{"id":1239,"date":"2009-10-28T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2009-10-28T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:55:00","slug":"dining-above-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Dining above the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I opened the Ca\u00f1on City Daily Record<\/i> <\/a>on Monday and learned that M. and I have been dining above the dead.<\/p>\n

One of our two favorite cafes in the nearby town of Florence, Colo., is the Aspen Leaf Bakery<\/a>, which, it turns out, is the second-most haunted locale in that county. (The first is the Prison Museum<\/a>, a former women’s prison, in Ca\u00f1on City. Funny about that.)<\/p>\n

According to the article, local ghost-hunters say the basement of the Aspen Leaf’s building seems to be a “meeting space” for spirits. “No one’s died there,” said one ghost-hunter. “So they’re just hanging around.”<\/p>\n

The Daily Record<\/i> offers no link (typical!) but at the Ca\u00f1on Ghost Trackers web site, you can follow their investigations and listen to their audio evidence.<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE:  If all the audio recordings start playing at once (depending on your browser settings), that does indeed sound spooky.<\/p>\n

My own experience has been more one of meta-ghost-hunting<\/a>\"\". And I left out of the book what I thought was the spookiest building of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I opened the Ca\u00f1on City Daily Record on Monday and learned that M. and I have been dining above the dead. One of our two favorite cafes in the nearby town of Florence, Colo., is the Aspen Leaf Bakery, which, it turns out, is the second-most haunted locale in that county. 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