Mt. Pisgah Speaks 2026

Once again, the ghosts of the World’s Greatest Gold Camp will speak… Do you hear them?

Please join The Gold Camp Victorian Society (GCVS) of Cripple Creek on Saturday, September 19th and Sunday, September 20th for our twenty-sixth annual presentation of Mount Pisgah Speaks, an historic tour of Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Cripple Creek’s historic resting place for its endless host of characters from days gone by.

The Gold Camp Victorian Society members will again be portraying many of the most colorful characters of the World’s Greatest Gold Camp of the 1890s. It’s as if the dead are rising from their graves to entertain all who come to visit with their riveting, hilarious and often heart-rendering stories.

The 2026 cast of characters will include:

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• Pearl DeVere, the most beloved Madam of the gold camp and the only Madam to be buried in the cemetery;
  
• The Ghost of the Potter’s Field, and the unknown and unnamed buried there;
  
• Father Volpe, a prominent, eclectic Catholic priest philanthropist in1890 Cripple Creek
  
• Mabel Barbee Lee, Cripple Creek’s most beloved teacher and author of Cripple Creek Days;
  
• Doc Susie, the famous female doctor of the frontier;
  
• Digger O’Dell, the man who dug the graves of Mt. Pisgah (in a creative way).
  

And others…

These famous ghosts, as well as the common folk who lived and worked in the gold camp, will tell their tales of life in one of the most active mining districts in the world where gold is still mined today. You will see the apparitions come alive as they stand at their own graves to tell their stories. This remarkable historic production portrays some of the gold camp’s most famous, infamous, nefarious and lovable characters in an entertaining and slightly spooky atmosphere.

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