{"id":1719,"slug":"fielding-garr-ranch-utah","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Fielding Garr Ranch is Utah's oldest house — the adobe double-pen building Garr raised on Antelope Island in 1848–49, when the LDS Church sent him to run the island as a ranch for the church's tithing herds. The corrals he built held a thousand head; the island became the home ranch of the Perpetual Emigration Fund, the revolving loan that paid for thousands of British converts to cross the plains — paid back, often, in the cattle Garr managed.","The ranch never stopped working. It ran for a hundred and thirty-three years — through the church era, through private owners, through the wool boom of the 1920s when ten thousand sheep a year went through the shearing corrals — until 1981, the last year anyone lived in the oldest Anglo building still on its foundation in Utah. Antelope Island is a state park now, and the ranch is its museum.","The file keeps Fielding Garr Ranch: the 1848 cabin, the tithing herd, the Perpetual Emigration Fund, and the island ranch that outlasted every other building of the Mormon settlement.","Fielding Garr is the archive's ranch file — the oldest Utah building, the church herd, and the century of ranching the island preserved."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Fielding Garr is the archive's ranch file — the 1848 adobe, the tithing herds, and the ranch that ran until 1981.","A house built for church cattle keeps its adobe — the file's suggestion being that Garr's hold is the continuity: the same foundation, the same work, from the Mormon arrival to the park era."]}],"name":"Fielding Garr Ranch","aliases":[],"type":"RANCH","type_label":"Ranch","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Antelope Island ranch associated with paranormal reports.","full_desc":"A ranch in Syracuse, Utah, built in 1848, Fielding Garr Ranch is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Antelope Island ranch associated with paranormal reports. The archive files it under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Syracuse","county":null,"state":"Utah","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":41.08543,"lon":-112.071668,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1848,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Pass 1 source-grounded discovery; independent historical verification, coordinates and current access still pending. Confidence measures attribution quality, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":48.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.35,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":902,"type":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","description":"Visit Utah recounts paranormal-investigation reports concerning woods between ranch and lake. Woods between ranch house and lake is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. Fielding Garr Ranch's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places' keep the claim in circulation. Investigators logged it; the interpretation remains the investigator's own.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":"Woods between ranch house and lake","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitutah.com/articles/get-your-spooky-on","publisher":"Visit Utah","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The oldest ranch structure dates to 1848. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. 'Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitutah.com/articles/get-your-spooky-on","publisher":"Visit Utah","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Visit Utah recounts paranormal-investigation reports concerning woods between ranch and lake. Fielding Garr Ranch's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitutah.com/articles/get-your-spooky-on","publisher":"Visit Utah","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Get Your Spook On: Northern Utah’s Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitutah.com/articles/get-your-spooky-on","publisher":"Visit Utah","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Fielding Garr Ranch","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielding_Garr_Ranch","desc":"United States historic place","extract":"The Fielding Garr Ranch is a ranch located on the southeastern portion of Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States and is part of the Utah State Parks system. A 6.2 acres (2.5 ha) portion of the original ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Antelope_Island_State_Park_Ranch.jpg/330px-Antelope_Island_State_Park_Ranch.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":93,"lat":40.95805556,"lon":-112.20722222},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}