Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Utah's Mysteries and Urban Legends: Emo's Grave


Site of Emo's Grave

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  1. Why then, Is it Emo? What does that name have to do with the name Emo? I have heard that he was actually utahs first satanic worshipper.

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  2. Steven, did you read the history? Jacob Moritz was a great Utah citizen and businessman. He was Jewish. He gave to the community. He helped write the Utah constitution. The myths about him being evil are false, created by teenagers wanting to scare each other. There are a lot of theories about the name Emo but no way to prove which one gave his grave the nickname.

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    1. Many stories have come, and gone. I think you are quite correct. "Emo" was created. The stories of ghosts, and haunting, need a lead character and Emo became that character. Why was the Moritz crypt selected? I can only speculate. Crypts are not all that common in this part of the country. There are even fewer that one can see inside. That setting lent itself well to the telling of a ghost story. I can share nothing regarding when, and by whom, the Emo story began. We, collectively, owe Mr. Moritz, and his family, apologies for desecrating his tomb. That's a seriously low life thing to do.

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