A few weeks ago, before the weather changed, I went for a bike ride through Central Denver, and passed by no less than three allegedly haunted mansions. The first was the Grant-Humphreys Mansion, built in 1902 for James Benton Grant, a one term governor of Colorado, and seen in the photograph on the left. It was later purchased by Albert E. Humphreys, an oil barrron, who one evening left the dinner table to clean his gun, and was found a short while later dead from a gunshot to the head. It is rumored he haunts the third floor of the mansion, now owned by the Colorado Historical Society.
I then passed by the Dennis Sheedy Mansion, seen in the photo on the right, which has recently been turned into offices, and renamed the Grant Street Mansion. It is rumored to be haunted by a sad looking Victorian lady, who walks the floors of the house before vanishing. Sheedy had the home built for his family in 1892, but sadly, six of eight Sheedy children died in infancy, and Sheedy's wife, Kathryn Ryan Sheedy, died within three years of moving into the house. No wonder her ghost looks so sad.
The final haunted house I passed was the Croke-Patterson Mansion, seen in the photograph on the left. The original owner, Thomas Croke, had the place built in 1890, but - according to one account - only visited the house once. He felt an evil presence during that visit, and refused to move in. Other accounts vary, but it is a fact that he didn't stay there long. It is rumored that a baby girl was buried inside the walls. When the mansion was being converted to a bed and breakfast, two watch dogs were left overnight to guard the building, and both broke through a third floor window and jumped to their deaths in order to escape the place. And by the way, I got all this information off the internet, and as you all well know, information from the internet is seldom wrong.
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