The Paranormal Investigators of Utah

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We all love to tell ghost stories to spook our friends and to entertain ourselves, especially during Halloween. The best ghost stories are the ones that keep you up at night, wondering if the stories are true and you’ll hear whispers of someone not there. It’s gets you thinking what if ghosts are real?

The Paranormal Investigations Team of Utah is a non-profit organization that has been up and running since 2003. It’s actually a member of the TAPS family, which is commonly known for its members that were on the show, Ghost Hunters.

They’ve dealt with paranormal activity all across the West but mostly focus in Utah. They’ve investigated at the Union Station in Ogden, Sweetwater County Library in Green River Wyoming, the Fort Douglas Museum in Salt Lake City and more.

Although it says on their mission statement that they do not “acknowledge or disavow” the existence of ghosts, they take their work seriously, using various equipment to catch any audio or sightings of spirits; Following rules and guidelines to not tamper with the information they collect from investigations.

For example, they are not allowed to whisper or shout in any of the audio recordings. This is because the Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), which are any third party voices the team may have or not heard during the investigation that are captured on their audio recording equipment, are usually in these two tones.

Some of the equipment they use to capture any signs of spirits at the location are IR thermometers, Ghost boxes, digital still cameras, EMF detectors, KII meters, and more.

The team had a panel at FanX of this year where they showed what they believe to be pictures of spiritual orbs and EVPs. One of their findings were two EVPs they recorded at the Union Station in Ogden. The investigators believe the voice in the recordings to belong to a 12 year old girl who’s body was found dead in a trunk at the Union Depot in June 28, 1913. She had been brutally murdered by her mother, Gus Ekman. That same day, The Ogden Standard published part of the mother’s confession which said,

“she had no home for the child and killed it to be free of an encumbrance.”

These two recordings captured a little giggle and a hushed childlike voice saying, “sit sit sit.”

You can find these recordings and more on their website at piteamofutah.com.