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Charmaine Ortega Getz

Charmaine Ortega Getz is a freelance journalist and the author of Weird Colorado: Your Travel Guide to Colorado’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, Sterling Publishing, 2010.

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Snippy the Horse Is Headed to the UFO Watchtower

By Charmaine Ortega Getz
Oct 28, 2021

A new chapter in one of the most famous cattle mutilations stories.
Ten Weird and Wonderful Colorado Attractions

By Charmaine Ortega Getz
Jun 27, 2021

There are plenty of wacky and wonderful destinations in this state.
Creep Show: Six Very Spooky Sites in Colorado

By Charmaine Ortega Getz
Oct 29, 2015

Haunted locales may come and go (rest in peace, Flossie McGrew’s), but it’s their stories that make the standouts stand out. Here are six of Colorado’s most unusual spooky sites, guaranteed to give you the creeps not just on Halloween, but on any dark night. 1) Cheesman Park, between Humboldt...
Maurice Doreal and His Brotherhood of the White Temple Awaited the Apocalypse in Colorado

By Charmaine Ortega Getz
Oct 28, 2015

World War II was over and the Cold War was just heating up when a metaphorical Atomic Age bomb burst in Colorado. The American science-fiction community was still in an uproar over the Shaver Mystery, “The Most Sensational True Story Ever Told,” according to Amazing Stories magazine, a publication whose...

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