Brown Palace Hotel Hauntings and Lore

The Brown Palace Hotel, opened in 1892, is a landmark hotel in downtown Denver that is the subject of longstanding local ghost stories and folklore about spectral sightings and unexplained occurrences. These tales - naming particular rooms and former guests in anecdotal accounts - have been repeated in guidebooks and featured on local ghost tours. The stories form part of the hotel’s popular lore, but reported hauntings are anecdotal and disputed.