Molly Brown House
The unusual activity in the infamous house of Margaret Brown has been reported by several employees. Hauntings include dark shadows moving about rooms when there is no light to produce them, and piano keys moving on their own, but making no sound. Many people report the pungent smell of fresh cigar smoke. Mr. Brown was known to be an avid smoker of cigars.
An investigator found cold spots throughout the house & doors that had "a mind of their own". Apparitions were also seen.
Monk monastery on hill - Reports of an apparition of a monk walking on the road.
State Capitol Buildings - Many security guards have seen a woman in a long turn of the century style dress. She has been seen in all of the buildings and the tunnels themselves. People report hearing the sounds of voices, footsteps, doors and cold spot. She is said to have been seen reading over the shoulders of employees.
Brown Palace
Near the capitol building
Also connected to a series of cold tunnels, this building is plagued by the incessant sound of someone coughing. It is also frequented by the same ghost that haunts the capital.
'Sleep with a Ghost'
The packages include an overnight stay at the hotel, a historic ghost tour of the hotel, complimentary valet parking, a commemorative edition of "The Brown Palace Ghost Stories" brochure, and spooky cookies on your pillow each night. Cost is $159 for one or two persons Friday or Saturday nights.
The Gazette. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Sep 9, 2001. pg. T.B.4
Buckhorn Exchange
Just west of downtown
Presently a restaurant, when the fur trade began this building was one of the first trading posts in the area. It is said that the building is haunted by many of the traders. There have been reports of tables moving suddenly. People have reported hearing voices and footsteps when no one is talking or moving.
Cheeseman Park
This innocent looking city park is built on top of a graveyard. The Mount Prospect graveyard, which came to be known as Boot Hill, was created in 1858. In 1873, officials renamed the place City Cemetery but only buried criminals, transients, and epidemic victims there. In 1893, the city gave notice that all bodies had to be removed within ninety days. Most of the graves remained untouched. The city hired an undertaker to dig up the 6,000 to 10,000 remaining bodies, put them in 1-foot by 3�-foot pine boxes, and deliver them for burial at Riverside Cemetery. It was a horrifying sight. Workers broke corpses into pieces to get them to fit into the mini-caskets. Body parts littered the ground and got mixed together in the process. Many of the graves were looted by the men digging them up. During the work, psychics warned workers the dead would return unless a short prayer was uttered for each casket, but no one listened to them.
One worker, removing valuable brass from the coffins, ran hysterically from the graveyard saying a ghost jumped on his back. People in neighboring houses reported confused spirits wandering through their homes or appearing in mirrors. Mayor Platt Rogers ordered all work halted, while an investigation was conducted. No one was able to sort out the mess the workers left behind. The remaining bodies were plowed under, and grass and trees planted. Today, sensitives detect an undertone of sadness and confusion at the site, and some say they can hear a low moaning sound coming from the restless ground.
The Catholic section of the original cemetery was removed in an orderly fashion by church members and is now occupied by the Botanical Gardens. The Jewish section was also completely cleared and is now called Congress Park. Cheesman Park, named for a prominent citizen, is in central Denver, in the Civic Center area. The park is bounded by 8th and 13th Avenues, near University Boulevard.
Denver Children's Home
In the late 1880s, Denver Children's Home located on Albion Street and Colfax Avenue provided lodgings to orphaned children. A fire in 1888 (then known as the Denver Orphan's Home) killed several children in the attic/third floor. Apparitions of children playing and ethereal voices of crying and whimpering are regular phenomena. An apparition of a female in a wedding gown is regularly seen floating down the third floor steps and across the 50 ft. length of the second floor hallway. The fifth exorcism occurred in 1999, but still certain paranormal oddities remain.
Denver County - Red Rocks Amphitheater - Apparitions of an old man was standing on the "restricted" side of the railings. He looks to be an old miner. He was about 5'5, white, beard, dirty brownish hat with a bottle in his hand. He appears for just a few seconds then disappears.
Denver International Airport - The airport was built on top of sacred Native American ground. Some employees and visitors have reported hearing or seeing strange things.
George Washington High School
The ghost of an old heavy bald man is seen on the football field. He will show up in the middle of the day and then just disappear into thin air. Some say he is the ghost of an old football coach.
Josephina's Restaurant - Larimer Square Haunted by a female regular whose daughter from the prohibition era (the restaurant used to be a speak-easy) earlier in the century. The mirror in the women's bathroom has broken one-too many times to be a coincidence. Whiskey bottles turn over by themselves, and chairs scoot from one end of the dining room to the other.
Lake Middle School
Formally called Lake High School, it is the school to hundreds of teenagers ages vary from 11-14. It is known that on April 11, 1889 a girl had just broken up with her boyfriend for another man. Her ex-boyfriend got jealous and came to school the next day with a gun. He told her to meet him in the balcony where they first met so they can exchange the gifts that they had given each other. When she got up to the balcony they gave each other their stuff back and she started to head back downstairs then he pulled out the gun and shot her four times in her back. She flew off the top of the balcony to the third floor landing, breaking her neck in three different spots. Then he shot himself in the head while jumping off the top balcony. You can still go back to the top of the balcony and see where the girl and the boy had landed. If you go into the tunnel at night you can hear arguing and then two gunshots spaced about two minutes apart from each other!
Tivoli Student Union - Houses the student union for the Auraria Campus combining Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State College and University of Colorado at Denver. It was built in 1866 as the original Tivoli Brewery. It was converted to student union in 1994 and ever since, voices are often heard through vents on the third floor as though an elegant party is going on, whispers in the bathrooms.
Tramway building
The building has been renovated, and some of the construction crew have seen and heard strange things. One crew heard voices in an office. When they went to inspect the voices they opened the door and there was nobody there. There is a ghost of a mechanic who used to work on railcars in the basement. Legend is that he died in a tragic accident. He is seen walking down corridors carrying a huge tool and then disappearing.
University of Denver - Mary Reed Building
The Dupont Room was named for a long-gone alumni who left money for the Reed Library. People say the ghost of Mrs. Dupont liked to sit in "her" room and read, and the janitor claimed to have seen her more than once.
University of Denver Lamont School of Music - Dunklee Hall
Located at the intersection of Montview and Quebec, it is moving to the main campus where the also haunted Mary Reed building is located. Legend has it that a student killed herself on the second floor of the dormitory, Dunklee Hall. That floor was used as practice rooms for the music students. There was one particular room (out the elevator, to the right, last door on the right), that is usually standing open. Upon leaving it quietly closes behind you.