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Location:
The Smith House is at the Old Deseret Village.
Old Deseret is a village of old, historic
Mormon homes that can be found in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Pioneer
State Trail Park, on 2601 Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108. This historical
display is open to the public from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Like Williamsburg, Virginia, Old Deseret
Village is like a living historical museum, where park employees dress
up in the style of the age, demonstrate the way the people lived, and
give tours of the old homes. All the homes are the original structures,
except two, which are replicas of the original homes.
Many park guides have reported numerous
parapsychological phenomena throughout Old Deseret, which clearly indicates
that unseen entities still are hanging around there, on friendly terms
with the living, with the exception of one.
THE SMITH HOUSE: Mary Fielding
Smith - (Wife of Hiram Smith)
It seems that the ghost of Mary
Fielding Smith isn't a happy camper, appearing to be very annoyed by the
incompetent living! Many have seen her apparition, standing in the doorway
of her house, shaking her finger angrily at anyone passing by.{ It seems
that her house, in its old location, originally faced toward the town,
but when they moved her house up from the town to the the park location,
the movers by mistake set up her house turned around in the wrong direction!}
Psychic Research:
No present-day investigations have
been reported, though Gwen Wilcox lived with her ghostly housemates for
15 years, which is quite a psychic research project, on a personal level.
IS THE SMITH HOUSE STILL HAUNTED?
According to the volunteer guides, yes it is.
Photos by Tom Carr
To really get the historical feel of Old Deseret
Village, visit a fabulous web-site: thisistheplace.org
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