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Denver, Colorado
Denver Children's Home opened in the late 1880s as an orphanage on Albion Street, then known as the Denver Orphans' Home. A fire in 1888…
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Emma Crawford, a pianist from Massachusetts, moved to Manitou Springs at twenty-five hoping the mountain air would ease her tuberculosis;…
Fairplay, Colorado
The Fairplay Hotel, in one of Colorado's oldest mining towns, is said to be haunted by a ghost seen singing and dancing in the hallways,…
La Veta, Colorado
Fort Francisco was built in La Veta in the 1870s as a fortified trading post and later became a museum of the area's pioneer history. Staff…
Blackhawk, Colorado
The Gilpin Hotel Casino in Black Hawk is said to be haunted by a woman staff call Lucile, seen on the second floor, who local telling holds…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Gold Camp Road follows the grade of the old Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway, abandoned and converted to a one-lane road…
Crested Butte, Colorado
Gothic grew after a silver strike in 1879 and had around a thousand residents before silver prices collapsed, leaving it nearly empty by…
Clark, Colorado
Hahns Peak began as a placer-gold camp in the 1860s and served as the Routt County seat from 1877 until 1912, when Steamboat Springs took…
Evergreen, Colorado
The Hiwan Homestead, built beginning in the 1870s as a mountain retreat, is now run as a museum by the Jefferson County Historical Society.…
Boulder, Colorado
The Hotel Boulderado opened on New Year's Eve 1908 and remains one of Boulder's best-known landmarks. Guests and staff describe a woman and…
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Walter Devereux built the Hotel Colorado in 1893, eight years after Glenwood Springs was incorporated, modeling it on an Italian villa;…
Boulder, Colorado
This Boulder building served as a mortuary for decades under its founder, referred to by staff simply as Mr. Howe. Employees described a…
Cripple Creek, Colorado
The Imperial Hotel opened in Cripple Creek during the town's gold-mining boom and still operates today. Staff and longtime employees…
Independence, Colorado
Independence is a gold-camp ghost town in a meadow at the western foot of Independence Pass. Prospectors reportedly struck gold here on…
Ouray, Colorado
Ironton was a mining-camp junction on the Ouray side of Red Mountain Pass where the railroad and wagon roads met, with roughly a thousand…
Denver, Colorado
This Larimer Square restaurant occupies a building that operated as a speakeasy during Prohibition. Staff describe a female presence tied…
Littleton, Colorado
Alfred Packer, convicted of killing and eating five companions in the San Juan Mountains in the winter of 1874, is buried in Littleton…
Grand Lake, Colorado
Lulu City was a short-lived silver camp in the Kawuneeche Valley, built in 1880 and named for a founder's daughter, then abandoned by about…
Denver, Colorado
John Mouat, a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in lumber — his company put up more than 200 buildings in Denver between 1889 and…
Poncha Springs, Colorado
Above Mears Junction, on the old Denver and Rio Grande "Chile Line," a water tank once let trains refill their boilers before the climb…
Grand Junction, Colorado
The Melrose Hotel is a historic brick hotel in downtown Grand Junction. Ghost Adventures investigated in 2019 after the owner invited the…
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Miramont Castle, built in 1895 in Manitou Springs for a French priest, later served as a sanatorium and convent. Local telling holds it is…
Denver, Colorado
The Molly Brown House was home to Margaret "Molly" Brown, the Titanic survivor, and is now a museum. An independent investigation found…
Montrose, Colorado
The Museum of the Mountain West is a collection of relocated buildings, saloon and carriage house founded in 1997. The owner reports…