We caught this one a day or two ago.
Irrigation work at Denver’s Cheesman Park last Thursday and Friday unearthed the former cemetery’s eery past in the form of four preserved skeletons.
The coroner’s office dated the bones as older than a century and will re-inter them at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Their identities, however, are lost to history.
Cheesman is, today, a very nice park, just south of downtown Denver, and one of the first places around here Sharon and I investigated – at the time, with Denver Ghost Hunters. Cheesman was basically Denver’s first organized cemetery, first burial about 1859, but went untended and mostly abandoned, and eventually a blight on the growing city.
You can read about Cheesman’s history at bit here.
We didn’t capture anything when we went investigating (well, some orb pics, but let’s not go there…), and actually thought the notion of getting paranormal evidence outdoors in a city park, during a fairly busy early evening, was a bit silly. But we’ve been back once or twice since then, and the fact is, actually, the place does have a somewhat strange, off-balance feel to it. And the stories from people who live around there are actually pretty creepy.
There are still quite a few grave-shaped depressions in the open grassy area, paradoxically easier to see by streetlamp at night than during the day. Most are now-filled-in former graves, but no way to be sure.
And as this story suggests, at least some are still buried there.
