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• Scariest site: The Croke-Patterson Mansion has to be one of Denver's spookiest dwellings. Whether used as a private residence, apartments or as office space, the structure has been plagued by mysterious incidents. Former Rocky Mountain News owner Thomas Patterson died in the house, and Goodstein is fond of saying that when the newspaper fails to expose a scandal, Patterson's spirit acts up, causing typewriters and office equipment to shut off and on spontaneously. When one owner renovated the property, he had difficulty finding a night watchman to stand guard, so he got a Doberman to protect the house. The following day, said Goodstein, he found the dog dead on the lawn. Two other dogs supposedly jumped to their deaths out of a third-story window. A psychic conducting a séance in the house for a local television station claimed there was the ghost of a little girl living in the basement. One of the current owners reported waking up one night and seeing a petite woman dressed in old-fashioned clothes, who introduced herself as Maggie. One of the children who lived in the house in the past was named Margaret.
• Scariest tale: The scorned mistress of a politician cut her wrists and slowly bled to death in one of the units in the Acacia Apartments. Residents of the unit still claim to hear water gurgling in the tub late at night and keys spinning in the locks.
• Rating: Three ghosts
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