Ghost Tour

Last weekend Howie and I went on a spooky ghost tour of downtown Salt Lake City.

First we visited the Devereaux Mansion where we were the only people to spot a mysterious orb of light in the upper left hand window.  Our tour guide convinced me that it was a ghost and I believe him.

It looks like a face!

Then we went to the Rio Grande where our guide told us a very sad, scary story.

Once there was a young, newlywed couple waiting on the back platform for a train and they got into an argument.  The wife got so upset at the husband that she threw her wedding ring at him.  He then turned around and threw the ring onto the train tracks.  In a fit of desperation, she ran for the ring and failed to notice the large train coming straight for her.  She was killed.  Our tour company had done a ghost investigation there and caught a recording of a woman saying "My husband pushed me."  Scary!

The Shilo Inn

The Shilo Inn's story was the one about the crazy people that stayed there back in the 70's.  I'm sure you can find the story if you Google it.  Basically, a group of religious nuts stayed in one of the top suites and convinced all their children and followers to commit suicide off the balcony.  So, they did.

Our tour guide outside Shilo Inn.

The old Salt Lake County Building.

And our last stop for the night was the Salt Lake Cemetery.  It is seriously creepy to be there at night.  This was the first time I've ever been there after dark.  We couldn't walk around, but we got off the bus and he told us stories on the curbside.  I guess they've had problems with tour groups desecrating graves so, they banned them.

We also drove down near Memory Grove/Gravity Hill and tried to see the "Hoppity Lady".  I had NEVER heard of that story until this night.  There is said to be a Hoppity Lady ghost that runs through the area in her blood stained wedding dress.  She was killed in a car accident on her wedding day and her husbands head was decapitated and landed in her lap.  She roams the streets looking for her husband.  If you pull your car over and turn off your headlights, then flash your headlights three times while chanting "Hoppity Lady...Hoppity Lady...Hoppity Lady" she will appear!


Unfortunately she did not appear on Saturday night.  No one in our group spotted her.  Darn.


This really was a fun activity.  If you're interested in doing it, you should!  We booked it through Grimm Ghost Tours.  www.grimmghosttours.com 

Valentine's Day

I hope your Valentine's Day was as wonderful as ours!

Howie,
I sure do love you.


XOXO,
Tara

HGTV Dream Home 2012

Yesterday Howie and I went and toured the 2012 HGTV Dream Home that is in Midway, Utah.  It was neat to see it all in person.  I enter to win their Dream Home every year.  It has yet to happen, much to my dismay.  On our tour they told us that on the very first day they started the contest they received 12 million entries.  Wow.

The house was neat to see and had amazing views, but if we won it we would definitely sell it.


The master bedroom closets were way too small.


That is just a deal breaker in a million dollar home.