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A wide, dry winter lawn in a park, with bare trees, evergreens, a white colonnaded pavilion and several apartment towers along the far edge under a clear blue sky.Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0
An empty, ice-covered rectangular reflecting pool in the foreground, with steps and a grass slope leading up to a white marble pavilion with two rows of columns.Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0
Two large spruce trees frame a view across a park of low shrubs, curving paths and metal benches, with downtown office towers on the horizon.Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0
Panoramic photograph at dusk of a lit white colonnaded pavilion on a rise, with lawn, two illuminated fountains and a circular bed of red and white flowers in the foreground.Photo: Knapp.keith, CC BY-SA 3.0
Elevated view over a green park with a large oval lawn, curving paths, mature trees and a small white pavilion, with apartment towers on the left and the city stretching to the horizon.Photo: R0uge, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cheesman Park

1 published account
Park or natural site, Former cemeteryCapitol Hill, Denver
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Open to the public

Cheesman Park is a public city park, and vehicles are not allowed inside except for approved loading and unloading. Events in the park require a city permit.

What people recorded here

1 published account, credited to its source

Cheesman Park is a city park in Denver's Capitol Hill, part of the 320 acres that held Mt. Prospect Cemetery from 1858 until 1907 and where an estimated 2,000 bodies were left in the ground 1. Westword collected accounts of whispering and groaning voices near the site of the mass graves, along with a singing woman, vanishing children and formless shadows after dark, and noted that the reports come from unverifiable sources 1. Visitors commonly describe feelings of grief or dread on the lawns, a weighted-down sensation that makes it hard to rise from the grass, and figures crossing the grounds at night.

Activity level

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  • 5 Intense0
  • 4 Strong0
  • 3 Noticeable0
  • 2 Subtle1
  • 1 Nothing unusual0
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Westword1 account · May 16, 2014

Westword's 2014 appraisal of the park collected accounts of disembodied voices whispering and groaning near the site of the mass graves, and of a singing woman, vanishing children and formless shadows on the grounds after nightfall. The same piece described visitors and neighbors reporting feelings of grief and dread, and difficulty rising from the grass as though weighted down, and said the reports came from unverifiable online sources.

Apparition · Disembodied voice · Felt presence · Heaviness or pressure · Shadow figure

Park lawns and the area of the unmoved graves