Welcome to the paranormal deep dive from Real Ghost Stories Online and the Grave Talks.

Here's a place nestled in the mountains of Glenwood Springs that once echoed with the laughter of presidents.

And now perhaps the whispers of the dead.

Built in 1893 as a luxurious retreat for the elite,

Hotel Colorado has hosted the likes of Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft.

Its towering Romanesque design was meant to awe.

But what lingers behind its ornate arches and sandstone walls

is anything but ordinary.

Over the decades, this Grand Hotel transformed from a presidential escape to a wartime

naval hospital, and with that change came stories.

Strange stories, a woman in a floral dress standing at the foot of your bed.

The scent of perfume with no visible source.

Doors that unlock themselves.

The chill of a basement that once held the dead.

Some say it's all imagination.

Others swear it's something far more persistent.

From the legend of a murdered maid named Bobby to the scent of Devereaux's phantom cigar drifting through smoke-free halls, these tales aren't just

whispers. They're woven into the very fabric of this historic site. So tonight we dive headfirst

into the haunted past and present of Hotel Colorado,

a place where the line between history and haunting isn't just blurred. It may not exist at all.

I'm Tony Bruske. Let's dig in. The story of Hotel Colorado begins not with ghosts, but with

grandeur. The year was 1891, and Walter Devereaux,

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