Yesterday, my wife and I visited the Silver Cliff Cemetery, at Silver Cliff, Colorado. It’s a stone’s throw east from Westcliffe, Colorado. We picked this cemetery because of the drive…and that it’s supposedly haunted. It’s listed as the “most haunted” (scroll to the bottom to read about it) Colorado cemetery. Of course, you need darkness and a moonless night to see the supposed blue and white lights, but we went during the day…also to go on a drive on such a beautiful, crisp October day that it was. We saw no glowing lights that are said to hover above the graves, and are also written up in National Geographic (August 1969, Volume 136, No. 2). I did a quick search for the NatGeo magazine, but didn’t find any entry into one, just outlets looking to sell it to me, and now, to search NatGeo’s archives, you need an account. Not creating one.
Our visit was interesting…once entering Silver Cliff, you take a left on an unmarked street (should have been labeled “Mill Street”) just before the only pizza joint in town (on the left), drive down a short stretch of Mill Street blacktop, then onto a dirt road, which takes you out into the open Colorado plains. Lots of sun and wind. Open space. This, as well as another cemetery we also visited just up the dirt road from it, The Assumption Cemetery (will post tomorrow), both repose before the beautiful Sangre de Cristo mountains. Basically, they’re not your typical, Night of the Living Dead layout, but, this is Colorado. They both had some beautiful and interesting gravestones, and, as always, these places always fascinate me about the lives lived and lost. Who were they—really? How’d they die? How’d they live?
What are they doing now?
Here are some links to read about Silver Cliff:
Top Colorado Cemeteries to visit
Silver Cliff Lore 1 (lights)
Silver Cliff Lore 3 (lights)
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Great pics, Frank! It’s the next best thing to being there. Which I should try on a moonless night, it seems. Preferably with Wendy in tow … O_o
Oh, I am THERE, Paul! Don’t worry, I’ll protect you.
Aren’t you sweet? I’ve also got a couple of shotguns with rock salt in the trunk of the Impala. FYI. 😉
Thanks, Paul!
I thought about the nighttime trip, but it just wasn’t “logistically” possible this time out….
Cool, cool, COOL!
Thanks, Wendy! And it WAS cool, with the October wind whipping the place…or was it SOMETHING ELSE, entirely….
Sounds like a wonderful drive and an interesting afternoon. Thanks for sharing the pics!
Thank you, and you’re most welcome, Thea!