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What Lies Beneath: A Spirited History of Cheesman Park

The area was once a graveyard for early Denver residents, and ghost stories keep emerging.
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Artist Karl Christian Krumpholz dug deep to unearth the horrifying history of Cheesman Park.

Karl Christian Krumpholz

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This is the spooky season, and ghostly stories abound all over Denver…some of them right under our feet, in the case of Cheesman Park. Karl Christian Krumpholz, who has explored the changes on many of Denver’s streets — including both East Colfax and West Colfax Avenue — as well as Brighton Boulevard and Denver’s Union Station, decided to dig deeper this time, unearthing the horrifying history of Cheesman Park.

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Artist Karl Christian Krumpholz dug deep to unearth the horrifying history of Cheesman Park.

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This story was originally published in October 2022.

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