On March 8th

Visit Braxton transcribes a March 8, 1919 Evening Telegram account of a long-haired ragged man near a barn — the 'Flatwoods Wild Man' report that predates the famous 1952 monster by three decades. The newspaper record shows the county's strange-figure file is older than its famous incident. The file is older than the monster.

On March 8, 1924, the Castle Gate mine explosion killed 171 men—one of the worst U.S. mine disasters. The documented date is 1924-03-08. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Castle Gate' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

On March 8, 1924, a series of coal-dust explosions tore through Castle Gate Mine — three blasts in twenty minutes that killed all 171 men underground, including a father and his teenage son. It remains Utah's worst industrial disaster; the victims' hillside graves — some marked only with numbers — are the reason this cemetery exists.