Home of Truth | |
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 Entrance to the "Inner Portal" | |
  Home of Truth Location of Home of Truth in Utah  Home of Truth Home of Truth (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 38°03′40″N 109°23′02″W / 38.06111°N 109.38389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| County | San Juan |
| Established | 1933 |
| Abandoned | 1937, empty 1977 |
Home of Truth is a ghost town located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, United States. The settlement was a short-lived utopian religious intentional community in the 1930s, led by a spiritualist named Marie Ogden. The Home of Truth started in 1933 with an initial population of 22 people, but grew to around 100 at its peak.
During its brief history, the town was isolated from the surrounding community socially as well as physically, its residents keeping to themselves in a strict, simple lifestyle. Ogden took over the local newspaper and used it to introduce outsiders to her beliefs. The crisis that led to the downfall of the Home of Truth resulted from her writings about efforts to raise a woman from the dead. The investigations by local authorities and the intense media attention that followed drove most of the members to abandon the group by the end of 1937. A handful of residents continued to occupy Home of Truth until 1977.
Today the empty buildings at Home of Truth, lying on fenced private land, are little-noticed curiosities along Utah State Route 211, seen mainly by visitors to the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park.