When Helen Peters was sent to the hospital after she broke her hip in a fall her husband Phillip would have to stay home alone- in the house the two had lived in for over three decades.

Phillip's kind neighbors made sure that he was taken care of too, by inviting him over for dinner every night his wife was away- so that he didn't have to eat alone.

When Phillip didn't show up one night for dinner however, his neighbors concerned, would go to check on him- it was then they

would find Phillip's lifeless body, beaten to death- but they would find no clues as to who murdered Phillip Peters.

Soon neighbors would notice strange sounds and smells coming from the vacant home- and lights would seem to turn themselves on and off.

By all appearances the murder of Phillip Peters seemed to have been committed by a ghost- and even newspapers reported the crime as the "Denver Ghost House Slayings."

The truth in this case though is far more crazy than anyone could have ever saw coming.

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