John E Olsen

Author John E Olsen lives in beautiful northern Utah. He resides in Cache Valley in Wellsville, Utah, with his wife and youngest son. He enjoys the outdoors and spending his time with his family.

John was born and raised in Cache Valley. His parents still own the old farm house, built in the mid-1880s. At 8, he began to realize that his home was peculiar. Strange experiences such as phantom knocks, loud boots running t e stairs, and missing objects became commonplace for him. With each run-in with what he called the “man in the hat,” John's interest in the paranormal grew. His parents forbade him from telling anyone about his experience for fear of what others in the small community would think.

He found solace in learning everything he could about his encounters from library books. As he shared his extraordinary stories, friends of friends came o him sharing stories of their brush with the supernatural. As he reached his teen years, his friends would visit his home and have their own experiences. This opened the door for him to tell others about his experience.

Fueled by his own experiences with the unknown, John has spent he last 25 years interviewing and documenting firsthand accounts of those who have witnessed all kinds of strange and unusual phenomena in the western United States. The Stranger Bridgerland series contains firsthand accounts of e erything from ghosts, monsters, and hauntings, to glitches in the matrix, Sasquatch, and UFOs.