We sat down at the Manitou Springs Heritage Museum with museum president Manitou Mike Maio and Sam Driscoll of Theatre D'Art, the two people behind the Manitou Springs Ghost Tours. Mike tells the full Emma Crawford story (that you likely haven't heard), and Sam makes the case for Soapy Smith, the con man who sold bars of soap, and talks about playing Robert "Rattlesnake" James, the hairdresser who married and murdered five or six wives.

And that's just scratching the surface of the stories they have! Also in here: the museum's own ghost, the tall, thin man who appears only in window reflections, and the gunshots that ring out on the west end of town at one in the morning. What?!

Want to hear more? Don't miss the ghost tours! Tours run Friday and Saturday nights, October 2nd through 30th. Kids under 11 get in free.

Tickets at manitouspringsheritagecenter.org.

Timestamps

• 02:19 Meet Manitou Mike Maio and Sam Driscoll
• 04:43 Soapy Smith, the soap-selling con artist
• 05:53 Why the tours use actors instead of guides
• 08:19 The museum's own ghost
• 10:42 The legend of Emma Crawford, told in full
• 15:33 The arcade reflection and the 1 a.m. gunshots
• 20:21 The homicidal hairdresser
• 25:04 Tickets, timing and accessibility

Links

• Tickets: manitouspringsheritagecenter.org
• Facebook: Manitou Springs Heritage Museum
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