Sidebar by Martha Quillen
Local Lore – January 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
Way back in September, Colorado Central asked writer-formerly-in-residence, Columbine Quillen (who continues to labor for the home team on occasion), to collect a few local ghost stories to round out our Hallowe’en feature. But as it turned out, our main feature was a little longer than expected.
It wasn’t as if Salida’s ghosts were going anywhere, though. So we advertised for additional accounts, hoping to make Columbine’s short sidebar into a feature.
And we heard dozens of ghost stories. But most people weren’t inclined to commit their otherworldly experiences to paper. At this point, however, we can’t help but wonder whether haunted buildings are more common than unhaunted ones in Salida’s historic downtown district.
