Episode notes
In this week’s episode The Mystics dig up Colorado’s wildest legends and chase them straight into the mountains as they unravel not one, not two, but three pieces of high-altitude weirdness 👻 Starting in the crumbling remains of Buckskin Joe, where the legend of Silver Heels still lingers in the mountain air 👠 The mysterious woman in shining shoes who captivated a rough-and-tumble mining camp and then vanished after a devastating smallpox outbreak. Was she a selfless heroine? A myth polished by time? Or something a little more ethereal? 🧚🏻 Buckskin Joe, Colorado is also home to J. Dawson Hidgepath. A man whose skeleton allegedly refused to stay buried 🦴 As if that wasn’t enough mountain madness, we climb higher to Marshall Pass 🚂 and the chilling legend of the Phantom Train, a ghostly locomotive said to have chased a terrified engineer thro ...