We own a small house in Eldora, Colorado which is about an hour north of Boulder. It is a very small mining town that has a hell of a lot of history.
One day, my girlfriend and my aunt, who has lived out there for her entire life decided to go explore a house that my aunt stumbled across one day in the early 80's. This house is in the middle of absolute NOWHERE and my aunt is still surprised that she was able to find it again.
Anyways, this cabin stands at the top of a valley right above the tree line. There is a window looking out over the valley that you must walk through to enter the house.
Okay so my girlfriend and my aunt decide to explore the barn first. In the barn, they find chests full of pictures that were from the late 1800's. Inside the barn, there was a well, a bed frame with old comforters and shattered glass everywhere. My aunt has a digital camera and she began taking pictures and in the pictures, balls of energy or "orbs" showed up throughout the film.
Then my aunt decides to search the main cabin. She managed to remove the fallen tree that layed across the front of the door and she walked inside. She said it felt as if she had "walked back into history." She said the most everything in the house was still intact. There was a dining table, a stove, a couple of hand carved wooden chairs and a lot of shattered glass.
It was very dark inside of the house because it was an overcast day and the windows were boarded up.
My aunt remembers seeing a hint of sunlight coming from the stairs, so she makes her way up the stairs that led to the second story of the cabin. She remembers stepping over A LOT of shattered glass laying on the stairs. When she got upstairs, she saw glass everywhere on the ground. Broken chairs, and a bed metal bed frame faced toward the wall. There was one window in the far end of the room that looked over the valley. It was the only window in the house which was not boarded up. There was an old wooden rocking chair facing the window.
After spending a couple minutes upstairs, she begins to walk down stairs. As soon as her head gets below level with the second story floor, she hears a slight banging from the room she had just left. Puzzled, she walks back up very quietly. She peaks her eyes at floor level. (She's on stairs coming from up from the first level.) At that very second she sees a figure of a woman sitting in the rocking chair and rocking back and forth. She then said that the woman turned as if she was looking back at my aunt and then she disappeared. My aunt immediately turned and raced down the stairs and all she remembers is hearing four or five loud thumps.
As my aunt was on the last stair of the staircase, she felt a force pushing her that was gradually increasing. It ended up pushing so hard that it pushed my aunt in to the wall at the bottom of the stairs.
At this point my aunt was screaming and she sprinted out of the house and down through the valley. My girlfriend, who had heard her screams, ran after her.
After catching her breath. My aunt looked back up at the house sitting at the top of the valley and looked straight through the window on the second floor. And at that time she she got this strong feeling of sadness.
That is all she ever tells anyone. My girlfriend says there is more to the story but only my aunt can truly tell what happened.
Weird huh? I don't know what to make of the story. I have been to the cabin a couple times and it is definitely a weird place. We believe it is the cabin to the miner named William Harty. Supposedly Hartly and his wife both were snowed in during the middle of December and starved later that month.
Crazy stuff.
