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41 dossiers53 claims36 legends20 alleged entities8 ghost townsheaviest files, ranked →

The record for Colorado opens with The Stanley Hotel, Phantom Canyon Road and UFO Watchtower — the deepest files in the jurisdiction. The most-filed claim types here are Named Ghost Legend (17 dossiers), Apparition (16) and Reported Anomalies (8). Of its 41 sites, 31 are listed as open to the public — confirm access before visiting. The oldest dated entry is Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, established 1871.

Hotel
High confidence

The Stanley Hotel

Estes Park, Colorado

Historic hotel linked to horror literature.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Road
Medium

Phantom Canyon Road

Victor, Colorado

Former railway with phantom-inmate folklore.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Ufo Observation Site
Medium

UFO Watchtower

Hooper, Colorado

Observation platform north of Hooper tied to UFO accounts.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Ghost Town
Medium

Tincup

Tincup, Colorado

The town that killed its marshals—three in a row.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Town
Medium

Georgetown

Georgetown, Colorado

The "Silver Queen of the Rockies"—where the hamlets’ ghosts reportedly stay.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Theater
Medium

Tabor Opera House

Leadville, Colorado

Horace Tabor’s silver opera house—at 10,000 feet, the town’s grandest room.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Brown Palace Hotel

Denver, Colorado

Denver’s 1892 atrium palace—the railroad man and the murderous love triangle.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Oxford Hotel

Denver, Colorado

Denver’s oldest hotel—the post office murder and the basement bar.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hotel Boulderado

Boulder, Colorado

Boulder’s 1909 landmark—the staircase suicide and the figure on the stairs.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Strater Hotel

Durango, Colorado

Durango’s Victorian hotel—Louis L’Amour’s room and a daughter’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hotel Jerome

Aspen, Colorado

Aspen’s silver-boom hotel—Katie the maid and the miner in the basement.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Silver Cliff & Rosita cemetery lights

Silver Cliff, Colorado

The cemetery "dancing lights" of the Wet Mountain Valley.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Central City

Central City, Colorado

The "Richest Square Mile on Earth"—where the opera house still plays.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek, Colorado

The last great Colorado gold camp—where the dead reportedly stay.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Leadville

Leadville, Colorado

The 10,152-foot silver city—where the Unsinkable Molly Brown lived.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

South Park City

Fairplay, Colorado

The restored 1860s mining town—moved building by building.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hotel de Paris

Georgetown, Colorado

The 1875 French hotel—the mining camp’s luxury.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Ludlow

Ludlow, Colorado

April 20, 1914—the tent colony the Guard burned.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
High confidence

St. Elmo

St. Elmo, Colorado

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Animas Forks

Silverton, Colorado

The 11,000-foot mining camp—the Walsh house still stands.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Prison Museum
Medium

Museum of Colorado Prisons

Cañon City, Colorado

Former women’s prison with haunting reports.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic House Museum
Medium

Molly Brown House

Denver, Colorado

Unsinkable Molly Brown’s Denver mansion with a cigar-smoke presence.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Mountain Area
Medium

Slide-Rock Bolter country

Lake City, Colorado

The fearsome critter that slides down mountains to swallow tourists.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Prison
Medium

Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility

Cañon City, Colorado

The 1871 territorial prison—still active beside the museum.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Fort Garland

Fort Garland, Colorado

Kit Carson’s 1858 command—the adobe fort in the San Luis Valley.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Bent’s Old Fort

La Junta, Colorado

The 1833 adobe trading castle on the Santa Fe Trail—rebuilt on its own ruins.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Victor

Victor, Colorado

The "City of Mines"—half ghost town, half living camp.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Cemetery
Medium

Central City Masonic Cemetery

Central City, Colorado

Cemetery with a woman-in-black legend.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Hotel
Low

Hotel Colorado

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Historic hotel with reported auditory anomalies.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Casino
Low

Colorado Grande Casino

Cripple Creek, Colorado

Casino associated with Maggie folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Dune Field
Medium

Great Sand Dunes — Dunefield

Mosca, Colorado

Dune field associated with rare humming and booming.

1 claim→
Casino
Low

Buffalo Billy’s Casino

Cripple Creek, Colorado

Casino building associated with child-spirit folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Demolished House Site
Medium

Henry Treat Rogers Mansion Site

Denver, Colorado

Former house associated with The Changeling and a disputed ghost narrative.

1 claim→
Site
Medium

Amache

Granada, Colorado

The plains camp—7,000 on the dry land.

1 claim→
Historic Site
Medium

Edward T. Sheldon Burial Site at Evergreen Cemetery

Leadville, Colorado

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Massacre Memorial
Medium

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

Eads, Colorado

Memorial landscape near Eads honoring Cheyenne and Arapaho victims.

2 facts→
Incarceration Site
Medium

Amache National Historic Site

Granada, Colorado

Former wartime camp west of Granada.

2 facts→
Ghost Town
Low

Independence

Independence, Colorado

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Dearfield

Dearfield, Colorado

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Ashcroft

Ashcroft, Colorado

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

1 fact→
Strike Camp Memorial
Medium

Ludlow Tent Colony Site

Ludlow, Colorado

Former miners’ strike camp and massacre memorial.

1 fact→