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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Urban Legends
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.
What lurks beneath Colorado's surface
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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Pentagon's Secret UAP Program Files Point Back to Colorado
New Pentagon-released documents describe a secretive military UAP program — and Colorado's deep defense ties raise fresh questions.
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The Eisenhower Tunnel: Colorado's Haunted Mountain Passage Legend
Beneath the Continental Divide, I-70 drivers report phantom knocking and ghostly figures in the Eisenhower Tunnel — a legend rooted in real construction tragedy.
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The Independence Depot Bombing: Cripple Creek's Forgotten Massacre
A 1904 dynamite blast at a Cripple Creek train depot killed over a dozen miners—one of Colorado's bloodiest, least-remembered labor war atrocities.
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CPR Wants Your Ghost Stories: Inside Colorado's Legend Archive
Colorado Public Radio is collecting ghost stories and urban legends statewide. Here's why the Centennial State is such fertile ground for folklore.
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The Bloody Espinosas: Colorado's First Serial Killers
The true 1863 story of the Espinosa cousins, whose killing spree terrorized Colorado Territory and ended in a legendary manhunt.
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Crybaby Bridge: Colorado's Most Haunted Urban Legend
Colorado has at least three 'Crybaby Bridge' legends. We trace the ghost story's roots, the real bridges behind it, and why it refuses to die.
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