The Haunted Heart of Denver by Kevin Pharris

Author:Kevin Pharris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

BEASTLY GHOSTS ON INCA

It’s amazing how often you begin to stumble upon things as soon as you become aware of them. You know what I am talking about, don’t you? Imagine the first time someone explains to you the meaning of the word “sesquipedalian.” I mean really explains it to you so that you remember it. You will suddenly begin to see the word everywhere. You will wonder if it really had been everywhere before and you are only now just more aware of it or if, through some conspiracy of coincidence, the world suddenly seems to be crazy for the word sesquipedalian.

I don’t have the answer for you, but I bet you know what I am talking about, even if you don’t know the word sesquipedalian. It’s a good one; look it up before you continue and maybe you’ll see it elsewhere very soon!

I was in the store one afternoon, buying whatever it was I was buying that day. While waiting, a friend of mine called. Since the line was not that long, I answered but told him I would call him right back. Before he let me hang up, he said something like “I hear you’re doing a haunted book! Ha, that’s the funniest thing I have heard, you’re going to have to tell me all about it, etc.” to which I replied, “Yeah, who would have ever thought I would be doing a book about ghosts,” or something to that effect and hung up the phone, returning to my mental reverie.

My thoughts were interrupted by the person in front of me, a woman who blurted out that she had a house that was haunted. She seemed uncomfortable to be confiding this information to me, like someone sharing a secret where she had some shame, but as we talked about it more, she seemed to warm up to me and the idea of being able to tell someone about it.

This is a good story to share, not only because I was able to interview the couple who experienced it but also because it is a good reminder that it is not only grand houses and grand neighborhoods that experience that chilling touch of something unwelcome.

Brinker and Stella are a nice couple. They got married and needed a place to live, so they chose a place in the Greater Baker neighborhood, closer to Santa Fe than to Broadway, thinking that the neighborhood was coming up and that their house would come up along with it. The street they ended up on was in need of some love, but it had lots of people who seemed very enthusiastic and friendly. They liked the place and saw it as a project; it certainly needed some help!

The front yard sat filled with weeds or barren dirt. The backyard was not a yard at all, having been entirely paved over with cement. The house itself had a strange upper story, not quite finished but not entirely unfinished either, and the main floor was an odd tangle of doors in confusing places and walls where there should be none.

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