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At the top of an ornate edifice at 237 East
Bennett Avenue, carved letters spell out "Turf Club Room. 1896."
During Cripple Creek's halcyon days, a disproportionate number of
exclusive men's clubs dotted the town. The Turf club was one of
them. Today it houses Buffalo Billy's Casino.
It was at that time a ghost was found in the building, a lonely
little girl, only six years old. She had inhabited the building,
undetected, for nearly one hundred years until she attached herself
to a receptive female employee of the casino. The lady did not understand
in the beginning that Lilly was a spirit of the past. She saw a
little girl sitting on the stair step, cradling a rag doll in her
arms.
At first the lady thought that the child was lost, but the girl
assured her that she was not lost at all. She lived there. She also
said that her name was Lilly.
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