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A bar on Ogden's Historic 25th Street, in a former brothel, where staff report a shadow figure, flying bottles, and a phone that rings on its own
130 25th Street, Ogden, UT 84401
Research updated June 2026
Age
21+
Cost
$$
Bar pricing; food and drinks. No cover for the ghost lore.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Historic 25th Street storefront bar with a basement; main floor at street level.
Equipment
Photos OK
Historic 25th Street · Ogden Red-Light District History · Railroad-Era Commerce
Ogden's Historic 25th Street runs from the Union Station downhill toward the old rail yards, and for decades it carried the reputation of the city's vice district—saloons, gambling, and brothels serving railroad traffic. The street's history is now a centerpiece of Ogden tourism, with the same buildings housing bars, restaurants, and shops.
The Lighthouse Lounge occupies one of those buildings. Local sources describe the space as a former brothel from the street's red-light era, which is consistent with the documented use of many 25th Street storefronts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The specifics of the building's past—names, dates, the women who worked there—are not well documented in the public record, which is typical for businesses of that kind. What survives is the general history of the street and the building's reputation, carried forward by the bar's staff and by Ogden's tourism literature.
Visit Ogden and local guides include the Lighthouse Lounge among the haunted stops on 25th Street, and it is in that setting—an active bar in a building with a red-light past—that its ghost reports are told.
Sources
The Lighthouse Lounge's ghost stories come from its employees. The best-known account is a shadow of a man seen standing in the doorway or down in the basement—a recurring figure with no obvious source.
Staff also describe bottles placed at the back of the shelves that fly off toward people, an event hard to explain by ordinary settling. The auditory reports are the most varied: the sounds of children playing, footsteps, bouncing balls, and a decorative telephone that rings even though it has been disconnected.
Visit Ogden documents these accounts in its survey of the city's haunted places, and a local guide to haunted Ogden lists the Lighthouse Lounge among the 'hot spots—or cold spots' along Historic 25th Street. The street's red-light past is the backdrop most storytellers reach for, though no specific person is named in the lore.
The bar does not run a ghost program. The stories belong to the staff, and patrons encounter them as part of the building's reputation rather than any staged event.
Notable Entities
The Lighthouse Lounge is an operating bar on Ogden's Historic 25th Street, in a building that served as a brothel in the street's red-light era. There is no ghost tour; the haunting is staff and patron lore. Visit during business hours and ask the bartenders—the ghost stories are part of the bar's local reputation.
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