When miners flocked to Wyoming in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they brought with them from the Old World their ancient superstitions of tommy knockers and ghostly apparitions. These beliefs of the unknown had been created in the black abyss of their eerie world beneath the earth.

“The darkness of the underworld, the silence, the long hours of solitary work, are all conditions ideal to the birth of superstition,” said coal miner Joseph Husband in 1911. This Harvard graduate had spent a year working in the coal mines beside men who survived the dangerous work through their beliefs in the supernatural.

However, this fear of the spirits that haunted the dark was not enough to stop Wyoming miners from rushing to a ghostly mine when it meant gold.

The Haunted Lucy

In 1903, Wyoming miners

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