Urban Legends from our childhood...

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Kay's Cross was a 14 foot stone and mortar cross in a secluded hollow just outside Kaysville, Utah. It was the stuff of urban legend throughout Northern Utah and beyond. For us who grew up there it was an enigma. On Summer weekends teenagers partied around it. The hollow base made for a great campfire place. During the day, we would climb around on it. The rumors of murdered polygamist wives buried under it, and human sacrifice made telling ghost stories around it even more spine tingling. Everyone under 21 loved having such an iconic bit of folklore in our childhood memories. The police and people whose property we had to sneak through to get to it... .well, not so much. Sometime in the 1990s someone had had enough of it. They packed it full of dynamite and blew it into history. They thought it would blow their problems into history too, but well, urban legends don't die so easily. Now kids sneak back into that hollow to find where it used to stand. Maybe the stories will die down after a couple of generations and the blasters will finally get their way. lol Until then, Kay's Cross is gone, but the (Urban Legend) lives on...