Is There A Ghost Of A Chance This Is All True?

A while back I featured a photograph of The Norman, an elegant apartment building built in 1924 and located across the street from the Denver Country Club. I have driven past this place many times, and to me it looks like it would be the perfect place to film a remake of Rosemary's Baby. It just seems like a place where Satanists would hold their rituals, and the sound of chanting could be heard coming from somewhere in the building late at night. Of course, I am not saying there are Satanists performing their rituals there, but then again, I can't say for sure they are not. I took another photograph of the building recently, as seen on the left, and then did an internet search to see if there were any reports of ghosts in the building. And there was not a single mention of paranormal activity. Which makes sense, of course. I imagine any ghosts would be frightened off by those Satanists.

Interestingly enough, when I was searching for information about ghosts in The Norman, the Grosvenor Arms Apartments came up. It is still another of those elegant old apartment buildings, built in 1931 at the corner of 16th and Logan Streets, very close to downtown Denver and seen in the photograph on the right. To me this apartment building doesn't look haunted, but there are lots of stories online about various paranormal incidents there, including a man dressed in a dark suit and a fedora, staring out of a mirror in the lobby, the ghostly presence of a woman wearing a long skirt in the hallway outside the 8th floor laundry room, a feeling of a presence among the crypt-like, dimly lit, always chilly storage lockers, and the experience of elevator users who press the button for the 5th floor and are taken to the 8th, home of that ghostly young woman, before descending down to 5. On the other hand, the current manager has been there for 25 years and has never seen anything strange happen there. Or so he says.

Although I have never seen or felt the presence of a ghost, I have to admit that all you have to do is look at the Patterson Inn, seen in the photograph on the left, and know it must be haunted. It just has that look about it. It was built by Thomas Croke back in 1891, and he only lived there for 6 months before selling it, the assumption being the place was cursed. He sold it to a man named Thomas Patterson, who along with his wife Kate are reputed to be among the 12 spirits who haunt the place. Each of those spirits occupy a different part of the house. Thomas hangs out in the pub, which used to be his study, while his wife Kate spends her time in the Biltmore room, turning the lights on and off when unmarried couples stay there. In the basement, a mother and her child can sometimes be heard crying, and two dogs who were locked in a second-story room jumped out the window to their deaths trying to flee the building. Do they also haunt the place? After being an apartment building for a number of years, and having a hard time renting the units out due to all those stories, the place was turned into a bed and breakfast, and now capitalizes on its reputation as a haunted hotel. I suspect they must even charge more for the most haunted rooms. Be sure to stay there the next time you are in Denver. Enjoy!