Richard Estep - Haunted Longmont
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Boulder County isnt short of ghost stories . . . highlights 20 different destinations in Longmont that are said to be haunted (Travel Boulder).
Longmont is a city warm and friendly by day but overrun with restless spirits by night. With namesake Longs Peak looming over it, the towns chilling history casts a specter over its present. The gruesome 1864 Sand Creek Massacre may be connected to the murder of a successful local entrepreneur whose property is said to be haunted. Though retail empire JCPenney outgrew its hometown, its legacy lingers in the form of the Phantom Lady. An airliner exploded in the night skies and led to the execution of a desperate criminal. Join paranormal investigator Richard Estep on his fifteen-year journey to reveal and document the interwoven, ghoulish tales of this colorful Colorado city.
Includes photos!
Although ghost sightings through the centuries have been largely disregarded by the mainstream as imaginary, the stories have persisted. Estep wants to know why. . . . His Longmont book features 20 different haunted properties in Longmont, just a handful of the many he says he has experienced firsthand. Daily Camera
Longmont is a city warm and friendly by day but overrun with restless spirits by night. With namesake Longs Peak looming over it, the towns chilling history casts a specter over its present. The gruesome 1864 Sand Creek Massacre may be connected to the murder of a successful local entrepreneur whose property is said to be haunted. Though retail empire JCPenney outgrew its hometown, its legacy lingers in the form of the Phantom Lady. An airliner exploded in the night skies and led to the execution of a desperate criminal. Join paranormal investigator Richard Estep on his fifteen-year journey to reveal and document the interwoven, ghoulish tales of this colorful Colorado city.
Includes photos!
Although ghost sightings through the centuries have been largely disregarded by the mainstream as imaginary, the stories have persisted. Estep wants to know why. . . . His Longmont book features 20 different haunted properties in Longmont, just a handful of the many he says he has experienced firsthand. Daily Camera
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Published by Haunted America
A Division of The History Press
Charleston, SC 29403
www.historypress.net
Copyright 2015 by Richard Estep
All rights reserved
First published 2015
e-book edition 2015
ISBN 978.1.62585.585.5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015939785
print edition ISBN 978.1.46711.796.8
Notice: The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. It is offered without guarantee on the part of the author or The History Press. The author and The History Press disclaim all liability in connection with the use of this book.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever without prior written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For the guardian angels of Longmontpast, present and future. Firefighters, law enforcement officers, EMTs, paramedics and the dispatchers who send them into harms wayno matter whose patch they wear.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think theyve found it.
Sir Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My undying thanks:
To Laura and Greta, who both know why.
To Artie, for giving me the chance.
To my brothers and sisters at Boulder Rural Fire Rescue and Rural/Metro-Pridemark Paramedics, who consistently put it all on the line to protect the public. I love you all more than you will ever know.!
To the men and women of the Boulder County Paranormal Research Society, the best bunch of ghost hunters I could ever wish to work for. Thank you for all that you do.
To Rhonda Conrad and Michelle Gomez, for opening doors.
To Gail Jones, Eric Jones and Diane Lane, along with the good folks at Spirit Connection Investigations.
To the gang at the Other Side Investigations and Stephen Weidners AAPI crew, for sharing lots of nights in dark places with us.
To Peter Schow, for creating such a valuable historical resource.
To each and every citizen of Longmont who kindly agreed to be interviewed for this book.
To Heather Berzina and Jenna Steege, for talking openly about their encounter with the paranormal.
And lastly, to my friend and brother, firefighter-paramedic Troy Bohm, for insisting that there is no such thing as ghostsdespite all the evidence.
The Pridemark spirit will never die!
INTRODUCTION
It has been over one hundred years since the level of popular interest in the subject of ghosts and the paranormal has been as high as it is today. The American public has long been fascinated with stories of haunted houses, haunted objects andyeshaunted people. With Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures garnering massive ratings on television and movies such as The Conjuring ruling at the box office, it appears that we are surrounded by the spirits of the unquiet dead, seemingly lurking out of sight within every dark corner.
Sharing in this passion for the paranormal, I began to investigate claims of ghosts and haunted houses back in the mid-1990s, when the only public awareness of such things came via the publishing world. I am also a transplanted Englishman, who relocated to the United States in 1999. Longmont turned out to be a friendly, welcoming sort of place, and I have made my home there and put down roots.
After a brief stint with a local paranormal organization, I split away and decided to found my own. Along with my wife, Laura, I co-founded the Boulder County Paranormal Research Society in 2006, with a view toward tracking down the ghosts of Colorados Front Range. Particular emphasis was spent on my adoptive hometown, whose historic buildings and back streets have provided an endless source of fascination and discovery.
For every storied historic building and public facility that my team and I have investigated, such as the beautiful Dickens Opera House and Tavern, there have also been calls for help from everyday folks living in everyday houses, some of whom are scared half out of their wits by paranormal activity taking place right in their own homes.
Collected within the pages of this volume are stories of the ghostly and the macabre. You will encounter the spirits of those who died peacefully and may have returned to visit places that they loved during their mortal lifetimes. You will also find those who met tragicoften violentendings and whose spirits tend to manifest themselves in equally disturbing ways.
Researching the paranormal can be a murky field of endeavor at best. Particularly when one tries to look backward in history over more than a few short decades, sources of information can be at variance with one another or difficult to pin down exactly. Because ghost stories are so often found in the realm of urban legends and myths, passed on from person to person in the age-old tradition of oral storytelling, facts become blurred and distorted in the same way as they do during a game of Telephone. I have gone to great pains to research the cases that are recounted in this book, in as thorough a manner as was possible, but inevitably, one or two small factual errors may have crept in. These are almost certainly attributable to me and not to any of the people who generously gave up their time to be interviewed.
When writing this book, my intent was to cover a broad spectrum of cases. Some of them are grounded a little more firmly in cold, hard fact than are others. This is partly because, in my role as director of the Boulder County Paranormal Research Society, I have actually spent many hours overnighting in some of the buildings mentioned, working diligently with my colleagues to investigate the claims of ghostly occurrences. But I have not had the opportunity to do so in every instance. For example, although I have been fortunate enough to personally investigate the haunting of the Dickens Opera House and Tavern, its counterpart (the Dickens Manor Apartments) is now a series of private dwellings and is therefore not open to conducting an overnight ghost hunt. I have interviewed witnesses personally where possible.
And so, this book runs the gamut between fact and fable but tries to stick to the established facts where they were available. Many of the places about which you are soon to read happen to be open to the public, and I strongly encourage you to go and check them out for yourself.
Lastly, my sincere thanks are due to you, the reader. In parting with your hard-earned cash for this book, you will hopefully be happy to hear that 10 percent of the royalties for this book are being donated by the author to the Longmont Humane Society. Thank you for helping the animals of Longmont to stay safe and well.
I hope that you are sitting comfortably, with a glass of your favorite beverage close at hand. Close the curtains and turn on the lights to help keep out the darkness. I would like to thank you for choosing to join me on this guided tour through the haunted history of one of Colorados most colorful cities.
Its time to go and introduce ourselves to the ghosts of Longmont.
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