Cody founded by Buffalo Bill Cody (1896) · Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel
US Ghost Adventures runs its Cody program under the brand Cody Ghosts, offering a nightly walking tour meeting outside the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 720 Sheridan Ave. The route covers about a mile of downtown Cody, founded by William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody in 1896 as a gateway town near Yellowstone National Park.
The operator's marketing frames Cody's Wild West and Buffalo Bill-era history, including the Irma Hotel (named for Cody's daughter) and the town's early-20th-century mortuary and civic buildings, as backdrop for the reported hauntings covered on the tour route. The tour is also listed in the Wyoming Office of Tourism's statewide travel directory under the name Boots, Blood & Bones: Cody Ghost Tours.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/cody-ghost-tour/
- https://travelwyoming.com/listing/boots-blood-&-bones:-cody-ghost-tours/2946/
- https://happytovisit.com/boots-blood-bones-cody-ghost-tours/
ApparitionsResidual HauntingUnexplained Presence
The operator's route narrative describes the Irma Hotel, named for Buffalo Bill Cody's youngest daughter, as haunted by the spirits of both Buffalo Bill and Irma, with Bill's presence said to be most antagonistic toward guests resembling someone he disliked in life. The J.H. Vogel Building is tied to a gruesome 1922 discovery: a severed, skinned foot small enough to belong to a child, displayed by mortician-furniture-maker J.H. Vogel in hopes of identifying the victim, a case the operator says was never solved.
At Cody High School, the operator attributes reported sightings in the theater department to Wynona Thompson, a former director who died in 1999. The Chamberlin Inn, which the operator notes once housed Cody's first courthouse and later a dentist's office, is described as a site of accumulated negative energy. Old Trail Town, an outdoor museum of relocated historic buildings, is tied by the operator to the residual haunting of Alfred Nower, said to replay a fatal accident.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history verified independently for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
Notable Entities
Buffalo Bill and Irma (Irma Hotel, per operator)