Comments on: Denver's dirty little secret

Denver's dirty little secret

shockingbluamp — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:31:27 -0800

One of the most beautiful and disturbing places in Denver. It a quiet place and quite the place to see. A movie was made about a house and the fellow who rented it one day...adjacent to the park. Scared me to death as a little kid.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:42:21 -0800

One of the most beautiful and disturbing places in Denver.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:33:36 -0800

I'm just incapable of being disturbed by anything with a name as fanciful as Cheesman. Of course, I said the same thing about Lemon Party...

By: quintessencesluglord

quintessencesluglord — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:08:01 -0800

Where ghosts linger on the breath of the prostitutes and the indiscriminate still haunting the park after dark.

By: lapolla

lapolla — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:24:50 -0800

there's a similar park in san diego

By: netbros

netbros — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:15:15 -0800

Q: What do you call a ghost's mother and father? A: Transparents

By: bibliowench

bibliowench — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:27:35 -0800

We used to live right next to Cheesman Park about 10 years ago. I remember hanging out there during summer evenings and watching several shirtless men blasting ABBA on their boombox and turning this structure into an impromptu gay roller disco. I loved that place.

By: decagon

decagon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:44:59 -0800

Oh dear, it's this. When I was 11 I read about this park in a library book about haunted places. Freaked me the fuck out at the time, even though I didn't live anywhere near Denver. In fact, it embedded itself in my consciousness deeply enough that when I read the first sentence of this post, my brain immediately fired off an "OH CRAP IT'S CHEESMAN PARK" signal.

By: decagon

decagon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:48:00 -0800

This sentence is a thing of beauty: Today, Cheesman Park is host to scores of unsuspecting tango dancers.

By: elmwood

elmwood — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:49:22 -0800

dgaicun> One of the most beautiful and disturbing places in Denver. Yeah, but the sopapillas, though ...

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:55:09 -0800

I'm just incapable of being disturbed by anything with a name as fanciful as Cheesman. So now you need to ask yourself: Why were you led to Cheeseman?

By: jasper411

jasper411 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:04:51 -0800

I used to live right next to Cheeseman, and worked as a stage manager on a few of the musicals in the park that were put on there in the summers. I had a balcony and could see the park - it had a long road looping through it. Back before being openly gay was acceptable in Denver (and pre AIDS), it was a very busy pickup place for gay men. Lots of cars driving around and around at night, greeting each other with some kind of headlight flashing code that I never understood.

By: CCBC

CCBC — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:34:58 -0800

I don't understand the Changeling link. That movie was set in Seattle and actually filmed in Vancouver.

By: shockingbluamp

shockingbluamp — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:31:29 -0800

A house near Cheeseman Park was the lnspiration for the movie.

By: shockingbluamp

shockingbluamp — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:35:54 -0800

oops... inspiration for the movie. Ignore the link above.

By: CCBC

CCBC — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:10:27 -0800

So I did some googling and what you are after is the Henry Treat Rogers mansion (Scroll halfway down.). Right? Here's another link.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:27:06 -0800

Menacing: To read the whole story of the park's haunted past, click HERE!