Legend Trip: Jolly's Gulch

Over the summer, I worked at Zion Ponderosa Ranch Resort which was a resort located on the east side of Zion National Park. The ranch has been in the family for several generations and that is how the legend of Jolly's Gulch has been passed down..
A long time ago, a guy named Jolly discovered this land and bought it. There he built a house and took his family. It gets really hot in Southern Utah and one summer, it was extremely dry; so dry that there wasn't any water to be found: not in the stream or the well. So Jolly decided to pack up his family and go on an adventure to find some water. Well, they arrived at a gulch (it's now a canyon people repel off) and legend has it that Jolly pushed his family, one by one, over the edge and into this gulch resulting in their deaths. After he committed this act, Jolly went back to his house, documented what he had down, and went back to jump off himself. Nobody knows if he was delirious from heat or didn't want his family to suffer this drought or if he was straight up looney. Many years later when people started the ranch, they decided to put some employees in the house that Jolly lived in and nobody has been able to stay in that house: they all choose the path of Jolly. If you visit Jolly's Gulch, legend has it that if you feel the wind pushing you towards the canyon, it's Jolly trying to get you over the edge, but if the wind is pushing you away, it's Jolly's family trying to save you from their fate.

Jolly's House

 Jolly's Gulch

 The house is about a mile away from the ranch, but it's still the family's property. There aren't windows, and everything has been taken out of the house. It's found on a dirt road, and if you keep going on that road for about another half a mile, you will reach the gulch.