“The Weeping Woman” returned to the location where the tragic event occurred in a sorrow that she couldn’t escape even in death.

Old Town Fort Collins is abundant with spirits of the past. Some are so active that they have culminated their own following.  Old Town resident’s experiences with these spirits and the myths and legends surrounding their eerie stories have become well known. But some ghostly stories that Grace and I reveal on our tours or not so well known and are just as tragic and scary as the more popular tales.

Recently we blogged about local ghost whisperer and Haunted History After Dark tour guide, Grace and her extraordinary psychic ability that allows her to “see dead people” on all of our tours.  On Wednesday Aug. 24 and Thursday Aug. 25, the Bio Channel is featuring a program called “We See Dead People” which will feature ghost whisperers and their experiences.  The show will also allow a psychologist to test the mediums for accuracy. Many times on our own tours Grace will connect to an energy and provide a story surrounding their death and why they continue to haunt Old Town without any prior knowledge of a particular event or disaster that caused a death of an early resident or a traveler passing through.  When we get to a location, Grace will channel an energy that is communicating with her and provide for me the approximate age, sex, and year, as well as a general emotion of the spirit or entity that is haunting a specific location. Once I have that information I begin my research.  I am always amazed at Grace’s accuracy.

At one specific location on our tour I was aware that previous residents and business owners had described the haunting sound of a woman weeping. On one of our tour nights Grace tuned into this woman energetically and told me that the “The Weeping Woman” was connected to a child. On further investigation I learned that this early hotel was visited by a woman and her two-year old daughter in the late 1880’s. Newspaper reports at the time recorded that the daughter fell out of a window. “The Weeping Woman” even though she lived to an old age, returned to the location to where the tragic event occurred in a sorrow that she couldn’t escape even in death.  

Among other haunting mysteries, Grace has also been able to pinpoint the location of the burial of an early important resident who perished in 1866, and was laid to rest along with 16 young Cavalrymen in an early cemetery in the heart of Old Town, by the dress and hairstyle of this gentleman ghost who appears to her on our tours. The location of his grave has for years been a mystery. Until now.

Do you experience unexplained events, sounds or hauntings? Would you like to learn more about Old Town Fort Collins haunted history past?

Take the Haunted History After Dark tour to meet ghost whisperer Grace. Also, check out the Bio Channel’s “We See Dead People” feature. The link to this program is http://www.biography.com/search/schedule.do?keywords=Mediums%3A+We+See+Dead+People.

Contact Hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com for more information. Cost is 10 big ones per courageous ghost buster or 35 clams for an extra brave group of four. Cash only please.

 Stephen Stills begged Suite Judy Blue Eyes long ago, “Will you come see me…Thursdays and Saturdays…” What a coincidence! That’s when our tours are.  Will you come see us…Thursdays and Saturdays.  Or by reservation. 7:30 p.m.  Tours start at 136 W. Mountain Avenue home of Boutique Bravo and Mother Lode Gallery where owner Kate has been in business for a whopping 33 years! Check her out.

And remember...YOUR HAUNTED JOURNEY STARTS AT DUSK!