The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
In the late 1880s, Denver Children’s Home (originally established as Denver Orphans Home in 1881) provided lodgings to orphaned children. A fire in 1888 killed several children in the attic/third floor of the original building. In 1902, the Home moved to its current location at 1501 Albion Street (at Colfax Avenue). Today, the facility still […]
Several problems were encountered while building the airport, reportedly due to it being built on sacred Native American ground. Some employees and visitors have reported hearing or seeing strange things.
According to some employees, there is a ghost in the basement of the library who shoves people hard when they are walking through. According to one employee, a security guard quit because they were frightened so badly while patrolling the basement at night. Now the security guards patrol it in groups of two.
The infamous house of Margaret Brown is haunted, although by whom has not yet been determined. An investigator found cold spots throughout the house, the scent of pipe tobacco when no one was smoking, and doors that had “a mind of their own”. Apparitions have also been seen. The house is now a tourist attraction.
Cheeseman park was the cemetery for Denver and there are graves left in the park. Upkeep and care during that time period was terrible. If someone did not have a grave they may have been thrown in another with someone else or just left lying until a mass grave was dug. If someone was buried […]