Haunted addresses on record in Utah
What Utah requires
Utah has a stigmatized-property statute that shields sellers and their agents from liability for not volunteering that a property is 'stigmatized' — a category understood to cover things like a death on the premises or a reputation for being haunted. Utah's law doesn't spell out a separate death-disclosure duty or a specific carve-out for direct questions, so buyers and renters who care about a property's history are best off asking outright rather than assuming it will come up unprompted.
Utah Code § 57-1-37 says the failure of a property owner to disclose that real property being offered for sale is 'stigmatized' is not a material fact that has to be disclosed in the transaction, and that neither the owner nor their agent can be held liable for failing to disclose it. In practice, this means Utah sellers and real estate agents are legally free to stay silent about a property's stigmatized history.
Utah does not appear to have a separate death-disclosure statute comparable to California's three-year window under Civil Code § 1710.2. Because § 57-1-37 already removes any duty to disclose stigma generally, there's no additional statutory rule creating a time-limited or death-specific disclosure requirement in Utah.
Most states with stigmatized-property statutes are understood to still require an honest answer if a buyer or renter asks a direct question — silence is protected, but an affirmative lie generally is not, under ordinary fraud and misrepresentation principles. We were not able to confirm a Utah-specific court case or statutory clause that explicitly spells this out for stigmatized property, so treat the 'ask rule' as a general legal principle rather than a confirmed Utah-specific protection, and don't assume it's been tested in Utah courts.
We did not find a notable Utah court case addressing haunted-property claims (the way New York's Stambovsky v. Ackley 'legally haunted house' ruling is famous). If you're aware of one, it isn't something this search surfaced from credible sources.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Utah.
The Utah record is waiting
No entries filed from Utah yet. If something happened at an address you know, write it down — you may be the reason the next resident feels less alone at 3 AM.