Highland City Cemetery

The cemetery acquired its local nickname 'Talking Tree' from the reported experience of sudden, unexplained breezes that cause the trees to rustle in a manner visitors interpret as voices. The belief behind this, according to paranormal accounts collected by UVU Review (2009) and several Utah ghost compendiums, is that the spirits of the buried breathe through the trees to make themselves heard more clearly.

A rock chair located somewhere within the grounds is the other focal point: tradition holds that sitting in it allows the visitor to hear whispered communications from the cemetery's inhabitants. The UVU Review (Utah Valley University's student newspaper) documented this in an October 2009 article by Meghan Wiemer titled 'Unusual and unnerving spots in Utah County,' which specifically named the rock chair ritual as a local legend — providing independent student-journalism documentation of the tradition. Paranormal investigators have also reported hearing disembodied voices during nighttime visits and recording EVP evidence, and at least one report describes the apparition of a young girl and a shadow figure in the cemetery.

The cemetery is too recent (established 1965) to have significant historical events attached to it; the legends are contemporary folk traditions rather than event-backed hauntings.