The April Fools' Fire: Cottonwood Paper Mill (Utah)

Haunted American History by Christopher Feinstein

Sep 2, 202600:22:18Society & Culture

At three in the morning on April Fools’ Day, 1893, the alarm bells at Utah’s Granite Paper Mill began ringing. The people living nearby heard them, checked the date—and went back to sleep. By sunrise, the mill’s wooden i...

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