Entry No. 89 — the Colorado Springs file — filed under: haunted
Miramont Castle
A French priest named Jean-Baptiste Francolon built this 1895 mountainside mansion and apparently couldn't pick a style, so he used nine — Queen Anne, Romanesque, Tudor, Byzantine, Moorish and more — mashed into one 30-room, four-story pile. Inside there's a room of actual mummies gathered from Egypt, the Andes and the American Southwest; the land underneath once belonged to the colonel who led the Sand Creek Massacre; and after the priest fled in 1900 the place became a tuberculosis sanitarium run by the Sisters of Mercy. Staff and visitors still report a woman in a black dress, a man in a top hat, and a little girl who never left. You wander all four floors on your own.
The move: Take the self-guided wander through all 30 rooms — hunt down the mummy room and count the nine clashing architectural styles — then book the Queen's Parlour Tearoom (11am or 1pm) and do the full Victorian tea like a couple of eccentrics who just inherited a haunted castle.
📍 Before you go Self-guided, ~45–60 min through 30 rooms on four floors. Admission ~$15 (less for seniors/kids/military). Want the full Victorian treatment? Reserve the Queen's Parlour Tearoom ahead — 11am or 1pm seatings only.
- 📍 Manitou Springs
- 💸 $
- ⚡ Low-key
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 9 Capitol Hill Ave, Manitou Springs, CO 80829
Hours: Tue–Sun 10am–3:30pm; summer (Memorial Day–Labor Day) 7 days 9am–4:30pm. Queen's Parlour Tearoom seatings 11am & 1pm.
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Further reading: Official site · Wikipedia · denvergazette.com · Only In Your State
last checked: 2026-06-27