A Spirited Cartoon History of Denver's Cheesman Park

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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.

Look out below!