There's a long list of haunted cemeteries.

Some of the more famous ones are Bachelors Grove and Resurrection Cemetery in the Chicago

area.

Forced an infamous legend of the Spectre Hitchhiker Resurrection Mary is tied to the latter.

Then you have Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Stole Cemetery in Stole Kansas and St. Louis

Cemetery in New Orleans.

But why would a cemetery be haunted?

What reason would a spirit have to linger around where they were buried?

One would think that the spirit, if it chose to remain Earthbound, would be where their

death took place or in a place that they enjoyed spending time in life.

Regardless, many report seeing spirits in cemeteries.

Such is the subject of this episode, the Cheeseman Park in Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.

In 1893, the modern site of Cheeseman Park became the setting for one of the largest

mass uprisings that the dead have ever staged.

The 320 acre park was originally zoned as the Mount Prospect Graveyard in 1858.

The burial ground, known locally as Boothill, was divided into three sections, a Catholic

section, a Jewish section, and a general city section.

When the city of Denver took control of the cemetery in 1873, the city section quickly

became a planting ground for dead transients, criminals, orphans, poppers, and victims

of disease or epidemic who could not afford to pay for their own plots.

This portion of the cemetery quickly fell into disrepair.

With the rest of the graveyard following suit within a few years.

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