A High Spirited Day!

Yesterday was a high-spirited kind of day, and not because of the Super Bowl between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks that is taking place this afternoon.  I decided to drive over and have a look at the Herman H. Heiser House, located at 30th and Osceola Streets in the Highlands neighborhood of Denver.  I learned about this house at a lecture by Amy Zimmer, author of Denver's Historic Homes.  She mentioned in the lecture that this house is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a former owner.  His son died while swimming at nearby Sloan's Lake, and he spent the final years of his life sitting in a rocking chair in the turret, looking out and waiting for his son to return home.   Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher happened to be in the audience that night, and mentioned that he once made an unsuccessful offer to buy the house.  Later on he got to know the new owner, who gave him a tour of the place.  As they passed by a room in the turret, the owner told Gallagher that there is a rocking chair in the room, and that sometimes when she walks past the chair is rocking all by itself.  As I was taking the above photograph, I just had to wonder whether I was being watched, and watched by whom or by what.