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The Hauntings of The Cheesman Park & The Brown Palace Hotel · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 1: There are stories everywhere you go, some more horrifying than others.
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  Speaker 3: And while sometimes I go and try to catch up
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  Speaker 3: on what stories to tell you guys, And and I
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  Speaker 1: That's whole story.
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  Speaker 3: The unusual version your two tales of ghostly counters. Let
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  Speaker 3: us begin Our first one is in Denver, Colorado. Most
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  Speaker 3: everyone that everyone of this podcast is from Colorado and
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  Speaker 3: the Denver area may end up known of Cheeseman Park,
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  Speaker 3: and most of the people that don't. Well, there are
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  Speaker 3: a thousand bodies under this popular Denver park from its
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  Speaker 3: time as a city cemetery with charming tree lined streets,
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  Speaker 3: well kept bungalows, and lavish brickmanch as well as electric
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  Speaker 3: local businesses, it's no surplies that Cheeseman Park is one
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  Speaker 3: of the most desirable neighborhoods in Denver. Cheeseman Park is
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  Speaker 3: one of Denver's oldest neighborhoods, a small, densely populated area
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  Speaker 3: bordered by Colfax Avenue to the north, York Street to
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  Speaker 3: the east, Eath Avenue to the south, and Downing Street
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  Speaker 3: to the wat. Besides being known are being named for
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  Speaker 3: one of the hottest neighborhoods in Denver or twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 3: by a real estate site referin. The neighborhood is considered
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  Speaker 3: very bicycle friendly, becoming in at number three for the
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  Speaker 3: most vicable Denver neighborhoods in a May twenty fifteenth report
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  Speaker 3: from walk Score. Each of the neighborhood is taken up
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  Speaker 3: by the eighty point seven acre cheesemanth Park, itself named
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  Speaker 3: after the Denver businessman Walter Scott Cheeseman. On weekends, a
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  Speaker 3: warm evening shady pass Crowday with joggers, dog walkers, and cyclists,
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  Speaker 3: while picnic baskets, volleyball nets, and yoga mins nott the
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  Speaker 3: expensive laws. The park is also an unofficial LGBTQ gathering area,
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  Speaker 3: as it hosts some of the city's biggest advocacy events.
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  Speaker 3: It's starting point for the annual pot A Parade, point
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  Speaker 3: the Bride Prade, and home of the AIDS Walk Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: But the park has been but the park has not
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  Speaker 3: always been so LaVey. In eighteen fifty nine, the Mount
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  Speaker 3: Prospect Cemetery opened on one hundred and sixty acres of
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  Speaker 3: the land in the brand News city of Denver. At
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  Speaker 3: the time, cemeteries were similar to today's park. There were
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  Speaker 3: people would go on walks or how we can picnics.
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  Speaker 3: The land that was chosen for the cemetery was therefore
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  Speaker 3: some of the most desirable open space in the area,
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  Speaker 3: but it was founded on the highest point that and
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  Speaker 3: vicinity was sweeping views of the land around it. Mount
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  Speaker 3: prospect as busy for years, but as new cemeteries were
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  Speaker 3: being built closer to town, it became less practical a
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  Speaker 3: burial place. By eighteen eighties it had become run down
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  Speaker 3: and the city wanted to turn it into a park.
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  Speaker 3: Because the provision with the landscale, Congress had to approve
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  Speaker 3: of the transition, which they did on January twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 3: eighteen ninety. Now they needed to move more than five
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  Speaker 3: thousand bodies that were buried there. The cities first offered
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  Speaker 3: the family of those who were buried there a free
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  Speaker 3: burial plot at another grave site. After several years, only
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  Speaker 3: seven hundred bodies have been moved. To move the rest
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  Speaker 3: the city here undertake the named E. P. McGovern now mcgovernor.
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  Speaker 3: His contract was for a dollar ninety per coffin, so
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  Speaker 3: he came up with a sister plot to make more money.
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  Speaker 3: Mcgovernor is infamously known for dismember and bodies and then
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  Speaker 3: splitting up a body in parts to different coffin. Soon
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  Speaker 3: there were body parts and discarded coffin pieces strolling off
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  Speaker 3: about the part. The city knew they had to do something.
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  Speaker 3: McGovern was pulled off the job after he had removed
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  Speaker 3: about a thousand of the remaining bodies. Instead of hiring
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  Speaker 3: someone else to finish the job properly, the city simply
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  Speaker 3: pulled out pulled out the remaining headstones. It is estimated
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  Speaker 3: there were around three thousand bodies buried under Cheeseman Park
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  Speaker 3: slowly raves mostly forgarten, but about and construction on the
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  Speaker 3: park began. The modern layout of Cheeseman Park only encompasses
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  Speaker 3: a portion of the land that was part of the
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  Speaker 3: Ritual cemetery just south of Mountain Prospect. A pest house
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  Speaker 3: or hospital for those were extremely contagious and terminal diseases
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  Speaker 3: like small pops was heavenly used. During the time the
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  Speaker 3: cemetery was acted. Thousands of people were brought there and
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  Speaker 3: left to die. The area of the pest house is
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  Speaker 3: now a street line where pristine holmes. The Denver Botanic
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  Speaker 3: Gardens is also on the land that was once part
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  Speaker 3: of the Catholic portion of the cemetery. Hebrew burial grounds
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  Speaker 3: and the Chinese Cemetery were redeveloped into portions today's Commerce Park.
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  Speaker 3: The rest were built over and now is now residential area.
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  Speaker 3: Bones are still being found regularly at both Cheeseman Park
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  Speaker 3: and the Denver Botonic Gardens during construction projects. Most recent
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  Speaker 3: was twenty ten during their inauguration irrigation work at the
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  Speaker 3: park when the workers discovered four skeletons near the park's pavilion.
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  Speaker 3: Due to the area's creepies paths, it's commonly recognized as
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  Speaker 3: one of the most haunted places on site, mostly encounters
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  Speaker 3: reported in the park several of the surrounding homes. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: the horror film The Changeling was inspired by the Paranormal
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  Speaker 3: Society the writer experience I'm Sorry, let me try it
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  Speaker 3: again with the Changeling that was inspired by the movie
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  Speaker 3: of the Park by the paranormal activity writer had experience
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  Speaker 3: while living at the mansion in Cheeseman Park. There are
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  Speaker 3: civil ghost tours that decaded to tell the stories of
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  Speaker 3: the area's hauntings. Magpie Paranormal offers two hour walk tours
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  Speaker 3: based focusing especially on Chieseman Park's haunted history weekends lean
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  Speaker 3: up up to Halloween. The Denver Botanic Gardens also has
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  Speaker 3: a Ghost in the Gardens tour and takes visitors around
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  Speaker 3: the gardens and inside some of the buildings that are
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  Speaker 3: known for being haunted. There are several other companies throughout
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  Speaker 3: the city offer ghost tours. After Blue Cheese and Park
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  Speaker 3: and surrounding areas, that seemed like a good uh good
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  Speaker 3: time to uh do a low invest eight see week
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  Speaker 3: find which it was a little bit closer. I would
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  Speaker 3: I would love to go there and check it out.
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  Speaker 3: But if you happen up being you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: live in the Denver area and gone to Cheeseman Park
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  Speaker 3: Denver Brookpatanical Gardens and you you know, got a EVP
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  Speaker 3: or something, you know, please email me the Paranormal Ghost
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  Speaker 3: Stories at gmail dot com. I would love to hear
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  Speaker 3: from you and what you guys found. But I hope
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  Speaker 3: everyone loved that story. Our next one, I know I
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  Speaker 3: talked about a lot of these, you know but on
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  Speaker 3: the podcast, but there's so much history between Arizona and
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  Speaker 3: whatever state you go to, and some of the hunted
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  Speaker 3: histories are in hotels, like one episode we did on
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  Speaker 3: the Grand Hotel, but in grown used to be at
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  Speaker 3: possible for the uh you know, the sick and uh.
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  Speaker 3: This one is the Haunted Brown Palace Hotel. This rocky
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  Speaker 3: Mount paradise holds many many guests, but even folds many
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  Speaker 3: many guests. The Silver boom eighteen eighties brought people from
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  Speaker 3: all walks of life out to the West to seek
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  Speaker 3: fortunes in Colorado. Folks come and win through the town
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  Speaker 3: of Denver to get to the Rockies exploring. Then the
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  Speaker 3: little town into a booming hub, and people needed places
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  Speaker 3: to stay. The Oxford Hotel was already a place in
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  Speaker 3: eighteen ninety one, but would only be a year later
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  Speaker 3: when the larger and grander Brown Palace Hotel open its doors.
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  Speaker 3: And it seems that some have checked again but never checked.
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  Speaker 3: There have been numerous odds and unexplained incidents throughout the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Guests and staff mentioned lights turning on and off on
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  Speaker 3: their own. Some have noted and appears to be something
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  Speaker 3: falling from underneath the carpets, though no one has been
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  Speaker 3: able to identify what exactly is working below. Numerous apparitions
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  Speaker 3: have been seen riding from all way to hallway in
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  Speaker 3: the palace. The Brown Palace Globe has more well known
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  Speaker 3: get goals It likes to hang out about.
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  Speaker 1: The entrant.
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  Speaker 3: He is described as a man in a dark sue
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  Speaker 3: and a cap like the attire of the old train conductor.
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  Speaker 3: If you approach him, he will will float down to
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  Speaker 3: the ground floor and into the corner, and he will disappear.
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  Speaker 3: When the hotel was first opened, it was surrounded by
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  Speaker 3: shops and business, including the Rock Island Railroad ticket off.
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  Speaker 3: It so happens that is located right in the corner
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  Speaker 3: where the apparition goes through. It seems the conductor enjoys
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  Speaker 3: clubbings seen more than his day jump. Louise Crawford Hill
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  Speaker 3: was a known socialite in the Denver area. She would
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  Speaker 3: host parties and car games. In nineteen only a slight
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  Speaker 3: number of Denvers wealthiest to partake. She also lived in
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  Speaker 3: the Brown Palace for the last fifteen or so years
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  Speaker 3: until her death in nineteen fifty five. Her suite was
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  Speaker 3: room nine oh four, and it would see that she
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  Speaker 3: never left. After all, there was a period of a
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  Speaker 3: renovation happening at the palace, especially in her room of
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  Speaker 3: nine oh four. It had been stripped bare of its wallpaper, furniture, lights,
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  Speaker 3: and telephone. Now it's very interesting that the hotel switchboard
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  Speaker 3: operator began to receive phone calls from room nine oh four.
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  Speaker 3: Every time she picks it up, she would hear only static.
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  Speaker 3: It would see that missus Hill did not appreciate people
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  Speaker 3: invade her space and tearing at the parts. I don't
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  Speaker 3: blame her. You know, it's your room and even your
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  Speaker 3: you know death, you know, leave it alone. Where would
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  Speaker 3: you want to tear it out? You know, you're just
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  Speaker 3: pissed off another ghost and now you have to build
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  Speaker 3: the consequences. The hotel's dining room once called the San
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  Speaker 3: Marco Room and had flashy big I had have flash
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  Speaker 3: big brass bands to perform its guests as they ate.
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  Speaker 3: One of the more well known bands were called San
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  Speaker 3: Marco Streets. One night, an employee heard music come from
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  Speaker 3: the dining He rushed down to see a band four
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  Speaker 3: men playing away. The employee informed them they were not
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be in the dining room at this hour.
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  Speaker 3: One of the men replied, don't worry about us, we
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  Speaker 3: live here. A smothering of reports have mentioned that apparition
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  Speaker 3: of a waiter by the service elevator, the ghosts of
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  Speaker 3: children running and down the hallways. Perhaps the most disturbing
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  Speaker 3: and perplexing spirit of them all, the sound of a
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  Speaker 3: body a baby, the sound of a baby crying in
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  Speaker 3: the boiler room. Even in the afterlife, the Brown Palace
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  Speaker 3: is still lively as ever, Brown Palace Hotel came the
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  Speaker 3: perfect time. With the rapid expansion of the Denver Duke,
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  Speaker 3: the Silver Boom in the eighteen eighties and the invertible
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  Speaker 3: Silver Crash in eighteen ninety three, well situation had people
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  Speaker 3: to dire need of a place to call home. The
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  Speaker 3: man behind the hotel was Henry Cardis Brown, who made
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  Speaker 3: his fortune in real estate. Is commissioned in the hotel
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  Speaker 3: in eighteen eighty eight in an Italian Renaissance style with
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  Speaker 3: red ran in and sandstone for the exterior. The hotel
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  Speaker 3: interior was designed as an altronome, with eight floors wrapping
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  Speaker 3: around large open space like massive balconies. It was one
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  Speaker 3: of the very first hotels to incorporate this type of architecture.
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  Speaker 3: Also inside the hotel since twenty six card medallions, which
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  Speaker 3: represents an animal in Colorado. At the time of its
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  Speaker 3: completion in eighteen ninety two, the palace, with its tallest
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  Speaker 3: building in Denver, a house four and the prices for
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  Speaker 3: each room ranged from three dollars to five dollars at
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  Speaker 3: day night. The hotel made hellines in nineteen eleven when
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  Speaker 3: Frank Kinward shot and killed Selvester Lewis von Paul and
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  Speaker 3: George Copeland. Von Paul was in international, Copeland's was not.
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  Speaker 3: Inward and Van Paul were rivals, both eager to win
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  Speaker 3: the affection of associate of associateite Isabelle Springer. It's seem
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  Speaker 3: the Inwood was willing to kill for although the years
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  Speaker 3: the hotel had seen many noble guests come through, come
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  Speaker 3: and go, like the lights of Molly Brown and Molly
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  Speaker 3: Brown that nay should bring a bell, The same Molly
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  Speaker 3: Brown that when the Titanic sing she was one of
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  Speaker 3: the survivors that helped everyone out of the water and
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  Speaker 3: to a lifeboat. And she was also will also nicknamed
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  Speaker 3: the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Also, the guests include the Beatles,
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  Speaker 3: John Wayne, the Duke, and even presidents like Henry S.
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  Speaker 3: Truman and good Old Ronald Reagan. In many recent years,
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  Speaker 3: the hotel is probably more known as several bee colonies
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  Speaker 3: that live on its roof. The bees helped pollinate the city,
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  Speaker 3: and the honey harvested is used to create honey based
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  Speaker 3: products for the hotel. It would be an awesome hotel
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  Speaker 3: to go check out, even you know, to see what
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  Speaker 3: ghosts or what activity you find and stuff. It's like
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  Speaker 3: the Drome Hotel where uh, you know, countless people have
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  Speaker 3: seen ghosts, even John Wayne's seen a ghost to and
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  Speaker 3: uh be nice to check it out and maybe get EVPs.
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  Speaker 3: But I hope everyone enjoys these two stories as much
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