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HISOTRY OF THE MYTH

The "Boulder Witch" is known as an urban legend, however it is very much true to a certain case in Boulder Colorado.

The myth is based off of an ex faculty member of the University of Colorado, Marilyn Benson who was an academic adviser for the English department. In 1964, Marilyn became involved in an affair with one of her students who she was infatuated with. Marilyn was was 38 and had yet to be married and thought the affair was more than a lustful relationship. After a two year affair, her student left her for another student whom he had stronger feelings for. Marilyn had a very hard time dealing with this and began writing letters for him to accept her back and how they could run away together and get married. After numerous letters, her former lover went to the dean of arts and sciences with the letters. Marilyn was asked to leave her position at The University of Colorado. Marilyn went into a deep state of depression and remained locked in her home located off Arapahoe Ave. She resulted in black magic and began conjuring spirits in order to help them guy her past lover to her again. It is said that she went to the extent of selling her soul to the devil in order to be with her love again. In 1970, she took her life on a cold frost covered winter morning by throwing herself off a bridge into the Boulder Creek where her body was found covered in frost. Her body was found with a thick slit found across her throat with no bleeding to which the police found starling because the autopsy showed she died of the extreme cold.

After her death it is said that her soul roams the Boulder Creek at night looking for her lost love. Many women have complained of being pushed or having their hair pulled because of the hate the Boulder witch has for the girl her lover picked instead of her.

Her residence is also a place of tales. After she dies her home was restored and rented out by the bank. After numerous complaints of being woken up in the middle of the night and doors slamming, the home became very difficult to rent out. There was even an instance of tenants seeing a black figure in the attic of the home and the attic is said to be the room where Marilyn offered her soul to the devil. After numerous years of the home not being able to sell or rent, it became abandoned and remains in a dilapidated state with wooden boards on every window.

Main Stream References

In Stephen King's novel, The Shining, he makes a reference to a female figure that is uncannily familiar with The Boulder Witch.