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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Urban Legends
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.
What lurks beneath Colorado's surface
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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Glen Eyrie Castle: Colorado Springs' Haunted Founder's Home
Inside Glen Eyrie, the Tudor castle built by Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer, where staff and guests report ghostly encounters.
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Cripple Creek's Hotel St. Nicholas: A Miners' Hospital That Never Emptied
Once a mining-era hospital, Cripple Creek's Hotel St. Nicholas hostel is steeped in ghost lore Coloradans are still sharing today.
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Are You Seeing This? Pentagon's Orb Files Over Colorado
The Pentagon's newest UFO batch reveals pilots asking 'are you seeing this?' about mysterious orbs—echoing decades of similar Colorado sky reports.
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Redstone Castle: Colorado's Haunted Coal Baron Mansion
Inside Cleveholm Manor, the opulent Redstone Castle built by coal baron John Osgood — and the ghost stories tied to its Gilded Age history.
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