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Grant Humphreys Mansion
Denver CO

Location:
770 Pennsylvania Street
Denver, Colorado

The Story: The Grant Humphreys Mansion is a 3 story, 30-room palace built in an architectural form that was inspired by the ancient world and Renaissance Europe. James Grant was one of Colorado's most wealthiest men and he built his home has a showpiece for the total cost of $35,000. That was a lot of money back in 1902.

The house was built by Governor James Grant in 1902. Once he died in 1911, his wife Mary sold this grand home to the Humphrey's family in 1917, a wealthy southern-born entrepreneur. Grant's son and daughter-in-law, Ira Boyd and his wife, Lucille, lived with them. Ira was a brilliant inventor who was honored with an engineering award for his brainchild, the Humphreys spiral concentrator. It was a device used in the development of ore concentration during World War II.

This old house is said to be haunted by five different ghosts. One is A.E. Humphreys, a former owner of the mansion. Known as an excellent marksman, Humphreys died on May 8, 1927, from a suspicious gun accident that took place on the third floor. A séance sponsored by radio station KNUS contacted several of the departed spirits. 

In nearby Cheesman Park, near the Grant Humphreys Mansion, the remains of 2000 people are still buried there, as the park was built on top of the Mount Prospect Graveyard or Boot Hill, founded in 1858. The Denver City officials decided to use the land for something else in 1893. They hired an incompetent undertaker who had 90 days for the bodies to be moved, but he made a huge mess of things, creating a large scandal as many graves were left unmoved. Graves were looted in the process, bodies were broken in order to fit them into little mini-boxes, causing body parts to litter the ground, getting all mixed up. No respect was given to the unearthed dead, despite being warned by psychics.

The spirits were disturbed, and it was reported they began wandering around and through the buildings and homes near the cemetery by showing themselves in mirrors. Finally, the whole mess was plowed under, and a park was made on top of the havoc created, called Cheesman Park.

At least 5 resident ghosts make the Grant Humphreys Mansion their home. The entity known as Albert E. Humphreys is sill enjoying his home, restless because of his untimely death due to either stupid accident, a possible suicide or a deliberate murder.

4 other separate entities keep his ghost company. Perhaps some are from the disrupted and desecrated graveyard, who still haunt the park area. Perhaps other family members or other people with a connection to this mansion have also decided to move in and make themselves at home.

Radio Station KNUS in Denver held a séance in the mansion, probably as a Halloween event, and actually contacted several entities. Ghost lectures are held here every October, because of known paranormal activity.