Haunted Colorado
Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado is built on top of the Mount Prospect graveyard, which was known as Boot Hill in the 1850's. In 1873 officials renamed the site City Cemetery, and began burying only transients and criminals there.
In 1893 the city gave notice that all the buried bodies had to be removed from the cemetery, but nobody claimed most of the remains, and a large number of graves were left untouched. As a result, an undertaker was hired to remove the remaining 6 to 10 thousand bodies. His instructions were to place the bodies into 1 foot by 3.5 foot pine boxes and deliver them to Riverside Cemetery for reburial. Workmen had to break the corpses down to fit them into the miniature boxes, and as a result, body parts were scattered over the ground and inadvertently mixed together. Even today, as you stroll the park, you can still feel soft areas of sunken graves under your feet.
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