Frisco Ghost Town & Cemetery, Utah

Frisco was founded ~1875 as a booming silver mining town with 6,000 residents, over 20 saloons, and 10+ murders a day — one of the most lawless towns of the American West. The mine caved in at the turn of the century and the town was abandoned. The kilns that fueled the smelters still stand.

The cemetery is haunting — the majority of graves are children under age 3, likely from influenza outbreaks and child labor mining deaths. We camped next to the cemetery, brought sage and a recording device hoping for EVP evidence. We got a tarantula but no ghosts. Both Heather and I felt sick the next morning.