The Family Tree Restaurant in Santaquin produces more than
delicious family home cooking for its patrons. Guests and employees both have
felt the presence of ghosts, who are said to inhabit the Main Street structure,
stacking furniture, seeing shadowy figures, hearing growls, unexplained banging
and noises or the spirits touching them in passing. The family has always seen
and heard things that they could only explain as ghost activity. Most of the
claimed occurrences happen in the basement of the restaurant, but they have
been known to occur throughout the entire location. One such account claims a
clock’s broken second hand started working again, only in reverse, for several
hours. There have also been several occasions that the owners of the restaurant
have come into their business in the morning only to find chairs stacked on
tables. A small boy, said to be about 7 to 8 years old, with an old fashioned
“bowl” hair cut fashioned into his dark hair and a long, skinny face has been
seen on numerous occasions by the proprietors.
One guest stated constant feelings of being observed and
watched in both bathrooms as well as in the West Room and in the basement
areas. In the kitchen area they experienced that some spirits were there and at
least one was trying to communicate with them directly by making noises near
the telephone and the bread that was lying out on the table. In the West Room
area they saw shadows that moved around the floor near the bathroom entrances
and in the top corner of the room there appeared a black, misty form that liked
to stay up near the ceiling. The guest also claimed tickling on the back of
their neck in the West Room. The guest went on to say they experienced
overwhelming feelings of extreme unfairness for the other sprits who were
trapped and felt the urge to provoke the hovering “misty form” and the other
possessive and controlling male spirit, to try to and seek justice for the
other trapped spirits.
Another guest claims while in the basement of the
restaurant, they heard footsteps above them on three separate occasions and
felt extreme tingling on the back of their neck on several occasions. They say
they also saw shadows observing them from all around he room, giving them the
feeling they were weak and powerless, and then feeling something/someone tug at
the back of their shirt.
A third guest says in the back room area, behind the
kitchen, they kept thinking they were seeing something down one of the
hallways. They claim seeing something peek it’s head out from the corner of an
old bathroom or hallway. Other people with the guest stated they saw the same
thing as well. In that same area and also in the basement, feelings of
something or someone right behind them were watching them.
It is believed that what's holding many of the spirits here
is an American Indian curse laid on the area by a local tribe angry at the
white settlers.
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| Black mist in the upper left corner |
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| White mist in the middle of the photo |
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