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25th Street Haunting in Ogden, Utah

• Original YouTube Storytime: Living in a haunted house off of 25th Street in Ogden, UT

2538 Van Buren Ave, Ogden, Utah

• Zillow Listing: 2538 Van Buren Ave
• Building name (according to THIS historical record): GREENWELL, EARL E. & ELIZABETH E., HSE. // Earl & Elizabeth Greenwell Home
• Storymaps (# 15): Eccles Historic District

History of the Home

Read the original post: Earl & Elizabeth Greenwell Home
This Prairie Style home was built for Dr. Earl E. & Elizabeth E. Greenwell in 1919. The Greenwell’s lived in the home until 1941. He attended school locally and entered the University of Pennsylvania Dental School, graduating in 1909. He practiced dentistry until his retirement in 1954.

T. LeLand (Find A Grave) & Melba T. Shreeve purchased the home from the Greenwell’s in 1941. The Shreeves owned the property until 1972 when it was sold to the current owners, James & Lynne Morgan.

This house incorporates elements of the Prairie School Style of architecture within a four-square house type. Features of the Prairie School Style include the low sloped hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, banded casement corner windows on the second level, and recessed covered entryway. The deep mortar joints on the second level along with the concrete belt course provide a horizontal emphasis to the home, which is typical of the Prairie School Style. The interior of the house retains a vast majority of original features, especially the woodwork which again emphasizes horizontal design elements.

Built in 1919, this home is an example of Prairie School Style of architecture. The interior of the home retains the character defining features with woodwork emphasizing the horizontal composition. Born in 1881, Earl Greenwell was a prominent dentist in Ogden retiring in 1957. The Greenwell’s owned the home until 1941, when it was sold to T. Leland Shreeve. The Shreeve’s owned the home until 1972, then sold it to James & Lynne Morgan.

Ownership

1919 – 1941

• Home is constructed & Earl & Elizabeth
  • Mother?: Fanny

1941 – 1972

• LeLand Shreeve & his wife purchase the home from Earl & Elizabeth

1972 – Present ? I’m pretty sure they still own it

• James & Lynne Morgan (citation) purchase the home from the Shreeve family
• Home goes up for rent (at LEAST in 2013 but perhaps earlier?) and is still rented until today according to Zillow ownership/listing data

Pictures of the house

Exterior

Note: These exterior images were scraped from their two YouTube videos where they discuss this house. The images are really the only relevant info on their second video about this home so I’m not going to link it to this doc.`

^ 2538 Van Buren Avenue in Eccles Avenue Historic District and in the Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah

Interior

Note: This is (I assume) how the house looked while they lived there between 2013 and 2014. These interior images were scraped from their other YouTube video where they discuss all the past houses they’ve lived in.




^ THIS is the window where the curtain was shaking like crazy on day one/move-in day – shared at 2:39


^ THIS is the window Thomas mentions is behind his head at 4:37 – see timestamped transcript below for details

^ THIS is the path/direction that Thomas said he ran in his story around 5:15 – see timestamped transcript below for details

AI Summary

This video tells the terrifying, true story of a family of six who lived in a haunted house for one year. The vloggers share several chilling experiences they had while living in their 100-year-old home.

Key Paranormal Experiences:

• Day One: The very first day, they witnessed a curtain shaking with no draft, followed immediately by a window shattering (0:30-2:51). more detailed notes below
• Shadow Figure: Thomas witnessed a silhouette shadow of a person on the wall while sleeping on the couch, but found no one there when he ran outside (4:41-5:25).
• The Man on the Stairs: A family member was terrified when her young daughter kept asking who the man at the bottom of the stairs was, despite no one being there (7:17-8:04).
• Cold Upstairs: The top floor remained ice-cold despite the heat being on and heat rising (8:54-9:44).
• Flying Objects: A client experienced a framed award fly off the wall and shatter during a lash appointment (11:12-11:51).
• Phantom Footsteps: They heard constant footsteps throughout the house, often hearing them move from the front to the kitchen even when everyone was in the basement (12:35-14:15).
• Lights Turning On: On their final night, all the lights on the middle floor turned on simultaneously while everyone was outside (15:00-16:32).

The Aftermath:

After moving out, the family noted that their children, who previously woke up 4-5 times a night, began sleeping through the night immediately (18:47-19:47).

Katie’s timestamps & transcript:

Ashley (Wife):
Thomas (Husband):

• 0:17: Ashley (Wife): “We lived in a haunted house for one year. One year longer than I ever wanted to live in it…”
• 0:24–0:41: Thomas (Husband): “You guys… I know there’s an afterlife obviously, duh, but I’m just saying, I didn’t believe in hauntings or ghosts. I thought that was all fake dude… That was, until I lived on 25th Street.”
• 0:41–0:56: SKIP // they’re just babbling here
• 0:56: Ashley (Wife): “We lived in a haunted house, back in 2013 and 2014. This house was over 100 years old.”
• 1:31–2:11: Ashley (Wife): “So Day One: The first day we lived there. I thought it would be a good idea to invite my friends over and kind of take them on a tour, OK? So me and my friends, we go on a tour and we go out to the front yard. One of my friends notices the curtain is like SHAKING in the house she does some hand motions here to describe the way it moved and NOBODY is inside. And I’m like that’s weird... So we all run in the house and we’re looking, like, maybe there’s a vent or something where the curtain was shaking… there was no vent 🙃. K. Not only was there no vent, right when we walked in, it just STOPPED suddenly.” (Thomas notes he wasn’t present to witness the daytime curtain incident)
• 2:11–2:22: Ashley (Wife): “That night, Thomas‘s mom comes over. And I’m sitting in the living room, telling her the story and I’m like, ’Debbie…’ and I’m like 10 feet away while I’m telling her the story and I’m like, ’so the curtain just starts SHAKING.’”
• 2:22–2:31: Thomas (Husband): (Thomas notes he WAS present to listen to his wife Ashley tell his mom about the daytime curtain incident) “So I’m hearing Ashlee tell the story and I’m like, ‘worrrrd dude there must’ve been a draft, like, these girls are trippin.’”
• 2:31–2:45: Ashley (Wife): “ all of a sudden, I point to WHERE it’s coming from, and I said, ‘so all of a sudden…’ – but RIGHT when I pointed the window… 👏the window 👏SHATTERED 👏“
• 2:45: Thomas (Husband): “–SPIDER shattered, dude.”
• 2:50: Ashley (Wife): “…that was day ONE.”
• 2:51–3:05: Thomas (Husband): “– and I looked over at it, and I was like huh?? 😵‍💫 i’m trying to logically find an explanation, I’m like something… must’ve been the hot air (cause it was getting cold) mixing with the cold air, cause some sort of combustion and it SHATTERED the window.”
• 3:05–3:14: Ashley (Wife): “…We don’t know. But the window like, stayed in place, even though it shattered, if that makes sense. So THAT happened...”
• 3:14–3:25: Ashley (Wife): “So that night, we go to bed – we’re FREAKED out already, as it is…” Thomas (Husband): “We’re ASLEEP – CRASHED.” Ashley (Wife): “We were both totally out COLD. Both of us WOKE UP – and we were both completely asleep –“
• 3:25–3:50: Thomas (Husband): “We both wake up ’cause we’re literally – what I had heard… was like a CRASH 🙂‍↕️” Ashley (Wife): “I thought it was the CLOCK motions like it was a wall clock that came crashing down that fell to the ground–“ Thomas (Husband): “–and I thought that it was someone (body) slamming against our door (with their shoulder). I mean, I don’t know really because I was asleep – so that‘s the weird part –“ Bothof them: “…but we BOTH woke up.” Ashley (Wife): “We were like, ‘Oh my gosh, what WAS that?!? Did something just fall??’ SO loud.”
• 3:50–5:31: Thomas (Husband): “So Tommy boy grabs his ol’ peashooter makes handgun motion. Right?? And I was like, ’I’m gonna find someone in my house right now!‘ I run and check all the doors. They’re all locked. I’m like what–??! I checked 👏EVERY👏SINGLE👏ROOM👏 in that house – it’s like 4000 ft.² so I was like every closet, every nook, every cranny… I was EVERYWHERE in that house. And then I was like, ‘all right, dude I wanna sleep down here’ ‘cause we slept on the upstairs (floor), the middle floor was where the doors were to the home, and then there was the basement so this house had a total of three floors. So I was like, ‘I checked EVERYWHERE, everyone’s fine, I’m gonna lay in this living room and I’m just gonna crash here and make sure nothing happens.’ (I had my ol’ peashooter, mind you). K. So I’m in my… ‘nightgown’ (a.k.a. my underwear) and I’m laying on the couch and there’s a window to the back of my head (which is on the front porch) see Interior image w/ caption (above) for a visual where the light on the porch shines through into the house. So it’s like a PERFECT square shining into the house ‘cause the porch light. Well, I’m laying there… and a SILHOUETTE SHADOW shines on my wall. Like a PERSON’S shadow. And I can’t really say that it was like a perfect silhouette – but it was a body structure... And listen, I’m FAST 🏃🏻🏃🏻🏃🏻🏃🏻🏃🏻 … I’m just gonna say that 😏 I can run a four 4, I’ve got a killer sprint… and when I saw THAT, I did not WAIT to see where the person went. I didn’t hesitate. I wasn’t scared. I was on my feet and out that front door before anybody could’ve made it to the bottom of those steps. I was SO fast — ther was NO OBE out there 😩 I ran down my driveway, out to the road, there was NO. ONE. in sight! And there was no big trees to hide around (our tree was tiny and skinny)… I’m like, ‘WHAT is going on?!?’”
• 5:31–: Ashley (Wife): “I remember when you walked in the house and like you finally like walked up the stairs