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Brave guests can still book a room in Ogden’s historically h...
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Ogden's historic Bigelow Hotel, also known as the Ben Lomond, has generated stories of supernatural activity for more than century. Wiki commons On September 26, 1921, a 24-year-old cook named Harry Asugi Makoma finished his shift at the Reed Hotel in Ogden. The man approached the third-floor elevator and waited for the lift to arrive.
As the familiar bell jangled and the door opened, Makoma stepped through without looking down. Unfortunately for Makoma, the elevator door had opened prematurely, and the poor man fell to his death.
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