10/24/2026
Who’s up for a little ghost hunting? 👻 Silver Cliff is home to the spookiest graveyard in Colorado! 🪦
Are you brave enough to visit?
The ghostly “dancing blue orbs” of the Silver Cliff Cemetery have been seen since the late 1800s. ✨
On a moonless spring night in 1882, three miners left a bachelor party and decided to cut through the cemetery on their way home. As they wound through the gravestones, they noticed little glowing orbs of blue and white light; floating, bouncing, and dancing around them.
Since then, locals and visitors have reported seeing the eerie lights. Almost always on dark, overcast nights. Once, the entire town turned out all its lights to see if maybe they were reflections… and those little blue orbs still appeared. And they began to gain national fame...
In 1969, National Geographic sent a reporter, Edward J. Linehan, to investigate the lights. “Dim, round spots of blue-white light glowed ethereally among the graves,” he wrote. “For 15 minutes we walked about the place, pursuing one will-o’-the-wisp, then another. I aimed my flashlight at one eerie glow and switched it on. It revealed only a tombstone.”
No one has been able to explain the mystery of Silver Cliff Cemetery’s dancing blue lights. Some say they are the ghosts of miners long past. Others say they are ball lightning, swamp gas, or phosphorescence from the tombstones.
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🪦 If you want to explore the mystery yourself, why not make a trip to Silver Cliff?
📍The cemetery is located about one-half mile south of State Highway 96 on Mill Street. It is owned and operated by the town.
🔸 If you visit, day or night, please be respectful of the gravesites. This is the eternal resting place of many of our family members, so treat it with the care and reverence as though your own family was buried here.
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You might notice a second cemetery a little farther down the dirt road. That’s the Catholic cemetery, known as The Assumption. Although it was founded in the late 1800s, no one has reported ghost lights at this neighboring cemetery.
Because of the age of both cemeteries, many grave markers have decayed or are illegible, while others bear a simple name or date: “Baby 1829” or “Daughter.” Seventy-nine veterans are buried here, and six are from the Civil War.
If you decide to visit, let us know if you spot the dancing blue orbs! And if you want to learn more about the cemetery’s history, stop by the Silver Cliff Town Museum off Main Street.
Happy hauntings! 🖤
*All photos taken by Amanda Schreier. 📸
