Spectral Storytelling Sojourns with Madame DuBois

15/11/2024

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas on my tours! Bundle up and bring a hot drink and make a new festive, fun, family tradition of visiting all of Denver’s historical places and hearing all their stories!

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13/11/2024

10/11/2024

Denver's Tivoli Club (on the left) was a famous gaming hall and saloon operated by the infamous Soapy Smith. The Tivoli Club was located at 17th and Market and was operated from 1885 to 1895 by Smith, a con artist who rose to lead a crime syndicate that controlled much of the city Denver. The Tivoli Club was Smith's headquarters and home to his gang of disbarred lawyers and political bosses as well as petty criminals. It was known around town that visitors would lose money here, but the biggest crime came for Smith's fake stock exchange, lottery shops, and fake diamond auctions

09/11/2024

Inside Margaret (Molly) Brown’s house 🖤

08/11/2024

What now has a scary or haunted connotation, was once used as a primary tool during the Civil War Era. Those who lost someone in the war and were looking to communicate with them used these “talking boards” provided by a spiritual medium.

A spiritual medium is believed to mediate or deliver messages from spirits, or loved ones who have passed one. One medium in particular, Helen Peters Nosworthy helped commercialize these boards and coined the name “Ouija Board”.

As the story is told, Nosworthy allegedly asked the talking board what it wished to be called and it spelled “O-U-I-J-A”. Asking what that meant, the board then spelled out “G-O-O-D-L-U-C-K”. After being denied twice a patent, the “Ouija Board” would spell its name in front of a chief patent officer. The patent then granted.

She was good friends with Molly Brown and lived just down the street on Capitol Hill. The pictured Ouija board is in fact displayed at the Molly Brown House.

Nosworthy later died in 1940, but her grave can be found at Denver’s Fairmount Cemetery.

08/11/2024

31/10/2024

On the afternoon of October 31, 1880, two Chinese men were attempting to enjoy a game of pool at a saloon on 16th and Wazee known as John’s Place when a group of men began accosting them. Despite several attempts to cool the situation down, and spirit the Chinese men to safety, the incident quickly spiraled into a full-blown race riot.

By the time the authorities got the situation under control, nearly every Chinese-owned business in the city had been burned down, dozens of Chinese were injured, and one man, Sing Lee, was lynched at the corner of 20th and Blake, next to Coors Field.

The Denver anti-Chinese riot of 1880 is one of the most shameful episodes in Denver’s history. Its toxic mixture of racism, alcohol, and misinformation brought about by politicians days before the presidential election, led to the near complete demolishment of Denver’s once-thriving Chinatown

27/10/2024

An Electric car factory at the Fillmore Auditorium….? Yes!
In Capitol Hill, structures such as the Penn Garage were built to house automobiles when recreational cars began to replace the horse and carriage. Wealthier families in the neighborhood stored their automobiles at the Penn Garage, including Molly Brown, who kept her Fritchle 100-mile Electric here.
This vehicle was one of the most expensive and elaborate cars of its day. Oliver Fritchle opened his electric car company in Denver in 1904, and by 1910 moved the factory to the building now known The Fillmore Auditorium, at Colfax and Clarkson. The company handmade probably no more than 500 cars. It produced its own axles, steering parts, motors, controllers, and batteries, and even had its own sewing department. Its employees were recruited from old carriage manufacturing companies.
The 1917 invention of the self-starter for gas engines signaled the decline of electric automobiles such as the Fritchle. Today one can see quite possibly the last surviving example of a Denver-manufactured automobile, and an example of what Molly Brown’s car looked like, at the Colorado History Museum.
The Penn Garage has remained a Capitol Hill landmark and serviced automobiles for more than seventy years. In early 1997, it was purchased and renovated into lofts. Other commercial garages throughout Capitol Hill were built in a similar style and have the same red and blonde brick and window patterns 🖤

20/10/2024

Capitol Hill or as it was known at the time “Quality Hill” anybody who was anybody built their mansions here. I have so many spooky and salacious stories to tell you! Please join me!
Book your Historical Haunted walking tour of Capitol Hill with me today! 👻

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15/10/2024

Please come to a devilishly delightful evening of spooky stories and heavy metal as I host the Deadbangers Ball!
Lots of prizes and giveaways await you too! A rockin’ raucous time shall be had by all!! 🖤🖤🖤

15/10/2024

I had the most amazing evening last night hosting the inaugural event of the Poetry Brothel at Mockingbird, such an amazing space too!!

Book your Historical Ghost walking tour with me today!! Let me tell you all my stories!!

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13/10/2024

Hello Lovelies!!
For those of you whom enjoy my content and have asked, I have created this for you!

Your support of my mad endeavours means the world to me! 🖤🖤🖤

05/10/2024

Last night was a beautiful evening for a ghost walk… my crow army still never fails to disappoint! 🖤🖤🖤

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01/10/2024

Getting ready for October!
Book your ghost tour today, I am booking up quickly!

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30/09/2024

In 1893, Colorado became the second state in the United States to grant women's suffrage and the first to do so through a voter referendum. Even while Colorado was a territory, lawmakers and other leaders tried to include women's suffrage in laws and later in the state constitution 🖤

29/09/2024

The Sheedy Mansion is ripe with all manner of spooky stories! Book my Capitol Hill tour to hear them or if you have $8.4M burning a hole in your pocket and wish to purchase this beautiful historic mansion, message me at Julia Kaaren-Realtor!!

The mansion on Grant Street was crafted in the late Victorian era and owned by one of Denver’s biggest businessmen at the time. Over a century later, the building is still standing and on the…