THE STORY
Reported Haunting
The Peabody-Whitehead Mansion gained a reputation as one of Denver's most haunted residences, with some accounts claiming as many as a dozen spirits inhabited the property. Reports included apparitions, unexplained footsteps, voices, and other disturbances attributed to former occupants of the historic mansion.
Built in 1889, the Peabody-Whitehead Mansion is reportedly home to around 12 spirits. Witnesses have reported books that fall off shelves, objects that move on their own, a ghostly baby’s cry, breaking glassware, the ringing of disconnected service bells and phones, a flickering chandelier that wasn’t even hooked up to electricity, and a ghost who poured a bottle of beer down a cook’s shirt after the cook badmouthed homosexuals. Paranormalists say the ghost of a young woman named Eloise or Ella hants the second floor, and the basement may be haunted by the spirit of a waitress who hanged herself there. An older man is said to haunt the first-floor women’s bathroom smoking a strong cherry-scented pipe.