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The old cemetery at Cheesman Park, as apparent in 1950s. (Photo: History Colorado Collection)

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KUSA - If the attic patches in your Instagram augment aren’t abundant of a hint, here’s a newsflash for you: it’s about Halloween.

So, in the spirit of this chilling holiday, accumulate about a bivouac and apprehend these alarming Colorado abhorrence belief … if you dare.

Don’t apprehend them in the dark.

Leadville beautician attractive for a “good time” in Denver murdered instead

Leadville beautician John F. Fitzgerald told his wife that he was advancing to Denver to appointment a friend. Instead, he was traveling to Holladay Artery in chase of a “good time.”

This amiss artery was a abode the Rocky Mountain News says “a blameless woman or an honest man was looked on with all-inclusive suspicion” and it was where, afterwards a night of bank and prostitutes, Fitzgerald was aftermost seen.

That is until two weeks later, aback three boys arena in Cherry Creek begin pale, decomposing duke appear from the mud.

The Rocky Mountain News banderole at the time about the abominable annihilation of John H. Fitzgerald, a beautician from Leadville who abolished afterwards a ablaze of bank and prostitutes on a band-aid Denver street. (Photo: Rocky Mountain News)

Investigators couldn’t absolutely allotment calm what had transpired … until they abstruse Fitzgerald had gone to Belle Worden’s “house of prostitution.” Neighbors heard cries of “murder!” that night.

Four bodies were arrested for Fitzgerald’s annihilation – which they believed was motivated by the cycle of $115 he had in his pocket.

Read added about his real-life abhorrence adventure here: http://on9news.tv/2xmHXJZ

The Denver Spiderman and his Moncrieff Abode murder

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The Denver Post, October 18, 1941 (Photo: The Denver Post)

It was a abomination evocative of a abhorrence movie, but the afterlife of Phillip Peters was abundant drifter than any bit of fiction a biographer could imagine.

The 73-year-old was begin bludgeoned to afterlife in his home at 3335 West Moncrieff Abode on Friday, Oct. 17, 1941. His arch was burst with a abundant “stove shaker” and there was claret everywhere, including on the ceiling. Badge were stumped. There was no motive. There was no suspect.

Nothing had been taken from the home and the aged man had no accepted enemies.

That abutting July, a woman alleged badge in a all-a-quiver voice. She had been assassin to attending afterwards the house, and said she heard aberrant noises. One day, she absolutely saw something.

"Just a few account ago, I heard a array of tapping. I had heard it before, but I anticipation it was alone some woodpeckers. But this time I absolved into the kitchen- and I saw the aperture to the stairway that leads admiral boring open," she told police. "A bottom came out and afresh I saw a attenuate white duke on the door! I screamed and the man ducked aback into the stairway and I heard him active up the steps.”

Police couldn’t acquisition annihilation in the house. Officers were assigned to angle bouncer there, but begin nothing. They were adequate of their duties.

The Denver Post Empire, February 7, 1960. (Photo: The Denver Post)

It wasn’t until afterwards that two badge men who went to analysis on the abode heard a lock axis in a aperture upstairs. They opened the aperture and saw a brace of legs dematerialization upwards into the attic.

He lunged, affairs the man’s legs until he clattered to the ground, and afresh alleged his captain.

The badge arch declared this man as "the strangest attractive animal I had anytime seen. He was a alpine man, aloof beneath 6 feet, but attenuate as a angled weed. His bedraggled beard afraid low over his ears, and his bark was the ugly, army gray of an clouded sky."

He had been active in the home back September, and no one had noticed. No one except Peters.

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Peters knew this alleged “Denver Spiderman” (his absolute name was Theodore Coneys) and had arrive him over aback they met at a mandolin and guitar club. One algid September, Coneys remembered his “old friend” Phil Peters and aback he had gone to the hospital to appointment his wife, Coneys let himself central the house, raided the fridge for aliment and begin a apart console arch up to the attic.

He fabricated his 27-by-57-inch-wide breadth his home.

When the abode was vacant, he would let himself bench to abduct aliment – aloof abundant to break satisfied, but never abundant to draw suspicion.

Read added about this alarming Colorado case here: http://on9news.tv/2h8a8Go

Three children, two boys and a girl, comedy on a bean momument amid the tombstones and monuments at Mount Calvary Cemetery, the Catholic area of Mount Prospect Cemetery (later Denver Botanic Gardens), in the Capitol Hill adjacency of the Burghal and County of Denver, Colorado. The babe stands abreast the top of the cairn and holds her duke aloft her eyes to appearance the surrounds. (Photo: Denver Public Library Western History Collection)

Thousands of bodies removed from one of Denver’s best arresting parks

The Cheesman Esplanade you apperceive and adulation today acclimated to be article a bit added ghostly.

In fact, it acclimated to be a cemetery.

The burghal bought the acreage in 1880 and vowed to catechumen it into a park. In 1893, an administrator was tasked with removing some of the bodies. It is estimated that he larboard 4,200 abaft – and that abounding of those absent and abandoned souls still abode the park.

Colorado aborigine Alferd Packer. (Photo: Unknown)

In 1924, the acreage that was already the cemetery was purchased by baptize commissioners. During renovations to install sprinklers in 1976, they begin a metal articulation from a child’s casket – as able-bodied as added aberrant archives.

Read added about Cheesman Park’s history as a cemetery here: http://on9news.tv/2zPLPVh

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This real-life aborigine got appear from prison, maybe became a vegetarian and afresh got a cafeteria called afterwards him

The Alferd Packer adventure is one engrained in Colorado legend.

Here’s what happened: on Feb. 19, 1874 Packer and bristles added men larboard a affected abreast Montrose. They were on a expedition from Provo, Utah to Breckenridge Colorado in chase of gold.

The bristles added men were never apparent again.

After association in Saguache, Colorado became apprehensive that Packer aback became a “big spender” at a bounded saloon, board got a authority of his aboriginal confession. In it, he claims one man died and the accomplished affair ate him. The additional man to die was additionally eaten, according to the confession, and he attempt and asleep the aftermost man, accoutrement up his remains.

"This book erected in anamnesis of Israel Swan, George Noon, Frank Miller, James Humphreys, Wilson Bell, who were murdered on this atom aboriginal in the year 1874 while beat the mineral assets of the San Juan Country." (Photo: Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.)

Packer was jailed, but afterwards able and wasn’t begin for nine years. The bodies of his victims were begin in a basin abreast Lake City, Colorado. It was a abominable scene, and there's still a canonizing there to this day.

Packer was begin accusable of annihilation in 1883, and a adjudicator reportedly said Packer should be “hanged by the close until you are dead, dead, asleep …”.

After an appeal, his confidence was reversed, and he was afterwards begin accusable of assassination and bedevilled to 40 years in prison. He was paroled afterwards 17 years and afterwards confused to Littleton.

Some letters say he alike became a vegetarian.

You can appointment Alferd Packer's grave in Littleton cemetery, as able-bodied as accept a quick cafeteria at the Alferd Packer Restaurant & Grill at CU Boulder.

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