It’s a story that would chill the bones of anyone who’s ever seen Poltergeist: In the 1890s, the city of Denver decided to convert a disused cemetery into what is now Cheesman park, hiring the ...

Before Cheesman was a popular Denver park, it was a cemetery. A largely neglected cemetery for outlaws, the poor and the diseased. But by 1890, as the neighborhood grew, residents wanted something ...