Small Lake City

A mysterious gravestone. An abandoned historic mill. And a monster supposedly hiding in the Great Salt Lake. Welcome to another episode of Spooky Lake City, where we're uncovering the strange stories, local legends, and mysterious history of Utah. This episode takes us to the Salt Lake City Cemetery to investigate Lilly Gray's infamous “Victim of the Beast 666” headstone, explores the history and ghost stories surrounding the Old Mill, and dives into the legend of the Salt Lake Monster. What'...

What does it mean to build a creative life on your own terms? This week on the Small Lake City Podcast, we're joined by Cat Palmer, a Salt Lake City photographer, artist, and longtime member of Utah's creative community. Cat's story begins in Southern California, where an early passion for photography led her to document the Los Angeles punk scene. Eventually, her journey brought her to Salt Lake City, where she found a community that embraced her creativity and helped her build a career doin...

Utah has a dark side, and some of its creepiest stories are hiding in plain sight. 👻 Welcome to Spooky Lake City 2026! In this episode, we're diving into the haunted history, chilling ghost stories, mysterious locations, and disturbing events that have become part of Utah's darker history. From supposedly haunted buildings in Salt Lake City to unsettling legends and real-life tragedies, we're exploring the stories that might make you look at Utah a little differently. But which stories are tr...

What if your morning coffee could change someone's life? ☕❤️ This week on the Small Lake City Podcast, I'm joined by Katie, co-founder of Lucky Ones Coffee, a Utah coffee shop that's doing a lot more than serving great coffee. Founded in 2018 by Katie and her co-founder Taylor, Lucky Ones Coffee was built around a simple but powerful mission: creating meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities while building a community where everyone feels welcome. What started as ...

456 nuclear reactors on federal land near Price, Utah, built to power AI data centers. That’s the core of Project Beehive, and it’s why Carbon County is suddenly the center of one of the wildest energy fights in the state. I walk through what Valor Atomics is proposing, what “small modular reactors” actually means in practice, and why a packed planning commission meeting is surfacing deeper questions about transparency, NDAs, and who gets heard when a project is this big. Then we shift to th...