Haunted Houses in Colorado
When you walk in a room do you feel like your not alone? Are you consistently looking over your shoulder? Do you see people that aren’t really there?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you have a had an encounter with the un dead. There are many places in Colorado that you can get a one on one experience with the ghosts of the past and if you are lucky they may make contact with you.
We will start our haunted tour of Colorado in it’s capital city of Denver. There are a quite a few places in the city that are considered haunted.
One of the most well known is the Molly Brown house museum located in the capital hill area of Denver. Molly brown was famous for surviving the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. She built her house in the capital hill area of Denver and the house was a show piece of the time. When she and her husband passed away the house was purchased by the Denver historical society and they started to bring the house back up to it’s original glory and that’s when the haunting starts. Staff members have said they have seen Molly Brown walking up and down the main stair case. They have also smelled the distinct cigar smoke that J. J. brown smoked. And in one astounding case the volunteers had set up the dining room for one of their tea socials, someone noticed that the head chair was pushed back like someone was sitting in it. When they left the room the staff member looked back and saw that there was a older transparent Victorian lady sitting at the head of the table. Molly brown’s house is available for tours and starating in October they have some special events highlighting the Victorian era.
Just down the road from the Molly Brown house there stands the magnificent Brown palace hotel (no relation). The hotel was built in 1892 and has hosted some of the famous people in Colorado history, such as Molly brown, Beatles and former presidents FDR and Bill Clinton. It’s famous for it’s 8 story atrium that hosts the teas and is known for it’s champagne tower every holiday season. Some of the stories that come from the hotel is phantom children running up and down the halls and plates flying off of tables. Employees have also seen the founder of the hotel walking up and inspecting the current employees. Every October the hotel offers a ghost tour, if you go maybe you will get lucky and see Henry Brown.
As the month of October progresses i encourage everyone to get out and explore the history of this great state.