COLLEGIAN.COM
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Vol. 129, No. 23
Happy Lucky’s serves a spooky story The Fort Collins teahouse has a darker history behind its delicious beverages
By Sam Sedoryk @samsedoryk
and guest room, according to the article. Additionally, the article said that Ammons Hall is the most haunted building on campus, with giggles, growls, footsteps and lights turning on and off in the building. Reportedly, staff and faculty often won’t stay in the building after business hours because of the incidents that allegedly occur inside.
Fort Collins has had a long and notorious history of crime since its establishment in the late 1800s. Many in Fort Collins were arrested for bootlegging, prostitution and murder. In the name of justice, they were thrown away in the old municipal jail located in Old Town on Walnut Street. That jail is now home to Happy Lucky’s Teahouse. This building was once a firehouse, police station and jail until the late 1900s. The jail once held a variety of notorious criminals from around Northern Colorado. The particularly unsavory inmates were held in the solitary confinement cell, which is the size of a small closet. It is rumored that some of these inmates never left. “You don’t get a lot of room in solitary confinement,” said George Grossman, Chief Leafster and owner of Happy Lucky’s Teahouse. Several spooky encounters in the teahouse have caused rumors of spirits to circulate around local storytellers.
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Ammons Hall, where the University Welcome Center and Office of Admissions are located, is claimed by some to be the most haunted building on campus. PHOTO BY ANNA VON PECHMANN THE COLLEGIAN
The mysterious ghost hunt of CSU By Ravyn Cullor @RCullor99
With thousands of current students walking the halls of Colorado State University every day, some buildings might host shadows of the past. In 2013, CSU’s RamTrax tours brought the Ghost Hunters of Colorado to some of campus’ most allegedly haunted locations, according to a Today @ Colorado State University article, the predecessor of
SOURCE. The article was published to also announce that RamTrax would be bringing back the Mystery of CSU History Tours at the time. “While most of the stories might be a little more fiction than fact, I am convinced that we might not be the only ones living and working in some of the buildings,” wrote Regina Martel, the article’s author. “After one terrifying evening on a Mystery of CSU History Tour, the RamTrax team
thought it was time to call in the professionals to help us figure out what was going on, specifically in Ammons Hall and Student Services.” The haunted buildings Ammons Hall, which currently houses the Office of Admissions and the University Welcome Center, was originally built as the women’s recreational facility and continued as a co-ed recreational facility in the ‘90s. The facility had a pool, sunroom, living room
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