The Devil visit’s Wazee

picture by www.decodedstuff.comThe Devil's Appearance In Denver on Wazee street. This story was told me to by my barber when I was a kid which was told to him by he’s grandmother Juanita. She told him that when she was in her 20's she went to a nightclub (this would have been in the late 1930's during the prohibition) which her mother had told her to stay away from because these were evil places. Her mother had also told her to get home before 3 o'clock or else something bad could happen to her. So my grandmother goes with a young man to the nightclub and they are there drinking and dancing the night away. The young man kept trying to get her outside but she refused him thinking that the man wanted to have his way with her.

At around two o'clock am she asked the young man to escort her home, the young man looked at her and said it wasn't time yet. He kept refusing her and the nightclub was still in full swing about 45 minutes later. Juanita was getting concerned because she remembered what her mother had said to get home before three o'clock am. She insisted with him and she says that she felt the ground around her giving away, she moved back and a hole opened up in the ground where she had been standing just a few minutes ago. The young man who had escorted her there stands before the hole and she looks at his glowing eyes. There is chaos happening in the background people are screaming and running out of the club. She was entranced with the young man he was such a handsome young man and always so polite to her. He holds out his hand and says "It's time for you to come with me." She wasn't scared but curious to find out what he was talking about so she asked him, "Go where ?" He answers, "to my house, you will be my wife.." She then saw a curious thing happening to his face and he changed into the devil!

At this point she is freaking out and asks him, "I can't be your wife, you are the devil!" He laughs at her and says, "No, I'm EL Diablo. Come with me Juanita, be my wife." She screams as he tries to draw her into the pit, she felt herself being drawn nearer and was almost to him and within his reach when another young man rescues her and suddenly Diablo and the hole are gone and the nightclub catches fire. They run outside and the entire nightclub is engulfed in the fire and is burned to the ground.

This is the reason why most nightclubs in Denver close at two am before the devil begins his collection of souls that explains it.