AAPI has been fortunate once again to appear on The History Channels' MEGA MOVERS series. We were asked to investigate and report on the Meyers Cabin, in Conifer, and investigate in front of their cameras. We were very fortunate to have full access to the cabin and barn before they were both moved to there present location, closer to the beautiful Victorian home off of Co. Hwy 285 in Conifer. The schedule of the show can be seen by accessing The History Channels website. Thanks again, 44 Blue Productions, for the opportunity.

Jason Steelman was asked to hang a few of his paranormal pictures in Gallery Xzanthia as part of their ‘Hub of Humanity' experience series. Jason, AAPI's event coordinator, received an appreciated atmosphere as patrons viewed his work. Many questions were asked as well as the exchange of many ghost stories. AAPI was graciously invited to do an investigation of the gallery itself. We are pleased that the photographs were a huge success. You can visit Gallery Xzanthia web site by clicking here.

Authors Roz Brown and Ann Alexander Leggett recently asked Stephen if he would write a small editorial on the topic of what he believes Orbs to be, for their second edition book, 'Haunted Boulder County 2-Ghostly Tales from Boulder and Beyond'. In doing so he created an article that can be read on our site called Understanding Orbs.

A little about Roz and Ann

 

Ghosts and ghouls

Creepy goings on around Boulder County chronicled in book

By Lisa Marshall, Camera Staff Writer - October 30, 2003

 

 

As legend has it, there's one lurking in the northwest corner of Lafayette Cemetery, near the unkempt rose bushes and the tombstone marked "Transylvania."

Another can be heard shuffling across the creaky wood floors at the Old Louisville Inn after closing time, playing pranks on owner Garrett McCarthy and his employees.

And then there are the ones Susan Paul has roomed with since 1962. Paul says she once watched one of them lift up her helpless terrier and lob him across the room.

To hear the stories, you'd think Boulder County is crawling with ghosts.
Perhaps it is, say Roz Brown and Ann Alexander Leggett.

To research their books, "Haunted Boulder," and the newly released "Haunted Boulder 2: Ghostly Tales from Boulder and Beyond" (White Sand Lake Press; 2003), the duo spent two years touring dozens of haunts in Boulder County and beyond. They met with paranormal investigators and psychics, pored over newspaper clippings and history books, and visited spooked homeowners who swear that what they've seen is real.

If they weren't convinced before, they are now, they say.
"You walk through these places and you just know something is going on," says Leggett.
Adds Brown: "You believe in the people who believe in the ghosts."

Old Louisville Inn

It's hard not to believe McCarthy. A clean-cut, former triathlete and no-B.S. businessman, he hardly seems the type to attend a séance or consult a Ouija Board.

But doubt his tales of hearing mysterious footsteps at his century-old inn, and he snaps back.
"There are footsteps and there are creaky floors. I know the difference."

During Prohibition days, the Old Louisville Inn was one of dozens of taverns in the red-light district of the town's center, all linked by subterranean tunnels where patrons could escape when the police came. It was also a brothel where, as the legend in "Haunted Boulder 2" contends, a young prostitute named Samantha was stabbed to death by one of her customers.

McCarthy says he first encountered Samantha not long after he bought the place in 1994. He headed for the basement — an inherently creepy place with partially dirt floors, brick walls, and dim light — and he walked right through her.
"When I hit it, I just froze," he says, standing in precisely the spot where he hit "a cylinder of frigid air."
His ears rang, he felt sick. "It was just a completely uncontrollable feeling."

Sue Lyn Ghormley, a paranormal investigator who brought a team of researchers to the restaurant and bar in July, knows that feeling: "The basement in that place was unbelievably powerful. ... It made me sick to my stomach, like someone had been brutally murdered down there."

While many of McCarthy's employees refuse to descend the rickety wooden steps leading to the basement, that's precisely where he heads after closing time to do paperwork. He says he regularly hears footsteps upstairs, and when he peeks at the security monitor on his desk, he occasionally sees a shadowy image in one of the bar booths above.

He's spotted Samantha herself, clad in a purple chiffon dress, out of the corner of his eye a few times.

Each St. Patrick's Day, the busiest day of the year for the place, she and her fellow ghosts make themselves known with their antics. One year the furnace went out; the next, the grease trap filled up; the next the computers went down; the next the toilets backed up.

Last year, finally, they gave McCarthy a break.

"They aren't malicious, just mischievous," he says. "I think I've figured out all their tricks."
The Williams Homestead

Susan Paul was 13 and at home babysitting her 3-month-old brother when she came to firmly believe in the ghosts her mother had talked about for years.

"I heard the dog crying and went downstairs. The dog's body was physically going through the air," recalls Paul, a 48-year-old Boulder school teacher. "She would land against the back of the chair, whimper, come back and be thrown again."
Paul's story is riddled with shaking stairways, unexplained whistles and doors opening and closing on their own at the old Boulder homestead her family bought when she was 7. It is one of the most frightening in the book "Haunted Boulder 2."
Surprisingly, she still lives there.

After she got married and moved away, she and her husband opted to buy the old house back and move the family in.
"I still feel tugs on my shirt and turn around and there will be no one there. And there are parts of the house that I would not want people sleeping in," she says. "But it's a wonderful house with a huge yard and lots of trees. Having them here just makes me feel like there are things we don't understand."

The Lafayette Vampire

It took some digging for authors Brown and Leggett to understand just who or what is buried beneath the slightly mangy-looking cedar tree at the northern edge of Lafayette cemetery.

For decades, curious teens have flocked to the site to catch a glimpse of the so-called Lafayette Vampire, clad in a black trench coat with long, razor-sharp fingernails. Paranormal researchers make it a regular stop when visiting Colorado. It's even posted on one Web site profiling roadside attractions across the country.

Perhaps the tree is growing from the spot where a stake was driven through his heart, its roots spreading out to keep him from rising from the grave, visitors have theorized. Perhaps the blood-red, thorny rose bushes represent his long fingernails, thriving long after his death.

Nah, say Brown and Leggett.

The truth surrounding this Boulder County ghost story is not so spooky.

According to newspaper clippings and history books, the grave likely belongs to two men: Theodore Glava, a miner from Transylvania who died in 1918 from influenza; and John Trandafir, a native of Romania who died a few days later of pneumonia.

The two may very well be irritated that their grave has been transformed into a tourist-trap for ghost-seekers. At times Brown, Leggett and other paranormal researchers say they have felt a "slightly peeved" presence around the gravestone.
The bottom line on the Lafayette Vampire, they say:

"Urban legend."

 

One of our photos was featured on Coast to Coast Am With George Noory

The photo was part of the shows topic along with guests Richard Hoaglan/Enterprise Mission and Paul Guercio - Dr. George Hart/The Merlin Project.

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Occasionally we pop up on a radio show as guests to explain various phenomena. Here is a list of stations we have appeared on for various reasons. We may pop up on one of them at any time.

KCSU-FM 90.5	KOSI-FM 101.1	KKHK-FM 99.5
KTCL-FM 93.3	KALC-FM 105.9	KIMN-FM 100.3
KXPK-FM 96.5	KBPI-FM 106.7	KXKL-FM 105.1
KBCO-FM 97.3	KLZ-AM 560	KXKL-AM 1280
KRFX-FM 103.5	KWMX-AM 1600	KBCO-AM 1190
KUVO-FM 89.3	KCFR-FM 90.1	KHIH-FM 95.7
KYBG-FM 92.1	KHOW-AM 630	KZDG-FM 92.5
KGNU-FM 88.5	KNUS-AM 710	KYGO-FM 98.5
KUVO-FM 89.3	KTLK-AM 760	KAGM-FM 102.3
KCSU-FM 90.5	KOA-AM 850	KLMO-AM 1060
KCFR-FM 90.7	KYBG-AM 1090	KTMG-AM 1370
KUNC-FM 91.5	KDKO-AM 1510	KEZW-AM 1430
KRKS-FM 94.7	KLTT-AM 800	KKFN-AM 950
KQKS-FM 104.3	KYBG-AM 1090

 

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