Did You Ever Wonder: Pikes Peak Ghost; Fyi Magazine

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Your column on Aug. 7 included an inquiry about lights on Pikes Peak, which your answer attributed to construction vehicles. (Update: overnight paving between 16 mile and 18 mile goes through Tuesday.)

According to a flurry of articles in the Gazette from 1929, there is another, more colorful possibility. The late J.G. Hiestand, manager of the Summit House, related the legend of a miner from Cripple Creek who attempted a shortcut across the face of the peak on his way to visit his sweetheart in Manitou Springs.

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Did You Ever Wonder: Pikes Peak Ghost; Fyi Magazine

Alas, he lost his way in the dark and fell into the bottomless pit. Since that time, he walks the peak on m...

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