Colorado offers plenty of eerie history enthusiasts an enthralling history tour experience with ghost towns, hotels and cemeteries to explore. Experience goosebumps on an interactive haunted tour scavenger hunt to uncover its dark secrets!
Molly Brown’s home is considered to be one of the most haunted places in Washington state, and visitors have reported encountering ghostly figures, cold spots and hearing crying sounds while visiting.
The Molly Brown House
The Molly Brown House is a museum and educational center dedicated to Margaret “Molly” Brown, an influential socialite, philanthropist and activist known for surviving the sinking of Titanic as known as “The Unsinkable Molly.”
Historic Denver saved Molly’s house from destruction in the 1970s by raising funds to restore it, giving tours that explore her life and history in greater depth. Many visitors report having out-of-this-world experiences such as smelling phantom cigar smoke or seeing curtains open themselves without prompting from Historic Denver staff.
Antigone Biddle is delighted to return to the Molly Brown House after performing in regional productions both domestically and abroad. Her talents have been seen across various media formats.
The View Hotel
Colorado offers something haunted to satisfy every thrill seeker’s taste – be it an actual haunted house or cocktails at a creepy bar.
Denver’s Cheesman Park used to be a cemetery and visitors report hearing strange noises or smelling tobacco while walking through it.
Cripple Creek, Colorado’s historic town is known for its haunted ambience; here the spirit of a little boy who drowned in its hotel pool can often be seen lurking near its third-floor pool area and wetting himself, or shaking in fear and shuddering nearby. An apparition is said to be seen playing slots at Colorado Grande Casino nearby while other specters have been seen at Buffalo Bill’s and Hotel Jerome.
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
Colorado is full of creepy haunted stories – be they roads, cemeteries or hotels. Get your thrills this month on a ghost tour or explore a spooky museum to encounter what lies beyond.
Canon City Museum is located within an all-female former prison and is widely known to be haunted by both prisoners and staff alike. Visitors have reported hearing women sobbing, doors opening and closing on their own, the old laundry room smelling of tobacco smoke, as well as pictures taken inside Cell 19 featuring orbs appearing.
Cheesman Park may appear tranquil, yet it houses the Mount Prospect Graveyard where many who were interred have been seen roaming at night. Staff and visitors have reported sightings of an unexplained figure as well as footsteps, laughter, and strange echoes heard throughout.
The Sand Creek Massacre
As autumn arrives in Colorado, not only is its landscape blessed with breathtaking beauty and fragrant pumpkin spice flavors; but its history holds some mysterious secrets too – mines, asylums and roads have long been said to be haunted by spirits from years gone by.
The Massacre at Sand Creek is an unsettling national historic site where over two hundred Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children were murdered by Colonel John Chivington’s soldiers in 1864. This tragedy was precipitated by several factors such as gold rushes in California, cultural clashes on western plains areas, competing claims of land ownership among tribes, as well as competing claims on resources such as waterways.
This location is said to be haunted by the ghosts of those killed during the massacre, including a woman seen walking its trails and crying. Visitors have reported hearing distant drumming sounds as well as hearing distant drumming voices coming from faraway drums and hearing someone cry nearby.
The Stanley Hotel
Stephen King made this Estes Park hotel famous with his bestseller The Shining, but its long and haunted history predates this recognition. Built by Freelan and Flora Stanley from the Stanley Steamer fortune in 1909, their stay at Colorado initially was to alleviate Freelan’s tuberculosis symptoms but soon they fell in love with Colorado as a place to be.
The Stanley is said to be haunted by many different ghosts, from past owners and children to animals and even pets. One notable spirit reportedly haunts Room 217 while at the Concert Hall you might encounter Lucy herself who enjoys interacting with guests. Additionally, another spirit lives in a tunnel used by staff around the hotel that may be responsible for smells of baked goods that linger.
