Another Orb caught on film on Haunted History After Dark tour 9/29/11

Enlarged "orb" from a haunted location on the Haunted History After Dark tour. 

As the All-Hallows Eve approaches the Haunted History After Dark tours are getting even more exciting and increasing in activity. Grace and I are always so happy to welcome our human guests as well as the more spectral ones which seem to be multiplying on our tours.
Thursday, September 29th, we were joined by a very enthusiastic human crowd. Some were very knowledgeable Old Town Fort Collins history buffs, others were looking for alternative fun on a Thursday night, and some were more serious about this venture like the great group from the In-Sight Paranormal organization out of Loveland, Colorado. In-Sight members had brought along EMF (Electro-Magnetic Field) detectors and digital cameras for tonights outing. These guys are professionals. But, they may need new batteris for their equipment after tonights tour!

In-Sight Paranormal organizer Karen (center)

At one of our locations, In-Sight organizer Karen, who is also an intuitive, said that each time local ghost whisperer and tour guide Grace, talked about a specific individual spirit that she connected with, her  EMF detector would light up in a reverberation of colors on her equipment. Karen also said she sensed a spirit man standing near us at an adjacent structure. Grace and I both immediately recognized who this ghostly man was. With the urging of awesome and knowledgeable guest, Woodard, we related for the group the tragic tale of this more contemporary spirit. This apparitional being is extremely benign and protective. He was actually one of the first entities Grace and I had an encountered with while developing the Haunted History After Dark tour.

While I told his story, Grace connected with this ghost and had brief conversation with him, expressing much gratitude for letting us tell his tale. "Thank you sir", Grace said, nodding her head.
Because his death is more recent, (minus 50 years) we normally don't talk about it as to not to bring up too much emotion in some of our guests. But, he does exist. He is active not only in the location where he died, but also in his former place of employment. Many myths and legends surround this particular spirit in Old Town. We have had several people ask about him on our tours. He seems to be okay with the attention.

Very early resident Willaim Trimble

Witnessing the very obvious paranormal activity that was occuring around us on our tour tonight, one of the guests expressed a slight anxiety regarding attachment ( a spirit or entity attaching itself to a human and going home with them). I completely understand this. As an Old Town Fort Collins historian, I spend most of my time resurrecting early residents through my writing and research. My job is to research stories and people and events of early Fort Collins. Sometimes my job requires me to go into places that are off limits. Fort Collins has a very layered history. Structures that may have been present in 1873 may have been torn down and replaced by a completely new structure less than ten years later, and again by the turn of the century. In all of those layers exist stories and people. In the basements as well as the upper levels of these structures, some now non existent, the spirits still remain. When I venture out without Grace, occassionally, I bring "things" home. I know this when the energy in my house changes. Sometimes, I may see a shadow in front of a door. Sometimes I'll hear a knocking sound in a wall, when I know I am the only one home. Grace says that these may all be signs of an "attachment" from some of the places I've visited, or most likely from early residents I've researched and  decided to include on our tour. The many hours of intense energy I put toward them attracts them and brings them from the afterlife.  They come to life. This is an increasingly fascinating issue for me. I'm a historian and writer. I've never thought of myself as a person involved with "ghost hunting" or "ghost busting". But, because of the nature of our tours, I have occassionally and unintentionally picked up unwanted entities and brought them home with me. When I realize this, I give a call to Grace and she immediately and energetically identifies that entity and removes them. She sends them to the "other side".

Psychic Grace Cooley

Grace is one of the most talented, professional and genuine mediums in the nation. She is also the ghost whisperer and tour guide on the Haunted History After Dark tours. Before and after each tour, fortunately for our anxious guest tonight, Grace clears each participant of not only any entity that may have attached themselves on our tour, but of any negativity energy that preceeded our guests even before the tour. 

Regarding the "orb" I caught on my camera tonight, ghoststudy.com says that, "Ghostly orbs are the most photographed anomalies caught on film by ghost hunters and are quite photogenic (when they want to be). They can be completely transparent or display themselves in a bright solid form. It is not hard to capture them on film in their circular form. It is theorized that ghosts prefer the form of an Orb (ball of light) because it takes less energy thus being the mode of choice among the ghosts."

So, who is this? What is this? I've enlarged the orb for clarity in the subject line above, but also included the original photograph taken tonight during the tour. The "orb" has a chaos or dark spot in the middle. What is this void?

If you would like to visit the location where this orb was taken, or learn more about the haunted history of Old Town Fort Collins please visit us at http://hauntedhistoryafterdark.blogspot.com/ or email us for a tour at hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com. Below are more photos of courageous Haunted History After Dark guests on the Sept. 29th tour. Thank you so much to all of our very brave and awesome guests tonight! Please email us with any questions regarding the paranormal or history of Old Town Fort Collins.

I absolutely love this one of Grace. She is seeing spirits that are guests are  picking up on camera. You rock Grace!

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!

 

Orb caught on camera during a Haunted History After Dark tour tonight 9/24/2011!

Haunted History After Dark hosted a great crowd tonight for our Saturday tour.  This enthusiastic group asked very many awesome questions regarding both the haunted and the history of Old Town Fort Collins.

Now that's scary! A guest and his son.

Grace picked up on some new entities at our locations on our route, as well as other spirits lurking inside other establishments that are not typical on our route, including two early mortuaries. Both are now very busy restaurants.

As our tours pick up speed, so seems the activity of the spirits. Recently, we have had guests witness a mist or fog emerge from a second floor window, which they pointed out before Grace and I even saw it. We have had a recent and brave participant from California be told to “Go away” directly to his face as we were in the middle of conducting a tour. We have even had a “goosing” experience at our starting location before the tour had even begun! One awesome guest on our tour tonight, after hearing that said, “Well, I’m not getting goosed by anyone in the physical, so that’s fine with me!” Before our tours we provide information about many of the extraordinary early residents that made Fort Collins what it is. All of those we talk about lived here, most died here, and some still walk the streets today. The early residents we talk about were a very colorful, ambitious crowd, and some of them very handsome. Another recent guest, a very attractive female, said, “Well, if he’s cute…he can come home with me!” Unfortunately for her, as pretty as she was, Grace clears all of our tour guests from any entities that may want to attach themselves to our courageous participants. I’m certain both our beautiful guest tonight and the latter participant won’t have any trouble finding suitable human companions. But, its intriguing.

Another phenomenon that has been increasing on our tours is genuine photographic evidence of spirits through “orbs”. According to ghoststudy.com “orbs” are believed (by many) to be ghosts in the form of balls of light. They are life forms that travel in groups and are believed to be the human soul or life force of those that once inhabited a physical body here on earth.”





Tour guests Laura and Nikki



This would make sense, as the orb caught by my own simple camera tonight, was at a location where Grace said a large spirit party was currently congregating as we were giving our tour. I had intended to just take photos of our wonderful guests while Grace spoke, but I got more. After the tour, a participant, Nikki, asked, “Did you get anything on your camera?” She added, “I felt like maybe you did.”  So, her and I flipped through my photos and there, lo and behold, was an orb! The photo above is completely untouched and was first seen by Nikki and myself immediately after the tour. In an earlier blog, a recent Haunted History After Dark tour guest also caught an orb at a rumored haunted Old Town location.

Check out photos of other awesome guests tonight below!

As spirit activity in Old Town is abundant, please feel free to bring any equipment you feel comfortable using such as digital recorders, EMF detectors, etc. on our tours. I’m just a historian, so I don’t know about the technicalities of equipment yet, and Grace obviously doesn’t need it. But, feel free. I’m certain orbs are a-plenty in Old Town.

Thank you so much to all of our very courageous and enthusiastic guest tonight! You were amazing!

If you would like to catch evidence of spirits in Old Town or learn about the haunted history of Fort Collins contact hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com 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!

Fearful spirits that may have been lying dormant for over a hundred years emerge to talk and communicate with our guests.

*Correction to September 23, 2011 blog.  Meet-Ups Mingles, thanks for your observation and  understanding.
Haunted History After Dark wants to give a huge thank you to the great group we hosted tonight on our Thursday night tour. Meet-Ups Mingles organizer, Christina, brought an enthusiastic crowd for our outing tonight. We were also joined by three very lovely and talented Silver Grill waitresses.

Tour guests learned about the most haunted and most historic locales in our Old Town area, which there are many. Several of our participants asked awesome and insightful question about the early history of Fort Collins. We love your enthusiasm and interest.  There is a lot to know and a lot to yet discover. As an early frontier town, Fort Collins has an extraordinary past. The people and past spirits who created this town are an amazing, resourceful group, and many still walk our streets today. Several are embedded within the walls of the structures whiles other walk freely among us wanting to communicate. Grace and I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to bring to life those stories and spirits that are crucial to this towns early history.

Each time we give a tour, or write about it, or discover a new location, we feel an awakening and awareness of the souls in this town that were once hidden behind concrete, cement and plaster. There is an excitement. Fearful spirits that may have been lying dormant for over a hundred years emerge to talk and communicate with our guests. They hold the key to our understanding of Fort Collins early years.  It is an amazing experience to listen and watch our guests become aware of, communicate with, and connect with the spirits of long ago.

Christina showing her orb to other guests

At one of our locations tonight, brave tour participant Christina, caught an orb on her camera. This site was an early fire house, town hall, jail, and drunk tank. It has a very haunted past and present. Who is this orb who hovered over our guests this night? An early brothel worker? A bootlegger? Benign or malevolent?  Employee or prisoner? Many spent time behind the walls of this structure.

At our last location, and the conclusion of our tour, Grace cleared all of our participants from any negative energy or attachments, past and present.  Grace is increasingly gaining ground as one of the most talented ghost whisperers in our area as well as nationwide. Her growth as a medium and genuine psychic in the community is multiplying daily.

Haunted History After Dark guests

If you would like a past life reading, psychic evaluation, house or personal cleansing, or have any questions regarding Fort Collins early history please contact hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com.

As the streets of Old Town are abundant with spirits of the past, please feel free to bring any ghost hunting equipment such as EMF detectors, EVP recorders or digital recorders on our tour.

 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!

Dog gone cute!

Haunted History After Dark hosted an awesome and very courageous crowd of 15 for our Saturday night tour. We also welcomed our very first canine. This little pooch was very brave! Thank you so much to his owners who decided to include this cute friend on our outing. We want to give a huge Bravo and thanks to all of our guests for their enthusiasm and wonderful and insightful questions. Remember, if you have any inquiries regarding the history of Fort Collins or questions concerning ghosts, spirituality, hauntings, reincarnations, or anything paranormal contact hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com . We will love to give you answers.

Ghost Whisperer Grace Cooley

Ghost whisperer and medium, Grace, was on her game this night, as usual. Many spirits lurked about the streets of Old Town on our tour which, Grace picked up on. At our first location she not only connected with spirits who normally meet our guests, but identified at least seven others that inhabit this location. She said that two stood next to us while talking about this specific site, but the others were not so welcoming and decided to remain inside the walls of the structure.  

At our second haunted location, where we learned about ghost signs, Grace picked up on 3 spirits inside an establishment that once was a mortuary (It is now a very popular restaurant).

A presence greeted our guests at a south Old Town location that Grace said was not good. She indicated that it was not even from this world, and would have definitely attempted to attach itself without her intervention. She stayed behind to do “some work” while the group continued to the next haunted site.

Grace picked up with us at our last two sites, and we concluded our tour at a location on Old Town Square at a structure that was completed in 1897 by an early and prominent citizen.

Jason and Chrissy

These two gorgeous guests to Haunted History After Dark were celebrating their 11^th wedding Anniversary!  Jason and Chrissy both attended Colorado State University, but met after graduating. Congratulations Jason and Chrissy. And thanks so much for celebrating by taking the Haunted History After Dark tour.Chrissy took a brief moment after the tour to talk to Grace about a very close family member who had passed away. Grace reassured her that her that this person was in a good place.

Grace had picked up on so many entities on our tour this night. Some were familiar spirits on our tours, others were just making their presence known, but had been at several locations for a long time. Grace said that some were from early Fort Collins, and some were more contemporary or had died more recently and had attached themselves to a location that they felt familiar and were residing with older spirits to Old Town.

In my education and my life I’ve primarily been a historian and a journalist. In my new venture as a tour guide with Haunted History After Dark, I absolutely love what I am experiencing with our human guests and now with our many ghostly guests. But, I am in a little bit of unfamiliar territory. I am not afraid, but more fascinated by all of it, thanks to Grace.

After all of our tours Grace takes a moment to clear any entities that may have tried to attach themselves to our guests or ourselves while en route. She leaves all of our tour guests more spiritually cleansed than they were before they arrived on our tour. Grace always tells all of our tour guests that they contact her through hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com if they have questions regarding spirits in Old Town or any inquiries regarding the paranormal.

While walking to our cars, after the tour Saturday night, I hugged Grace and said, “What would I do without you, what would our tour guests do?” And without missing a beat she said, “You would go home with ghosts. Like others might.”

 Take the Haunted History After Dark tour to learn more about Old Town Fort Collins haunted and historical past.

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!

 

Enlarged from original photo below

Photographic proof of a haunting in Old Town. On this last Saturday night Haunted History After Dark tour a very generous guest brought a photograph that was taken during a photo shoot at a West Mountain location where she used to work years ago. The site now is a busy restaurant, but when she worked at this location is was a retail business. The name of the current business is being kept private, as well as the donor of the photograph to protect the integrity and privacy of both until further investigation and consent. We thank the guest very much for this photo and for her allowing us to post it on our blog.

The face of the man is clearly visible on the top right side of the photo. His clothing is less identifiable. The guest who provided the photo said that when she received it after the photo shoot, she was understandably taken back by the man who mysteriously appeared in the picture. Knowing that no person should have been in the photo, she realized that this was definitely something paranormal. Our guest did some research and learned that possibly this individual died in an accident in the basement of the location where she used to work and still possibly haunts the place today. No retouching has been done to this image or photo.

The Haunted History After Dark guest provided the photo before the tour both for Grace and my interest, but also because between Grace’s spiritual intuitiveness and my research, we may be able to identify this man for her. We are both working on it and will try to give our readers more information regarding this extraordinary spirit man who decided to make his presence known in the photo.  I will conduct research to identify a name and an event, and Grace will energetically connect with him and determine if he needs to be taken to the other side.

More proof that Old Town is abundant with spirits of the past. Come walk with the spirits who are dying to meet you…

Take the Haunted History After Dark tour to learn more about Old Town Fort Collins haunted and historical past.

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!

Haunted History After Dark just conducted another successful tour tonight! Seven brave participants were taken to various haunted locations in Old Town Fort Collins where they learned about the most haunted and most historical sites in town. Ghost whisperer Grace was on her game tonight and located many resident ghosts in the city while on the tour. Some spirits were happy to see us, some were not so enthusiastic about our presence and quickly vacated, and one contemporary spirit was waiting near the front door of one location waiting to attach itself to a passerby. Grace made certain this spirit didn’t attach itself to any of our guests. When asked why this particular spirit wanted to attach himself to a human, Grace said, “He is looking for someone who feels familiar. He’s waiting..he’s looking for that, and will definitely follow that person home.” Grace energetically removed him from the location.

Ghost medium Grace Cooley



While researching locations for our tours I have had just that experience of attachment. Recently, I had the opportunity to go into a basement and store room of a mercantile in Old Town. This is a site where no others but the owners are allowed to go. It is not a location of any tours. I knew a little about the haunted history of this location before I entered, but being the history and not the haunted of the tours, I always enter a location a little analytical and more interested in the past of the location.  I usually have done a little research before I enter a location, which I did with this site.  I was not prepared for what I experienced. I got about halfway down the stairs to the basement and my lungs started to feel like they were being squeezed. I felt a definite blunt oppression around my body. I continued on down the stairs, but the gracious owner would not follow me. Knowing I was a historian, he looked at me and said frantically, “What happened here?!!” I could not give him a specific event but all I could think while I was down there was, “…something bad bad bad happened here.” That was the feeling I got. I was only down there for a few moments before I followed the owner back upstairs. When I got to the top I was still out of breath and still felt the deep oppression.

I continued on with my day and all seemed to go fine until I was getting ready for a tour. When getting dressed in my bathroom, I noticed when I shut the door that a grey brown figure appeared. I brushed it off as nothing. My eyes, my imagination, something. But, when leaving my bedroom I noticed the same brown figure right in front of my bedroom door. Just a quick swish of a grey brown figure.

Grace and I did our tour. It was a very successful night. One of our participants actually saw a spirit emerge from a window of one our locations in Old Town.

After the tour, I told Grace about my experience about going in the basement of an establishment and I just wanted her to make sure nothing had followed me home and attached itself to me.  Grace closed her eyes and connected, and asked me my address. I told her where I lived. I waited and talked with some of our guests. Finally, Grace looked at me and said, “That was nasty! That was NOT a good spirit. You had definitely been attached to. That potentially could not have been good.”

I’m getting a little used this.  I’m just a historian. Not a big deal. But I now happen to be the historian for a haunted tour. In the last six months I’ve been doing this I’ve experienced apparitions, spirits,  goose bumps, the feelings of fire going up my legs, oppressive and aggressive pressure behind my back as I’ve been giving a tour and talking about a location as I’ve felt the breath going out of me.  We have had guests who have told us that they have felt a spirit person in front of their face telling them to “Get out!”, and have seen apparitions, and the same goose bumps we often feel. Just tonight while talking at one location I saw a brown spot move in front of me several times and then disappear behind me. After experiencing all I have on our tours, I feel like I could do one of Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson’s Ghost Hunters tour no problem. Got it covered. I can’t say that I’m desensitized, but I’ve experienced it all.

At the conclusion of our tour tonight and after everyone had left, Grace said to me, “Hold on one moment.” I knew in an instant what she was doing. She was clearing everyone of any negative spirit energy. And I knew from the amount of time she took that it was a lot.  I’m not certain of any specific location we visited where these spirits came from, but they were there. Grace also clears all of our guests from any negativity they have experienced before the tour, and they may not know it, but our participants leave more spiritually cleansed than they were before they came.



Amanda and Reese from Fort Collins



The spirits are abundant in Old Town. Are you attached? Would you like to know more about the haunted history of Old Town Fort Collins. Would you like an alternative for fun entertainament in Old Town like recent tour guests Reese and Amanda? Contact Haunted History After Dark.

EXPERIENCE OLD TOWN HAUNTED HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF A LOCAL GHOST WHISPERER AND HISTORIAN.

COME WALK WITH THE SPIRITS WHO ARE DYING TO MEET YOU...

AND TELLIING YOU TO ALWAYS BUY LOCAL…

If you would like to get a past life reading, explore the haunted history of your location, OR take a tour to learn more about the spooky history of Old Town Fort Collins please contact Hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com. 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!

Old Town Fort Collins spirits and stories ressurected...From “The Captain” a moody and adventurous cavalryman who mysteriously disappeared in 1869, to an Old Town famous Madame on Jefferson Street who almost literally ran the town court system

On a recent Haunted History After Dark outing we were met at our starting location on West Mountain by a city-employed scavenger and a regular on the tour. He visits here often. He’s attracted to the proprietor of the business, Kate. She owns Mother Lode Gallery.  His name is Charlie. Charlie is a handsome man who drives a one-horse wagon through town picking up garbage. On his travels he often sings old southern Christian hymns mixed with an ancient African dialect - songs he learned while he was a slave in the south.  He’s taught some of those songs to Kate.
Charlie bought his own freedom for $600 and came to Fort Collins as a cook, and worked in various old restaurants in town, including cooking for a U.S. President traveling through La Porte.  Charlie is displaced. One of his homes is now a parking lot, and the other is at an unknown location.  Charlie doesn’t care. He has his horse, and his wagon, and his songs, and he still travels through the streets of Old Town and ventures along with us on our tours. He’s friendly and loud, and gregarious, but one item you might want to know if you take our tour:  Charlie has been dead for over 100 years.

Haunted History After Dark has been hard at work this past summer researching stories and legends, people and places, and mysterious events, to gather the MOST haunted and historic locations in Old Town Fort Collins for the most bewitching season:  All Hallows Eve. We have accumulated information on at least 20 haunted locations in Old Town Fort Collins.  From “The Captain” a moody and adventurous cavalryman who mysteriously disappeared in 1869, to an Old Town famous Madame on Jefferson Street who almost literally ran the town court system and ended up one of the wealthiest proprietors in the city, the stories of the spirits of these early residents are resurrected for our Haunted History After Dark guests.

Grace (the haunted) and Suzy (the history) are local business owners and are very connected with the community.  After a near death experience (NDE) by an almost fatal bike accident in 1993, Grace’s experience and understanding of the spiritual realm catapulted her into helping others on their path, humans as well as spirits. She has been working with individuals in Fort Collins both here and in the spirit world to facilitate healing on all levels.  On our tours and at her home, Grace is visited regularly by the abundant ghosts that inhabit Old Town Fort Collins. They have stories to tell. They want to be known. She works hard to unravel and filter what is safest for the spirits of the early residents and most importantly, the guests on our tours. You will very seldom be bothered by any of the Old Town spirits after your tour - Grace is there to make sure of it. She always tells people, "I will make sure you don't take anything home that you shouldn't, but if something DOES show up, or if weird stuff is happening, just give me a call, and I can fix it right there on the phone."

Suzy (the history) is actively involved in many of the historical projects in Fort Collins. Bringing the most entertaining, educational, and historically accurate events of Old Town Fort Collins is her goal in this town Haunted History After Dark likes to call “The Jewel of the Frontier”.  Whether it's ghost signs, locations of early unfortunate events, or even the names of brothel owners, she can give you this. (The hardest part for her is trying to figure out which madam she wants to dress up as for Halloween, as there were many, and she knows their names and where they worked!)

EXPERIENCE OLD TOWN HAUNTED HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF A LOCAL GHOST WHISPERER AND HISTORIAN.

COME WALK WITH THE SPIRITS WHO ARE DYING TO MEET YOU...

AND TELLIING YOU TO ALWAYS BUY LOCAL…

If you would like to get a past life reading, explore the haunted history of your location, OR take a tour to learn more about the spooky history of Old Town Fort Collins please contact Hauntedhistoryafterdark@yahoo.com. 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!

Buffalo Bill's legacy part of Old Town Fort Collins Haunted History After Dark tours

Haunted History After Dark was honored to be part of the birthday celebration for Sara (third from left) along with her friends Alaina, Kim, Bryan, and Jamie (who was behind the lens) for a ghostly tour of Old Town Friday night. Tour guide, Suzy, was impressed that Sara, who was raised in Fort Collins, knew that the town was founded on a military reservation commissioned by Abraham Lincoln in 1864. But, what Sara didn't realize is that on that military reservation, 16 young cavalrymen lost their lives at the fort hospital and were buried in area that is now in the heart of Old Town.

Haunted History After Dark tour took Sara and her guests to that location where local ghost whisperer and tour guide, Grace, says the spirits of those young soldiers still haunt the location. They may have been laid to rest there, but they aren't sleeping! According to Grace they are as active as the humans are at this location and often have their own parties in this structure, especially on Saturday nights.
Along our route we also visited the site where a young attorney was murdered in broad daylight by an angry client. The home of the family of this victim is supposedly one of the most haunted locations in Colorado. As we traveled north on the second oldest street in Fort Collins the group learned about the history of Disneyland’s Main Street USA and it’s connection to Fort Collins including the window where Walt Disney would hang his lamp in an exact replica of one our towns own relics, which still welcomes visitors to the Anaheim them park, over a thousand miles away. One of our recent Haunted History After Dark guests was an actual tour guide at Disneyland who had visited Fort Collins to learn more about our hometown boy and one of the designers of Main Street USA ,Harper Goff. This tour guest was amazed at the exactness of Old Town and Main Street USA.  Throughout the tour he would say, “Yeah, this is Disneyland…this is it!” Another reason why Fort Collins is “one of the original happiest places on earth.”

Harper Goff

Before visiting our last and very haunted location, the tour wouldn’t be complete without touring the site of the second oldest bank in Fort Collins established waaaayyy baaack in 1879. That is 132 years ago! This location was also where the one and only Buffalo Bill Cody would advertise his Wild West Show (For some reason guys love this spot). One of Cody’s best friends was an early resident and he would often visit Fort Collins to catch up with his pal. Buffalo Bill was actually the town’s first preservationist and started the act of honoring our early residents in 1915. Thanks Bill! As historians we love our early residents and love to tell their stories for our guests. At this location, early circus flyers would also be posted and the group was shown what an actual poster, dated 111 years ago, looked like.

The tour ended at a location that has seen its tragedy and triumph and has enormous history. This site was built out of the town’s compassion for the tragic loss of an early bookkeeper, housed the prisoner (and once employee) of the only lynching in Larimer County history, and is supposedly “protected” by the very benign spirit who called this home for many years and still watches from the hose tower.  Although this site was the location where many an early murderer, madam, brothel worker, bootlegger and over imbibed cowhand spent time contemplating his or her fate, rumors of this site and businesses surrounding it as an area of macabre are still being investigated.

Take the Haunted History After Dark tour to find out the history of this haunted site as well as the most spooky locations in Old Town. Spend a ghostly birthday like Sara on our tour and learn the haunted history of Fort Collins Old Town.

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.