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October 6, 2011

The Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, opened in 1893, is another of those legendary haunted hotels of Colorado lore.   This hotel lays claim to the creation of the "Teddy Bear."  We stayed in the "haunted" room, room 551, a room where the ghost supposedly picked out the wallpaper by tossing other samples about the room during construction.  Unfortunately, it left its choice rolled and undisturbed, laying on the bed, which the workers later applied.  If that is true, I would have to say that this ghost had pretty poor taste in wallpaper.  We didn't capture any discernable activity in the room or the suite towers (we didn't stay in the suites because of the price per night). 

The trip's highlight was hiking the trail up to find Doc Holliday's grave.  He came here to recover from his Tuberculosis, but it just didn't work out.  Not only that, but over time, they lost his grave.  Glenwood Springs did not do him justice. 

October 10-11, 2011

New Sheridan Hotel, Telluride, Colorado: When I first went to book this hotel, I thought it was one of the Sheraton outlets, and I couldn't figure out how it could be that old.  Of course, my interpretation of the spelling was just a little off.  The Sheridan Hotel goes way back to the Telluride glory days, and a couple of rooms are said to have activity.  We stayed in room 207.  We captured some odd photos of orbs coming through the adjoining door to the next room, but we were also new to the investigation scene, and today I would view those captures with some skepticism.  The only real oddity was a picture taken in the early 1900s hanging in one of the hotel hallways.  It shows something standing in the street in front of the hotel that can not be identified as a human or animal.  A separate short video below this one posts a purchased copy of that photo that you can also acquire.

October 10-11, 2011

Here is a closeup of a copy of the mystery photo of the five-foot-tall chicken (?) that hangs in the hallway near room 307 in the New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride, Colorado.   I purchased this copy online from the Museum in Telluride.  The closeup of the picture shows that the photography striations covering the photo are from the period, and the image has not been superimposed or digitally layered.  You can order your own print of this photograph from the City Museum.

April 28-30, 2012

The Imperial Hotel, Cripple Creek, Colorado:  This hunt was thrilling and taught us some tools of the trade.  Unfortunately, the best part of the activity we could not capture because of a glitch with United Airlines.  Our equipment didn't arrive as it should have, and early the following morning, we had to drive down the mountain to Colorado Springs to catch the flight it came in on.   Unfortunately, that first night without the surveillance unit yielded the significant activity during the stay.   I awoke early in the morning to the sound of the bathroom fan running behind the closed bathroom door.  I could see the light turned on in the bathroom from under the closed door.  The door was shut, but I could see the light under the door, and I wondered how Jan could have gotten out of bed and past me as she would have had to crawl over me to get to the bathroom.  I reached over and was startled when I grabbed her leg.  She was still asleep next to me.  So, who was in our bathroom at two in the morning?  Carefully I grabbed the camcorder next to me to start recording, and as I switched it on, it "dinged" a chime sound, and immediately the bathroom light and fan went off, and I missed the capture.  We have since muted the sound on our equipment so as not to repeat this occurrence.  We picked up activity throughout the room during our two-day hunt and considered the room we stayed in highly active. 

When we told the owners, they were surprised.  They had told us the room was "haunted," as reported by previous guests, but they thought it was just folk's imagination.    We hope to make it back to this location again.

August 16, 2013

Ah, the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park.  Anytime you stay at the Stanley Hotel, you are on premier hunting grounds.  This place is so haunted that Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of Ghost Hunters (TAPS) have purchased a permanent year-round room.  Lots of activity can be captured pretty much everywhere you go, even by amateurs.  In this video, we present the hotel's history and some obscure documents we dug up.   Even the Stanley Museum had not seen the documents we uncovered.  We captured a lot of activity: the high point was an EVP picked up on surveillance that was not in step with the speech speed of normal humans talking and walking down the hallway outside the room door simultaneously.  The ghost hunt was pretty cool and for the most part—an utterly fascinating experience.  We highly recommend hunting here.

2011

Archived footage of an investigation of the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado. We encountered some very light EMF metered activity and a possible EVP.

November 2012

Here is a short video detailing the tours and amenities of the Royal Gorge State Park near Cripple Creek, Colorado. It contains the Tom Mix footage of the Great K & A Train Robbery (1926), where Mix rode a cable down from the top to the bottom of the gorge without the benefit of a safety harness or stuntman second. The first half of the video is in B & W to commemorate Mix's feat. Unfortunately, our captured film footage had degraded during storage (much like Mix's videos) and had to be resurrected as best I could.