Boulder meets the spirits at semi-annual graveyard event
Thirty-three “ghosts” in Boulder’s Columbia Cemetery will come to life for one day to tell their stories of life and death in the Old West.
“Meet the Spirits,” a semi-annual event organized by Historic Boulder and Boulder Parks and Recreation, will be held in Columbia Cemetery on the Hill from noon to 5 p.m. on Oct. 21.
Tickets to the event will cost $10 for adults and $5 for children.
“Actors in authentic period clothing borrowed from the Boulder Museum will portray early Boulder residents buried at Columbia,” said Mary Reilly-McNellan, project manager for Columbia Cemetery Preservation.
At “Meet the Spirits,” you can meet Tom Horn, a scout, solider and assassin hanged for a murder he did not commit.
A deaf tealeaf reader as well as many other Boulder “spirits” who died before their time will be at the event.
“There will be tales of murder, gold, ladies of the evening and an early undertaker,” Reilly-McNellan said.
As visitors explore the cemetery, the “spirits” will haunt their headstones, each telling short vignettes of their lives and deaths in Boulder.
The Legendary Ladies reenactment group will be present as Victorian mourners create a Masonic funeral ceremony and do a performance as ghost hunters.
There will be a display of antique and vintage hearses.
