Others who spend time studying or doing work down in the basement of the Capitol Building have reported feeling like someone is looking over their shoulder, or over both shoulders and giving them icy chills. We stare at Phil and at the building, and he motions us on. We work our way across Colfax, around Logan and 16th Street, learning about the greed and adultery that occurred in a number of innocent looking houses. We stroll by the Acacia Apartments off 14th and Colfax, where a senator's mistress slit her wrists in the bathtub of apartment 111 when she found out that he went back to his wife. People who stay in the apartment report that sometimes, late at night, the bathtub will start gurgling and filling up with water, including a reddish brown color, perhaps the mistress' blood, and it floats up and stains the tub.
Lights constantly burn out and keys spin around in certain locks.
Such is the case at the Grosvenor Arms apartments off 16th and Logan, where residents report seeing the ghost of a '20's flapper girl running down the hallway. Another friendly type of ghost lives in there as well who turns the heat on in the mornings and switches on lights. But Phil can't get away from the sex stories. We learn how the prostitution moved around on Colfax and why there is a red light on top of the Capitol Building. When they visited the whorehouses on days off, they would leave their red lights outside on the street.