Experience Denver’s Most Haunted Ghost Tour

Like the looming Rockies, Denver’s dark history casts a long shadow over the Mile High City. Find out why Denver’s crisp mountain air will always give you chills.

Denver Ghost Tours offer an unflinching look at the seething darkness within the Queen City of the West. Join us nightly for a unique collection of captivating and unnerving historical stories that reveal what makes Denver one of the West’s most compelling haunted destinations.

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Ryanne Buchannan

Five Stars

Jacob was awesome, we had a great tour!

12.01.24

Casey Holguin

Five Stars

Great tour with lots of interesting sites. Our tour guide Jacob did an excellent job and kept us on our toes the entire tour. Great way to learn about...

11.17.24

Josh Jennings

Five Stars

Loved this tour! Our guide Jacob was super personable, very knowledgeable and had a genuine love for haunt and horror. If you are in Denver you have t...

11.16.24

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Denver Terrors Ghost Tour

Join us nightly for a unique collection of captivating, and unnerving, historical tales that reveal what makes Denver one of the most compellingly dreadful haunted destinations in the West.

Meeting LocationTour Meeting Location: 200 E Colfax, Denver CO 80203

Tour TimeTour Times: Starts at 8:00 pm

Tour LengthTour Length: 1 Hour

Tour WeatherGhost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!

Tickets from $30
Times: Starts at 6pm
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Denver Terrors Spirits and Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl

Experience Denver’s macabre history filled with deception and death while sipping spirits at the finest Mile High drinking establishments.

Meeting LocationTour Meeting Location: 1278 Pennsylvania St, Denver CO 80203

Tour TimeTour Times: Starts at 6:00 pm

Tour LengthTour Length: Approximately 2 hours

Tour WeatherGhost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!

Tickets from $69
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Enjoy an afternoon of walking, eating, and exploring through downtown Denver at some of the city's most delicious dishes and culinary hotspots.

Meeting LocationTour Meeting Location: 1430 Larimer St, Denver CO 80202

Tour TimeTour Times: Starts at 11:00 am

Tour LengthTour Length: Approximately 2 hours

Tour WeatherGhost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!

Visit the Most Haunted Places in Denver

Many people come to Denver looking for the peace and natural serenity that the city is known for, far above the hustle of the East and West coasts. However, the darkness of human nature and its otherworldly residue still creeps into the corners of this serene city.

Denver Terrors takes you through the most haunted sites around the Capitol Hill area, where each location is more terrifying than the last, and the city’s sordid past comes alive every night.

Stairway to a haunted house

Molly Brown House

Otherwise known as The Unsinkable, Molly Brown was a philanthropist and Denver local who survived the tragedy of the Titanic. In line with her indomitable character, local legend has it that Molly Brown still wanders the halls of her stately home to this day. Since the Brown family were frequent travelers, the home was often a boarding house for various guests, and numerous characters have passed its grounds over the years–will you be one of them?

Entrance to a haunted building

Croke-Patterson-Campbell House

First built in 1891, the Croke-Patterson-Campbell House is an iconic, enormous structure. Easily classified as a mansion, it once belonged to State Senator Thomas Macdonald Patterson. It now operates as a hotel, but its history refuses to stay buried in the past. Considered one of the most haunted places in Colorado, sightings of ghostly apparitions and unexplained happenings are commonplace at this iconic house.

Front view of a red brick house

Peabody Whitehead Mansion

Nicknamed the most haunted house in Colorado, the Peabody Whitehead Mansion is a well-known fixture within Denver, but few know its true history. It once belonged to the surgeon William Riddick Whitehead. Some say that the spirits of the soldiers Whitehead could not save haunt the home. Reports of flying books, falling pictures, and disturbances throughout the night are all too common.

Stairway to a haunted house

What to Expect on Your Denver Ghost Tour

Denver may be well-known for its natural beauty and proximity to the Rocky Mountains, but most people don’t discuss what lurks behind the city’s tourist-friendly facade. Walk around Denver’s historic Capitol Hill neighborhood, also known as “Millionaire’s Row,” and see the great mansions of industrialists, greedy politicians, and cutthroat news barons. These men made the city what it is today, but they also left their spirits behind to torment and be tormented forevermore.

Journey with Denver Terrors to historical and haunted locations like the Capitol building, the Sheedy Mansion, and the Newhouse Hotel, and you will learn all about the ghoulish, terrifying, and sometimes flirtatious spirits that haunt the area. Your night-time trip through the scandalous past of Dever’s wealthy elite, as well as a few tales of working-class tragedy, will help you understand that even in the Queen City, the hairs can stand up on the back of your neck. Feel that familiar flutter in the pit of your stomach and know the true terror of the Mile High City.

While you walk around the city’s impressive Capitol, see if you can spot the pickled heads of a notorious outlaw gang that terrorized the town. They’ve been missing since a bounty was collected on their heads in the late 19th century. Discover Denver’s dark and complex story full of otherworldly mysteries. From Arapaho Native Americans to gold chasers, learn the history that laid the foundation for the teeth-chattering events that later took place here.

Discover the Horrors that Haunt Denver

Learn about the dismembered corpses that still prowl Cheeseman Park on foggy days and at night, searching for their missing parts.

Visit the Peabody-Whitehead Mansion, where the ghosts are as unforgiving as the manner of their deaths.

Discover where the unsinkable Molly Brown, aspiring socialite and one of the most famous Titanic survivors might still show her face.

Check out the Newhouse Hotel, which once operated as a speakeasy, allowing for questionable behavior from politicians.

Take a walk along the road that houses some of Denver’s most notorious haunts, such as the terrifying Graves House.

A statue amongst tombstones

Why You Should Book Your Denver Ghost Tour Tonight!

You need a crash course in the history of Denver, Colorado

The gold rush that started Denver, Colorado soon petered out, but the city found new life as a supply hub for new mines in the nearby Rocky Mountains. Add in an oil and gas boom, a militarily strategic location, and you soon have a boom town with enough money and opportunity to lure the future ghosts of Denver to their untimely ends in buildings up and down the city.

Take a whistle-stop ride through Denver’s history on a route around ‘Millionaire’s Row,’ in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The characters that built houses and often died in them illustrate the great themes and outsized personalities that shaped this spectacular city exactly one mile above sea level.

For example, the Sheedy Mansion, home of a hard-living Irishman who became Denver’s most ruthless and notorious debt collector and president of the Colorado National Bank, he was so disliked by the people of Denver that his death has barely mourned. This house holds many tales of hauntings, of people toiling unjustly for Sheedy, who perhaps roams the streets still reliving the human misery he caused.

You want something the whole family can do in Denver

The route that the standard Denver Terrors tour takes is just over 1 mile, easily walkable for even the youngest ghost enthusiasts. Your professional and capable tour guides are local experts and deliver 8 stories of the haunted histories of Denver that are suitable for the whole family.

For example, The Peabody-Whitehead Mansion is the site of many a failed restaurant, all of them dogged by the many resident spirits that won’t leave the silverware alone, and on one occasion a ghost was seen pouring a pitcher of beer down the shirt of a waitress! The mansion is so haunted it appeared on an episode of TV show Ghost Adventures where many spirits were found, especially in the dark and creepy basement.

If you have even more desire to see the places where the spooky tales of Denver’s dark side are, add the extended tour while booking your tour, this extra haunt adds another 4 haunted locations to your route, taking the ghostly wander to just over 1.5 miles.

You don’t Believe in ghosts, but are giving the supernatural a chance

Even if you aren’t convinced by the grim stories of Denver’s hauntings and take the stories with a pinch of salt, you will still be left with an insightful tour of the history and personalities that made Denver the city it is today. For example, you will hear about the good work of the gentle, lovelorn ghost of Madge Smiley Reynolds has often been seen pacing the stairs of a modest house on millionaires row, a notable social advocate for the poor and unjustly treated in Denver, she was also friendly with not one but two of the local newspaper owners, having a romantic relationship with Frederick Bonfils, the owner of the Denver Post. They would often ride together on horseback through the wild parts of Denver. The thought of her ghost waiting still to hear the clip-clop of her lovers’ horse approaching down the street is enough to melt the heart of the staunchest non-believer.

No one from Denver Terrors is going to try and change your mind about the echos of extraordinary lives through time. All we seek to do is layout the dramatic and authentic stories from the history books and the confirmed accounts of what people have seen and felt in the places where those outsize personalities lived their famous lives. The rest is up to you. We will say we have had guests and guides experience creepy sensations that they can’t quite explain many times before.

You are sure to enjoy the well-told stories of ghostly hauntings and terrifying happenings up in the cold mountain air of Denver. Even here in these peaceful surroundings, bad things do happen, and ghosts abound if you choose to be receptive to their pleas.

In Denver and Not Sure of What to Do?

Denver is a great destination, it has world-class museums, a zoo, and botanical gardens, the famous Coors Brewery, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. With the mountains casting their shadows on the city’s doorsteps, there are hundreds of outdoor pursuits available. But you can’t do most of those things at night. After a day of fun, if you want to keep the good times going, perhaps after a dinner at one of Denver’s great restaurants, a wander around town is one thing you might consider. Why not take the simple extra step of joining the Denver Terrors tour and absorbing some local history, and some spooky tales at places that hold horrid stories and0 ghostly hauntings.

The entertaining and knowledgeable guides of Denver Terrors love relating the history and hauntings of their hometown. Stories like the checkered history of the Newhouse hotel, built after the Silver Crash of 1893 by a German immigrant, who christened it the Hesse Hotel. The place became notorious for bad behavior and ended up changing its name after World War II to revitalize its image and avoid anti-German sentiment. However, it soon fell into disrepair and became a half-way house, the tales of death and depravity would fill a large book, it’s cleaned up its act now but the bad energy lingers on in the many tales of hauntings at the hotel today.

You’re on a tight schedule in Denver

In Denver for the weekend and looking for one of the best attractions in the Mile-high City?  Your days may be filled with one of the many things to do here, but what about the nights?  If you want to get the most out of your time here in the Queen City of the High Plains, a Denver Terrors ghost tour is at the ideal time of day to be entertaining, learn about the back story of this fascinating city, and still get a good night sleep as well!

Tours last just over an hour and take in some classic sights of Downtown Denver, the Capitol, millionaires row, and Colfax Avenue’s vibrant bustle. Did you know Colfax Avenue is named after Schuler Colfax, local politician and one time Vice President of the United States? He was a founder member of the Republican Party and author of the Thirteenth Amendment (abolishing slavery). He resigned in disgrace for taking cash and stock from the Union Pacific Railroad while they were seeking support to build the transcontinental railroad that brought prosperity and growth to Denver.

Hear more about this and many other tales from the city, its residents, and their ghosts on the Denver Terrors tour.

Get an insiders look at the Denver culture

Ghosts from the past are unique to the places they haunt; each disembodied spirit is a victim of their time’s unique circumstances and their particular life on this earth. Denver is no different. Each entertaining tale of haunting and human misadventure we relate along the gentle walk of Denver Terrors gives you insight into the history, character, and events of Denver’s fascinating past.

Locals take decades just to skim the stories we will tell you on the easy route of just over one mile. All our deeply researched stories spring straight from the history books. They take on a new life every time they are told, gaining new meaning as the past lessons teach us all about mistakes that others have paid a heavy price for making.

Like the tale of the tragic robbery that claimed the lives of four honest men on the Father’s Day Massacre, at the ‘Cash Register’ Building, also known as the Wells Fargo Centre.  Their ghosts haunt the vault and the spooky basement to this day. Or the tale of the Donald Fletcher House, owned by a minister turned real estate baron who fled the town leaving the locals to pay his debts. The town pulled through and changed the building’s name and eventually sold it to the Knights of Colombia. The charity’s staff often see the ghost of one of Donald Fletcher’s servants toiling still, waiting for their masters’ return.

Be a tourist in your own backyard

Being a Tourist in your home city is a welcome break that is good value. Stay at the haunted Newhouse Hotel and have dinner somewhere on vibrant Colfax Avenue, then stroll around the corner to the starting point of the Denver Terrors tour and learn something new about the Queen City of Colorado. Staycations have been around for a while, and you will often find locals on the Denver Terrors tour. They often add interesting details to stops on the tour.

Or maybe you might stay at the Grosvenor Arms apartments, which are as splendid on the inside as they are on the outside, but watch out, they are haunted in several ways. A heavy breathing ghost in the attic storage areas, research determined it is the ghost of a flapper dancer who died at a legendary party here in the 20s, the ghost playfully turns off water and outlets. Or the ghostly couple destined to be forever apart, he waits anxiously in the lobby, visible only out of the corner of your eye in the Lobby Mirror, while she stalks the 8th-floor laundry room, eternally preparing to meet her beau. Find out the stories behind these ghosts you never knew existed on your own doorstep.

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