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Show Lehi's Haunted Hospital will scare patrons Sherry Keller Lew Correspondent ., When Todd Vincze, owner pf Custom Builders, bought ,the vacant Lehi Hospital .building three years ago at 206 E. State St., it was with 4he hope of restoring it to its original grandeur. He removed the stucco from the facade and opened ,the archways, but the heavy costs of long-overdue seismic upgrades delayed the project. proj-ect. ' Raising enough funds seemed impossible until last .summer when he and an employee had an unusual idea. They would use the building to host a haunted .house. Vincze's Haunted Hospital Hospi-tal opened Monday, Oct. 4, and runs through Halloween. Hal-loween. Its hours are Monday Mon-day through Thursday from 6 to 10 p.m. and weekends from 6 p.m. to midnight. Admission is $7 and all proceeds pro-ceeds will go toward renovating renovat-ing the building. The Haunted Hospital is staffed by volunteers, most of them high school students who want to see the building restored as much as Vincze does. "We've all fallen in love with this building as we've worked on it," said Benjamin Jinx Davis Tolman Jinx Davis Tolman, 72, of Mesa, AZ, Orem, UT and longtime resident of L i n d o n , Utah passed away Sat-;u Sat-;u r d a y , October 9, 2004. She .was born May 13, 1932 in Los Ange- es, CA to Otto and Pearl Richardson Davis. She married Marlow Call Tolman Tol-man on Feb. 6, 1953, in the St. George LDS Temple. 174 West Main Auto Home EBusiness Life Health Renters f i. , if . I Model Year End Specials BIG SAVINGS ON QUEEN MATTRESSES AND DOX SPRINGS! ff Tmlrfm CZffmm ffAmt, In the ACE Hardware building 75-222 1 HOURS: Mon.-fri. 7 a.m. - 7 p.m SsUi.ai.-j p.m. 330 fe-.-.-.B?- wktd Turtle, one of the volunteers. "Even though it's kind of creepy on the inside when you go in at first, as you go along you enjoy it more and more." The Haunted Hospital covers almost the entire building, with the exception of a few areas to maintain preservation of the structure, struc-ture, and takes about 30 minutes to complete. There is a running hospital hospi-tal theme throughout including includ-ing a mental ward and a trip to the very real crematorium in the basement. "But we try to stick to the traditional haunted house stuff as well," said Tuttle. "We have a Bram Stoker-esq area dedicated to vampires. The first murder in Lehi was by Wild Bill' Hickman, and we have a picture of him up in a maze which we lovingly call the Murder Maze. Most of us won't go through the maze alone because it's so creepy." Vincze and his team of spooksters have incorporated incorporat-ed Lehi history into the Haunted Hospital. Visitors are given a brief history lesson les-son at the beginning of the tour and several pictures of the building throughout the years can be found along the way. Obituary Marlow passed away in 1988. Jinx grew up in San Bernardino, CA. and attended school there. She attended BYU and made her first home with Marlow Mar-low in the Yucaipa, CA. She moved to Lindon in 1971 where she raised her seven children. Jinx enjoyed traveling and being with children and grandchildren. She was known for being selfless self-less and always helping and caring for others. Jinx had a great interest, in scrap-booking. She was a FARMERS Cardon Insurance American Fork ; 756-9643 Larry Cardon SOUTH MAIN PL GROVE f '2x ; Wt mao im lftBUrt tmr Mi mm P""p '."... mm, iwtuimmmm "It's more of a haunted housetour," said Vincze. "They get a little bit of history histo-ry too." Over 100 years old, the building has a lot of history to offer. It was originally built to be a bank and since then has housed a hospital, crematorium, apartments, storage units and an auto body shop; though most remember its days as a hospital. hos-pital. Despite its active past, the building has been vacant for more than 20 years, and because it's on the National Historic Register it can't be torn down. "I would say that there were a few people who wanted want-ed to tear it down in the beginning until I bought it," said Vincze who enjoys working work-ing on old buildings. "I took all the stucco off the outside of the building and opened the archways up. Then people peo-ple started saying Svow, it's actually a really nice building.' build-ing.' "Because it was a bank, they spent a lot of money on architecture back then. I like to preserve things. When I saw the pictures of this building in the history book I knew it could be something special." Lehi's Planning and Zon strong member of the LDS Church. She is survived by her seven children: Tamara Lynn (Scott) Healey, Lindon; Lin-don; Kevin (M'Liss) Tolman, Tol-man, Orem; Kyle (Nancy) Tolman, Chandler, AZ; Cameron (Jomae) Tolman, St. George, UT; Heidi (Ben) Brauer; Paula Clements; Maria Tolman; Gaylene (Kyle) Smith, all of Mesa, AZ and 22 grandchildren. grand-children. Additional survivors sur-vivors include her sisters: Dayle (Brownie) Brown and Afton Chambers. Funeral services will be is n 1 4' I V , f v MI HI (800)245-8616 PfOVO Bra) Salt Lalce City &mtt Ogden tM) Logan mi Bountiful SacM Timdofyo-yo Tired of living life in an oversized body? Come to a free community lecture at Mountain View Hospital on Gastric Bypass Surgery to see it you qualify. CALL FOR DETAILS Max K. Cannon, M.D., FACS (801)465-1701 39 Professional Way, Suite 2 Payson (Next to MVH) ing Commission has been wholly supportive. They unanimously approved the Haunted Hospital, because they want to see the building renovated too. Vincze plans to restore the building to look exactly as the original bank did. He then plans to open the building build-ing to be used as medical offices and already has several sev-eral doctors interested in setting set-ting up a practice there. Oh, and there's one more thing. "This place is really haunted," said Tuttle. "Everyone that's worked here more than a week can you tell you that they've heard noises or they've seen shadows moving around. YouH hear footsteps or voices when nobody's there. It's definitely def-initely a haunted building. A lot of us refuse to walk around alone in it." April Greenawalt and Courtney Ward, Lehi members mem-bers of the Utah Ghost Hunters Society, agree. With Vincze's permission, they conducted an investigation of the building before the Haunted Hospital was opened to the public. Armed only with a tape recorder and 35mm camera they walked the building taking pictures and record- held Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. in the Orem Northridge 13th Ward Chapel, 1660 North 200 West, Orem. Friends may call Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. at Olpin Family Mortuary, 494 South 300 East, Pleasant Grove and at the church on Saturday one hour prior to services. Interment will be in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to he family at Medical Specialties Medical Assisting Pharmacy Technology X-Ray Scope (Ltd.) S Health Care Administration ' fla Ctwcrult i Facilities Operations Finance Management , , Associate's & Bachelors Degrees Day & Evening Classa Sun Every Month Job Placement Assistance -. for Graduates Financial Aid Available .' (For Qualified Students) dieting? through Halloween ing everything around them. The results Greenawalt and Ward got back are simply sim-ply haunting. Voices and images appeared on the tape and in the developed photographs photo-graphs that they didn't see or hear when they walked through the building. Several very faint but audible voices spoke on the tape. One said "get out," and another said "they think we're dead." "There were also a lot of profane things (on the tape,)" said Ward. "I'm sure there's something here that doesn't want us to be there. We also heard a lot of whispers around one of the volunteers. They spoke to him a lot. We asked if they (the ghosts) felt trapped here, and the answer we got was yes." When their pictures were developed several of them showed shadowy, human figures fig-ures and faces in windows and rooms that weren't there when they took the pictures. "This kid here has a hard time in there," said Greenawalt. "He says sometimes some-times he feels like he can't breathe." 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Other rextricuom may apply. New Utah Thursday, October 14, 2(X)4 - Page 15 u? we 1 1 n in lima iniil wini iniiMli 1 What: Haunted Hospital When: Oct. 4 to 31 Monday to Thursday 6tol0p,m. Friday, Saturday 6 p.m. to midnight Where: 206 E. State St., Lehi Cost $7. Proceeds go to restoration. took a picture of him in the room where he has the most trouble and when the picture came back white, wispy material could be seen around his neck as if someone some-one were trying to choke him. i "Then there's a picture of me that's completely distorted distort-ed as if someone walked through me," said Greenawalt. "That's when I got sick (during the investigation). investi-gation). I had to leave the building. I had to throw up." "Something's definitely going on in there. I can't say what or who or why, but there's a lot of activity here," said Ward. No Stairs No Yardwork No Snow Shoveling No Maintenance Clubhouse & Theatre Private & Secure OKI WEEKOMLy! -i |