’Tis the season for ghouls and things that go bump in the night. In honor of the spookiest month, The Denver Channel has posteda list of five public haunted sites in Colorado.
In Denver, the Oxford Hotel is said to play host to ghosts. The hotel is 123 years old this year, and in 1898 one of the rooms was the site of a gruesome murder-suicide. Single male guests to the hotel sometimes experience a presence or have had the sheets ripped from their beds. There have also been tales of a mysterious man in a postal uniform who comes into the bar, orders a beer, and then vanishes.
Another hotel in Denver is known for hauntings. The Brown Palace opened in 1892. There have been reports of the carpet coming alive beneath guests’ feet, and tales of a man in a dark suit roaming the hallways.
Then, of course, there’s the most famous haunted Colorado hotel of all: The Stanley in Estes Park. Here, ghostly children are reported to play on the 4th floor. The scent of rose oil has also been recorded throughout the hotel—the favorite scent of the wife of the hotel’s founder.
Denver’s Molly Brown house is also reportedly haunted. The “Unsinkable” Molly Brown survived the Titanic tragedy.Dark shadows move in the house, and the piano plays itself. Furthermore, guests have encountered a pipe-tobacco odor, especially in the basement and attic. Molly Brown smoked a pipe.
Lastly, there’s the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, which is said to be haunted by the ghost of a boy who drowned in the hotel pool in 1936. He is known as the “water boy” and appears shivering and soaking wet.