The Story

In 1992, a few weeks after buying their new home in Black Forest, Colorado, the Lee family came home one night to find a Pink Floyd laser-show gone terribly wrong in their living room. "We had all kinds of lights flashing through, and it sounded like people stomping across the roof. We would lay in bed at night and hear chains rattling. One night we woke up and heard orchestra music. Strange things started happening every day," said Beth Lee. The Lee's 2 sons reported strange activity aswell. They claimed they saw shadows and weird lights in their rooms. Other occurrences included appliances and lights turning on and off by themselves, aswell as untraceable chemical odors that burned family members' eyes and throats.

Within the next 4 years, the Lees reported 62 unexplainable "break-ins." The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department opened an investigation in April of '93 and conducted 45 follow-ups, but could never find any evidence of a "crime." Soon after, the Sheriff's Department stopped responding to Steve and Beth's calls. That's when the Lee's hired private investigators to try to figure out what was going on.

About that time, Steve noticed that photographs and videotape taken in certain locations on the property had strange light streaks running through them, and sometimes, translucent faces even appeared on the film. Determined to document the activity, Steve borrowed and purchased every type of camera he could think of to see if the bizarre images appeared, but no matter what type of camera or film he used, he captured evidence of unexplainable light phenomena that included brilliant beams, floating balls of light, and glowing outlines of humans and animals. Sometimes the mysterious lights could be seen with the naked eye, though most often, they lasted just a split second and showed up only on film.

Steve and Beth finally agreed that something paranormal might be going on in their home, and in early 1995, they sent some of the pictures and videotape to the "Sightings" television show. Hollywood special effects technician Edson Williams examined the Lee films and told the producers of the show that most of the light images would be extremely difficult to reproduce and some seemed to defy the laws of optics entirely. "Sightings" immediately dispatched a film crew to the Black Forest, and once on site, were able to document some of the weird phenomena the Lees had witnessed. In three visits to the property, "Sightings" brought along Minneapolis ghost hunter Echo Bodine and Los Angeles psychic Peter James, who both identified powerful presences in the house. A Hopi shaman(weird indian dude) consulted on the Black Forest hauntings said that the area is a "Rainbow Vortex," one of only a few psychic energy spots on the planet that connect our world with the next.

Red, yellow, and white lightforms are seen and recorded, as well as apparitions of an old lady, a little girl, a burly man dressed in 1800's clothing, and a "flying dog," not to mention the hundreds of forlorn faces seen floating in the Lee’s bedroom mirrors. Infrared photos of these apparitions are featured in the article "The Black Forest Haunting," in the March 1998 issue of FATE magazine (I'm getting a copy of that magazine and will have more photos from it).

Investigator Dennis William Hauck recorded more unexplainable phenomena when he visited the site in October 1996. Also, State Senator Charles Duke personally investigated and confirmed the existence of paranormal activity. Photographs he took show light beams and cloudy humanoid shapes, typical of those taken by Lee. One photo he took of the Lee's 200 year old mirror shows what appeared to be a dog and a skeleton-like face reflecting off the mirror's surface.

On November 3rd, 1997, ParaNet, a radio talk show that deals with paranormal, UFO, and other unexplained stuff (kinda like the "Sightings" show), contacted Senator Charles Duke to ask him about his involvement and knowledge of the Lee home; when they did an investigation on the home. He admitted that he had been to the Lee home and that strange things did happen there. He claimed that he took photographs and when they were developed, they yielded unusual results. However, Senator Duke was not convinced that the house was haunted. Another person who believes the house isn't haunted is Steve Lee himself.

As strange as it sounds, Mr. Lee believes he is the victim of an elaborate scheme by some agency of the US Government to harass him and his family using electromagnetic technologies. As bizarre as this sounds, he offers some interesting proof of his claims. Senator Duke claimed that he contacted the FBI on behalf of Mr. Lee and they would not return his phone call, although Duke said he could believe that Lee could be the target of some government harassment, claiming that he knew the El Paso County Sheriff had harassed Lee in the past. Duke would not elaborate on how he knew this. Duke was also asked to be on the ParaNet talk show on the Black Forest Haunting, but declined.


Steve Lee so far has invested over $30,000 in security equipment to try to capture the "presence" responsible for the flashes of light, moving shadows, foul odors, poltergeist activity, and loud noises that plague his family. Recently (yea, uh recent as 1998?) he installed ultrasonic camera triggering devices as well as digital cameras to document the activity. So far, there are over 3,000 photographs and 400 videotapes supporting the validity of this case (make a goddamn site Steve! Mullet mofo..).

For more weird details listen to this archived 11/16/97 broadcast from ParaNet, where host, Micheal Corbin, inteviews Dennis Hauck and Steve Lee about the haunting.