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Last year, some friends and I decided to explore the old haunted Lehi Hospital.
(ABC 4 News) -- The Lehi Hospital is believed to be haunted because of its dubious history and the appearances of ghostly apparitions.
The building started as a bank in 1891, the second story serving as a ward house for the local LDS congregation. In 1824, an auto body businessman conducted a crematorium in the basement. It is said bodies would be cut up into quarters to burn because the furnace was not large enough to fit an entire body in.
In 1926 it became Lehi’s first hospital. It is purported the head doctor hung the head nurse from the front flagpole, and many people have died in the hospital; at least one person died in the elevator. Supposedly, the elevator was so slow the man died waiting to get to the operating room on the second floor.
The hospital was shut down in 1968, and the building stayed vacant until building contractor, Todd Vincze, bought it with the intent to restore it. He found it would take a great deal more money than he anticipated, and after learning the history of the place and having a few ghostly encounters himself, decided to run a spook house to raise funds for renovation.
ABC 4 News went along with some ghost hunters and a psychic to see if we could make any spiritual contact. Psychic, Karen Baldwin, says a near-death experience has made her more sensitive to spirits in the after life. She’s credited with helping police in missing person cases and has even helped people recover stolen property. She claims to have not known anything about the history of the building, and upon her arrival, asked that no one tell her anything so she could learn it herself..
She says 40 to 50 “souls†occupy the building from different time periods. She described a man in a white coat as a “man of intelligence and of knowledge.†She also said he murdered someone. She told us she got the sensation of something around her neck and felt as if she was hanging. She said the spirts were angry because they had been made sport of for so long and didn’t like how the building had been changed into a spook house.
Karen described many things accurate with the history of the building. If she, in fact, had no prior knowledge, that would make her comments remarkable.
The ghost hunters received some activity with their meters and gauges that monitor electromagnetic frequency and temperature. They were able to pick up, what sounded like, voices taped in different parts of the house.
Reporter, Buddy Blankenfeld, stayed overnight with the owner and two of his friends and says they could hear deliberate sounds in parts of the building where they knew no one was at the time and captured a few voices too.
Is it haunted? You decide. -----
This, along with other reports, excited us to go inside. We began by planning in great detail using Google Earth. We brought several people along who were afraid to enter. We had these people camp out in thier cars near the hospital to keep watch. We communicated with them and they informed us when everything was clear, when there was police threat, and the like.
To enter the hospital, we grabbed a ladder and climbed into the second story through an open window. Immediatly, we could see and feel the gloomyness of the building. Things inside were dark, dusty, and old. We explored the upper floor, where there was lots of storage from when the hospital was once a haunted house. The second floor was mostly empty, but also had some storage. The first floor was very interesting. It was perfectly decorated as a haunted house. We found the bloody mary mirror, but saw and heard nothing. We made our way down to the basement, where we found the creamatory to be empty. One of us found a small crawl space under the basement. We jumped into this and clammored around, but alas, were not able to scare ourselves or find anything scary. People outside began complaining that we were there too long, so we lowered our latter back down and returned.
All in all, the Haunted Lehi Hospital was cool, but we didn't get the scare we were looking for.
(ABC 4 News) -- The Lehi Hospital is believed to be haunted because of its dubious history and the appearances of ghostly apparitions.
The building started as a bank in 1891, the second story serving as a ward house for the local LDS congregation. In 1824, an auto body businessman conducted a crematorium in the basement. It is said bodies would be cut up into quarters to burn because the furnace was not large enough to fit an entire body in.
In 1926 it became Lehi’s first hospital. It is purported the head doctor hung the head nurse from the front flagpole, and many people have died in the hospital; at least one person died in the elevator. Supposedly, the elevator was so slow the man died waiting to get to the operating room on the second floor.
The hospital was shut down in 1968, and the building stayed vacant until building contractor, Todd Vincze, bought it with the intent to restore it. He found it would take a great deal more money than he anticipated, and after learning the history of the place and having a few ghostly encounters himself, decided to run a spook house to raise funds for renovation.
ABC 4 News went along with some ghost hunters and a psychic to see if we could make any spiritual contact. Psychic, Karen Baldwin, says a near-death experience has made her more sensitive to spirits in the after life. She’s credited with helping police in missing person cases and has even helped people recover stolen property. She claims to have not known anything about the history of the building, and upon her arrival, asked that no one tell her anything so she could learn it herself..
She says 40 to 50 “souls†occupy the building from different time periods. She described a man in a white coat as a “man of intelligence and of knowledge.†She also said he murdered someone. She told us she got the sensation of something around her neck and felt as if she was hanging. She said the spirts were angry because they had been made sport of for so long and didn’t like how the building had been changed into a spook house.
Karen described many things accurate with the history of the building. If she, in fact, had no prior knowledge, that would make her comments remarkable.
The ghost hunters received some activity with their meters and gauges that monitor electromagnetic frequency and temperature. They were able to pick up, what sounded like, voices taped in different parts of the house.
Reporter, Buddy Blankenfeld, stayed overnight with the owner and two of his friends and says they could hear deliberate sounds in parts of the building where they knew no one was at the time and captured a few voices too.
Is it haunted? You decide. -----
This, along with other reports, excited us to go inside. We began by planning in great detail using Google Earth. We brought several people along who were afraid to enter. We had these people camp out in thier cars near the hospital to keep watch. We communicated with them and they informed us when everything was clear, when there was police threat, and the like.
To enter the hospital, we grabbed a ladder and climbed into the second story through an open window. Immediatly, we could see and feel the gloomyness of the building. Things inside were dark, dusty, and old. We explored the upper floor, where there was lots of storage from when the hospital was once a haunted house. The second floor was mostly empty, but also had some storage. The first floor was very interesting. It was perfectly decorated as a haunted house. We found the bloody mary mirror, but saw and heard nothing. We made our way down to the basement, where we found the creamatory to be empty. One of us found a small crawl space under the basement. We jumped into this and clammored around, but alas, were not able to scare ourselves or find anything scary. People outside began complaining that we were there too long, so we lowered our latter back down and returned.
All in all, the Haunted Lehi Hospital was cool, but we didn't get the scare we were looking for.
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