Est. 1890 · 1890 Teton Flour Mill · Teton Light & Power (early electrification) · Damaged in the 1976 Teton Dam flood · Hydroelectric plant 1984-1994
The four-story Teton Flour Mill was built in 1890 by James Siddoway, Robert Siddoway, and James Briggs near the town of Teton, about ten minutes from Rexburg. According to the venue's own history, the mill produced its first hundred pounds of Old Faithful Flour on September 2, 1892, using a steam-powered generator.
Over the following decades the building took on new roles. Around 1906 it served as a culinary water source for the town of Teton and became an electrical facility known as Teton Light & Power. On June 19, 1976, the east side of the mill was damaged in the flood that followed the Teton Dam collapse upstream.
In 1984 the mill was sold to Bingham Engineers and operated as a hydroelectric power plant until 1994, when it ceased operation. On November 7, 1997, George and Arminda Briggs sold the mill to The Haunted Mill Inc., and the building reopened as a seasonal haunted attraction.
The mill still stands four floors tall, and the attraction routes visitors through all of them and across grounds that include a suspension bridge, a waterfall, a log granary, and an underground mine section. The venue's history is documented on its own site and in regional coverage by OnlyInYourState and East Idaho News.
Sources
- https://www.thehauntedmillinteton.com/history
- https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/experiences/idaho/scariest-night-of-your-life-at-haunted-mill-id
- https://www.eastidahonews.com/2018/10/these-east-idaho-haunted-attractions-are-guaranteed-to-scare/
The Haunted Mill is built and operated as a commercial haunted attraction, and HauntBound lists it as theatrical entertainment, not as a site of reported paranormal activity. Its scenes lean on the building's real history as a flood-damaged flour mill and power plant, dressing those spaces with staged characters such as a woman in white and gold miners.
Visitors move through all four floors and across the grounds, encountering live actors, built sets, and effects including a section themed as an underground mine and a crossing over a suspension bridge. The draw is the setting: a genuinely old, four-story industrial building with a documented past, used as the backdrop for a designed scare experience.
Because the haunt is theatrical, the figures encountered inside are performers and props rather than claimed ghosts. The attraction operates seasonally in the fall, and the venue website lists the current operating nights and ticketing.
Notable Entities
Woman in white (staged character)Gold miners (staged characters)