'Tales From Ogden Canyon' provides fresh batch of Northern Utah ghost stories
It’s not just about the ghosts for Drienie Hattingh.
The local writer is founder, editor and sometime-contributor to a series of books exploring, through truth and fiction, the haunted history of Ogden’s 25th Street, the Wasatch mountain range and, most recently, Ogden Canyon and the Ogden Valley.
But as with her previous volumes, Hattingh said, the stories in the just-released “Tales From Ogden Canyon and Beyond: Ghostly Legends of Ogden Canyon and Its Valley” go beyond thrills and chills.
“With all four books, I really emphasize the idea when I put the call out for stories that I don’t only want spooky legends; I want the history,” she said. “I want the authors to do some research. I want them to go to the places they’re writing about and take in the ambience and look around, so when they write the story, people will know this person was there. She’s not just writing something she researched online; she was actually there.”
