Wish We Were Here

In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called The Freedom School.

On this weekend’s special episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of the proposed Broadmoor land swap deal and the way that open […]

UPDATE: On Monday, 4/25/16, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation officially confirmed that the remains found in January in Saguache County were those of Mike Rust.

A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist.

Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top.

With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman.

For many years in the 1990s and 2000s, Colorado Springs was so synonymous with conservative evangelical Christianity that it earned the nickname “The Evangelical Vatican.” But in late-2006, Pastor Ted […]

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one another.

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth.

PODCAST   In 1959, at the age of 15, Jim Bishop bought a plot of land in the Wet Mountains, west of Pueblo, Colorado.

(Many poems in the slideshow NSFW or young eyes.) In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the story of Colorado Springs native Brian “Scoop” Nemeth, a man with […]

In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed dozens of other people around the country.

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, Producer Noel Black tells the story of a small community of kids who grew up in Colorado Springs with gay parents.

At an old prison in southeastern Colorado, an experimental new program is working to help chronically homeless people from around the state rebuild their lives.

This episode of Wish We Were Here was originally broadcast in November of 2014   On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events […]

In this pilot episode of Wish We Were Here, we critically examine the career of one of the 20th century’s most infamous con-artists, Storme Aerison.

“Wish We Were Here”  – Enjoy this introductory teaser for the pilot episode, I is An Other, which  unpacks the story of Storme Aerison (aka Charles Daugherty, Storme Ireland, etc.,) the […]