Colorado – Hatchet Lady/Old Mrs. Johnson, Red Rocks
The iconic concert venue and park had a its very own ghost. Supposedly, Mrs. Johnson would pull her coat over her head and carry a hatchet to scare off her daughter’s would be dates, and thus now appears decades later as a headless ghost to hikers and concert goers who want to get to know one another better in the shadows.
In other tales, Hatchet Lady was a homeless woman who used to live in a cave and kill children. Today, people hang out in the old graveyard off one of the trails, trying to get a glimpse of her. Either way, she’s just one of several ghostly apparitions that are haunting Red Rocks.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)