Gold Camp Road tunnels
The tunnels along the road are haunted by the spirits who built it. In the 1800's, the road was originally a railroad from Colorado Springs to cripple creek.
Several people have died in and around the tunnels. One year a bus full of elementary school kids and a teacher crashed and everyone died. You can see ghosts walking around with sad depressed faces. You can also hear the footsteps of the bus driver. Several murders happen up there and it is also a popular place to dump bodies. There are also rumors about a group of railroad workers died up there that still haunt the area. Reportedly, if you drive into the first tunnel, turn off all the lights and the engine and spread baby powder in front of the car, children's handprints will appear on the windows and other parts of the car. Children's voices have been heard in this tunnel, sometimes singing. There is a presence that walks the length of the tunnel and a cold spot is felt right in front of it. The second tunnel is reportedly haunted by a woman who was raped by her date and killed there. Sometimes when driving through it, people have reported that their arms felt as if they were being held tightly against their bodies. If you try to top your car just outside this tunnel it will feel as if you are being dragged toward the edge.
Another story about the school children goes that in the late 70's a school bus of elementary kids were taking a field trip up the road. As the bus approached the third tunnel, rocks and boulders began to slide down the mountain, slamming into the bus. Most people assume that the driver probably feared being knocked off course by the boulders and took shelter inside the tunnel. Unfortunately, the boulders were shifting due to an earthquake, which caused the tunnel to collapse around the bus, suffocating all inside. To this day, the tunnel has never been reused.
When workers began to dig the bodies out, they realized that the roof of the now demolished bus, was the only thing keeping the tunnel from crumbling completely. If you wiggle through the hole in the chain link fence that now surrounds the tunnel, you will see the roof of the school bus, hanging from the top of the cave like tunnel. It has been attached firmly to beams, in an effort to keep the roof of the tunnel up.