Walk Salt Lake City's most haunted locations. 13 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Brigham Young led Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and the dead started accumulating immediately. The Salt Lake City Cemetery covers 120 acres with over 120,000 burials — one of the largest municipal graveyards in the country. Fort Douglas, built in 1862 not to defend against enemies but to spy on the Mormons, housed prisoners of war and produced ghost sightings that persist today. The Capitol Theatre, a 1913 vaudeville house, harbors a presence in its upper balcony that staff refuse to discuss. Mining magnate Alfred W. McCune built his mansion in 1901, and the McCune Mansion's empty rooms still register unexplained footsteps. This self-guided tour hits 13 free stops across a city founded on faith, surveillance, and silver money.
The Capitol Theatre opened in 1913 as a vaudeville house and movie palace on Salt Lake City's Main Street. The 1,900-seat theater hosted everything fr...
The Rio Grande Depot opened in 1910, a Beaux-Arts monument to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. For decades it was Salt Lake City's primary ...
You enter the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Utah's only Catholic cathedral, completed in 1909 in Romanesque Revival splendor. The cathedral sits in a ci...
You stand in the Utah State Capitol, completed in 1916 on a hill overlooking the city. The neoclassical building with its copper dome was meant to pro...
You walk the perimeter of Temple Square, the ten-acre complex that serves as the spiritual and administrative heart of the LDS Church. The square sits...
You enter the Alta Club, established in 1883 as Salt Lake City's most exclusive private social club. The Romanesque building served as a gathering pla...
You stand before the McCune Mansion, a Queen Anne Victorian completed in 1901 by Alfred W. McCune, a mining and railroad magnate who made millions in ...
You approach the Devereaux House, a mansion built in 1857 by William Jennings, one of Salt Lake City's earliest settlers, and later owned by the Dever...
You drive through Emigration Canyon, the route Brigham Young and the first Mormon pioneers followed into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The canyon witn...
You walk the grounds of Fort Douglas, established in 1862 on the bench above Salt Lake City. The fort was built not to defend against external enemies...
You enter Gilgal Sculpture Garden, a bizarre collection of stone sculptures and engravings created by Thomas Battersby Child Jr., a Mormon stonemason ...
You walk Memory Grove, a park dedicated to Utah's war dead, established in 1924. The grove includes monuments to WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and th...
The Salt Lake City ghost tour includes 13 documented haunted locations.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 13 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 2.5 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our Salt Lake City tour is Capitol Theatre at Capitol Theatre, 200 South, Downtown.
3 stops free in Salt Lake City. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.