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MHM
by David
Mile High Mysteries dives deep into Colorado’s most chilling unsolved crimes, eerie legends, and paranormal encounters. From the shadowy streets of Denver to the haunted peaks of the Rockies, each episode uncovers a new tale of intrigue, suspense, and the unexplained. Join us as we investigate the secrets hiding in the thin air of the Mile High State. Be sure to support us to help grow the page and the stories even more.
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The Town That Wasn’t There: Lost Roads, Time Slips & Vanishing Places in Colorado
Send us your stories or questions. What if you took a wrong turn… and found a place that doesn’t exist?In this chilling episode of Mile High Mysteries, we explore real accounts of vanishing towns, unexplained roads, and time slips across Colorado — including a story from the remote valley near Walden and North Park, where a driver encountered a fully lit settlement that disappeared the very next day.But this isn’t an isolated story.Across Colorado, travelers have reported driving down roads that don’t appear on maps, stumbling across buildings that shouldn’t be there, and experiencing moments where time seems to slow down, speed up, or vanish entirely.From eerie encounters on Guanella Pass to hikers in the Rockies losing hours without explanation, these stories raise unsettling questions:Are these just tricks of the mind? Effects of isolation and terrain? Or are there places where reality itself doesn’t behave the way we expect?If you’ve ever felt like a place didn’t belong… or like you stepped into something you couldn’t explain… this episode will stay with you.Because sometimes… the road doesn’t just take you somewhere new.Sometimes… it takes you somewhere that isn’t supposed to exist.Support the show
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Bigfoot in the Rockies: Steamboat Springs, Mount Zirkel and & Colorado’s haunted wilderness
Send us your stories or questions. Deep in the forests of Northwest Colorado, strange stories have been told for generations.In this extended episode of Mile High Mysteries, we explore reports of Bigfoot sightings, strange footprints, unexplained howls, and ghostly encounters in the wilderness surrounding Steamboat Springs, Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Routt National Forest, Rabbit Ears Pass, and the Elkhead Mountains.Hunters have discovered massive footprints in fresh snow near Rabbit Ears Pass. Backpackers camping deep in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness have reported heavy footsteps circling their campsites in the middle of the night. Ranchers near the Elkhead Mountains have described tall figures moving along distant treelines and eerie howls echoing across the valleys.But the mysteries don’t stop there.Abandoned mining settlements in Routt County have stories of ghost lights appearing in empty cabins. Hikers near Red Feather Lakes talk about a forest trail where footsteps seem to follow them through the trees. And campers along the Yampa River have reported strange nighttime sounds that defy easy explanation.Are these stories the result of wildlife, wilderness psychology, and the power of folklore? Or could Colorado’s mountains still hold secrets we haven’t discovered yet?Join us as we explore Bigfoot legends, haunted locations, and unexplained wilderness encounters across Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.And as always… we’ll let you decide what it all means.Support the show
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UFO’s over Fort Collins & Northern Colorado
Send us your stories or questions. Strange lights in the sky. Silent objects over open prairie. And mysterious drone formations that once left residents across Northern Colorado asking questions.In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we travel across Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Pawnee National Grassland, Red Feather Lakes, and the Wyoming border to explore some of the most intriguing unexplained sightings in the region.From ranchers reporting silent hovering lights near Grover and Nunn, to campers witnessing strange aerial activity above Pawnee Buttes, Northern Colorado has quietly accumulated a long history of UFO and UAP sightings.We also revisit the strange 2019–2020 drone mystery that spread across northeastern Colorado and Wyoming, where coordinated aircraft appeared to fly grid patterns over rural farmland, triggering investigations from local law enforcement and federal agencies.But the mystery doesn’t end in the sky.Historic locations in Fort Collins and Greeley carry their own unexplained stories, while drivers through Big Thompson Canyon near Loveland have reported strange flashes of light and eerie nighttime encounters for decades.Are these sightings connected? Are they misidentified aircraft, advanced technology, atmospheric phenomena… or something we still don’t fully understand?From Northern Colorado UFO sightings to the growing national conversation around UAP transparency, this episode explores the stories, the locations, and the people who have witnessed the unexplained.And as always, we’ll let you decide what it all means.Support the show
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UFOs Over Colorado: UAP Sightings and the July 8th disclosure Debate
Send us your stories or questions. UFOs Over Colorado: UAP Sightings and the July 8 Disclosure DebateAre UFOs being quietly acknowledged at the highest levels of government?In this extended episode of Mile High Mysteries, we explore decades of UFO sightings over Colorado — from the San Luis Valley to Denver International Airport — and dive into the growing national conversation around UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).We break down recent headlines involving former President Barack Obama’s viral comments about aliens, President Donald Trump’s statements about releasing UFO-related government files, and the rumors surrounding a possible July 8 disclosure announcement. What was actually said? What’s confirmed? What’s speculation?From military pilot encounters and Pentagon UAP reports to political transparency promises and cultural shifts in how we talk about extraterrestrial life, this episode separates fact from rumor — and lets you decide what it all means.Are we closer to UFO disclosure? Or just closer to admitting we don’t know everything yet?Look up. Colorado might be closer to the truth than we think.Support the show
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They Came Back Wrong: The Colorado Cases That Refuse to Make Sense
Send us your stories or questions. In Season 2, Episode 3 of Mile High Mysteries, we explore the unsettling cases where missing hikers return — alive, unharmed, and profoundly changed. From Clear Creek Canyon to the San Juan Mountains, these stories share a disturbing pattern: lost time, emotional neutrality, and experiences that don’t fit survival psychology. A deeper look into the moments when people don’t just get lost… they come back different. Support the show
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Where The Trail Ends
Send us your stories or questions. Deep in the Rocky Mountains, there are trails that don’t simply fade with time — they vanish. In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we investigate reports of a little-known path that appears on old maps, disappears in the field, and seems to take people with it.Drawing from real disappearances, search-and-rescue testimony, and firsthand accounts from those who turned back just in time, this episode explores a disturbing question: what if the wilderness isn’t lost… but selective?A slow-burn, atmospheric journey into one of Colorado’s most unsettling mysteries — where the trail ends, and answers don’t begin.Support the show
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Phantom Surveyor of Red Mountain Pass
Send us your stories or questions. In the Season 2 premiere of Mile High Mysteries, we explore the legend of the Phantom Surveyor of Red Mountain Pass — a figure seen measuring the mountains more than a century after his disappearance.From historic records to modern sightings, this episode blends Colorado history, eerie encounters, and the unsettling idea that some jobs… never end.Plus: a New Year recap, a look ahead at Season 2, and the announcement of a brand-new subscriber-only companion show featuring deeper dives and on-location episodes.Support the show
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The Cabin That Calls Back: The Vanishing Phone Rings of Timberline Creek
Send us your stories or questions. In this chilling episode of Mile High Mysteries, we head deep into the timbered slopes west of Salida to explore one of Colorado’s strangest unsolved legends: the phantom telephone calls of Timberline Creek. For over sixty years, hikers, hunters, and surveyors have all reported the same impossible phenomenon—a ringing phone inside a cabin with no electricity, no phone lines, and no physical phone at all. When the call is “answered,” a voice—sometimes human, sometimes not—whispers from the other side. Is it a lost soul begging for help? A memory looping through time? Or something older, calling out from the forest?A haunting, atmospheric journey into one of the state’s most enduring supernatural mysteries.Support the show
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The Lost Campfire Choir: Colorado’s Phantom Campers of Poudre Canyon
Send us your stories or questions. Episode 13 – “The Lost Campfire Choir: Colorado’s Phantom Campers of Poudre Canyon”In this chilling deep-dive, Mile High Mysteries explores the legend of Colorado’s Campfire Choir — phantom voices heard singing in Poudre Canyon for over a century. From the vanished Harrow family of 1953 to modern hikers reporting footsteps, humming, and disappearing campfires, this episode untangles one of the state’s eeriest wilderness mysteries. Are these echoes of the past… or something still calling out from the dark?Support the show
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The Ghost Blizzards Of Colorado
Send us your stories or questions. Colorado’s weather is unpredictable at best — but what about the storms that never really happened? In this chilling episode of Mile High Mysteries, we explore the legends of Colorado’s ghost blizzards: phantom snowstorms that blind drivers, terrify miners, and vanish without a trace. From 19th-century pioneers to modern-day truckers, witnesses describe sudden whiteouts, eerie voices in the wind, and temperatures dropping out of nowhere. Are these tricks of weather… or echoes of tragedies like the Blizzard of 1888?Buckle up — the storm is coming. Or is it?“Blizzard brings tragedy to Northwest Plains | January 12, 1888” — History.com Editors. (HISTORY)“The 1913 blizzard is still Colorado’s biggest snowstorm” — 9News, Dec 2 2020. (9News)“Tales of the Northern Coal Field: The Snowstorm of 1913” — YellowScene, Jan 27 2019. (yellowscene.com)Support the show
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The Phantom Road: Ghosts, Gates, and Fire on Riverdale
Send us your stories or questions. Riverdale Road has been called “the most haunted road in America.” With legends of the Gates of Hell, phantom joggers, ghost cars, and even roadside apparitions, it’s a highway of horrors like no other. In this chilling episode, we drive through the stories and the shadows, headlights on — but nerves rattled. Be sure to subscribe and support the channel so we can continue to bring you great content.Support the show
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Phantom Lights of the San Luis Valley
Send us your stories or questions. The San Luis Valley appears again, this time with tales of phantom lights. For decades, residents and travelers have spotted glowing orbs moving across the horizon, vanishing without explanation. From folklore to science, we unravel this mysterious phenomenon and ask — what really lights up the valley nights? Support the show
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Hearts Carved in Stone: Love & Legend at San Luis Valley Petroglyphs
Send us your stories or questions. Deep in the San Luis Valley, petroglyphs carved into stone tell stories we can’t fully understand. Were they messages, maps, or something far more mysterious? With a Nicholas Sparks-style narrative blending history, mystery, and emotion, this episode explores love, loss, and the timeless marks left behind. Support the show
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Baby Doe’s Final Winter: Love, Loss & Solitude at Matchless Mine
Send us your stories or questions. Baby Doe Tabor’s story is one of Colorado’s most heartbreaking legends. Once the wife of a silver baron, she lived her final decades in solitude at the Matchless Mine near Leadville. This deeply personal narrative blends history, loss, and the lingering presence of a life cut short — a haunting tale of devotion and downfall.Become a supporter and help grow this podcast.Support the show
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Haunted Shafts & Ghost Towns: Teller County’s Dark Underbelly
Send us your stories or questions. Teller County’s mining history is lined with fortune — and misfortune. In this episode, we explore cursed mines, tragic heirs, and the ghost stories left in their wake. With a mix of history and eerie firsthand accounts, the past feels far closer than you’d expect. Support the show
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Into Thin Air: Colorado’s Vanishing Hiker
Send us your stories or questions. Colorado’s wilderness is as beautiful as it is unforgiving. Over the years, countless hikers have gone missing—but some disappearances defy logic. In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we explore one such case: a hiker who stepped onto a trail and was never seen again.Through newspaper reports, personal accounts, and strange details that don’t quite add up, we trace the haunting story of a vanished trekker. Was it the terrain, foul play, or something stranger? And why do these mountains seem to keep their secrets so well?With a mix of eerie storytelling and a dash of humor to lighten the tension, this episode reminds us that while Colorado’s trails are breathtaking, they also hold mysteries that may never be solved.Support the show
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Shadows in the Pines: Bigfoot and the San Juan Mountains
Send us your stories or questions. High in Colorado’s rugged San Juan Mountains, hikers, hunters, and even seasoned locals have reported encounters with something they can’t quite explain—massive footprints, eerie calls in the night, and shadowy figures moving just out of sight. Could it be Colorado’s own Bigfoot?In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we dig into eyewitness reports, local legends, and even newspaper clippings that hint at a creature stalking the alpine forests. From campers who swear they were watched all night to miners who recorded giant tracks in the snow, the San Juans hold more than just breathtaking views—they may hide something primal, wild, and unknown.So, was it Bigfoot… or just the mountain air playing tricks? Either way, you might think twice about wandering the woods alone after dark.Support the show
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Vanished in the Valley: The Mystery of the Missing Hiker
Send us your stories or questions. Every year, thousands of hikers set out on Colorado’s trails in search of fresh air, breathtaking views, and maybe a little peace and quiet. But sometimes, those trails keep their secrets. In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we dive into the chilling disappearance of a hiker who walked into the mountains and never returned.Drawing from news reports, first-hand accounts, and a few whispered theories, we piece together the strange details of the case. Was it nature’s fury, human error—or something stranger lurking in the wilderness? With eerie coincidences, odd reports, and a dose of Colorado mountain humor, this story will leave you double-checking your compass next time you lace up your boots.Support the show
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The Lost Hours of Highway 285: Colorado’s Time Warp Road
Send us your stories or questions. Highway 285 looks like any other Colorado road—towering peaks, winding curves, and the occasional herd of elk crossing at the worst possible time. But for decades, travelers have reported something far stranger than mountain traffic: hours lost without explanation, watches running backwards, and eerie silences where time itself seems to bend.In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we explore the strange accounts tied to this stretch of highway. From truck drivers swearing they skipped whole towns, to hikers who emerged hours later than they should have, we dive into the unsettling possibility that Colorado’s mountains hold more than just snow and scenery. Is Highway 285 a glitch in reality—or just another road trip story gone too far?Support the show
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Echoes of St. Elmo: A Colorado Ghost Town Frozen in Time
Send us your stories or questions. Once a booming mining town in the heart of the Rockies, St. Elmo now stands eerily silent—its streets empty, its buildings weathered but still holding on. Locals and visitors alike swear the town isn’t truly abandoned, with stories of ghostly shopkeepers, flickering lights, and strange footsteps echoing through the night.In this episode of Mile High Mysteries, we wander through the history of St. Elmo, from its rise during Colorado’s mining rush to its quiet decline, and the chilling legends that linger in its boarded-up storefronts. Is St. Elmo just a relic of the past—or a place where the past still walks among us?Support the show
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Whispers in the Dunes: UFOs Over the San Luis Valley
Send us your stories or questions. In our very first episode of Mile High Mysteries, we journey into the San Luis Valley—one of the most active UFO hotspots in America. Towering sand dunes meet endless night skies, and for decades, locals have reported strange lights, hovering craft, and unexplained encounters near Great Sand Dunes National Park.From government secrecy to stories of glowing orbs that follow travelers across the valley floor, we explore the chilling accounts that gave this place its reputation as “Colorado’s UFO capital.”Is it military testing? Natural phenomena? Or something not of this Earth?Join us as we kick off the series with a mystery written in the stars above Colorado’s most surreal landscape.Support the show
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Mile High Mysteries dives deep into Colorado’s most chilling unsolved crimes, eerie legends, and paranormal encounters. From the shadowy streets of Denver to the haunted peaks of the Rockies, each episode uncovers a new tale of intrigue, suspense, and the unexplained. Join us as we investigate the secrets hiding in the thin air of the Mile High State. Be sure to support us to help grow the page and the stories even more.
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