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Real Ghost Stories Online

Central City's Eerie Cemetery Tales | Paranormal Deep Dive

Real Ghost Stories Online

Tony Brueski

Religion & Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Science, Spirituality

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Tony Brueski digs into the enigmatic history of Central City's Masonic Cemetery, a burial ground steeped in tales of the supernatural. Listeners will journey through the cemetery's origins during the Gold Rush era, uncovering stories of early settlers and the town's resilience following the devastating fire of 1874.  Tony delves into the enduring legend of the Lady in Black, a spectral figure said to appear annually at a specific gravesite, and examines other reported phenomena, including mysterious orbs and shadowy apparitions. 

Through eyewitness accounts and historical records, this episode explores the intersection of history and hauntings, questioning what might be behind the persistent reports of paranormal activity in this historic Colorado town.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the paranormal deep dive from Real Ghost Stories Online and the Grave Talks.

0:07.1

There's something unsettling about an old cemetery. The air is heavy, the silence is deafening,

0:13.1

and time seems to stretch in a way that makes you feel like you're not alone, even when you know you are.

0:20.4

But in central city, Colorado at the

0:22.6

Masonic Cemetery, that feeling isn't just a trick of the mind. For over a century, visitors have

0:29.3

reported strange occurrences, eerie whispers carried on the wind, ghostly figures standing

0:35.4

motionless in the distance, and mysterious lights that float between

0:38.8

the tombstones.

0:40.4

But the most chilling legend.

0:43.5

A woman in black who appears once a year to place flowers on the grave of a man named John

0:48.8

Edward Cameron, only to vanish into thin air before anyone can approach her.

0:55.5

Is it the spirit of a long-lost lover, a memory imprinted onto the land?

1:00.9

Or is there something much older, much darker, lingering among the gravestones?

1:06.2

Tonight we take a journey through history, folklore, and the unexplained as we uncover the secrets of the

1:12.6

Central City Masonic Cemetery. I'm Tony Bruske. Let's dig in. Central City, Colorado wasn't supposed to be

1:19.7

anything more than another blip on the map. A mining town, like so many others, built on sweat, greed,

1:26.0

and the relentless hunt for gold. But in 1859, when

1:30.3

prospectors struck one of the richest gold veins in the country, the town exploded into a booming

1:35.5

metropolis practically overnight. Wealth poured in. Fortunes were made, lost, and made again,

1:43.5

and with success came everything that followed,

1:45.8

a rush of people, a rising crime rate, and, of course, an inevitable increase in the town's dead.

1:53.5

The Masonic Cemetery was established in response a final resting place for the men and women

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