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Strange and Unexplained: Utah is a podcast/video blog hybrid that focuses on different strange and unusual places in the great state of Utah. The way it breaks down is this: every two weeks I will post up a new podcast about a different place within Utah. This podcast is just the facts, what happened, where, when, how, and with whom. Then, where allowed, myself and a member of my team will visit these locations and hear about what's going on there today. We'll talk to locals, investigate sights, and see what is to be seen today. What kind of things will we be talking about, you ask? Everything! Ghosts, aliens, skinwalkers, mass murder sites, and creepy woods. Everything strange and unexplain…
A 50,000-gallon trolley-barn water tower invites you into Utah history with one eye on the shadows.
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A grand Ogden hotel anchors a tragic Utah mystery shaped by place, uncertainty, and one stark eyewitness claim.
Ogden's Bigelow Hotel gives this Utah history episode a solid frame: a grand new building, a 13th-floor window, and the last known movements of Bonnie and Chapman.
Camp Floyd turns the Mormon War into a story of place, pressure, and uneasy memory.
Camp Floyd lands at the crossroads of Utah territorial politics, the Mormon War, and a lingering ghost-story atmosphere. The episode follows the pressure around Brigham Young's governorship and the LDS Church's power, then tracks the army through a mostly abandoned Salt Lake…
A grand Egyptian movie house is refitted, pink-washed, and left to slide into unsafe decline.
Peery's Egyptian Theater anchors the episode as a story of a landmark room repeatedly bent to fit changing movie technology, often at the expense of the details that gave it character.
A Utah paper mill's fire, reinventions, and eerie final encounter make for layered local history.
A paper mill opens a grounded path into Salt Lake Valley history, starting with Brigham Young's push for paper that was easier to get and less costly for the church's expanding needs.
A Utah depot's opening, financial strain, and earthquake damage frame the long afterlife of rail travel.
Rio Grande Station comes through as a compact history of a Utah rail landmark, built around the belief that trains helped carry a growing country forward.
Overlooked lives, read from the sources, talked through warmly.
Mike Duncan narrates Rome's full history solo, from Aeneas to Romulus Augustulus's exile in 476.
Strange & Unexplained: Utah's "The Ben Lomond" follows one Ogden corner from the Reed Hotel to Bigelow Apartments, with stops in 1889, 1927, 1939, and 1951.
Strange & Unexplained: Utah’s “Camp Floyd” examines the 1857 Mormon War, when President James Buchanan sent 2,500 troops and 1,000 civilian employees toward Utah Territory.
Howard Carter's 1922 search in the Valley of the Kings and the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb set up the Egypt craze that later shaped Perry's Egyptian Theater.
On April 1, 1892, the Deseret Paper Mill in Cottonwood Heights burned after a fire started in the rag room and the fire department reportedly treated the call like an April Fools' prank.
["A $750,000 railroad depot in Salt Lake City ended up sold for $1 after years of decline, legal risk, and changing transportation habits.", "Jen links the building to the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, the Union Pacific Railway, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway's \"freight war\" with free rides between Salt Lake City and Ogden.", "Henry Schlacks, a Chicago architect trained under Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, spent years fighting DRG over plans and payment before the depot opened in 1911 and was restored by the Utah State Historical Society from 1977 to August 1981.", "The episode also covers Operation Rio Grande's three phases, the Purple Lady legend with reported sightings in the women's bathroom and mezzanine, and a March 18 Magna earthquake update that damaged the building."]
Strange and Unexplained: Utah traces Trolley Square Station from the 10th Ward’s public square to an agricultural fairground, trolley hub, bus depot, and restored shopping center.
Strange & Unexplained: Utah’s “Update and Story Time” combines Jen Bogle’s new job at Discover Financial Services with personal accounts of nighttime apparitions.
Host Jennifer interviews paranormal researcher Josh Shaw about his experiences at Ogden's Union Station.
The episode shares an interview with paranormal researcher Jennifer Jones about her investigation of Ogden's Union Station.
A podcast exploring strange and unusual places in Utah, presenting historical facts and visiting locations.
The host introduces the podcast and explains the search for the perfect first location, settling on This Is The Place Heritage Park.