The Liberty Bell Avalanche: Telluride's Deadliest Disaster
A 1902 avalanche buried Telluride miners alive in their bunkhouse—the true story behind one of Colorado's deadliest mining disasters.
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Haunted Places
The Elitch Theatre: Denver's Haunted Century-Old Stage
Explore the real history and ghost legends of Denver's historic Elitch Theatre, one of America's oldest summer-stock playhouses, said to still host its actors.
What lurks beneath Colorado's surface
The 1975 Cattle Mutilation Panic That Brought the FBI to Colorado
Decades before 'cattle mutilation' became a punchline, a real 1975 wave of unexplained deaths in Colorado triggered a formal FBI investigation.
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Pentagon's Secret Program Files: What They Mean for Colorado
New Pentagon documents reveal a classified military program behind decades of UAP reports — and Colorado's bases are at the center of it.
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The Broadmoor Hotel: Colorado Springs' Gilded Age Ghosts
Inside the century-old luxury of The Broadmoor, staff and guests have long whispered of spirits that never checked out. What's documented—and what's legend.
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The Strater Hotel: Durango's Victorian Ghosts Check In
Inside Durango's 1887 Strater Hotel, where Victorian elegance, a infamous brothel next door, and decades of guest reports create one of Colorado's most storied hauntings.
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Crowdsourcing the Unknown: CPR's Colorado Legend Archive
Colorado Public Radio is collecting ghost stories and urban legends from residents—what the submissions reveal about our strangest shared folklore.
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Mountain Lion in the Suburbs: Denver's Real Urban Legend
A mountain lion lounging in a Denver suburb shut down a road—and revived old legends about wild things crossing into the city at the edges of dusk.
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The Oxford Hotel: Denver's Oldest Haunted Address
Inside Denver's 1891 Oxford Hotel, where a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a mysterious Room 320 death, and a legendary ghost cat still linger.
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