Former Tooele County Hospital and Haunted Attraction
140 East 200 South, Tooele, UT 84074
Age
18+ for full-contact attraction; younger ages for daytime paranormal investigations
Cost
$$
Seasonal haunted attraction pricing and paranormal investigation pricing vary; check the Asylum 49 site.
Access
Limited Access
Multi-floor historic hospital with stairs and dim corridors
Equipment
No Photos
Est. 1873 · 1873 Samuel F. Lee Residence · Tooele County Poor House (1913) · Mid-Twentieth-Century Tooele Hospital · Conversion to Asylum 49 Haunted Attraction (2006)
The building at 140 East 200 South in Tooele, Utah, was constructed in 1873 by Samuel F. Lee as a private residence. In 1913 the structure was converted to a county facility for the elderly, known locally as the county poor house. The building was later expanded and used as the Tooele Hospital through the first half of the twentieth century.
With the construction of a new Tooele County Hospital in 1953, the older facility reverted to use as an elderly care home. According to local reporting and the building's published history, the original 1953-era hospital and its predecessor structures operated under significant funding constraints; the elderly-care operation continued through the late twentieth century before the building was closed for medical use.
In 2006, the property was converted into the Asylum 49 haunted attraction. The operation runs the building as a seasonal full-contact theatrical haunt in September and October and as a year-round paranormal investigation venue during off-peak months. The attraction's branding does not change the building's documented history as a residence, county facility, hospital, and elderly care home.
The site has been featured on Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures and in extensive regional Utah television and tourism coverage.
Sources
Asylum 49's paranormal program documents staff, visitor, and visiting-investigator reports in a structured archive maintained by the operators. The building's lore organizes around the layers of its occupancy: residential, poor house, hospital, and elderly care.
Reports concentrate in three areas. The first is the original hospital wing, where visitors and investigators describe shadow movement in the corridors, faint indistinct voices, and intermittent cold pockets near patient rooms. The second is the morgue area; published reporting notes that the historical hospital lacked refrigerated morgue facilities, requiring bodies to be held in an unrefrigerated room until the coroner arrived. The third is the elderly-care wing, where reports include the sound of soft footsteps and occasional apparitions described as elderly residents.
Asylum 49 has been featured on Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures (2017 episode) and in extensive Utah regional television and tourism coverage including the ABC4 Utah's Most Haunted series and SLUG Magazine. The operators present the venue's seasonal theatrical haunted attraction and its paranormal investigation program as distinct experiences, although both occupy the same documented historic building.
Media Appearances
Asylum 49 hosts year-round paranormal investigation events in the former Tooele Hospital building. Sessions cover the building's 1873 origins as a residence, its mid-century role as the Tooele County Hospital, and the visitor and investigator reports collected since the conversion to a haunted attraction in 2006.
During Halloween season, Asylum 49 operates as a full-contact theatrical haunted attraction featuring actor scares, separation, and physical interaction. The attraction is rated 18+ and is distinctly different in tone from the year-round paranormal-investigation programming.
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