A Brief Overview
As paranormal investigators we don't only run paranormal investigations. We also support local causes like this one. Night at the museum is a yearly cause that not only supports us it supports the union station foundation. They allow many paranormal groups to set up booths and display there teams focal points as well as allowing the teams who support the cause to give haunted tours in and under the union station located in Ogden Utah. We had many experiences this year as well as allot of support from the locals in the city. Many teams show up to support the union station including P.R.G. (Paranormal Research Group), U.R.O.P.A (Utah Researchers of Paranormal Activity), Ghost Face Paranormal and many others including us W.W.P. ( World Wide Paranormal) We all seem to be in it for the same causes and many of us mingle among other teams working together for a good cause as well as exploring other findings, evidences and gear of our fellow para-teams. If you were lucky enough to get a ticket this year we hear many people walked away very happy with there own evidences and possible proof that the union station is haunted. We as well have a few neat things to show you. As we walked these same halls and rooms and gathered our own evidences possibly proving once and for all that this Union Station is indeed haunted and the ghosts of not only union station but some spirits from past unfortunate accidents in the local area now claim resident in and under the union station itself. Scroll down for more.
Photo of a real man that for some reason you can see through his right side. Paranormal ? You decide.
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The Wattis Dumki room in the union station people report a child looking out this window. And the tale of a woman who was on her way to a ball and wrecked her car killing her. Its said she than made it to the ball. Maybe she never knew she died and now dances in this room in spirit form. We see two apparitions in this photo can you? What do you think?
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In this E.V.P you can hear a response or mumble. We were on stage where its known that people often hear the voices of children playing and laughing.
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Here you clearly hear something hitting the wall behind us and we go to check it out.
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As the vault door slammed shut the whole group we were with ran up to us screaming making this more likely that is was not any of them. The vault door weigh about 200 lbs.
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History of Union Station (Ogden, UT)
Union Station in Ogden, Utah, also known as Ogden Union Station, is located at the west end of Historic 25th Street. It was formerly the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.
Although the Station no longer serves as a railway hub, it is the heart of Ogden and remains a gathering place for the community. The museums housed at the Station include the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Eccles Rail Center, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, and the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum. Gifts at the Station offers unique gift ideas and a variety of museum related items, books, prints, jewelry and souvenirs. Gallery at the Station is a for sale exhibit that features local and regional artists every month. The Myra Powell Gallery features traveling exhibits and the Stations permanent art collection. Union Station Research Library has an extensive collection of historic Ogden photographs and documents available to the public. Also housed inside the building are the Union Grill Restaurant, U.S. Forest Service Public Lands Information Center, and Warren's Train Shop.
The adjacent Ogden Intermodal Hub currently serves the FrontRunner commuter rail line. The last long-distance passenger trains to use Union Station were the final Amtrak runs to Ogden in 1997. Ogden's Union Station has been rumored to be haunted by various entities throughout the museum. When the first transcontinental railroad was dedicated in 1869, trains began rolling through Ogden at a faster rate. By 1889, Ogden had a train coming through every 15 minutes and the Union Station was abuzz with passengers. It burned down in 1923, killing many, and the building that’s now the ballroom was a temporary morgue.When it was being rebuilt, a construction worker also died. The Union Station was also used during World War 2 to bring troops home from war, as the train was coming into the station the conductor had a stroke and slammed into another train, 81 people were injured and 48 people were killed that day. the dance hall on the lower floor was used as a temporary morgue to house the bodies until next of kin came and identified the bodies.
On March 8, 1869, Union Pacific came to Ogden on its way to Promontory Summit to meet the Central Pacific, thus completing the transcontinental rail line. Four cities near this location, Corinne, Promontory, Uintah, and Ogden, competed with each other for the opportunity to house the train station that would be the junction for railroad travel in the Intermountain West. Promontory and Uintah lacked the necessary resources to house the Station. Corinne and Ogden competed for many years for the "Junction City" title, until Brigham Young donated several hundred acres of land to the two railroads on the condition that they build the yards and station there.
The first station was built in 1869. It was a two-story wooden frame building built on a mud flat on the banks of the Weber River. The building soon became inadequate, being also the facility for the narrow gauge Utah Central Railroad (later Oregon Short Line) and the narrow gauge Rio Grande Western (later Denver & Rio Grande Western). Local newspapers complained about, among other things, the quarter mile of wood boardwalk required to traverse the swampy ground to reach the station. In response to these worries the Union Pacific and Central Pacific organized the jointly-owned Ogden Union Railway & Depot Co. to oversee the construction and management of a new Union Station. A new structure, considerably larger than the old and constructed of brick, was built in 1889 and served the community until it burned in 1923. It was designed in the Romanesque style, with a large clock tower in the center. This building, in addition to serving the needs of the railroad, also contained 33 hotel rooms as well as a restaurant, barbershop and other conveniences for the enjoyment of the traveler.
In 1923, a hotel room in the depot caught fire, which quickly spread throughout the building. The blaze was unable to be controlled, and the depot burned to the ground, leaving the walls and clock tower standing in a fragile state. No deaths or injuries were reported, and work continued inside the first floor to some extent, but construction on a new building did not start until a stone from the clock tower fell and struck a railroad clerk, killing him instantly. Originally, the OUR&D planned on rebuilding the station in its original design, but the accident reversed this decision and a new design was proposed by John and Donald Parkinson, architects of the Caliente, Nevada, and Kelso, California, stations.[2] --WIKI
Although the Station no longer serves as a railway hub, it is the heart of Ogden and remains a gathering place for the community. The museums housed at the Station include the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Eccles Rail Center, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, and the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum. Gifts at the Station offers unique gift ideas and a variety of museum related items, books, prints, jewelry and souvenirs. Gallery at the Station is a for sale exhibit that features local and regional artists every month. The Myra Powell Gallery features traveling exhibits and the Stations permanent art collection. Union Station Research Library has an extensive collection of historic Ogden photographs and documents available to the public. Also housed inside the building are the Union Grill Restaurant, U.S. Forest Service Public Lands Information Center, and Warren's Train Shop.
The adjacent Ogden Intermodal Hub currently serves the FrontRunner commuter rail line. The last long-distance passenger trains to use Union Station were the final Amtrak runs to Ogden in 1997. Ogden's Union Station has been rumored to be haunted by various entities throughout the museum. When the first transcontinental railroad was dedicated in 1869, trains began rolling through Ogden at a faster rate. By 1889, Ogden had a train coming through every 15 minutes and the Union Station was abuzz with passengers. It burned down in 1923, killing many, and the building that’s now the ballroom was a temporary morgue.When it was being rebuilt, a construction worker also died. The Union Station was also used during World War 2 to bring troops home from war, as the train was coming into the station the conductor had a stroke and slammed into another train, 81 people were injured and 48 people were killed that day. the dance hall on the lower floor was used as a temporary morgue to house the bodies until next of kin came and identified the bodies.
On March 8, 1869, Union Pacific came to Ogden on its way to Promontory Summit to meet the Central Pacific, thus completing the transcontinental rail line. Four cities near this location, Corinne, Promontory, Uintah, and Ogden, competed with each other for the opportunity to house the train station that would be the junction for railroad travel in the Intermountain West. Promontory and Uintah lacked the necessary resources to house the Station. Corinne and Ogden competed for many years for the "Junction City" title, until Brigham Young donated several hundred acres of land to the two railroads on the condition that they build the yards and station there.
The first station was built in 1869. It was a two-story wooden frame building built on a mud flat on the banks of the Weber River. The building soon became inadequate, being also the facility for the narrow gauge Utah Central Railroad (later Oregon Short Line) and the narrow gauge Rio Grande Western (later Denver & Rio Grande Western). Local newspapers complained about, among other things, the quarter mile of wood boardwalk required to traverse the swampy ground to reach the station. In response to these worries the Union Pacific and Central Pacific organized the jointly-owned Ogden Union Railway & Depot Co. to oversee the construction and management of a new Union Station. A new structure, considerably larger than the old and constructed of brick, was built in 1889 and served the community until it burned in 1923. It was designed in the Romanesque style, with a large clock tower in the center. This building, in addition to serving the needs of the railroad, also contained 33 hotel rooms as well as a restaurant, barbershop and other conveniences for the enjoyment of the traveler.
In 1923, a hotel room in the depot caught fire, which quickly spread throughout the building. The blaze was unable to be controlled, and the depot burned to the ground, leaving the walls and clock tower standing in a fragile state. No deaths or injuries were reported, and work continued inside the first floor to some extent, but construction on a new building did not start until a stone from the clock tower fell and struck a railroad clerk, killing him instantly. Originally, the OUR&D planned on rebuilding the station in its original design, but the accident reversed this decision and a new design was proposed by John and Donald Parkinson, architects of the Caliente, Nevada, and Kelso, California, stations.[2] --WIKI