In 1971, a young man tragically died by suicide in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Years later, a sensationalized version of his death was published and distributed nationwide, leaving scars on an entire community and causing ripples of chaos that can still be felt today. We look at the story and history of Jay’s Journal, the boy it …
Brigham Young wanted the railroad badly, right up until it threatened to destroy the isolation that made Mormon Utah possible. This week, Lindsay Hansen Park and Bryan Buchanan dig into the chaotic arrival of the transcontinental railroad, where unpaid Mormon laborers, corporate brinkmanship, ZCMI boycotts, excommunications, Chinese railroad workers, and a very angry Brigham Young …
Something terrible is happening to the cows in Idaho and northern Utah. but who is behind it? Aliens? Angsty teenage vampires? Worshipers of Mithras reenacting the tauroctony? Amanda walks us through this eight-cow mystery that continues to terrorize ranchers throughout the Mountain West.
Some folks dream of flying, all their teeth falling out, seeing a deceased loved one, or being unexpectedly naked in public. Others dream of the location of a lost Nephite gold mine that will financially save the church in the last days. Bryan Buchanan tells the story of Bishop Koyle and his fabulous dreams and …
Linda Hamilton (author of The Fourth Wife) leads us through a discussion of the various spirits of Brigham Young’s plural wives who allegedly haunt their former homes. This isn’t the Linger Longer they signed up for!
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Two unsolved murders. One Black Mormon born into slavery. A doctor who challenged Brigham Young’s power. And a mutilated body left on Arsenal Hill with a warning pinned to its chest. In the winter of 1866, Salt Lake City became the scene of a story involving blood atonement, racial terror, vigilante violence, and a possible …
Why did the U.S. Army build a fort above Salt Lake City with its guns pointed toward the Mormon capital? Lindsay Hansen Park and Bryan Buchanan trace the explosive history of Fort Douglas, from the Utah War and Brigham Young’s theocracy to Patrick Connor’s campaign to contain Mormon power, encourage mining, and remake the territory. …
He dedicated Jerusalem for the return of the Jews, renamed Nevada’s oldest town, nearly became president of the LDS Church, and may have helped create one of Mormonism’s most enduring succession myths. This week, Lindsay Hansen Park and Bryan Buchanan trace the astonishing and contradictory life of Apostle Orson Hyde, from orphaned boy who walked …
On Friday the 13th, 1862, a thousand armed men surrounded a muddy little fort on the Weber River, where Joseph Morris and his followers waited for the Second Coming. What followed was a three-day siege, cannon fire, disputed murders, mass arrests, and one of the strangest, bloodiest, and least-known breakaway movements in Utah history. In …
