THE BEN LOMOND HOTEL- basements
Date: February 21, 2009
Time: 7-9pm
Temperature: 32 degrees
Location: Basement
Investigators: John, Dylan, Kelly
History
The Bigelow Hotel was constructed in 1927. The building is located on the southeast corner of Washington Boulevard and Historic 25th Street in Ogden, Utah. It achieved, and has held, the distinction of the largest hotel in the city of Ogden from the time of its construction. It is considered one of three "grand hotels" in Utah. The other two hotels are the former Hotel Utah and the now-demolished Newhouse Hotel.
On the site of the Bigelow previously stood another hotel, the five-story Reed Hotel (1891). A. Peery, a local businessman, decided to build a modern hotel in its place. A corporation and 300 shareholders was organized for the funding and management of the project. The architectural firm of Hodgson & McClenahan, notable for other fine works in Ogden, was hired to draw plans for the hotel. Other projects done by this firm include Peery's Egyptian Theatre, Ogden High School, Ogden/Weber Municipal Building, the Regional Forest Service Building, and several Prairie School residences in the Eccles Avenue Historic District.
Our investigation of the Ben Lomond Hotel began with a short tour from Bob and a story. I won’t go into the story here as it is part of the tour that Bob gives to help the hotel bring in tourists. But I will say it is a classic horror tale of prostitution and murder, involving the underground tunnels.
It started cold and stayed cold throughout the night. It was cold enough that at times we could see our breath. For whatever reason, the basement would not heat up even though Bob declared the heater was on. I had my night shot camera in the main room focused on a mattress and rubiks cube. Dylan had a regular camcorder on in the next room, focused on an EMF meter. We all had audio recording devices.
When the lights went out, it was pitch black. We walked around and tried to get some evps. We also asked whatever was there to let us know it was there by moving something or knocking on the walls. While we didn’t experience anything but the EMF meter responding to something at one time, we did record quite a few evps. The most impressive one was an evp that said “Let’s go girls”.
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Location photos
let's go girls
female voice "what?"
