ l..,.; ':;:~ :;, r"; e'::::· .::::. ··,:::.t·· ' ... :' f ::.::.'r(~.:~!.1 t:' f i"' C,j"t"i ;·-i.L C) .f. c1 ~:.~ r .;:!. =:::1 L·i .:;;;. t. :i. 'n :~~1 i ... :}l·";::~-:: r' !::.:: ... ; .r. .1. f..:.'\/ T C' ! .• ~} C: Y" .. c·' . -_ + .j .. ~.-,; I::;: 1 '. ..:.".:.: :: + '. . : '1:L ].;::j r' =.:,:,:.: r1 i .... 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At present, he is not enrolled in school, but rather works on a house framing crew full-time. Context: I collected this story at my apartment after dinner. Ryan and his younger sister, Melanie, showed up after other people had already been telling stories. This is apparent when he asks what the tape-recorder is for. Because he was the only Logan local present (besides Melanie), no one else really could comment on these stories. Text: Ryan: Oh, you don't know about "The Nunnery!" Okay here's the rumor on "The Nunnery." Like supposedly ... are you recording? Colby: Yeah. Ryan: You rat-bastard! Colby: I'm sorry, dude. I thought you knew. Ryan: Hell no. Ah man, now I can't do this. Colby: Come on man, you were doing so well. Please, just keep going. Ryan: Okay, the nunnery ... supposedly, this priest, like he had all these nuns up there and it's up Logan Canyon, I can take you up there if you want ... Sam: I've been there. Ryan: It's like ten miles up Logan Canyon. And the deal is this priest killed a bunch of children, and all the nuns there and then killed himself. So this place is haunted as hell. And like supposedly you can go up there and find little graves of small children, and you L Q , I. \2. .1.17 know you hear some real weird shit. But you can actually see some weird shit, because I was sober up there one time, and I saw some shit you shouldn't be seein'. Colby: So you've been there? Ryan: Oh yeah, I've been up there a few times. Colby: Right on. How did you hear about it? Ryan: Urn, It's just like a local legend. Everybody who lives in Logan knows about it. Colby: So who told you? Ryan: I don't know ... Sam: But there was something that happened after that with some people up there ... Ryan: Yeah, some of the locals I know went up there, and there were these two security guards, which there shouldn't be guards up there anyway. But these guards tied them up, and the whole story got blown completely out of proportion, but I got the true story from them. They tied them up, and threatened their lives, but they never had dynamite tied to them or anything. Sam: I just heard they had shotguns. Ryan: Yeah, like they were threatened with their lives. And then they let them go, or something. Ben: And now everybody knows Ryan: Yeah. Context: Out of all the stories I collected, this was the one that was most believable. Everyone I the room was interested in what Ryan had to say. The way he related his own personal experience at the nunnery was a key factor in this, I think. I noticed the way he says, ''Everybody who lives in Logan knows about it." This to me shows the exclusiveness of local stories and rumors. Only a true local would know about these stories. Colby M. Thurston Logan, Utah USU Engljsh 27DO Professof1rhcrnas Fall 1999 ( ( Urban Legend Nunnery Informant Data: Amy Brewson Logan, Utah July 1995 Amy is a friend. She was born, raised and schooled in Logan Utah. She is at the present time going to Utah State University, where she is getting her masters in Biology . She has been married for almost one year. Contextual Data: In the beginning of my Math 105 class, I told a legend to pass the time. After I told my legend Amy told a legend of a Nunnery which is found up in the Logan Cannon. Item: A nun got pregnant at the nunnery but didn't want the baby. So, she placed the babies body in a brick wall of the nunnery. Now if a first born ~up to the nunnery the first born will die. Jeri Justis Logan, Utah Baton Rouge, Louisiana USU History 124 Summer 1995 / Supernatural Non-religious Legend "The Haunting of Saint Ann's Retreat" Informant Data: Kim Lamb Logan, Utah August, 1983 Kim Lamb was a very good friend of mine with whom I worked with at a local pizzeria while going through high school. He was born in Logan in 1964. Kim is very enthusiastic and energetic and enjoys having a good time. He comes from a non LDS background. Kim is presently living in California with his wife and two children. Contextual Data: I collected this story when a group of my friends and I where trying to find something to do after work one night. It was in the summer at about 12:30 p.m. We really did not know what we wanted to do, but we where feeling mischievous and wanted an adventure. Kim told us of the "haunted retreat" up in Logan canyon and talked us in to going there after relating the story to us. At the time it was the first that I had ever heard of the retreat, but since then I have heard many variations of the legend from many people. Saint Ann's is located about twenty miles up Logan Canyon and owned by the Catholic church. It has not been used for many years as a nunnery. There is an interesting cross-over of two local legends in Kim's version. It is said that the spirit of a witch known as Heceta will appear on a bridge in Logan canyon if anyone goes to the spot and yells her name three times. This story was originally separate from the murder legend of Saint Ann's, but the two have come together in most of the narratives that I have heard since Kim related it to us the first time. Text: Saint Ann's retreat was a place of spiritual solitude and peace where Catholic nuns would spend the summer months. At any given time there would be fifteen or twenty nuns at the retreat doing various activities. The Mother Superior of the nunnery was a woman by the name of Heceta, who governed the nunnery very strictly. There where those in the Church who believed that Heceta possessed unique supernatural abilities and was possibly involved in witchcraft, but it could never be proven. One terrible night a gang of bikers who had heard of the defenseless nuns in the canyon raided the nunnery. They viciously raped several of the nuns including { I" Heceta whom they murdered. Before she died she vowed vengeance on the gang of bikers and swore that the nunnery would be a damned place from that day foreword. It so happened that everyone of the bikers involved in the attack on the nunnery where savagely killed themselves. They died horrible deaths being ripped apart by what appeared to investigators to be dog attacks. The Catholic church closed the nunnery after the attack by the bikers and it has never been used since. If anyone dares go to the nunnery at night and yells the name "Heceta" three times her crazed spirit will be heard crashing through the trees behind a pack of demonic hell dogs with glowing red eyes. Those who have seen the apparition swear that they did not think they would live to tell it. The spirit of Heceta will not cross over the river bridge however, and her demon dogs cannot harm anyone on the other side. Shawn Lawlor River Heights, Utah USU English 526 Dr. Roush Fall 1995 Item 03 Legend: Logan Canyon Nunnery Informant Data: Britany Holmgren Logan, Utah November, 1995 Britany Holmgren is a 19 year-old resident of Logan, Utah. She studies at Utah State University. She is on the USU Ballroom Dance Team. Britany is the oldest of five children. She and her family are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter­day Saints. She grew up in Fielding, Utah. Her hobbies include floral design, craft making, and roller blading. Her family owns Belmont Hot Springs in Plymouth, Utah. She works for her family in the summer time. Contextual data: I was told this story by Britany while researching and compiling legends for English 526 at Utah State University. She said that this legend is true. She herself has visited the site at Logan Canyon where the legend originates from, and the actual swing mentioned in the Legend is there still. I believe that this legend is a product of the ignorance that many people have about religions that are not as dominant in this area of the United States. Perhaps if we understood nuns, and did not hold them in such mystery, this legend would not be told. In Logan Canyon is a defunct nunnery. It is closed and gaited. This is where a gruesome murder took place, and where hauntings have occurred ever since. Long ago, when the nunnery was still housing nuns, one cloistered sister became pregnant by her own transgression. She carried the child to term, and raised it until it was two years old. In the yard of the nunnery, bordering the Logan River, is a swing that the nuns would swing the child from. One afternoon the child was being swung by it's mother. Because the child was a product of sin, it flew violently into the river. The nun/mother had shoved her child into the river. Now the child cries when the river swells. D. Reed Cowan Logan, Utah Utah State University English 526 Professor Roush Fall 1995 Supernatural Legend "Saint Anns Camp" Informant Data: Jake Winegar Logan, utah April 1990 Jake is a friend I met at the beginning of the quarter. Jake moved from Colorado to Utah with his parents in July of 1989. He came to utah State University in September of 1989 to major in Business Adminestration. Jake has three sisters one brother, three stepsisters and one stepbrother. Contextual Data: I herd this story and a few others while we were camping two miles up Logan canyon. There were about ten of us, we were sitting around a camp­fire drinking and toasting marshmallows. Jake decided he wanted to tell stories to see if he could scare us. We all decided to listen. Some of the people believed in the story, some had ~r another version of the story and some looked at Jake skeptically. He succeeded in scaring a few of the people. Jake can be very convincing at times, because he belie"-Els in all of his stories. I have herd different versions before and since the story was told. Text: There is a place here in Logan canyon called Saint Anns Camp. It used to be a convent for nuns in the eighteen hundreds. The story goes, one nun became pregnant, maybe her name was Saint Ann. When she had her baby, in fear of the church, she drowned the baby in a near by brook near a bridge. A few days went by and the nun began to feel guilty so she jumped off the highest tower of the convent. A few years later, after the nunnery closed, people reported strange happenings. Some have reported seeing an angry spirit of a child who plays tricks on the people. Others have seen the women in morning walking around the comvent. Esther Gates Logan utah Ohio USU English/History 124 Surrmer 1990 l..1 . \ .12 1\ \ \ Gr'eg O···8':'.nnion Genr'e: Tit 1 e: Supernatural Legend "The Nunner:,··11 Infor·ma.nt Dat.;:..: tvl.I . ...'.T Gr' e g i -:. a f 00 t b.;:.. 1'1 pI ':'.ye r' r~' e .:.. t u. S • U. He i·:. f r' Clm Dos Palos, Cal ifornia. He is nei ther superstitios or r'e 1 i g i ou·a.· and he doe·:.n " t be I i el.}e th i s story ootthen ag.:.. in n".!<1ther dCles .:t.n>··one v.Jho heap-s it, blJt it····a. alll,J·:;"Ys .iI.-Q.Qod s.tory to telL. Contextual Data: I've heard many legends about the Nunnery located in Logan Canyon but I heard this version for the first time from Greg. He heard the story when he came to Utah State to go to -:·c h oCll • Dat.:..: Ther'e v..l er·e ,:to group of nun':· 1 it) i nl;i .:.. t the nlJnnery .:.. number of years ago. It seems that one of the nun's c c.mm itt 12 d ,:to '.} e r' ::,., IJ n - nun 1 i ~:: e .;:.. ct.;:.. n d be c ·;:..m e p r' e g nan t. T h i -:. do with the pregnant nun. When she finally had the baby the other nun's I con·:.p i r'ed ,:t.g,:t. i nst her' to r' i d the nunner)-" clf the fru it fr'clm this unholy union. One night at midnight they stole the baby I and drowned him in the shallow pool near the nunnery. The mother went crazy when she learned of the babies death and began to wander the hi I Is at night in search of her lost child. When it came time for the other nuns to leave, she refused to go and I ived on in the abandoned buildings as a hermit, a social outcast. She still haunts the nunnery to this da~ and some people claim that you can \ \ still hear her call ing for her dead child, her cries ringing off the surrounding hills. J.:..ce-::.on H21.ugh2<.n 1.•. Je 1 I:.',! i I I e U.~LU Erll;t. 124 Spr' i ng 1990 T.egend The Nuns T.nformant Data: Camille is a student a Utah Shate Unjversity. old. She ws born in 19-,0 in Millville Utah, and all of her life. She is well traveled and has twice. Camille enjoys musi~ and motorcycles. ready with a story. Contextual Data: Camille Mathys Logan Utah Feb. J990 She j s 20 years has lived there visi ted Europe She is always We were driving up the Logan Canyon on our way to go skjing at Beaver Mountain. I was enjoying the scenery and marveling at the canyon when Camille told me that all was not beautiful in the canyon and that some pretty creepy things went on in the canyon. Thjs is one of the stories she told. Text: A long time ago there was a nunnery in the canyon. It was very reclusive and no one knew much about it. But it wasn't a Catholic nunnery, it was a djfferent reljgion. Any way some thjng happened at the nunnery and all the nuns were killed. No one really knows what happened, but jt was Satanical. Well one of the nuns was cursed and now she roams the canyon with her black dog and her cane. If you see her, run, cause if she sees you, you will die within the month. She is usually seen only at night along the road and most people say she only walks during a full moon, but you never really know when you will meet her, so be careful. Donna Chipman Pocatello ID USU English 124 Spring 1990 Supernatural Legend "The Nunnery" Informal Data: Lynley Thompson Logan, Utah April 1990 Lynley married my nephew, since then we've become friends. She was born and raised in an active LDS family in Richmond, Utah. Lynley is presently attending Utah State University. One year ago Lynley gave birth to her first baby. Now she lives in Logan with her husband and daughter. contextual Data: Lynley learned this story from a group of high school friends. One of the boys told this story when they drove by the nunnery in Logan Canyon. Lynley and I were talking about how some people believe in ritualism when she told me this story. Text: There is an old nunnery that has been closed down for years in Logan Canyon. Between the Catholic Chapel and the living quarters was a swimming pool. The priest that ran the place was very strict. If one of the nuns ever became pregnant he would make them drown their newly born baby in the swimming pool. The ritual is that if you go the the nunnery at midnight when the moon is full, you'll see the nuns' spirits standing around the swimming pool crying. Sonya Thompson USU History 124 Spring 1990 Logan, UT Supernatural legend The nunnery Brett Gibbons Logan, Utah February, 1990 Informant Data: () Brett Gibbons was a friend of mine in high school in Smithfi ild) Utah. He lives In LewistonlUtah where his family owns a farm .. He is a very active person, and is a avid football lover. Contextual Data: I collected this story while riding up the canyon to visit the nunnery. The group we were with were mostly girls. When I heard the story, part of the group didn't believe it. The other half were a little bit more believing. Some of them had heard the story before. It had been a little different than the one being told. Text: r About twenty years ago there were a bunch of n s living at the nunnery. Well they were the ones that had become pregnant, so the church would send them there. When the nuns would have the babies they would drown them in the pool. Because they did this, the ghosts of the babies haunt the houses. They say there is a blue dog that will drive you away if you go there. It's the protector of the babies spirits. I know a man who said he saw the blue dog one night down by the river. And I don't think he would lie. Matt Checketts Hyde Park , Utah English 526 Fall 1994 "The Legends about St. Anne's Nunnery" Informant: Laura Adams Schenk during a phone conversation in Nibley, Utah 22 November, 1997 Laura is of English descent, and grew up in Hyrum, Utah. She is my sister-in-law and friend. She is a first grade teacher in her late 30s. She is LDS. She heard this legend while she was still attending Sky View high school; she was a typical high school girl, involved with such activities as the marching band and the school newspaper. She was (and is) friendly and social, and had high grades. She has two sisters close to her own age, and a younger brother. She currently lives not far from my house in Nibley, Utah. Context: I had actually phoned her to talk to my brother, Clair, but Laura and I are good friends and I told her about my folklore class. She was fascinated as I told her about some of the legends we had been studying. "Oh, I love stories like that!" she exclaimed. After I told her "The Hook" and some of the analyses of it that we had discussed in class, she commented, "Oh, really? You learned about that in your class? Because I always thought that was true. Even, like, St. Anne's-I thought that was true 'til just a little while ago, you know, with the stuff that happened this summer." During the summer of 1997, some teenagers had been snooping up around St. Anne's Nunnery, looking for ghosts. They were caught, tied up, thrown in a pool, and generally harassed by the guards there. It was quite an incident to have happened in quiet Cache Valley, Utah. Months later, everyone was still talking about it. I asked Laura to tell me what she knew about St. Anne's, and she obliged me in an animated tone: Text: About St. Annes-I thought it was true until I read about it in the paper this summer. But I heard, like, there were ghosts there, that all the nuns had been murdered or something. And there was a fire or something and that's why the nuns were all gone. But it wasn't that at all, the nuns left and they left because of all the vandalism and stuff, and the fire was actually from vandalism, not ghosts or whatever. What was the true story they told you in class? Because I thought it was haunted, so that's what drove the nuns away, or killed them, or whatever. But I heard about the nunnery in high school, and I thought, "Ooooh! I want to go up there!" But I never did, and it's probably good I didn't, because I might've ended up tied up in a pool! Texture: Laura and I swapped several stories, but the reason I chose this one to use for the assignment is that she incorporated both the new information she had learned about St. Anne's, and the old information about St. Anne's that she had heard in high school,into her telling of the legend. I think the St. Anne's story has a lot of potential to change over the years in this way. I think that eventually, the guards who attacked the teenagers will be incorporated into the St. Anne's legends, and changed into ghosts or evil spirits, through the telling and retelling of the legends. Bonnie Lou Schenk Nibley, Utah 84321 Utah State University ) Anthropology 526: Legends, Myths, and Folktales Dr. Jan Roush Fall Quarter, 1997 "The Nunnery" Informant: Emily Allen Logan, Utah November 1997 Emily Allen is 21, a junior who is majoring in Sociology and is a friend of my friend who I don't know very well. She likes to go to parties and drink, but being a college student is too poor to drink to much. Context: Since this assignment was next to impossible for me to complete, and no matter who I asked they didn't seem to have any stories to tell it was amazing that Emily could think of something to tell. She had heard this story a lot and had asked me if I had heard it. My husband, when she brought it up remembered reading the legend in the school newspaper. Text: Well, in the nunnery there was one priest, who wasn't very good, and all the rest were women. Well, the priest got one of the nuns pregnant. He told her not to tell anyone about it, so she didn't, and she had the baby. After she had the baby the priest took it and drowned it in the pool. The poor nun didn't know what had happened to the baby. Well, one day the puppy dog that they had around there dug up the baby's body where it had been buried in a shallow grave in the backyard. The nun saw the body and went crazy and killed herself. Because she killed herself she they had an investigation, and they found out that the priest was some kind of satan worshipper and was really evil. They say that you can still see blood in the pool and the nun is wandering around up there crying. Of course I don't believe it its just something that they tell. Texture: This story was told with mild disgust for how awful the tale was, and also for the fact that people tell such unbelievable tales. Emily said that she had heard it alot and that it was ridiculous. She said, "its just a thing that they tell" with a wave of her hand to Christen C. de Groot Informant Data: Myself Girls Camp Summer 1986 My name is Chelise Young. I was born at Dixie General Hospital in St. George Utah. I was raised in Cache Valley and I am now married and still live in Cache Valley. I am twenty-one years old and I am a junior at Utah State University. I am expecting my first child. Contextual Data: I collected this item at a girls camp in the summer of 1986. The camp was held up Logan Canyon just around the corner from St. Annes Camp (commonly referred to as "The Nunnery"). When the story was told, it was dark and a group of us was sitting around the campfire telling stories and singing songs. All of us were leery of the area and the story only heightened our fears that we were not alone. I feel that the reason it was told was not to frighten us but rather to scare us a little and give us the chills. Text: A long time ago The Nunnery used to be in full working order and girls were sent there by their families under similar circumstances as the ones under which we are attending camp tonight. The girls were to have a retreat in which they would learn better social qualities and in some situations, some manners. It was a type of summer boarding school. For many of the girls, coming to The Nunnery was something that was anticipated and looked forward to with much delight. On one particular occasion, however, the girls that were selected all had one thing in common. They were all expecting. Anyway, they were up at The Nunnery and many gave birth there. The nuns, not wanting the illegitimate babies to be raised by the irresponsible girls, drowned them in the pool. Since that time, the spirit of the nun that was in charge of the drownings has haunted the area. She comes out mostly at night and carries a lantern. More often than not she is accompanied by a large black L'2,I .IZ,I.~t \ ( dog that helps her search for other girls in need of "help". If you happen to see her, don~t look at her directly because if you make eye contact, and if you have anything to hide, she will hunt you down and she and the dog will take you back to the nunnery where she can "take care" of you as well. Chelise Young USU English 526 Fall 1994 Logan, Utah 84321 Logan, Utah 84321 ( UrtliJn Legend "St. Anne's Retreat" Informant Data: rvlyse 1 f Logan .. Utah April 1967 .Jennifer Nelson is a senior at USU maJoring in English. She is an active LDS member. She was born in Colorado in 1964) and has lived in Logan since 1970. Her ancestry is Swedish} Danish} and British. She served an LDS mission in Japan. Contextual Data: I attended Gi rl's Camp up Logan Canyon dw-i ng most of rny teenage years. In the evening we v'lould sit around the campfire and tell scary stories} faith promoting stories} silly stories, and we sang songs. I heard lots of varying stories and repeated many related to St. Anne's Retreat at high school parties. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * There is a place up Logan Canyon called St. Anne's Retreat. It used to be a nunnery, but since then a lot of stories have developed and spread obout a rnurderer sloughtering several nuns and leo\ling the rest to go insane. I went up there once with 0 group of fri ends in hi gh school. There were some bi g dog houses and someone told rne there had been bi g guard dogs to protect the nuns, but a murderer- came and slit their throats--but you coul d still hear thern barki ng somet i meso There was al so an ernpty swirnming pool. Some of the nuns were thrown into the pool after bein!~ killed .. or forced to Jump into the empty pool, splattering themselves on • the deep., hard bottom. I think a few nuns were remaining .. but they went insane and it became unsafe for anyone to go up there. Several years ago I heard that someone wanted to sell the place or rebuil d it for a surnmer ctlrnp p 1 tlce, but the p 1 elt"iS were never deve 1 oped-­rnaybed because of the scary stori es and 1 egends ossoci ated wi th tt"le place. ....Iennifer- Nelson Logan, UT 84321 Utah State University English 524 Spring 1987 Supernatural Legend "Witch Hekeda" Informant Data: Steven Rakes Logan, Utah April, 1990 Steven Rakes is a 27 year-old, white male who was born in Florida, but has lived in Logan, Utah for the last twelve years. After moving out West with his family, he graduated from Logan High School in 1980. Steve and his family are converts of the LDS faith, of which Steve is semi-actively in­volved. Steve is happily married to Lani. They have been married for three years and they have a 14 month_old baby boy. Steve enjoys camping out in the canyons, fishing, basketball and collecting baseball cards as well as other memorabilIa. Steve keeps up on unusual events and seems to always have something interesting to say. Steve is employed in Logan by a downtown businessman. He works with the general public in retail. Contextual Data: I collected the item from Steve while visiting with him at his place of employment. He was helping me with some work (framing of pictures) . I needed done. When I asked Steve if he was familiar with any legends from this area, he told me of a story he heard from a friend about six years ago while camping up Logan Canyon. There were several other people around the fire as the story was told that cool, Fall evening. They were all friends and they were sharing strange and bizarre occurrences they had encountered in the past. Text: There is a lady who lives up Spring Hollow within five miles from here, who is known by many as Witch Hekeda. She carries a blue lantern at night and has a pack of wild, ferocious dogs, who escort her through the mountains of these parts. If you drive your car to the top of Spring Hollow and turn off your lights, wait a moment or two and the callout "Hekeda" three times in to the dark silence, you will soon: hear the pack of dogs making their way toward you, becoming louder and louder. Then in the distance you will see the glowing of a blue light. You may try this yourself, but I wouldn't recommend it. When he put this to the test, he got more than he bargained for . The dogs swarmed around his car like bees to a hive. The blue light was directly in front of his car. Luckily, he managed to start his car and speed off. Terrified to death, he raced down to the bottom of the canyon. Upon getting out of his car, he noticed Cory Christensen .J Deep gouges and scratches over the entire body of his car. He was lucky to be alive. Cory Christensen Logan, Utah Logan, Utah Utah State University English 124 Spring 1990 Legend The Old Nunnery Marie-Elena Andino Student Center, USU March, 1985 Marie-Elena was born in El Salvador, and moved to the United States about 7 years ago. She is attending Utah State University and works on Helpline, a community crisis line. I was in the Helpline office, when Jim, a volunteer told a legend about a nunnery up Logan canyon. After he finished the story, Marie-Elena offered a different version about the same place, with some of the details the same. She said she had heard many different versions, including the one that Jim told. The one told by Jim, was about an insane man who murdered the nuns. The one Marie-Elena heard tells of a man who kills t~ babies that the nuns accidently have. Other volunteers offered even different versions. "The same cabin up in Logan Canyon is the sett i ng for th i s story too. Appajently its a real nice cabin, both inside and out. Really fancy. And like Jim said, it has a swimming pool in back. Anyway, no one lived in it, except when Priests or whoever got nuns pregnant the nuns would go up to this cabin and hide. The cabin was owned by the Catholic church. Anyway, they had their babies, and then would kill them and bury them under the swimming pool, or drown them in the water. Now if you go up there, you can hear the babies wailing from beneath the pool, or from within the water." Mary Lynn Pedersen Logan, Utah 84321 S.L.C., Utah 84121 Utah State Univ. Hi story 124 Winter, 1985 1-1.,/I'2 . IQI Legend Old Nunnery Jim Davidson Student Center, USU March, 1985 Jim, who is orignally from Pennslyvania, is a transfer student from Weber State. Having lived in Ogden, Utah until he transfered to Utah State, Jim has only lived in Logan a few months. He is now attending Utah State, and is a volunteer worker for Helpline, a community crisis line. Several st~dents and I were in the Helpline Office when I asked if anyone knew of any legends. Jim asked if I knew the one about the cabin in Logan canyon. I said no, so he proceeded to tell the version that he was most aquainted with. Several others in the office offered details that they had heard, and when he was finished, another volunteer told the version that she had heard. Jim said that he was suprised that I hadn't heard it, because it was popular in Logan and he had heard it several times, though he's only lived here a few months. Someone suggested that we turn out the lights, and everyone laughed. "There is this really nice cabin up Logan canyon. And they have an outdoor swimming pool. I mean this is really a luxury place, all nice inside and everything. Rumor has it that it used to be a nunnery, a convant. One night, on Halloween this insane man raped and murdered all the nuns and thr ew them into the swimming pool. Now , if you go up on Halloween you see all these nuns looking for _their murderer, and they'll chase you to see if you are the one that killed them. II Mary Lynn Pedersen Logan, Utah 84321 S.L.C., Utah 84121 Utah State Univ. History 124 Wi nter, 1985 Folklore Archive, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84321 Ink, please J. . Name of Informant ..................... ?!-.~y .......... .M~.U~ .......................... Age .... ~. ,;. ., ........... .. Address .......................... ~.~ ......... ..................... .......... C ... c .~ ........................ u..I:-.................... .. n City County State Item : ~L AV\I'\~~ K€tl"~+. D~ hu~~ 1~r~ be. c. 1::'_ 'h~)i!. JntA."..~...( Nv.. .... <; ~ClvO(" 'W\q,,~+~ a.+ IM;J""~1' wi ~ /-J' 't.)lA.lt ~s-l(,(r b +~ m e -ef'1 ~~ will ( ~ (,,J-k,.... Lt°!.( o..-J kill i VI, First Heard (by informant) JH:~.~ .. I. ........................... ~ .... ),~iAI.!~?I. ...................... .c.~u. . 4 ................. ~+4..0. ......... .. 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About forty years ago, in Logan Canyon at Saint Anne's Retreat, there lived a nun. One day this nun committed a grievious sin. She felt terribly sorry for her sin and weeped every night because of it. Finally one evening in the summer, the nun took a long rope, wrapped it around a tree limb and hung herself. Today, if you go up into the canyon on a summer night and listen carefully, you can still hear the nun weeping at Staint Anne's Retreat. Marcie Skabelund Logan, Utah Utah State University History 124 Winter 1985. Legend "The 1'-1ad Caretaker" Informant Data: Tim RracJfield Logan, Utah Spring 1'3'34 Tim Bradfield, a friend of mine, and Logan Native. Tim graduated from Logan High in 1983. He is presently employed as the caretaker at Saint Ann's Retreat in Logan Canyon. He is non-denominational in religion and of Scandinavian and English decent. Contextual Data: Tim learned this legend through the previous caretaker at the retreat. He told me this legend while giving me a tour of the grounds. The small doll house in which the story takes place seems to be out of place with the rest of the grounds. There was a rich family who first built and owned Saint Ann's F.:et r eat. They had a small girl and there was also a caretake"r. The caretaker supposedly was possessed by some spirit that haunted the grounds. The caretaker killed the child in the doll house with an axe. Jim Zahmel Logan, USU Utah History 124 Spring 1994 "The Nunnery" Legend Informant: Jaime Saltern River Heights, Utah April, 2002 Jaime Saltern is the wife of Co by Saltern, who is a co-worker of mine. Jaimejust recently had a baby boy named Max. She works at the hospital as a medical assistant. She is 28 and she is from Smithfield Utah. She is currently living in River Heights and she is an excellent fisherman. Context: I went over to the Saltern's house to have Coby sign his informant release form on his story and that is when Jaime told me about "The Nunnery" that is up Logan Canyon on the river. She told the story with fear in her voice. Text: Jaime said that the property was previously a nunnery where nuns lived and did their thing. They would bring up young girls to be trained as nuns. There would be boys that would sneak into it and get the girls pregnant. As nuns they couldn't raise children so the babies would be drowned in the pool. Since there was evil there with the killings it is now haunted. If you go up there at night you can see spirits and hear babies crying. Texture: Jaime's husband Coby has been up there at night with 4 of his friends. He said that it is really scary and there was a dark feeling up there. When I heard the story I thought no wonder the babies haunt the place, and with a story like that it would be very scary up there. BoRoundy Logan, Utah USU/ spring 2002 History 4700 Professor Thomas Title: St. Anne's Retreat Haunting Genre: Ghost Story Christine Woolston North Logan, UT April 13, 2007 Informant: Christine is my sister in law. She has lived in North Logan most of her life. She graduated from Sky View High School in 1996. She later graduated with a Bachelor of Art from Utah State University in 2005. Context: I was over at my in-law's house and a group of us were sitting around the kitchen table talking about ghosts. This occurred in the early evening and progressed in to the night. After one person told a story the next person would jump right in with what they knew. The darker it got outside the more closely we all sat together and the lower out voices became. This setting is when ghost stories are typically transmitted from one person to another. This discussion was instigated by me but this setting is typically instigated by one individual who either asks if someone knows a host story or by telling one themselves. I asked Christine if she knew the story of St. Anne's Retreat up Logan Canyon. I knew that she had known some of the high school students which had been caught by the security guard while she was in high school. I asked her if she knew why the students went up there and why they said it was haunted. She answered me with this story. Text: The nuns and the priests would get together so the church had to set up these retreats so the nuns could go there when they got pregnant. They would go there for the nine months, and then the nun would not want to be bothered by a baby and would drown it in the well. The ghosts of the babies would then come back and haunt the nuns while they were at St. Anne's recuperating so the church had to abandon it. Texture: Christine told this story as if she did not believe it. The story came from when she was in high school. The idea that the St. Anne's nunnery is haunted did not hold much for her. She just told the basic story and did not add a lot of details to make it more believable. Amanda M. Woolston Utah State University Hist 2720 Lynne S. McNeill Spring 2007 \ Chelsie Cefalo Logan, Utah May 13,2011 "Murderous Nuns" Legend Informant: My name is Chelsie Iona Cefalo. I was born in Logan, Utah and lived in Utah for most of my life. I am a 21 year old female. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I come from a family with seven kids and I am the oldest. I am currently attending Utah State and majoring in English with an emphasis in teaching. Context: I heard this legend on dark Friday the 13th while my roommates and I were sitting around a campfire at Second Dam. We were several miles away from the site 'where the legend occurred. A legend like this is typically told around campfires or on dark scary nights and is intended to scare the listeners. The legend was told to me by roommate Jennifer Hugie. Text: Just up the canyon from here is an old nunnery. The stories say that back in the day when the nunnery was actually open, they used to send pregnant teenagers there so they could be punished for their sinful ways. Well not too long after they started sending the teenagers there, the nuns started killing the girls and would drown their babies in the swimming pool. The place is now haunted by the ghosts of the nuns, mothers, and babies. If you go to the swimming pool or look in the cabins you will run into them. Texture: Jenni told this with a sense of foreboding in her voice. I don't think she fully believed it but I think she was definitely superstitious about it. Everyone was a little freaked out by the story and I know that some of the other girls thought it was true. Gh~\s\e., o,M \0 . \J\U'n ~~ V~\~Slry bj\\l~ ~10 ~\~!S('f\ tcA\\ '20\\ Daniel Force Utah State University 2720 Survey of American Folklore Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010 Consultant: Tori Wennergren Age and DOB: 18. December 12, 1991 Ethnicity: Caucasian Place Collected: Logan, Ut Date: 10128/10 Title: The Nunnery Geme: Ghost Story. (Legend) Text: Q- Can you give me some background information on The Nunnery? A- What I do know is that it used to be like a place where nuns would go if they were pregnant. And so, they'd be shipped off to this nunnery. And I guess at some point, all of the babies were drowned by some psycho, crazy nun. And so, when you go there, you can hear babies crying. And if you like lean over the water, then they'll grab you. Age of consultant when he or she used or performed this example: She first heard it when she was 14. Where did the consultant live at the time: Logan, Ut Circumstances in which consultant used the folklore: She heard the story both at school and at family gatherings, particularly at campfires. Texture: The interview took place in an apartment of freshman girls going to USU. The atmosphere was very social, with a lot of things going on. Daniel Force Utah State University 2720 Survey of American Folklore Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010 Consultant: Alexa Schofield Age and DOB: 18, Feb. 25,1982 Ethnicity: Caucasian Place Collected: Logan, Ut Date: 10/25/2010 Title: The Nunnery Genre: Ghost story. (Legend) Text: Q- Can you give me some background on the Nunnery? A- My uncle told me that it was a place where nuns went when they got pregnant and they had to drown their babies. But, it's like, mysteries of like the nuns dying, started happening, because people would go there to kill the nuns. Q-[Girl off to the side says:] Tell them about the swimming pool! A- And there was this, this swimming pool is where the babies would, where they'd drown the babies. And that's what I went to go check out two years later. Q- Can you tell me about what happened when you went to the nunnery? A- Urn ... [lights turn off] oh great. So, it was me, my Uncle, and his two friends. And my Uncle is pretty old. And I was the lookout and we had to park like a mile away, because the cops are like huge on the nunnery, because they know kids go there a lot. And we had to jump this fence and it had barbwire on it, circled around it. And I was just the look out, but I saw it and you could just like feel like different. As soon as you crossed that fence you felt different. But I was just a look out, so I didn't hear anything, but like I just heard them walking around. And then, I heard a scream, and it was my Uncle. And he said, and he came running out and said "We gotta go now." So we left, and he wouldn't talk about it until like a week later. And he said that he like, that his two friends were in the pool, and the pool's empty, but they were down looking at it. He said like an uncontrollable forced pushed him in. And he fell in and he hopped out the other end. [Girl in background asks "He seriously felt that?"] Yeah, he was like shaking when he told me. [Same girl "Ugh .. .I hate the devil!"] So yeah, they've never been back and my parents won't let me go there anymore. Age of consultant when he or she used or performed this example: She first heard of the nunnery when she was 13 at a campfire. Where did the consultant live at the time: The consultant lived in Logan at the time. Circumstances in which consultant used the folklore: The folklore she knew about the nunnery was primarily told on family outings, particularly camp fires. This was her Uncle's favorite story to tell. Texture: This interview took place in a female apartment, where a majority of the girls were freshman. When she started telling the story, someone flipped off the lights. Everyone was scared after it was told. After the story, they decided to go to the cemetery to try and find the weeping woman. Item #4 Supernatural Religious Legend "The Nunnery" Informant Data: Myself Logan, UT Fall 1991 I was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Being a "military baby" I had the wonderful experience of moving every couple of years. I am an active member of the L.D.S Church. Contextual Data: Shortly after moving to the valley some friends and I went up to the nunnery (i.e. St. Anne's Retreat) around Halloween. This historic landmark is located about six miles up Logan Canyon. Although it is only a few hundred feet from the highway, it is well shielded from the road by the Logan River and a blanket of trees. Current owners have constructed quite an elaborate gate, trimmed with barbed wire, to keep intruders out. Text: Several years ago, they used to use the nunnery as a retreat for nuns. Every summer a new load of nuns would arrive from churches across the tri-state area (Utah, Idaho, and Nevada). They would stay here for the summer, do their thing, and then all would leave at the end of the summer. All but one that is. Her name was Helga, and she was the head nun/caretaker of the facility. She was assisted by a Priest, and together they tended to the duties inherent with caring for the facility. Helga was a witchy woman, who seemed like she was mad at everyone. "Very outspoken and very mean" were the attributes assigned her whenever anyone described her. The priest was quite a character himself. He was "stoic, gloomy, and evil-looking." Most residents wondered what kind of a "relaxing retreat" for the nuns it was with these two individuals presiding over operations. No one really remembers exactly how it was discovered what went on the other side of the Logan River, behind that veiling blanket of trees, but all remember the crimes committed. Evidently, the nuns who were sent to this particular nunnery all had one thing in common--they were all pregnant. Of course, everyone knows that it is against the rules of nunnship for a nun to be pregnant and that is exactly why they were here. Helga, assisted by the priest, would perform abortions on these nuns. No anesthetic and primitive tools were used to perform the procedure. This was done supposedly to teach the nuns a lesson, but many believe it was just done to satisfy Helga's evil drives. Some of the babies extracted would come out alive, and they were quickly disposed of by either drowning them in the pool or in the river (you can still see the stone stairs leading into the river). The bodies were buried in the ground behind the shed by the pool by the priest. That was his job, disposing of the bodies that is. Once, one of the nuns tried to escape so she could keep her baby. She was discovered by the priest in her attempt and severely punished. Because of that incident, the priest and Helga got some dogs (white Dobermans) to keep the nuns in, and intruders out. The operation was going fine, so to speak, until Helga became pregnant from the priest. Great precaution was taken to ensure that the other nuns wouldn't discover the status of Helga's situation. When the time was right, both Helga and the priest snuk away under the cover of the night to the area where the abortion was to take place. Only having watched it done before, the priest tried the best he could in this first attempt at surgery. Helga suffered immensely for the priests lack of experience. Many mistakes were made, and the final result was fatal. The priest was devastated and went mad. The nunnery has since been closed down. Attempts have been made by residents of the valley to have the place destroyed, but it never seems to happen. The priest still lives up there and every full-moon returns to the place where Helga died to rendezvous with her ghost. On a full moon, one can hear the babies crying though the darkness. Texture: This legend is told primarily by junior high or high school students. Mostly it's told just as a scary story, although I depict some hints of prejudice toward Catholics (i.e. pregnant nuns). George Gordon Utah State University Engl. 526 Dr . Jan Roush Fall 1996 Title: Logan Nunnery Genre: Ghost Stories Informant: Kristi Swainston Female DaB: September 21, 1991 Student at USU Context: Name of Informant: Kristi Swainston Place item was collected: Logan, UT Date item was collected: October 24,2010 This is normally told when talking about creepy experiences, this kind of story will come about and be told to a group of friends telling stories to scare each other or tell of an experience they had themselves with attempting to go up to this nunnery. Text: What I've heard about the nunnery is that whenever women that weren't married and they had, or got pregnant, they would go up there to have - to the nunnery and they would have their babies and they would drown their babies in the swimming pool from being ashamed. And then now if you go up there you can hear them crying still. Texture: Told as if telling a personal account of something, does not usually involve hand movements. Unless a person is getting into the story, the hand movements are kept to a minimum. The tone used is usually a softer tone, like telling a scary story to a group of people nearby. Kathryn Young Utah State University ENGL2720 Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010, Sophomore Daniel Force Utah State University 2720 Survey of American Folklore Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010 Consultant: Stephanie Bolan Age and DOB: 20. July 10,1990 Ethnicity: Caucasian Place Collected: Logan, Ut Date: 10/28/10 Title: The Nunnery Genre: Ghost Story. (Legend) Text: Q- Can you give me some background on The Nunnery? A- Well...All that I have heard, I'm not sure how much of it is true, but I heard that it is a nunnery up Logan canyon where nun's used to live. And urn, I've heard that it is where they took all the nuns that had gotten pregnant and that is where they murdered their children. Yeah, that's what I've heard. I talked to my Mom today and she said that she heard that too, but she thinks that it is just a rumor. Q- Have you heard any stories about people going to The Nunnery? A- Urn, my parents went when they were in college. And, my Mom said that you had to like hop over like a barbwire fence, because it's like on private property. But, she said that it was kind of creepy, but she thinks that she creeped herself out more ... She thinks that the whole killing babies thing isn't real. Age of consultant when he or she used or performed this example: 16. Where did the consultant live at the time: Smithfield, Ut Circumstances in which consultant used the folklore: When she first heard it she was in high school. It was around Halloween and they were looking for something scary to do, so they decided on the Nunnery. They never actually went there. Texture: The interview took place in a girl 's apartment. Most of them are students at USu. Title: Logan Nunnery Genre: Ghost Stories Informant: Alyssa John Female DaB: January 21, 1992 Student at USU Context: Name of Informant: Alyssa John Place item was collected: Logan, UT Date item was collected: October 27,2010 This is normally told when talking about creepy experiences, this kind of story will come about and be told to a group of friends telling stories to scare each other or tell of an experience they had themselves with attempting to go up to this nunnery. Text: So there was this priest, and he, uh, got this nun pregnant without her consent and she started freaking out and was going to tell on him so he drown her and the baby so he wouldn't tell on him and he wouldn't get in trouble. So if you go up there at night, you can hear a baby crying and so if you go over to the swimming pool where the priest drown her and the baby you can see a black shadow too. Texture: Told as if telling a personal account of something, does not usually involve hand movements. Unless a person is getting into the story, the hand movements are kept to a minimum. The tone used is usually a softer tone, like telling a scary story to a group of people nearby. Kathryn Young Utah State University ENGL2720 Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010, Sophomore Kyra Madsen Utah State University ENGL 2720 Dr. Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010 Name of Consultant: Ryan Howell Age and date of birth: 20, April 22, 1990 Ethnicity: White, American Place folklore item was collected: Logan, Utah Date item was collected: October 21,2010 Title: The Nunnery Genre: Ghost Story Text: The nunnery. There's an old nunnery up Logan Canyon, which, is according to legend is, was a retreat for nuns who got pregnant, and supposedly down from the nunnery a hundred, or two hundred yards is a little pond where members of the head honcho of the nunnery would take the newborn child and kill them and make them drown in the pond. That way the church wouldn't dilute their status of having babies and such, and it's, there's, the actual building up there it's actually, it's kind of creepy but they're not actually supposed to go up and see it anyway. [Did you see any ghosts up there?] Uh, I didn't see any ghosts or anything. It's just, (pause) a combination of you know, at least the whole, you know you hear a lot of bad things about it and also you got all these no trespassing signs. So, you're kind of paranoid of getting caught and then, and old buildings, it's creepy and have heard a lot of bad things about it. How old was the consultant when he/she heard this story? Ryan was 20 when he heard this story and visited the nunnery. Where did the consultant live at the time? 1- \ \ . \~. \ " \ 05 Logan, Utah Texture: He told the story in a reciting manner like he'd told it a few times before. I think this might be because he had actually been there and had seen where everything was located and could better picture what is alleged to have happened there. "The Nunnery" Legend Informant: Josh look Logan, Utah October 2010 Josh look has been a Ufelong friend for me, and I have always considered him to be like an older brother. Josh is 23 years old and is married to Sheena look. Josh grew up in Paradise, Utah but moved to Logan, Utah when he got married. Josh has been involved in a volunteer group such as the Paradise fire department and EMT services. Josh worked for a while at the plasma center, but is now going to school at Weber. Josh enjoys photography, firefighting, four-wheeling, anything outdoors, and spending time with his wife. Context: Josh has always been known for telling stories, and telling them well. Because of this I thought he would be a great source for a legend. I text him and asked him if he knew any legends and he told me that he could probably think of a bunch. He invited me over for dinner where he could tell me the stories in person, and so we could catch up. I went over to his house where we at a delicious meal and stories just started to flow. I reminded Josh that I needed him to share a legend with me. He got a quirky grin on his face and said he had one that I have probably already heard, but that his version was the best. Then he started to tell me the legend of the nunnery up Logan Canyon. Text: Joshes version of the nunnery legend starts out by saying that a while back a rich man built five cabins, which he later sold to a church. The church bought the cabins and turned them into a nunnery. One of the nuns strayed and became pregnant, and when the other nuns found out, she was told they were going to kill her baby. Once she had her baby boy, they drowned him in the pool. It is said that in the pool there is a small section in the pool that is ice cold, and has a faint glow in the spot where the baby was drowned. Josh also told me about a present incident that took place at the nunnery. He said that there were a group of college students who went up to the nunnery to see if the stories were true. There were three self alleged guards who tied them up, held guns to their heads, and told them if they tried to leave they would shoot their legs. Some of these students were molested and physically abused. The guards called the police saying that the kids had trespassed since the property is off limits. The police came and arrested the kids and gave them a ticket for trespassing. These kids told their parents what happened, and the parents told the police so the charges were dropped and the guards we arrested. Texture: When Josh first started telling the story he sounded very sarcastic and said the words really slow, just because this is his personality. Then he became more serious and told the story very soft spoken. He did a lot of hand motions while he told the story, drawing in your attention. He paused a few times as he tried to remember the events to the best of his ability. When he told the legend of the nunnery he sounded as though he wasn't sure if he believed it. As he told the more recent events he told it as though it were a matter of fact. Hearing his version of the story was very interesting and captivating. Natalie Carter Utah State University English 2210 Steve Siporin Fall Semester 2010 KyraMadsen Utah State University ENGL2720 Dr. Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010 Name of Consultant: Joan Hansen Age and date of birth: 70, October 16, 1940 Ethnicity: White, American Place folklore item was collected: Trenton, Utah Date item was collected: October 24,2010 Title: The Nunnery Genre: Ghost Story Text: They had guards and these kids broke in and did damage and these guards was really rough on them and put them in the pool, empty pool and held them at gun shot (laughs) 'till the cops come, and now they've arrested the guards and let the kids go. [Can you remember any of the stories you heard} There are a lot of stories, there, just, we used to have family reunions there. Yeah, and it had some little tinny buildings, I mean they're like playhouses and they had beds in them and you had to walk around like, (demonstrating bent over position) even kids it's after I was married though, because I remember I took my kids with me. I remember the swimming pool and things like that and the big building, but I didn't really know that much about it before then but this is probably somethin' if we'd had known stories and stuff, my, my kids, my friends and I would have done it and gone up and seen that and if we'd had got caught we knew we'd be in deep trouble, ya know? (laughs). [What do you know about the nunnery itself?} In the fifties, is when it was, in the fifties is when it become the nunnery, other than that, and before these other guys owned it. Uh, anyhow, these guys who had lots of \~\pS;~ \O\m d~\\\O\J\Q money owned it for awhile. And they had people from all over the world stay. Then they had the, let the women take it, the nuns, of the Catholic Church take it. I was going through some stuff my mother had, and she was a nurse. I was going though what she had written and there was something about this one nun, who'd got pregnant. She'd had the baby and when the head nun, when she'd found out she drownded the baby. I know if you look up on the internet you'd find a lot more stories and detail. But if you look up Saint Anne's Retreat and I bet you'd find different things associated with it. How old was the consultant when he/she heard this story? Joan visited he nunnery around 1965 for her family reunions. Where did the consultant live at the time? River Heights, Utah Texture: She told this story in a happy reminiscing way with a lot of smiling and laughing. KyraMadsen Utah State University ENGL2720 Dr. Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010 N arne of Consultant: Clare Vaterlaus Age and date of birth: 21, December 16,1989 Ethnicity: White, American Place folklore item was collected: Logan, Utah Date item was collected: October 24,2010 Title: The Nunnery Genre: Ghost Story Text: Okay, so the nunnery is haunted (pause) because the priests had raped the nuns and the nuns, urn, when they gave birth the priests decided to drown both the nuns and the uh, babies and then that's why it's haunted and later, urn, some teenagers went down there to, (dramatic pause) see ifit was haunted and that's when, I think it was police, had tied them up at the bottom of the pool and physically, and maybe, sexually, I don't, abused them and that's why it's been scary since. How old was the consultant when he/she heard this story? Clare was 19 years old when she first heard about the nunnery and about the teenagers. Where did the consultant live at th·e time? Logan, Utah Texture: She told this story in a scary voice emphasizing it with dramatic pauses, like she was really getting into the story. Y~\l~Q \0\ l't\ C\\JG\\ \c00\~ Title: Logan Nunnery Genre: Ghost Stories Informant: Emily Bernhisel Female DaB: May 30, 1990 Student at USU Context: Name of Informant: Emily Bernhisel Place item was collected: Logan, UT Date item was collected: October 24,2010 This is normally told when talking about creepy experiences, this kind of story will come about and be told to a group of friends telling stories to scare each other or tell of an experience they had themselves with attempting to go up to this nunnery. Text: So ... 1 don't know where they came from but these nuns got pregnant so they're like ... not holy anymore or whatever, so they took them out into like, some nunnery up in the Logan canyon and they all drown their babies in the canyon in the swimming pool. Or somewhere over there. And so like if you go out there at night, you can hear the babies crying. Texture: Told as if telling a personal account of something, does not usually involve hand movements. Unless a person is getting into the story, the hand movements are kept to a minimum. The tone used is usually a softer tone, like telling a scary story to a group of people nearby. Kathryn Young Utah State University ENGL2720 Lisa Gabbert Fall 2010, Sophomore ,\ C9l Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 26677345 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/6 SCAFOLK008aGr07Bx008Fd11.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource USU student folklore genre collection of supernatural nonreligious legends, 1960-2011 FOLK COLL 8a http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv63192 St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 8a Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource Collection of St. Anne's legends Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/7c429369c28da1a0a5df352c661434a8.jpg 516d404206b6bccc10b2bb12c68d6e9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/170 Title A name given to the resource Crushed beer can on the grounds of St. Anne's Retreat Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Zsiray, John Description An account of the resource Crushed beer can, symbolic of trespassing and vandalism at St. Anne's Retreat and other Logan Canyon peoperties Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 20140929-Lucero-002 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/23ff01247ff62c850fa4d4a7c4267166.pdf 3187678df2907d7087d8b990d237a223 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Fortunately, we have a justice system 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 …. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Rite of passage does not justify a local tradition where the actions of trespassing and breaking the law are justified by adults who they themselves may have participated in this activity when they were younger. Fortunately, we have a justice system 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 …. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 635041 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/35 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0029.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource Utah State University Folklore in the news collection, 1973-2012, FOLK COLL 32 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04849 St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 32 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource Debate over justice served and youth not being held accountable Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/d962ec5b043bb17cd69974ce682d7cc1.jpg 5240a5a0c787698da919904dc40af427 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/149 Title A name given to the resource Defense attorney Barbara Lachmar, left, and Chris Doerr, center, and Arthur Peeasnall, right, at the preliminary hearing in 1st District Court Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkin, John Description An account of the resource Defense attorney Barbara Lachmar, left, and Chris Doerr, center, and Arthur Peeasnall, right, at the preliminary hearing in 1st District Court listening to witnesses testifying against the three watchmen in the Halloween trespassing incident at St. Anne’s Retreat. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 19980312-Mascaro-003 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/145abae6127945f1c9459fd5a7dc3cda.jpg c470e7f0708a0315b90ff00b28a6970d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/166 Title A name given to the resource Door latch Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Zsiray, John Description An account of the resource Door latch on one of the cabins at St. Anne's Retreat. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 20140929-Lucero-003 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/c9aa88e0e4fa7ce437730e183c92043f.pdf c6d666f6ff9b61642201c00a2ea7f81a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Emotions high on 911 tape 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… Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Herald Journal article talks about the events surrounding trespassers at St. Anne's retreat including the transcript of a conversation between a 911 dispatcher and John Jeppson. Emotions high on 911 tape 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… Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 1923197 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/21 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0012.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Five testify against St. Anne’s retreat trio - Packed courtroom hears charges of assault, sexual abuse 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.] [Photo (bottom) by Mitch Mascaro/Herald Journal. Caption: County Attorney Scott Wyatt speaks to the media Wednesday after the end of the first day of the preliminary hearing into the charges against three men in the St. Anne’s retreat case.] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Preliminary hearing for watchment involved in St. Anne's trespassing ordeal. Five testify against St. Anne’s retreat trio - Packed courtroom hears charges of assault, sexual abuse 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.] [Photo (bottom) by Mitch Mascaro/Herald Journal. Caption: County Attorney Scott Wyatt speaks to the media Wednesday after the end of the first day of the preliminary hearing into the charges against three men in the St. Anne’s retreat case.] Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 1542253 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/42 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0036.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tyler Thurston Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Two accounts of legend-tripping at the "Nunnery" In Logan Canyon. • • 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 • • • • .. ... .. .. ....... .. __ ... _ --- - 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 • • • 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 • • • 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 • • • 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. • • • 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 . • • • 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 . • • • 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 ---------------------- ---._ ......... - . .. . • • • 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 . • • • 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. • Item 3 Oujia board • • 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 • • 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 • • 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 • • • 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 . ........ _ . . . _---- - ----- ------- • • • 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. • 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 • • 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. ItemS 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 . 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Text Any textual data included in the document No wonder our social structure is collapsing 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource No wonder our social structure is collapsing 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. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Perrin, Anne Gray Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; 1980-1989; 1990-1999; 20th century; 2000-2001; 2000-2009; 2010-2019; 21st century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eschler, Trevor Description An account of the resource Trevor Eschler interviewed by Anne Gray Perrin describes his experience legend-tripping at St. Anne's Retreat in a taped interviewed, later transctibed by Perrin. Interview with Trevor Eschler about St. Anne's Retreat By Anne Gray Perrin Utah State University Fife Folklore Archives Logan, UT English/History 6770 (Folk Narrative) Professor Steve Siporin Spring 2011 Interviewee: Place of Interview: Date of Interview: Interviewer: Recordist: TRANSCRIPTION COVER SHEET Trevor Eschler Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University April, 2011 Anne Gray Perrin Anne Gray Perrin Recording Equipment: Alesis Pamtrack 24bit Wave mp3 digital recorder Transcription Equipment: Express Scribe transcription software Transcribed by: Anne Gray Perrin Transcript Proofed by: Anne Gray Perrin Brief Description of Contents Eschler recou ' s bis trips to St. Ann-'s rrtrcl!~; rc~s0ns ' .y he goes and what he has experienced. GP: .L rL.'le Gray Perrin TE: Trevor Eschlcr NOTE: Interjrrtic1 -::: ~:-irg p::!~~.;:'s o~· '"?_,:_.. . ;ti~::~ in d!R~~~~~ s:~~l ~a$ "11h" a_... ~ st?J~s ar~.~ stop~ in conversations arc not included in transcribed. All additions to transcript are noted with brackets. TAPE I'K<\RSC [00:01] Trevor Eschler: Trevor Eschler started going up to the Nunnery. So what provoked you to go up there? and find it. But we weren't able to find it. So I moved up here in August. We were bored one night . .We started looking on thr i tc~nct for thinGs t0 d~ in L0C:''1, - ~~ h~ rem m!:-('rcc!_ H:: V!'JS try!~z t flr.d the Nunnery so we kind of found the directions on the Internet and decided to go up there. It was about 11:00 at night when we started out. At 11:00, we gathered up some people. AGP: And so had you heard tit'"· stories at..out th N.1i·,;-:2fr ; TE: What Y..'e decided to d~ is we were !ook!!'1[; for do, we dcdc0~ tc rc2.d i t0 th:- to~ic!: t khrl of fr?J1: ( ours_;!".J<.:s cut; to sec ·' :Jt it '/las all about. 1 ( ( AGP: So what had you heard? TE: A couple of the stores that read was that the cabins up there were summer homes for the Owner of tried to sell it to the University. The University didn't want it so he ended up selling it to the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church took over; and started running the Nunnery out of it. Up there, there's of wedlock out of there and take them into the swimming pool and drown them. One account we read, you walk in there and you kind of get this eerie feeling. We tried that out, and it's true. TE: You 1NJ!k in and th{!re 's just this cold spot; and it kind of sends chills down your back. We read the fftO!)i rt.:i.-'-•t .. .w· .... ~ ... -· -· i\. -. .. ,...._-1 • i.; ...... . , ;._ .. ,. __ ............... - .... ,.. ____ ....__.; :...: ........... . ....;. - ~---- ,.__ .. . ....... - _ ... _ . . __ . ., .. _ " .. ..... ..... up there, and there's three security guards. They got caught and got tied up in the swimming pool and . . . ··~ - - a •• y · .mg ::Kt! U •d~. AGP: You still 'Nan edt go even th •_•gh you heard of this attack? TE: Yeah. We kind of, I don't know. We're thrill seekers so we tried. If someone says, "Don't do it," we do it just to prove them wrong, that it can be done. AGP: Yeah? AGP: Have you encountered any mortal beings or any security issues? there with us but the people we go up there with. stuff? mile away from the entrance, kind of walk up. You had to cross this bridge, and if you go walking up it, it looking directly at the swimming pool, and you could see the silhouette of a person; just one person. I'm • • • • ' • -- I Q• ...,..._ fJ Vi a ll '--'- "- u -7)1 IJ U'- J .... .:ll OJi H .. - ·•~ ; v- ...,.\... L\.C . - "1.,.. •"'"- .=.t.ua ~\,..- i _._ ,, , ; •6 - i - \..oo · i U . I • h .. • i4 ;..·u 1 .. -.;u:J -:...-\,; i"\.:f (!0 UY clouds. There was nothing. So that really freaked us out. We ventured down into the swimming pool. Came out. '\nd there's r 3bins s•1rro•Jnning it, a rod . t thi time, like ! c~id, we h ~d re, d all the stories so 2 ( ; .. __ . r .. r. __ ; _ . _ r _______ r. . . -• ~ _ . . . . r _ . .-. - . .._ . _ . _ . r r ._ _ _ _ _ .. r I r r-y ·y{;3. ·v-v· ~~~ ciii~ ci-\.iy HCQi·:~;.:l VUi'~~ .. :T\··_-~: UUi.. :~u v-;~ ~~i~- ili:· ~· ~~-~- -..:.~ ~0 ... ...., ..... _._ •• ._ ~...;-..·:. -. 1 "";;~ ..... -v~ ·- ...... ;.. .... _.._.:_.. ........... called us up. He was like, "Dude, let's just take some girls up there and scare them." We were like, "Alright." So we went up there, kind of scouted it out. Then he came up about a half hour later. We were ;: - 1 - ; - . .- . - '- ~'1 ~ - -- . -- _l- .. - - ... ! 'i t 1 - 1--- . "'....t.. --- -~;:-~- .u~ '-"""•" .,._""'-'-: o ~, --~t.- \.i:•- -.....-.... .!:J..tttJ ... ,. .. _ ~ -$.-..-~._ - •-~.._ ~'-- _.::.,_•_1;,... i-' .• .,., ,_.,.;: .. :; 1 ~ '--1~• :..1,,..,.,....~: ... -v .. ~:•~~!l.c • .-~- /'-.. .... v-IJ\:::Jt, i . fUill tJIC::: occasions. It's pretty fun. It's scary, too because sometimes you're in some of the buildings alone by yourself and you hear the old wood creek. It gives you a rush. AGP: So had you experienc.ec.i el~e supernatural or is it jusi. the swim ruing pool. io~:u.J} AGP: Yeah. And so how many of your friends go up there like group-wise? TE: Let's see. We got, there's probably about eight regulars, and then our groups usually range from eight to twenty. Anywhere in there. AGP: So it just depends on like what's going on? TE: Yeah. It depends on the night; if it's a week day or weekend; wha~' s the next ctay; if thc·rc's te:;.ts people have to take or whatnot. We try to get as many people as we can to go up there because the more people, the funner [sic]. AGP: So even thoilgh there's al! these storlt:s, with th .... ati.a .... ~ and th.:: supciTIJh.irc.l, an ' cvu-. though you've experienced those things, you still keep going? ( TE: Yean. AGP: So why do you think that is? Why do you go? i c: It's sornethlng 1u''; ~u cL. AGP: It's just fun? . i ;_ .. i. ; •• ...;:.... ... 1 ... .._,....,. ••- -- ...;) -·~ -~'-··.,__- ~ov.:.- .~ .... _ .:_-_ get up there to just have fun. It's kind of fun to take new people up there just to see their reactions. TE: Because, I mean, pretty much everyone on campus has heard the stories or they know someone AGP: Yeah. Yeah. O ·'-· ·...,. • · ~---·-.:..-- .l ;. .. .;.~ - ·• ;,.;_- -- ~:.. ~....! - •' - i -~- ;; ·-.J •• , ~-. -'·J _-.. you up there." And then they call the rest of us, that the people don't know, say, "Hey, we're going up there at this time. Be there." And so we'll just go around scaring people. We've got it clown to an art sc> that i.hey c.::;tc>iii words, we'll k cvv how to react. AGP: Can you give me an example of that? 3 ( ( ( TE: There's one, there's a three story house with a big glass window. It would be on the southeast side of it. And just south of that big old house, there's three little cabins. And they come walking down, and they kind of, they're making noise, you know. And we have person that throws on a hood, and they're standing in the glass window. And what they do is, they'll walk around to the side of the house, and they'll take a flashlight, and they'll run it over the window; and they'll see someone there. And they'll kind of freak out, and they'll run it back. And by the time they pass it by the second time, the person ducks below the window so t hey're not sec11. So you sec a shactov:, <:~ silhci.i~t'.. c o~ a p.:.f5!)!1 at fr JL Th.:: .-, the second time, it's gone. That really gets to girls. There was a couple times where they'!! come walking by, and there's just slamming doors shut. Funny experience v,;lth that, is we were preparing ourselves than fivz fe:3t taiL So you got J '.'.tJJl here, .:md there .. nd so I want to see how loud it would sound, shut. So l :;l;:,mmcd the -::!oor, Jnd th: de-or j<::m:ncd vn us. So t :::r.:'s three of us. We're all pulling on the door to come barre! it down vith the shou!d~r, prop it open. It was a pretty funny experience. TE: Well, at first I was like, "Oh, crap, what to do?" But I realized we were up there with friends. but if I had been up there by rn\·sc!f, i wouk~'vc been t ·r rificd, 'OLJ knvv •. Btr'. ~ir:u' 1.\''- wcr u;; H:cr::· v ·iii:~ group of people, we're becoming more familiar with area. AGP: Yeah. TE: So ycu kind of k~o l\.1 ·.'hat to Gxpect and vhat not to expect. TE: Yeah. We got to. AGP: Yeah. Yeah. and see like this was built in the '60s or 70s and kind of see the structure of it. It's super close to the highway, but there's so many trees around. If you don't it's there, you'll never notice it. TE: Just trying to think if there's been anything else. I t hink those are like the main stories. TE: The main experience where you see the silhouette in the pool. Oh, there's one time, we came out of " - - ., -1 ~ ' ~ - T" .. ., ~., - 1 'f ~ - l. ;,__'t.,. ":' - t.__. - ' ,. ..... - ·-. - -0 , .... - ., -- - -- - . F .... u ...... 0 . - -- • . - · -· , . -- · - -: ..... _. ~ -. ....;: .. : .;.-..;. , -, -· • .:.. :... -· ·- -~· -:. ; _::,~ ~:it:. :.;;~ UlU bag. It was probably about five and half, six feet tall. We were like, "What the crap?" It looked like a body bag. 4 ( AGP: Oh! TE: And we had our freshman roommate, and he was trying to prove himself to us. AGP: Yeah. TE: So we dared him to go and check it out because it just looked suspicious. So after about twenty minutes of convincing him to go down, he went and ripped the bag open. It was just a bag of leaves. It was just funny seeing that. It's something I think lots of people should go up there and check it out because it's pretty interesting. AGP: Do you think, because I didn't really get a lot of responses as far as people going back up to the Nunnery, so do you think it's rare or do you think? I mean, are you one of the only groups of people that go up there or do you think other people do it? TE: If they do, they don't do it as much as us. You know what I mean? AGP: Yeah. TE: Because, like I've said, we've probably gone up there a dozen or more times, and we've never seen another group up there. AGP: And have you ever heard people talk about it? ( TE: I haven't heard anyone talk about going up there. If we have, it's like people going up there like two years ago. AGP: Yeah. TE: Nothing too recent. AGP: Well, again, is there anything else you would like to say? TE: I think that's it. AGP: I think that's it. Okay. 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Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/148 Title A name given to the resource Judge Clint S. Judkins listens to arguments in the courtroom at preliminary hearing - Image 1 of 3 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkin, John Description An account of the resource Judge Clint S. Judkins listens to arguments in the courtroom at the preliminary hearing for the watchmen accused of terrorizing 30-plus teens and young adults Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 19980715-Wilkin-006 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/83f5bdb991400c87b3e970bdec3c5861.jpg fcfd704f90fce6b815f7f5ea13ff775a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/144 Title A name given to the resource Judge Clint S. Judkins listens to arguments in the courtroom at preliminary hearing - Image 2 of 3 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkin, John Description An account of the resource Judge Clint S. Judkins listens to arguments in the courtroom at the preliminary hearing for the watchmen accused of terrorizing 30-plus teens and young adults Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 19980715-Wilkin-005 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/ca3a0026dcd561feecaeacf37a7545a8.jpg 873321ac2c19ff7731a915a87e759432 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/137 Title A name given to the resource Judge Clint S. Judkins listens to arguments in the courtroom at preliminary hearing Image 3 of 3 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mascaro, Mitch Description An account of the resource Judge Clint S. Judkins listens to arguments in the courtroom at the preliminary hearing for the watchmen accused of terrorizing 30-plus teens and young adults Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 19980312-Mascaro-005 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/4f450d6e964a1b0f9c7bb02ff9f97b84.pdf 08b4893401415f53e60c930a1bcbd317 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Judge issues warrant for St. Anne’s defendant - One of retreat trio fails to show up for hearing 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Bench warrant was issued by court for Arthur Peasnall, one of the security guards in the St. Anne's trespassing drama. Judge issues warrant for St. Anne’s defendant - One of retreat trio fails to show up for hearing 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 402589 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/41 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0034.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource Utah State University Folklore in the news collection, 1973-2012, FOLK COLL 32 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04849 St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 32 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource Judge issues warrant for St. Anne's defendant Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/37ed975d44021d5f0dafb166b01c3e0c.pdf d2e1ec4a3bf4c85eac840b2339051d21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Judge orders St. Anne’s trio to trial - Trespassing teens testify of horrifying canyon experience 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Trespassing legend-trippses testify about their experience at St. Anne's retreat when they were ambushed by three watchmen. Judge orders St. Anne’s trio to trial - Trespassing teens testify of horrifying canyon experience 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 752004 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/47 Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource Utah State University Folklore in the news collection, 1973-2012, FOLK COLL 32 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04849 St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 32 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource Judge orders St. Anne's trio to trial Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/53bf879326eb18ecdd92cc166e04ad25.pdf 666666b1ed7e90c42a73ef1920241bed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Judge sets trial date for trio 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource A trial date has been set for all three watchmen accused of aggravated assaulting trespassing teenagers at St. Anne's retreat. Judge sets trial date for trio 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 584071 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/48 SCAFOLK032Bx003Fd07Item0040.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource Utah State University Folklore in the news collection, 1973-2012, FOLK COLL 32 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04849 St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 32 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; legend-tripping; Title A name given to the resource Judge sets trial date for trio Type The nature or genre of the resource Text; https://exhibits.usu.edu/files/original/e1c1e6a4ff535b8788dc3a768458664f.pdf ca6c56dedb670ee27db0ba1383ffac9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Anne's Retreat Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Last of the retreat suspects arrested 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 1990-1999; 20th century; Description An account of the resource Third watchman arrested on assault charges for taking part in the detention of 38 trespassing legend-trippers at St. Anne's retreat on October 10, 1997. Last of the retreat suspects arrested 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. 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Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States; 2000-2009; 21st century; Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anna-Maria Arnljots Description An account of the resource This thesis talks about legend-tripping at St. Anne’s Retreat and examines the origin and history of Hecate who plays a central role in this oral tradition. LEGEND-TRIPPING AT ST. ANNE'S RETREAT and HECATE IN LOGAN CANYON: ORIGIN, BELIEF, AND CONTEMPORARY ORAL TRADITION by Anna-Maria Sna:bjornsd6ttir Arnlj6ts Two essays submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Approved: Jeannie Thomas Committee Member of MASTER OF ARTS In American Studies (Plan B) Barre Toelken Major Professor UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 2000 Randy Williams Committee Member • • Legend-Tripping at St. Anne's Retreat What is now referred to as St. Anne's Retreat was initially a summer home eight miles up Logan Canyon, east of Logan, Utah. It was built in the 1930s by the Boyd Hatch family from New York, and Mrs. Hortense OdIum. The property was donated in the 1950s to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, and it was used occasionally as a retreat and a vacation place for Sisters of the Holy Cross. Because it was not in continuous use, there was ample opportunity for vandals to visit, even on nights when the sisters were present. This prompted the nuns to get watch dogs to alert them to the presence of intruders. The sisters felt unsafe with the increase of the sometimes intoxicated young trespassers and vandals, and stopped coming to the retreat. In 1992, Mark Epstein, together with some other investors, bought the property with plans of turning it into vacation homes (Herald Journal, October 15, 1997. Pg. 16). What these investors may not have anticipated was the long standing cultural gap between local Mormons and Catholics, and how fear, belief, prejudice, and a generally accepted folk tradition of legend-tripping would interfere with their hopes of vacationing peacefully in the beautiful mountains of Logan Canyon. Legend-tripping is a term that Linda Degh, William Ellis, and others use in describing the practice of visiting the sites of supernatural legends. In a collection of essays called "Legend-Trips and Satanism: Adolescents' Ostensive Tradition as 'Cult' Activity, " Ellis quotes Kenneth Thigpen who describes legend tripping in three parts consisting of "1) initiation into the story; 2) performing the acts that 'cause the fulfillment of the legend'; and 3) retrospective discussion of what participants believed happened, which then feeds back into the core story into which newcomers were • • • • • • • • • initiated" (Ellis 1991 :280). The legends surrounding St. Anne's have provided a thrill to local adolescents for generations as is manifested by the number of people of all generations who claim to have taken part in legend tripping at St. Anne's. St. Anne's retreat and the legends associated with it achieved national media attention when over 30 high school students seeking to experience the "trip" of this legendary place, were caught and fell into the hands of vigilante security guards. The students were captured by three men, who were armed with shotguns; they were then roped around the neck, handcuffed, and forced to kneel in an empty swimming pool (Herald Journal, October 12, 1997, pg. 1). The legend-tripping youths embarked on a "trip" more exciting than they had anticipated as some were allegedly verbally threatened, physically abused, and sexually assaulted while awaiting the arrival of the local police. What followed this incident was a public uproar against the watchmen's use of force against the trespassers. This paper will look at the circumstances around this event and how age differences, religious folklore, and other cultural constructions play important roles in the maintenance of a vivid local legend cluster. The paper will further analyze versions of the St. Anne legend currently circulating among local high school students. I ultimately hope to illustrate how the nature of folklore is manifested by incorporating the vigilante incident into the legend cluster ofSt. Anne's retreat, evident in some ofthe recent versions collected from seniors at a Logan High School. The angry response of parents whose children were manhandled at the Retreat while legend-tripping on Halloween in 1997 was based on their notion that teenage trips to St. Anne's were so common that they constituted an understandable, coherent 2 • • • • • • • tradition, the rationale of which was more important than the relatively trivial matter of trespass. In other words, local concepts of justice are heavily influenced here-as elsewhere in the world-by local traditions. And if the tradition and its intemallogic are that important, of course it tacitly affirms the local attitudes on differences in religion. A different example of local concepts of justice being influenced by tradition may be the blood libel case involving a child: Andrew ofRinn at Judenstein, a town near Innsbruck, Austria is said in legend to have died by ritual murder at the hands of a Jew. Alan Dundes relates that Eli Wiesenthal, a Nazi-hunter, "voices his dismay at seeing full cars and busloads of school children making annual pilgrimages to Rinn under the tutelage of their religious instructors to see the ritual murder lie depicted as a historical event ... [t]his is depicted by three figures made of wood or wax in a menacing pose with knives in hand surrounding a stone upon which was stretched out a supplicating infant garbed in white" (Dundes, 342). In spite of great effort to stop pilgrimages to this blood libel legend site, including orders from Pope John Paul XXli to remove certain statues-the legend is treated as historical fact and thus the local concepts of justice in Rinn, and the power of their folk belief and tradition carry on unchanged. The parallel seen between the St. Anne's legends and the blood libel legends is clearly that local belief and tradition in both cases justify a long standing custom--one that penetrates basic principles and issues of a local population. For the St. Anne's legend this means legend­tripping to experience the legend by ostension; and in the case of Andrew ofRinn at Judenstein, pilgrimages to the site that commemorates the child murdered there. Recollections from older locals of the Cache Valley region, recalling their visit to the "Nunnery," suggest a general consent to this behavior of legend-tripping associated 3 • • • • • • • • • with the belief and its tradition and suggests that this ritual functions as a rite of passage for local individuals. This is evident from older generations of legend-trippers that established the tradition of visiting St. Anne's; and thus viewed as a custom that one would expect most locals to have participated in. The youths apprehended in Logan Canyon on Halloween 1997 who expected fulfillment of the St. Anne legend, really did get a thrill-but not of the sort they expected. Instead of red-eyed Dobermans, the haunting sound of murdered babies crying out, Witch Hekate in the shape of a cloud moving down the mountain, the car not starting, boulders falling down the mountain upon curious visitors, blood in the swimming pool, (representing the death that the pool is so much associated with), these trippers were ambushed in the night by armed men with shotguns and held hostage for two hours. Another story involving St. Anne's Retreat reflects an incident that again deals with local traditions confronting an aggregate concept of justice. Diane Browning, a former journalist for the local newspaper, The Herald Journal, wrote an article in 1986, telling of the St. Anne's Retreat legends as a ghost story for Halloween. She related the history of the article to me in a phone conversation (1997). After a co-worker told her one of the St. Anne's legends, they decided it would be a fun piece to write for Halloween (1986). However, the article instead created an emotional response from the Logan Catholic community, who took the article as an intentional provocation. Diane described verbally abusive anonymous phone calls and irate letters to the editor in The Herald Journal. Also outraged by her article was the incumbent priest, who spent two consecutive Sundays attacking the author from the pulpit, promoting a charged atmosphere. 4 • • • • • • • • • • Legend versions that Browning discussed in her article include: nuns raped and murdered at the retreat, a nun who had given birth to a child while at St. Anne's, drowning the baby in the swimming pool, and a nun coming out of the woods accompanied by two white Doberman Pinschers with red eyes. Browning ended the article by saying: "A note to the adventuresome: St. Anne's is located on private property and is patrolled regularly by a night watchman" (Herald Journal, October 26, 1986). This statement seems somewhat ironic-since eleven years later-the community becomes witness to an incident on this property that specifically deals with vigilante actions by the night watchmen. Browning's newspaper article and the trespassing incident in 1997 involving St. Anne's, illustrate the magnificent potential of a legend, and the powerful role that it plays in local folklore. This is further illustrated by the resiliency of the legend as it persists in its navigation through time, through a periodic resurgence, giving rise to otherwise dormant tensions between the Mormon majority and the Catholic minority in Logan. In the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University are some 50 legend versions of the St. Anne's Retreat, and an additional 25 of the related Hecate legend version, collected by students through the years. Several examples of these follow here to facilitate an understanding the concepts and ideas involved in this discussion. The current oral legend tradition appears to contain a basic version: example 1-8; and a trespassing version that follows as trespass versions 1-4. [stories are written verbatim]. 5 • • • • • • • • • • • 1. The Old Nun I once heard of some kids from Hyrum that went up to the old Catholic Nunnery in Logan Canyon. There was three boys and three girls. It was really late at night when they went, the guy had wanted to really scare their girlfriends. They got out of their car, walked down the path towards the Nunnery. Along the way was a couple of ponds. When they walked past the ponds little hands reached up and grabbed all of them around the ankles. They were all so scared that they took off running back to the car. Some of the guys started asking around as to why this happened. An old Priest that lives here in the valley told them that when there were people from the church living there, some of the Nuns became pregnant by the Priests. The Nuns would carry the baby to full term, and then to save the Church from embarrassment, they would drown their babies in the ponds. When strangers enter the property and walk by the ponds the babies' spirits will grab at them; they try and pull themselves out of the water to keep from drowning (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.27). 2. Freezing Nuns St. Anne's was a place where nuns could go on a vacation, usually in the summer or winter. One winter a long time ago, some nuns went up there to stay. It was a very severe winter with lots of snow so a man had to bring their supplies to them every week. He would take their fuel and food to them because it was the only way they could get it. One week the man couldn't get his wagon through, and he had to wait about two weeks before he could go up there again. He finally made it up to the retreat, and he found all the nuns had starved and frozen to death. He noticed that their bodies had been chewed by dogs. He was very worried about this, and was just leaving when he saw one of the nuns, whose name was Hekeda. She began chasing him with her two dogs. He got away and told the towns people what had happened. Hekeda still haunts the retreat with her dogs, and you can see her chasing you in your rearview mirror as you are leaving. It is believed she is of the devil (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU. 84- 050. Item 5). 3. St. Anne's Retreat St. Anne's Retreat was originally established up Logan Canyon for Cache Valley's Catholic nuns who needed to "get away" from things for awhile. One nun got herself in trouble and as time passed her problem became more noticeable. He[r] superiors knew that something needed to be done-she couldn't walk the streets in her condition, so she was sent to the St. Anne's for the duration of her pregnancy. The Mother Superior at St. Anne's talked this nun into putting up the baby for adoption when it was born, because she 6 • • • • • • • • • • thought this sort of thing was horrible. If the nun would agree to do as the Mother Superior said, the Mother Superior would help her. If not, then she could fend for herself. Well, as time went by and this nun spent her time reading, thinking, swimming in the pool, and walking around the retreat and in the nearby woods, she began to think of this child and knew she could never give it up. She decided to leave the order and raise her baby. When the baby was born she told her decision to the Mother Superior. The Mother Superior did not agree and felt that she had to end this situation. One day when this nun was sleeping, the Mother Superior took the baby and drowned him in the swimming pool. The nun took it very hard, but couldn't believe the Mother Superior would actually do this. She thought the Mother Superior had taken the baby and given him to a family, or was hiding him on the retreat somewhere. As she was recovering, she would take walks around the retreat to see if she could find her baby. As she walked by the pool one day, the Mother Superior pushed her in and she drowned. The Mother Superior thought she had rectified the problem, and now could live with herself after taking care of this nun. About three weeks later another nun was sent to St. Anne's to rest and relax for a couple of weeks. One day as she was walking past the swimming pool she saw a nun floating face down in the pool. She screamed, and the Mother Superior came to see what the problem was. The Mother Superior tried to grab at the nun in the pool, but the nun disappeared. The second nun wanted to know what had happened, but the Mother Superior would not say anything. The second nun called the Father and told him to come up to the St. Anne's because there was something wrong. the Father came and got to the bottom of what had happened and soon after, the Mother Superior was taken from St. Anne's. Shortly after this happened, the Catholic church sold St. Anne's Retreat. St. Anne's is still used as a get away place for various groups and there have been reports that the one nun is still looking for her baby. Some have seen her walking around the retreat, and some have seen her floating in the pool. While there are no reports of anyone talking to this nun, there are plenty of reports of people who have seen her, so as you go camping in this part of Logan Canyon, beware of the nun (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.34). 4. Saint-Ann-Retreat Saint-Ann was a nunery a long time ago. As Catholic, nuns are not suppose to have sex or any relationship with male. However, some nuns up at Saint­Ann had broke the rule and got pregnant. When babies were born, the nuns killed the babies by drowning them in a pool in the back of Sain-Ann. Some of the nuns felt guilty and killed themselves also. Now, the nuns sometimes appear back to visit the place. There is a watchman with two dobermans and a gun to keep the public out (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.14). 7 • • • • • • • • • • 5. Hekeda and Her Dogs All the nuns and mother superior lived at St. Anne's. One of the nun's name was Hekeda, and she took care of seven afghan hounds. In the early 1920' s a guy went up there and killed and raped them all. All of the bodies were found except Hekeda's and the dog's. Every time someone goes up to St. Anne's to fix it up, they always hear dogs barking, and then see a lantern on the ountain. You can see the figure of a woman walking her dogs up there at night. If you yell the name Hekeda three times, a blue fog will cover your car, and you won't be able to come down out of the canyon (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU. 84-050. Item 6). 6. The Lynching Mob This actually happened sometime in the early sixties. St. Anne's was a vacation area, and there were about twelve or thirteen nuns up there when one of them went bezerk. She just went bonkers. She had been training these four Black Labs, which she had gotten from Hekeda, to kill. She kept them in a woodshed on the mountainside, and one night she let the dogs loose. She got a lantern and a hatchet, and she and her dogs slaughtered all of the nuns. Time passed and nothing was discovered until someone made a delivery to the retreat. The person who found the dead nuns went back to Logan and got a bunch of people together. This mob of people went up to St. Anne's, and they found the crazy nun, and they decided to hang her. They gave her the chance to speak her last words, and she said, "I will forever haunt this place." She still haunts St. Anne's today (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU. 84-050. Item 8). 7. Saint Anne's Retreat A long time ago there used to be a nunnery at Saint Anne's. One of the nuns got pregnant by a young priest. She hid the fact that she was pregnant for a long time. When she had the baby she was told she had to leave the nunnery. She was grieved at what had happened and went out and drowned her baby in the swimming pool, then hung herself. Her spirit haunts the place in the form of a dog. Sometimes people can hear dogs howling at Saint Anne's. Nobody has ever seen the dogs (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.37). 8. Heckada If you go up Logan Canyon to 3rd dam and cross the bridge into the Spring Hollow area or go to the Quarry up Providence Canyon, you can summon the Devil's wife, her name is Heckada. My friend's brother's girlfriend's brother had a friend that did this very thing. He and a date 8 • • • • • • • • • • went up to the Spring Hollow area, for some romancing. After being turned down he got out of the car and yelled the phrase "Heckada, come get me" this was the saying that you needed to say to get Heckada to appear. After saying it a few times he returned to the car. His date was scared, which was his main intention for doing the little prank, or so he thought. After a few minutes of sitting there they began to hear dogs barking, they looked up and saw a green glowing chariot pulled by six wolves, and a mistress with long flowing hair at the reins. At about the same instance the doors locked, the boy and date was pretty scared by this time so the boy tried to get the car started but it seemed like the battery was dead, nothing would start or no lights would come on. By this time the wolves were on the hood of the car clawing at it and grow ling. The mistress stared into the boy's eyes and said "I have come for you." The boy freaked out and didn't know what to do, the girl was screaming and crying. Then the boy remembered to say "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave," at the very instance of saying that, the mistress and her wolves disappeared. The boy then started the car and returned to Logan. Upon returning to his date's house they looked at the hood and saw scratches that the wolves left (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.9). These legends may function to express curiosity, suspicion and even fear of a minority religion by a local majority. They may also function as a means of illustrating the idea that outside religions are too strange for local adolescents to take seriously by creating a sense of fear and skepticism about their behavior. Such stories allow for hostility toward another group to be expressed in narrative dramas rather than the form of physical harm. Nonetheless, it is clear that there is a considerable emotional load in these stories as well, and it is important for us to wonder why. It will become increasingly clear through these legend examples and discussion throughout this paper of different themes and issues that surface, and the function that this oral tradition serves. The trespass legend versions that circulate today tell about the horrors occurring during the incident on Halloween of 1997. Examples 1-4 follow: 9 • • • • • • • • • • • Trespass Story: 1 My father has told me stories of when he would visit there, and my friend did some research on it last summer. I've heard about the kids that went up there and the caretaker tied them up in the pool and harassed them [my emphasis]. My father told me about stories where he would go up there and play pranks on his dates. Him and his friends would dress up like ghosts and act out scenes with real rifles and blanks. I have heard something about somebody dying in the pool, and people making sacrifice up there [merger of traditional story and trespass version of 1997] (Logan High survey). Trespass Story: 2 I heard that there were some high school students were at the nunery and they got kidnapped [my emphasis] and tied up and I heard they were breaking into [my emphasis] the nunery (Logan High survey). Trespass Story: 3 I probably only know rumors from people around me at my school. I don't know any facts about it. I have heard that there is a nunery up the canyon where little kids were murdered. Then I heard that kids from my school and others went up there and got caught by cops. My friend has been there, and she said it was really scary [a mixture of the basic story and trespass version of 1997] (Logan High survey). Trespass Story: 4 The only thing that I have heard about it was about the teens who where trying to break in and they got harassed [my emphasis] [1997 events] (Logan High survey). There are several themes that can be observed in various versions of these legends that address the Mormon-Catholic tensions. The story of "Witch Hekate," identified with the Mother Superior, and her red-eyed Dobermans, symbolize the evil connotation that the locals have associated with the Catholic church. The ancient belief of dogs as a 10 • • • • • • • • • • • symbol of evil is seen in this legend by .the presence of Witch Hekate's Dobermans­further attempting to associate the nuns as evil (Barre Toelken, personal communication). Also with origins in ancient belief, is the theme of sexuality and pregnancy at St. Anne' s- which comes from the old notion that nuns and priests secretly engaged in sexual encounters (Barre Toelken, personal communication). In the case of the legend, the horror of disposing of these unwanted pregnancies follows. The congruency between the dramatic images of the legends and local western and Mormon values suggests still another level of meaning for these narratives. Teenagers from a patriarchal society go away from town to experience the thrill of danger in a female-dominated place; teenagers who are dating but are exhorted to refrain from sex until after marriage go there to be thrilled by legends of women who are prohibited from having sex, and who don't get married, but who have illegitimate babies anyway; espousing religion and abhorring murder, they visit places where religious people are said to have been murdered. To understand the emotional load and the religious dimension in these legends is to understand local belief and perception of the world, including the presence of the Catholic Retreat established some fifty years ago Logan Canyon. Fundamental attitudes of Mormons towards Catholics is an essential component of the religious dimension, but what appears prominent through the legends is gender-and the struggle to maintain, and confirm the male role in this religious culture. The legends serve as faith promoting events of not only the male establishing his role as dominant, but also to verify that the Mormon church is superior and one that will prevail over the other. 11 • • • • • • • • • • • Mormon attitudes towards Catholics is well documented. Thomas quotes the following from personal communication with William A. Wilson, a Mormon scholar: Mormons see Catholics as the principal apostate church. Protestant churches have at least tried to draw closer to the original church in their reform movements, but Catholics have steadfastly persisted in their error, in their apostasy, and are therefore easily connected with evil. Bruce McConkie called the Catholic Church the great and abominable church before he was forced to recant; some missionaries refer to the church as the "G & A." Missionaries to Catholic countries often come home with tales of evil nuns and priests" (Thomas, 18). It is clear to see how attitudes such as these mentioned can determine the perception of this particular religious culture. Through the legends one can detect apprehension, fear and anxieties of the presence of the outside religion as well maintain male dominance of this patriarchal culture. The male confirms his status and role as dominant male legend-tripping through ostension to maintain, and confirm the importance and continuation of his role as male in his culture. Male dominance is established in legend as initiator of courtship; protector against evil by averting evil with power of priesthood (Example above: 2. Heckada: L2.3.1.15.9). Another theme presented in some legends is the female outsider vs. the male insider: the female breaks the rules in these legends and pays the penalty. She either becomes ostracized as the nun who becomes pregnant in St. Anne's Retreat: (L2. 1. 12. 1.34) which is noted by the following: St. Anne's Retreat was originally established up Logan Canyon for Cache Valley's Catholic nuns who needed to "get away" from things for awhile. One nun got herself in trouble ... she couldn't walk the streets in her condition, so she was sent to St. Anne's ... " This may not only be illustrating the attitudes of the local Mormon religion of their perception of such a 12 • • • • • • • • • • • situation by stating that pregnant unwed women cause shame and should be hidden away-but this situation may also be inverse of reality and that it reflects their own attitudes about as if happened to their own. The punishment for breaking moral codes may even become rape and murder as in the following version S. "Hekeda and Her Dogs" (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. usu. ColI. 8. 84-0S0.Item 6). The stories projected on the nuns and the punishment received for breaking the rules may illustrate local attitudes and feelings towards moral transgressions. Thus the legends send a strong message to conform to local codes of living. Other themes represented are 1) In the first version: nun gets pregnant by a priest; nun has baby and drowns it in the legendary swimming pool located at St. Anne's; nun commits suicide but remains as a ghost and haunts the place (as a dog); sounds of dogs howling. 2) The second version: An example of legend-tripping functioning as teenage courtship scene. (Toelken, personal communication; Fife Folklore Archives: L2.3.1.1S.9; Thomas, IS). Boy takes girl to this haunted place with hopes of romancing. Also present is the notion of calling Hekate's name three times to make Hekate appear. This of course not only has the effect of scaring the girl, but also brings about various phenomena as described in the story. There is also the presence of dogs, a green glowing chariot with Hekate at the helm; she also later speaks to the boy, and the car not starting. There is a definite religious overtone as well in this traditional story. The boy chases away the evil (nun) Hekate with the words "In the name of Jesus Christ.. .. " This seems to suggest the idea that the righteous and powerful religion prevails over the evil presence of the other. This is followed by a safe return as explained by the following quote: "Those who go there are invariably frightened and end up retreating to 13 • • • • • • • • • • • the safety of their own LDS culture" (Thomas, 18). This would also have the effect and function as a "faith promoting" (Thomas, 16; Hufford, 222) event for the couple and undoubtedly the event would continue to serve its purpose in narrative form for the inspiration of others. In trespass version (1) the father condones a legend-tripping tradition to St. Anne's because he recollects his own trips to this legendary site. In other words, there remains a general acceptance of legend-trips to this supernatural site by precedence of local tradition, and again, because the trips to St. Anne's are so common that it becomes a justifiable, acceptable, and a coherent custom that consequently affects local concepts of justice. In several of these newer trespass versions, the intruders are perceived as being victims and are described as being harassed, even though they are the ones breaking in! This is significant in light of a general local perception that legend­tripping at St. Anne's is more than a local tradition and viewed by many as a benign activity. Although it should be clear that large numbers of locals voicing their opinion in letters to the editor articulated their dismay and frustration with the trespassers. In one of the stories (trespass version 3), kids are said to have been murdered at St. Anne's; this is closely followed by the statement "kids from my school were caught by cops." This has the appearance (as seen throughout these stories) that the trespassing high school students were victims-even though they were breaking the law by entering private property. It may also be a reflection of the traditional themes, incorporated into the newer trespass stories. 14 • • • • • • • • • • • Still another possible level of meaning in the cluster of traditional stories can be seen by using Alan Dunde's tenn "projective inversion." Dundes uses the blood libel legend to illustrate this concept. This legend with origins in ancient times tells of Jews killing Christian infants and children, using their blood in a ritual to make matzah. He explains that: "The Christian guilt for indulging in symbolic ritual cannibalism is neatly projected onto the Jews through such legends" (Dundes, 110). Dundes continues: "I am persuaded that a more appropriate and revealing approach to the legend lies in the Christian need for a Jewish scapegoat and in the psychological process I have tenned "projective inversion"(Dundes, 352). The point is that the blood libel legend is Christian folklore-"and that it is Christians, not Jews, who [tell and] would like to commit the blood libel" (Dundes, 354). Also important to note that it was not the Jews who killed Christ, it was the Romans. "Christians blame Jews for something which the Christians needed to have happen, a thing which the Jews never did ... [so] projective inversion refers to a psychological process in which A accuses B of carrying out an action which A really wishes to carry out him or herself' (Dundes, 352-353). An example of what makes clear the projective inversion in the blood libel legend is suggested by the following facts: Jews are prohibited from consuming blood; but Christians, take part in a ritual of consuming the body of Christ by the symbolic bread and wine (or bread and water) symbolizing the body and blood of the Christ. Along these lines of wish fulfillment, it appears that Christians are projecting upon the Jews what they themselves are guilty of­which is killing and consuming the body of Christ. Some of the themes in the legends of St. Anne's, parallel to the blood libel legend, appear to be the reverse of reality: 15 • • • • • • • • • • • --the ghostly nuns are described as menacing and aggressive, intruding on the visiting teenagers' courtship scene; when in fact the teenagers were trespassing on church property. --the nuns are described as sexually active, thus breaking local religious and moral codes, when of course the teenagers are the ones doing the courtship game. These examples suggest that the very characteristics attributed to the ghostly nuns are actually projections of the young legend-trippers, phrased in such a way as to blame the aberrations on the other. Thomas states a similar point when infonning us that" ... the majority of those telling the legend are Monnons ... [and that the] St. Anne's legend versions are ostensibly about Catholics and certain Catholic practices; however, a closer study of the versions reveals that they are really about Monnons and their view of Catholics ... " (Thomas, 15). This appears to support the notion of projective inversion and its function in the St. Anne's legends by projecting an inverse reality. It has been nearly three years since the ambush of local legend-trippers by security guards at St. Anne's. The stories currently circulating among local youth continue to illustrate the dynamics of folklore and the power of local tradition. Tradition propelled by local belief is clearly seen in the survey of local high school students, recalling the Halloween trespass incident of 1997; basic versions were also produced in the survey. Out of twenty-five students surveyed, fourteen mentioned elements from the trespassing event, while eleven used a traditional motif. So what does this mean? It tells us that this incident of three years ago was more than news. In fact it clearly fits into a so-called "civic brush fire incident." Grant Davie uses this phrase in 16 • • • • • • • • • • • describing local news bits that have a huge impact on the local population (Grant Davie, 1-2). It is evident by local newspaper articles and particularly editorials, both in the 1997 trespass incident, and certainly also the uproar that Diane Browning's article created in 1986, that St. Anne's is a topic that clearly fits into this "civic brush fire" category. Grant-Davie proposes four qualifying areas as conditions for civic brush fire incidents and St. Anne's is one of his examples: 1) A provocative incident: The St. Anne's controversy was started in dramatic fashion by two events in quick succession: first the teens' visit to the property and the caretakers' hostile reaction, and then the raising of criminal charges against all involved. 2) An emblematic object or image: In the example of the St. Anne's incident, the incident itself provided a strong enough image-an angry, nighttime confrontation between a few armed men and a crowd of thrill-seeking teenagers-to excite the general public's imagination. 3) Accessible media and forums: The St. Anne's debate was played out in at least seven articles, two guest commentaries, 17 letters to the editor, more than 50-callin messages (a selection of nine of which were printed), and an editorial. 4) A conflict between threatened values: This was very apparent in the St. Anne's incident, which became a debate between property rights and civil rights. The first wave of letters to the editor sided with the caretakers, who were characterized as heroes wrongly crucified for defending property and taking a stand against vandalism, while the second wave defended the teens' actions as a harmless, traditional prank and condemned the caretakers for assaulting and terrorizing them (Grant Davie, 3-5). [only definition, and material pertaining to St. Anne's included] Grant-Davie also suggests that the brush fires surrounding the St. Anne's incident "were fueled by some fundamental issues and deeply-rooted values [my emphasis] that fired the public emotions" (Grant Davie, 6). So, yes--clearly the St. Anne's incident on Halloween 1997 was more than local news-it goes much deeper than that. It taps fundamental group values with regards to ex: religion, gender, and property rights, that play a crucial role in this particular "civic brush fire" and fire up emotional debates among the local population. 17 • • • • • • • • • • • I would like to suggest another level beyond the idea of property vs. civil rights. This has to do with the fundamental and inherent rights as seen by the locals, of upholding and justifying a long standing tradition of legend-tripping at St. Anne's vs. the property owners' rights to stand up against vandalism. I propose that fundamentally it is an issue of property vs. civil rights, but in essence it becomes an issue of local concepts of justice vs. local folklore and tradition. Local concepts of justice are diverse and may stem from dominant Mormon religious beliefs as can be noted throughout this discussion. Legend-tripping at St. Anne's becomes justifiable due to the long standing custom and tradition established in the past 50 years. The incident of Halloween 1997 in Logan Canyon had such an impact on local youth that stories are still circulating that tell of the frightening events surrounding the trespassing incident. It is important to note that out of the 25 students surveyed, fourteen stories contained primarily data of the trespassing event. This appears to demonstrate the powerful emotions around the event itself, certainly property vs. civil rights, and lastly the concepts of justice in defense of tradition. Perhaps the traditional St. Anne's legend depicting supernatural phenomena-is certainly frightening enough but the memories of the ambush of local high school students on Halloween 1997 remain a dominant image. These are recollections of a small sample group of students surveyed as representative of their knowledge ofSt. Anne's Retreat. So vivid are the memories ofthis event that some of the students surveyed vow never to participate in any legend-tripping activity to at St. Anne's. What we have is a history of a legend-tripping custom which entails visiting a site of the supernatural-a thrill seeking event-experiencing the legend by ostension by 18 • acting out the legend, which has been going on for over 50 years. First, the trespassing • event of 1997; then the "civic brush fire" (Grant-Davie, 1) ignited after Browning's article on Halloween 1986 that caused considerable emotional distress in the Catholic community. In 1997, the public debate primarily deals with property rights vs. civil • rights, and also local concepts of justice vs. local folklore and tradition; whereas in 1986 the incident provoked tension among Catholics and Mormons. Both cases involve the legendary St. Anne's Retreat and the local lore persisting through the generations. • The trespass legend versions of 1997 collected recently from local high school . , students illustrate yet another dimension to the St. Anne's legend. They portray a • sentiment of pity for the teenage offenders- portraying the lawless teenagers as victims. It is a case where the community opinion (in the form of letters to the editor) appears to be significantly divided, In my research it appears as though approximately fifty percent • defend property rights and condemn the behavior of the trespassers; the other fifty percent largely condemn the actions taken by the caretakers at St. Anne's, and appear to • minimize the incident as a teenage prank, or in some cases defend the actions of the teenagers by indicating such things as rites of passage. According to a prominent local resident cited in the Herald Journal, visiting St. Anne's is a local custom that most local • residents at one time or another have taken part in. In general, the Herald Journal overall displayed more sympathy towards the trespassers rather than those leasing the property. The "ambush" of the trespassing teenagers was depicted vividly and as seemingly • unprovoked while little sympathy was lent to three security guards defending a property on Halloween from 30 plus teenagers and young adults, in the middle of the night, in the • dark, of Logan Canyon, eight miles away from town . .The event was clearly biased in the 19 • • • • • • • • • • • • media, and certainly did not for the most part take into account the circumstances in which the security guards operated under. It also did not adequately sympathize with threats previously made to caretakers. Nor did the newspaper adequately acknowledge the frustrations of property owners facing ongoing vandalism and destruction of their property in Logan Canyon. To illustrate the type of news paper rhetoric that at large demonstrated bias towards the trespassers- a few quotes follow: [Cache County Sheriff Lynn Nelson] "The kids were wrong to trespass, he said, but they were just looking to have some fun. "The big issue here is what these other guys did to them" (Herald Journal, October 14, 1997. Pg. 3). A similar sentiment states: [Cache County Attorney's Office, Scott Wyatt] 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 ... The kids should not have done what they did because they were trespassing but that doesn't justify the reaction of these guys ... "(Herald Journal, October 14, 1997. Pg. 3). To further illustrate this point is to note that repeated issues the actions of the security guards are accentuated and depicting them as the criminals. Detailed and repeated attention is given in describing the fate of the trespassing youth as they entered the St. Anne's property. Such accounts are commonly referred to as "Vietnam-style terror in Logan ... they [trespassers] were ambushed, shot at, handcuffed, tied together by their necks and threatened with their lives by shotgun-toting private guards (Herald Journal, October 12, 1997. Pg. 1). These images from words in the news paper are followed by detailed descriptions of the event picturing the supposed injustice against the youth. According to my research, two articles from the Utah State University Statesman presents the case of both parties, but in 20 • • • • • • • • • • • addition offers significant and supportive statements in defense of the security guards. One article tells: "Some defend the gun-toting men claiming they had no other choice but to detain the youth and protect themselves. Friday evening it was 30 on three. Some ask the question, how were the men supposed to detain the youth and protect themselves from retaliation?" (Statesman, October 13, 1997). Sympathetic comments such as this one are important for a balanced view of the incident, and to understand that these security guards did not chose to go into "combat" but acted in defense of themselves and the property. A fascinating aspect of the whole St. Anne's incident that only surfaces in the end and appears to have been largely overlooked is the fact that Logan Canyon is a National Forest. The land that the St. Anne's property consists of is actually government land leased by the occupants (Herald Journal, March 11-12. 1998) [date based on public hearing court documents; date of news paper release not available]. In this case the whole controversy over trespassing becomes void, as we can see from subsequent statements by the Forest Service because technically the youth never actually trespassed in light of this information. All through the news articles covering the St. Anne's event of 1997, there was only incidental mention of the U.S. Forest Service and the rules that apply to government land. It was not until the St. Anne defendants accepted a plea bargain on bringing an end to the trial that this issue really surfaced and played any significant part. The Herald Journal newspaper article [date of issue not available, however public hearing court documents are dated March 11-12, 1998 which indicates the approximate issue of the article in the news paper] informs us that the St. Anne defendants accepted a plea bargain, admitting guilt of assault, and consequently receiving 21 • • • • • • • • • • • reduced charges. Quoted in this article are the words of a U.S. Forest Service official Chip Sibbemsen who said that: "he himself had removed 'no trespassing' signs at St. Anne's, as well as from other cabins permitted as summer homes in Logan Canyon over the years." Then Mr. Sibbernsen continues: "The permit holders at St. Anne's have permission for a gate ... but not for the razor wire and signs that give the entrance to the retreat a prison camp appearance. That's because the land is still public land ... not private property" (Herald Journal, March 11-12. 1998) [approximate date based on court documents]. The article concludes: "Basically, while permit holders have the right to keep people out of their cabins, they can't keep people from walking through on surrounding land. That's why the Cache County Attorney's Office dropped criminal trespassing charges against all 38 youths captured and held at gun point by the retreat's caretaker. ... " This in the end appears to resolve the issue of trespassing charges-but also further complicates the question of "property ownership" and the limited power allowed residents to defend property from invaders. What seems incredible is the fact that it took several months for anyone to realize this fact when that should have been obvious to law enforcement and the legal profession from the very beginning. Since this law pertaining to public access on government land is now public knowledge, there seems to be yet another possibility (although by chance and through a technicality) for anyone to enter this property in the future as they wish. This may be great for the legend­tripping tradition, but this notion certainly does not help permit holders in Logan Canyon get any relief, or hope to end future "trespass" and vandalism on "their" properties. So what we can understand from the 1997 incident and the 1986 Halloween article is that the St. Anne's tradition has fueled numerous debates from property rights to 22 • • • • • • • • • • concepts of justice and customs. But the conditions under the surface for this brush fire to bum, as discussed throughout this paper, are important to remember in order to understand the deep-rooted fundamental concerns of the citizens of this or any community. Folklore is powerful, and given a function and purpose, proves to move persistently through time as is evident from the legends surrounding St. Anne's. The "dynamics of folklore" (Toelken, 55) powerfully illustrates not only how a local legend has circulated for over 50 years, but how a new aspect is introduced into the realm of the legend-that is this intense, not so easily ignored incident of Halloween 1997 which appears through recent stories to have left its own mark on this vivid legend cluster. The event surrounding the legend-tripping trespassers on Halloween 1997 at St. Anne's may be viewed in terms of property rights, or a fundamental civil right to carry on a local belief, a long standing custom-tradition, or a rite of passage. It can also be studied as local rhetoric involving a "brush fire incident" (Grant Davie, 1). Religion and gender appears to be a dominant factor in the complex cultural issues presented through the legends and the legend-trips through its participants. It illustrates that the themes discussed in this paper, and the stories it evolves around, are still vital issues to the community at large and dramatize concerns, fears, and anxieties still present in the undercurrent of this community. The Mormon religion is not just a religion, b~t a way of life; it becomes clear from this and examples given in this paper, that religion plays a central role in directing fundamental concerns such as gender roles, and fear ofthe other. This legend will remain a vivid part of narrative tradition-as long as there is a function, and purpose-to entertain narrator, audience, and legend-trippers ofthis local culture, as other legends will elsewhere. Cultural issues and concerns will continue to surface in 23 • • • • • • • • • • • oral tradition and reflected and dramatized in the stories they tell; because-"Ifit weren't important-they wouldn't keep doing it" (Toelken, personal communication). / 24 • • • • • • • • • • • Works Cited Browning, Dianne. Personal communication, March 1998. Dundes, Allen. 1991. The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore. Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press. 1997. From Game to War and other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore, pp. 11, 110-111. Lexington. The University Press of Kentucky. Ellis, Bill. 1991 . Legend-Trips and Satanism: Adolescents' Ostensive Traditions as 'Cult ' Activity, pp. 279-295. The Satanism Scare. New York. de GruyterPress. Fife Folklore Archives. Various traditional legend versions ofSt. Anne's Retreat. Grant Davie, Keith. Civic Brushfires: The Rhetoric of Local Community Debates. March 8, 2000 unpublished paper. Hatch, Anne. Personal communication, March 1998. Herald Journal. October 14, 1997. Pg. 3; October 15, 1997. Pg. 16; October 12, 1997. Pg. 1; October 26,1986. [page number unavailable]; March 11-12 [approximate date based on court documents from a preliminary hearing on March 11-12 recorded July 8, 1998]. Logan High School Survey. Results from survey April 2000 that produced 25 examples total. Eleven of a traditional legend version and fourteen trespass versions­representing stories of the Halloween trespassing incident at St. Anne's Retreat in 1997. In this survey, students were asked to recollect any version of the St. Anne's legend and to write it down. Hufford, David J. The Terror That comes in the Night. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Salt Lake Tribune. October 14, 1997. Statesman (Utah State University). October 13, 1997. Thomas, Jeannie. 1991. Hecate in Habit: Gender, Religion, and Legend. Northwest Folklore. Vol. 9: 14-27. 25 • • • • • • • • • • Toelken, Barre. 1996. The Dynamics of Folklore. Logan, Utah. Utah State University Press. Personal Communication, April 1998. 26 • • • • • • • • • • Hecate in Logan Canyon: Origin, Belief, and Contemporary Oral Tradition Local legends about a "Witch Hecate" primarily surface around the Spring Hollow-Guinevah campgrounds three miles up Logan canyon. This particular area is frequented by local Mormon youth groups (primarily girls camp) and boy scouts, where many of these legends emerge and thrive as ghost stories told at various camps. A parallel legend (in which Hecate appears also) about St. Anne's Retreat also depicts Hecate, and is based on the former Catholic Retreat referred to as St. Anne's Retreat located eight miles from Logan. This property came into the possession of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City in the early1940s and was used as a retreat and a vacation place for the Sisters of the Holy Cross (Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1997. D3). Due to the frequent visits oflegend-tripping1 trespassers and vandals, the sisters stopped coming to the retreat (Anne Hatch, personal communication) and the property was subsequently sold (Herald Journal, October 15, 1997. Pg. 16). In this paper I will explore the origin and history of Hecate by discussing the ancient Goddess worship, to subsequently gain an understanding of Hecate as an ancient underworld divinity, and the connection, if any, of the local Hecate legend character to the ancient Goddess Hecate from history and mythology. On this journey we should reach a broader understanding of Hecate and her performance in local legend as a bewitched nun. An analysis and discussion of hypothetical interpretations, meanings, functions, and symbolism-will follow. Before beginning these areas of discussion it is necessary to introduce the reader to samples of the "Witch Hecate" legend to allow an 1 Legend-tripping is a tenn that Linda Degh, William Ellis, and others use in describing the practice of visiting the sites of supematurallegends. - -------------------- -- • • • • • • • • • • • insight into the main core of this paper topic-the legends. [All stories and citations in this paper are quoted verbatim]. 1. Witch Heketa The story goes that an old woman lives somewhere up Logan Canyon. She is supposed to be a witch. Her name is Heketa. It is said that she has seven white dobermans which can become invisible at will. A local boy and girl supposedly went up to her place one night to see if they could see anything. They say they were sitting in the car when suddenly the windows fogged up from the outside. They heard dogs sniffing around the car and what sounded like a person breathing. A hand rubbed away some of the moisture like a person breathing. A hand rubbed away some of the moisture on the passanger window by the girl and an old womans face looked in. The girl went into a sort of trance and floated up off the seat a few inches. The boy got the car started and drove home quickly where his father, who was a Mormon bishop, gave the girl a blessing and she snapped out of the trance. The boy drove back up there the next day and says that there were seven dog collars on the ground (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.8). 2. Heckada If you go up Logan Canyon to 3rd dam and cross the bridge into the Spring Hollow area or go to the Quarry up Providence Canyon, you can summon the Devil's wife, her name is Heckada. My friend's brother's girlfriend's brother had a friend that did this very thing. He and a date went up to the Spring Hollow area, for some romancing. After being turned down he got out of the car and yelled the phrase" Heckada, come get me". This was the saying that you needed to say to get Heckada to appear. After saying it a few times he returned to the car. His date was scared, which was his main intention for doing the little prank, or so he thought. After a few minutes of sitting there they began to hear dogs barking, they looked up and saw a green glowing chariot pulled by six wolves, and a mistress with long flowing hair at the reins. At about the same instance the doors locked, the boy and date was pretty scared by this time so the boy tried to get the car started but it seemed like the battery was dead, nothing would start or no lights would come on. By this time the wolves were on the hood of the car clawing at it and grOWling. The mistress stared into the boy's eyes and said "1 have come for you". The boy freaked out and didn't know what to do, the girl was screaming and crying. Then the boy remembered to say "In the name of Jesus Christ 1 command you to leave", at the very instance of saying that, the mistress and her wolves disappeared. The boy then started the car and returned to Logan. Upon returning to his date's house 2 • • • • • • • .' • • • they looked at the hood and saw scratches that the wolves had left (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.9). 3. The Old Nun I once heard of some girls that went to girls scout camp up Logan canyon, a few years ago. There was about 12 girls plus a few leaders. The girls were between the ages of twelve and fifteen. They were sitting around the campfire telling scary stories, one of which was the "Old Nun" story. The story is about an old nun that died very angry that she had lost her youth and beauty. She had resided at the Nunnery, also in Logan canyon. Before she died, the nun would walk past the girls scout camp and long for the days of her youth. She became so obsessed by this idea that she decided by drinking the youths blood she would again be young. Well, the kids of the camp tried to laugh off their fear not wanting to admit to anyone that they really were scared. The group broke up after the story telling finished and went their separate ways. The leaders of the camp became increasingly concerned as the girls began to disappear one by one. They called and hunted for the missing girls not getting any response at all. A couple of girls from the camp had gone on a walk together. Suddenly they came running back into the camp screaming and shaking terribly. The girls reported seeing an old lady dressed as a nun, with an ax and blood dripping from her face walking near the camp. The next day when the sun came up six of the twelve girls were found murdered around camp (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.28). 4. Hekedah-the lady ofthird dam [told by scoutmaster] Once I decided to see if the stories about Hekedah were true. I grabbed a friend and we grabbed two girls and set out for third dam. As is the custom, we put the keys to the truck on the hood and then yelled for Hekedah to come. After waiting a long time, I saw a green light forming in the middle of the lake. I thought I was imagining things at first. It soon formed into a face of a lady all pale and green and she was crying. We grabbed her car keys from the hood, but waited to see what would happen. It wasn't long until a hand and arm appeared and started motioning us to come. (the teller motions with his hand and finger) She kept getting bigger and bigger and was soon a full size lady coming closer and closer to our truck. We put the keys in the ignition and tried to start the truck but nothing happened. Finally, when she was only 4 or 5 feet away, the truck started and we tore out of that place like crazy. [the collector continues to provide context by saying the following] (The teller then fills in the events in Hekedahs life which explain why she haunts the lake) Hekedah was a recluse woman, who lived in a little cabin above third dam. She had been quite wealthy in her life and had her money with her in the cabin. One night, two men broke in and killed her so that they could steal the money. 3 • • • • • • • • • • • The two men were never seen or heard of again. It is said that if you look up on the ridge on a night of the full moon, you can see the sillouette of Hekedah , with ax in hand, chasing two men (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.6). The above mentioned legends are samples of the Hecate legend that will be scrutinized in this study. But first it is necessary to introduce several complementary themes that surface in the parallel legend of St. Anne's Retreat, thus making it necessary to present sample versions of Hecate's role in the St. Anne's legends of Logan Canyon as a witch and a crazed nun. Themes from both "Witch Hecate" and "St. Anne's Retreat" will be discussed below. 5. Barking Dogs Lucy and her friend were driving around the canyon one fall night when it was really nice and warm, and they decided to go to St. Anne's. There were three guys who wanted to go, and three girls who didn't want to go. Since the boys were driving, they went. They parked the car by the highway, and began walking up the dirt road. On the way, one of the guys said "Do you know what happened up here?", and he proceeded to tell story of the nuns. "The nuns used to come up here in the wintertime and stay. One spring the nuns didn't come back. The townspeople went up to investigate, and they found the bodies of the nuns floating in the swimming pool, because they had been raped and murdered. They also found mother superior's black dogs chained up and starved to death in a shack." The guy telling the story suggested that they go look in the swimming pool. While they were looking at it, one of the guys yelled, "I'm scared," and ran to the car as fast as he could. Everyone else followed him, but the girls were slower. As they were running down the mountain, they heard dogs barking and chains dragging on the ground, and they thought the dogs were chasing them. The dogs were howling and looking for the nuns. The girls were crying because they were so scared (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU. 84-050. Item 10). 6. Saint Ann's Retreat A long time ago there used to be a nunnery at Saint Anne's. One of the nuns got pregnant by a young priest. She hid the fact that she was pregnant for a long time. When she had the baby she was told she had to 4 • • • • • • • • • • • leave the nunnery. She was grieved at what had happened and went out and drowned her baby in the swimming pool, then hung herself. Her spirit haunts the place in the form of a dog. Sometimes people can hear dogs howling at Saint Ann's. Nobody has ever seen the dogs (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.37). These legend illustrated above are examples presenting Hecate as a bewitched nun and includes several themes and symbolism that will be scrutinized further below. With this introduction, the mythological and historical aspects can now be explored. A brief over view of the origin of the Goddess follows. In Greek mythology, Hecate depicts an underworld third dimension of a triple Goddess representing Persephone, Demeter, and Hecate. Hecate appears as the crone part of this triple divinity; Hecate, the crone is also represented in the two local legend types in Logan Canyon. To extract meaning, and to gain a broader understanding of these legends, it is necessary to start from the beginning-to a time when the Goddess Hecate played a powerful and important role in many parts of the world. This process should elucidate the connection, if any, of the function of the local Hecate legend character to the ancient Goddess Hecate from history and mythology. In ancient times, dating back as far as 25,000 years BC.until shortly after the advent of Christianity, in many parts of the world-God was a Woman. This supreme deity, known by many names-according to region, was revered and worshipped not only for her fertility and procreation, but she represented wisdom, universal order (Stone, preface) [page number unavailable], knowledge, and capability of holding vital advisory positions. Goddess worship thrived from Neolithic periods 7000 BC., alongside of the Judeo-Christian religions and peoples who worshipped male gods until classical periods of Greece and Rome until around 500 A.D when any trace of this so called idolatry 5 • • • • • • • • • • • worship of the pagans was effectively, and nearly completely destroyed. (Stone, 20; preface) [preface page number unavailable]. "She [Hecate] bestows wealth and success, good luck and advice, is powerful in earth, sea, and heaven ... By a transference common in mythology, she became as a goddess of plenty, an infernal deity, terrible in aspects and often snakelike, the queen of ghosts and mistress of black magic, the keeper of the keys of Hades" (Leach, 487). Hecate is said to have had power and influence over earth, heaven, and sea. "She gave her votaries success in battle, in the law courts and political assembly, and in athletics. Later she came to be associated with the darker side of life, with the underworld and night, with ghosts ... Sometimes she herself was represented as an old hag with snakes entwined in her hair, or she might assume the form of a mare or dog, or, attended by hell-hounds, she haunted the cross-roads" (Pike, 174). The descriptions offered to us by Pike and Leach effectively provides an understanding of the pre­Christian image of the Goddess-and how hypothetically, simultaneous with the onset of Christianity, the role reversal of women into submission under a patriarchal system flourished. Goddess and thus Woman, is consequently seen in a subversive light­perhaps reflecting her new role and demoted status. Although the change away from Goddess worship appears to have taken place over thousands of years, Stone speaks of invasions of Northern tribes which apparently had immediate, harsh effects upon the Goddess religion by eradicating matriarchal-matrilineal societies to the new establishment of male dominated societies. The power of the Goddess societies became eradicated upon the solidification of a patriarchal system; [and] "only then was she fragmented, and reduced ... " (Sjoo & Moor, 183). 6 • It has been argued that early cultures did not understand the connection between • copulation and procreation and therefore worshipped the Goddess as the sole creator of life, and the only one who could create her own kind. But with the aggressive invasions of societies with male deities this matriarchal structure changed. The power of myth to • create perception and belief among man and woman-kind can be seen from the Adam and Eve myth. Stone talks about this being a dramatic and powerful turning point in the • manifestation and eradication of the Goddess. The Adam and Eve myth accomplished this by blaming Eve for the fall of mankind. Her punishment was to suffer pain in childbirth, and to serve man as a helpmate and inferior in status (Stone, foreword). This • is something to keep in mind as we note gender issues in these legends. The image of Hecate in lighter times shows that the Goddess was revered for her contributions to the world; this was before she was demoted in status and seen as dark • and sinister. After a mythological transference as mentioned by Leach-Hecate takes on a sinister-darker image. Hecate is held as moon Goddess, Queen of Ghosts, and deity of • the Crossroads (Sjoo & Moor, 183). After the entry to darker times "Hecate was [became] the destroyer; newborn children and animals were sacrificed to her" (Sjoo & Moor, 183). These are things this triple goddess has represented through time. With this • in mind, we can examine some classic themes existent in the local legends. Among some of the themes evident in both the historically documented mythical • origins from darker times of Hecate that are evident in "Witch Hecate" and the parallel "St. Anne's legends are: 1. The triple dimension concept. 2. Hecate's Suppers - Hecate at the Cross Roads. • 3. Hecate and the keys of Hades-keys as part of ritual in legend-tripping. 4. Sacrifice of newborns-in reference to the swimming pool as an altar. • 7 ~~~~~~~~~---- ----.-----~~~~- • • • • • • • • • • • 5. Hecate as Moon Goddess and Queen of Ghosts. 6. Presence and symbolism of torch. 7. Various themes connecting function and local religious culture i.e. presence of local dominant religion in legends as the righteous prevailing over evil. The Triple Dimension Concept There are several theories of the triple dimension concept of Hecate. One is that it represents "the three faces of woman: maiden, mother, and crone" (Thomas, 22). Theories ofthe triple head however, is that the triple head represents earth-heaven-sea (Pike, 173); past-present-future; three formed because of association with the moon: crescent-full-waning (Barnard, 85); yet another theory suggests a three headed dimension has to do with the need for Hecate (at the Crossroads, discussed below) to look down in three directions. In local legend versions Hecate appears to represent the triple dimension of what Thomas refers to as the "three faces of woman" by the following: "The legend versions depict woman as nun-a virginal maiden (Persephone); woman as a pregnant nun who becomes a mother (Demeter); a woman as a death threatening witch (Hecate) (Thomas, 22)." This can be seen in the following legend versions: First, the image of nuns being raped as was the virginal maiden Persephone raped by Hades. "The nuns used to come up here in the wintertime and stay. One spring the nuns didn't come back. The townspeople went up to investigate, and they found the bodies of the nuns floating in the swimming pool, because they had been raped and murdered" (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU. 84-050. Item 5). Second, the ancient notion of nuns and priests engaging in sexual acts; and consequently depicted in some of these legends as pregnant and having babies. This 8 • • • • • • • • • • • image may represent Demeter- mother of Persephone evident by the following quote: "One of the nuns got pregnant by a young priest" (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.37). Third, a depiction of Hecate-a woman as a witch or sometimes referred to as the devil's wife: "The story goes that an old woman lives somewhere up Logan Canyon. She is suppose to be a witch" (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.8). Another version similarly states: "If you go up Logan Canyon to 3Td dam ... you can summon the Devil's wife, her name is Heckada" (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.9). Hecate's Suppers - Hecate at the Cross Roads The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics explains that crossroads are regarded as the dwelling place of evil spirits and ghosts creating bad luck and danger. Hecate is the Divinity of Crossroads (E.R.E. Vol. II, 330b). This is a place where at a new or full moon, rich people would worship her by leaving offerings in forms of food referred to as "suppers of Hecate." The crossroads was also a symbolic place for the sacrifices of newborn babies. Myth tells how "Hecate, as newly born infant, was exposed at a cross­way, but rescued and brought up by shepherds. This probably points to an actual custom of exposure at cross-roads ... (E.R.E.Voi. II 333b). Dogs were also a form of sacrifice at the cross-roads. St. Anne's may by a symbol of crossroads in terms of culture, religion and gender. A ghostly nun, may be a symbol of a strange outside culture and religion in which females at the retreat are perceived by locals to be dominant. The nuns in the legends take on aspects of Hecate-and she haunts this metaphoric crossroads. Hecate is known as the mother of ghosts (Leeming, 152); just as the nun becomes mother, she 9 • • • • • • • • • • • (Hecate-the nun) in a twisted way is also mother of dead sacrificed newborn babies who represent ghosts in the legends, and their spirits haunt the place. Another interesting theme is the presence of dogs in the legends and the historical significance in reference to "Hecate's Suppers." It explains that the poor and dogs would often consume the food offerings left at crossroads-hence the presence of dogs around the local legendary Hecate. Dogs are also told to be a form of sacrifice left at the crossroads (E.R.E., Vol. VI. 566b; Vol. II 333b; [Vol. Vill. 333b D. In tradition, dogs are often associated with the devil (Toelken, personal communication) which may explain their presence in Hecate's darker times. Hecate and the keys of Hades: keys as part of ritual in legend-tripping Keys are sometimes an important symbol in "Witch Hecate" and "St. Anne's" legends. From a mythological perspective, Hecate is known to hold and possess the keys of Hades. "She is even called the Lady bearing the keys of the Universe .. . " [it is further explained that] "The significance of the keys generally signifies the power over the regions ... (E. R. E. Vol. Vill 123a). Keys become a central point of a specific ritual, and playa significant role in this following legend version: "This is supposed to have happened to someone when they went up to St. Anne's. They drove their car up there, parked it, and turned off the lights. They put their car keys on the top of the car to bring Witch Hekeda down. A light shone on the car and the car keys disappeared. They couldn't leave St. Anne's without their keys, and they never returned home (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU collection#?! item #3 and 4)." This narrative clearly seems to suggest that Hecate is the holder of the keys-including their keys. She is the divinity of 10 ~~~~--~----.-- .- • • • • • • • • • • • the underworld who not only possesses their keys and but also has obvious powers over this particular region (St. Anne's Retreat and the Spring Hollow area). She appears to detennine in this story if in fact these trespassers may leave or not. Sacrifice of newborns-in reference to the swimming pool as an altar As discussed above, newborn babies are known to be a fonn of sacrifice at the crossroads. In the local legends discussed in this paper, the illegitimate offspring ofthe nuns is also known to be sacrificed. It can be understood as a local, modem day metaphoric crossroads; and on this site, newborn babies are also said to be murdered (sacrificed)-namely in the legendary swimming pool at St. Anne's Retreat. The swimming pool, with its frequent reference to murder in the legends, may serve as a symbolic altar in depicting the drowning babies and nuns. The ancient custom and ritual at doorways functioned to avert evil, and signified a place where offerings and sacrifices were made (altars often being placed right inside doorways). One can hypothesize that the intruders at St. Anne's in fact also came through a doorway (symbolic door, i.e. gate) to enter the 8t. Anne's property-to become a potential sacrifice as haunted victims of a ghostly nun. 11 • • • • • • • • • • • Hecate as Moon Goddess and Queen of Ghosts Hecate is considered by many to be primarily the moon Goddess "and one who forecasts perilous, unwelcome change" in the night [handout, Jeannie]. Hecate, the deity of crossroads-haunts the crossroads with her triple head staring in three directions to keep watch over evil powers. It is at new moon or full moon that offerings are given to Hecate at the crossroads. "Hecate is Mother of Ghosts, Queen of the underworld, of death" (Leeming, 152). In the legends it is common to witness supernatural phenomena at a full moon. One such account is: "Near Saint Anne's retreat up in Logan Canyon there is a small canyon. It is said if you go to this canyon around midnight, with the moon full in the night sky, and you call the name Heckata three times she will appear" (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.1.12.1.48). Presence and Symbolism ofthe Torch The torch in mythic terms symbolizes Demeter's search for her daughter Persephone after Hades raped her and took her to the underworld. Demeter searches desperately for her daughter with "lighted torches in her hands" (E.R.E. Vol. XU, 390a). Perhaps, in accordance with some legend versions, Hecate in the form of a bewitched nun, is also told to carry a torch; but rather than a torch in these examples, she uses a lantern. No longer is Hecate (or the bewitched nun) looking for her daughter Persephone, but she may be wandering the grounds of St. Anne's or Spring Hollow searching for her murdered baby. The following examples illustrate such stories. First, 12 • • • • • • • • • • an apparent torch, second, a lantern: (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.4; ColI. 8. usu. The Lynching Mob item#8). Various themes connecting function and local religious culture i.e. presence of local dominant religion in legends as the righteous prevailing over evil There exists a definite local religious flavor across many of the local Hecate legend versions depicting the more favorable dominant local religious culture over the strange, perhaps threatening outside influence of the Catholics. This is evident in legend #1 above, labeled "Witch Heketa" illustrated by the following quote: A hand rubbed away some of the moisture on the passanger window by the girl and an old womans face looked in. The girl went into a sort of trance and floated up off the seat a few inches. The boy got the car started and drove home quickly where his father, who was a Mormon bishop, gave the girl a blessing and she snapped out of the trance [my emphasis] (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.8). Another example from legend #2 above, labeled "Heckada" tells: The mistress stared into the boy's eyes and said "I have come for you". The boy freaked out and didn't know what to do, the girl was screaming and crying. Then the boy remembered to say "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave" [my emphasis] at the very instance of saying that, the mistress and her wolves disappeared (Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.9). This clearly represents what Hufford refers to as "faith promoting" events or stories (Hufford, 222). It serves to reaffirm the dominant and superior religion over the intruding, strange outside church as represented by the presence of nuns in Logan Canyon. It appears to symbolize that good (Mormon bishop giving blessing-and chasing evil spirits away with "in the name of Jesus Christ") breaks the spell of the evil abominable and apostate church as noted through Mormon doctrine (Thomas, 18; Notes 13 • • • • • • • • • • • 7). Thomas continues: "Those who do go to the site are invariably frightened and end up retreating to the safety of their own LDS culture." Another prominent theme surfacing in the legends is that of gender. This brings us back to the beginning of this paper-speaking ofthe Goddess and her mythological presence in local legend and geography. It brings forth aspects of challenges from a matriarchal and matrilineal local codes of living stemming from a patriarchal culture, based on religious beliefs dating back to the Old Testament. It is portrayed and manifested through the mythological Goddess Hecate, the power of the Goddess and Woman-challenging the notion of the patriarchal system; it confronts, and perhaps challenges local beliefs and attitudes in a culture dominated by men. In accordance with local belief-the female in the legends appear to take on a submissive and subservient role. As evident in the example in the previous paragraph, the male is dominant and has the power to avert evil. From this it is important to note that the Mormon bishop is male, while the Goddess Hecate is female. Stone describes the Paradise myth as "still the bedrock of fundamental theological arguments that women are divinely ordained to be subservient." This idea seems clear when looking at Mormon doctrine, and the status and role of the woman in local culture and legend; while the challenge to retain a status quo in a world that is in constant challenge of the patriarchal system and its dominance over women. It is the male who in many ofthe stories initiates the courtship ritual of visiting these sites haunted with the presence of the (female) supernatural. He appears as dominant male, aggressor, and savior; he is also capable through the power of the Mormon priesthood to revert evil, as mentioned in version #2 above. The male initiates courtship; the female is depicted in the legends as resisting his advances while she is 14 • • • • • • • • • • • expected to refrain from intimacy until marriage. So here her belief and moral codes are challenged. While his advances and plans for romance goes awry, he gets angry and calls upon the supernatural. He evidently inhibits the power to do so, as well as to make the evil go away using religious authority, power of the priesthood (which is in present day only given to men), and subsequently brings them both back to the safety of the Mormon culture. Example: (Legend version #2 above; Fife Folklore Archives, L2.3.1.15.9). Other examples of male dominance and female subordination are: "There were three guys who wanted to go, and three girls who didn't want to go. Since the boys were driving, they went" [my emphasis]. Once there, one ofthe boys proceeds to tell the St. Anne's legend. Later in the story, it tells of everyone running back to the car-but the girls were slower" [my emphasis] (Fife Folklore Archives, ColI. 8. USU. 84-050. Item 10). Some stories further illustrate moral transgressions as being punishable by rape and death (Fife Folklore Archives, L 5,11,12). This concept also has ancient origins. As the male deities took prominence in the Goddess religions [time period] or as illustrated in ancient Hebrew societies (Stone, 56) the moral codes so dictated that punishment for moral transgressions was to be put to death. The ancient belief and custom went as far as to punish a woman who had been raped with death. The notion of moral transgressions punishable by death as noted through ancient belief and custom, and as depicted in local legend is evident in the depiction of the female-a nun-who becomes the model for unacceptable moral behavior and consequently becomes raped and murdered for her choices. This possible representation may serve as a powerful image to members participating in this local courtship ritual and serves as a reminder to follow principles as set forth by the indigenous religion. 15 • • • • • • • • • • • The mythological and historical significance of the Goddess religion in relation to the presence of the mythological Goddess appearing as a nun in local legends has been presented and illustrates several themes drawn somehow from mythology of Goddess­Hecate. The presence of these classical themes incorporated in the modern legends may remain a curious aspect, but as a whole, all of the stories seek to exemplify certain aspects of the local people's attitudes and beliefs. This is illustrated in what may constitute their fears and concerns. One of these has to do with gender. Underlying anxieties are displayed through these legends and may stem from the systematic changes in the roles of women through time. To understand the present day presence of the Goddess Hecate in local legend, it is important to understand that gender is still an vital and combative issue-particularly in the local religious culture that may resist the worldly changes around them in order to maintain their religious convictions, including the role and status of woman in this culture. Somehow, Hecate an ancient mythical underworld divinity-manages to creep into modern day local legends; the resiliency of this myth thousands of years old functions today to in ways described above. The triple Goddess Hecate performs as a witch and a nun in both legend versions; and in a sense, she is still worshipped today as thrill seekers tempt their fate by making visits to her habitat in the metaphoric crossroads of Logan Canyon. 16 • • • • • • • • • • • Works Cited Barnard, Mary. 1967. The Mythmakers. New York. H. Wolff. Fife Folklore Archives. Various traditional legend versions ofSt. Anne's Retreat and Witch Hecate. Hastings, James, editor. 1980. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics. Edinburgh, England. T & T Clark LTD. Hatch, Anne. Personal communication April 1998. Herald Journal. October 15, 1997. Opinion section. Hufford, David 1. The Terror That comes in the Night. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Leach, Maria, editor. 1949. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. New York. Funk and Wagnalls Company Leeming, David; Paige, Jake. 1994. Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine. New York. Oxford University Press. Pike, Royston. 1958. Encyclopedia of Religion and Religions. New York. Meridian Books, mc. Salt Lake Tribune. October 14, 1997. D3. Sjoo, Monica; Mor, Barbara. 1975. The Great Cosmic Mother. San Fracisco. Harper & Row, Publishers. Stone, Merlin. 1976. When God was a Woman. New York. The Dial Press. Thomas, Jeannie. 1991. Hecate in Habit: Gender, Religion, and Legend. Northwest Folklore. Vol. 9: 14-27. Toelken, Barre. Personal Communication, April 1998; May 2000. 17 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource legends (folk tales); application/pdf; 18963088 Bytes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16944coll20/id/4 SCAFOLK003No0356.pdf Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. 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In 1997 St. Anne’s Retreat and the legends associated with it achieved national media attention when over 30 high school students and young adults seeking to experience the “trip” of this legendary place, were caught and fell into the hands of vigilante security guards. The trespassers were captured by three men, who were armed with shotguns; they were then roped around the neck, handcuffed, and forced to kneel in an empty swimming pool. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource colored photographs; image/jpeg; Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library. Relation A related resource St. Anne's Retreat Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of The Herald Journal, phone (435) 752-2121. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Original physical copy can be found at The Herald Journal, 75 West 300 North, Logan, Utah 84321. Phone: (435) 752-2121. Item number 20140929-Lucero-010 Subject The topic of the resource Legends; Law enforcement; Trespass; legend-tripping; St. Anne's Retreat; Logan Canyon legends; Type The nature or genre of the resource Image;