Case #12 - Includes 8 photos 

Date: October 22, 2005

Time: 9:45 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.

Location: John Wornall House Museum

                 6115 Wornall Road

                 Kansas City, MO

Brenda, Dee Ann, Misty, Joyce, John, Bonnie

Mark Sommers, Genny Layne, Dahmer & Jake (from 101 THE FOX) & 2 friends

Leslie & Gregg, directors for the museum

Conditions: Some showers / Partly Cloudy

Temp: 47 degrees

Barometer: 29.98

Humidity: 80%

Lunar Phase: Waning Gibbeous

Solar X-Rays: Normal

Geomagnetic: Unsettled

Wind: NE 9mph

Digital Photos Taken: 217

Positive Digital Photos: 57

35 mm Photos Taken: 54

35 mm Photos Positive: 1

Video: 28 orbs (See Reported Findings and Experiences)

EVPs: 6 (See Reported Findings and Experiences)

2-Story, 4 bedroom Greek Revival mansion built by John Bristow Wornall in 1858. The home has been restored with period furniture, some of which are original furnishings owned by the Wornall's. It is currently serving the community as a museum and is open for tours and special events.

The website link listed below is the official site of the John Wornall House Museum. There you will find information concerning the Wornall family history, tours, events, schedules, etc which are currently taking place at the museum.

The website listed below is a link to an article written by Lawrence and Suella Walsh which was published in the Missouri Life Magazine in the October/November 2000 issue. This article talks about the John Wornall House and its involvement as a field hospital during the Westport Battle. We felt that this article was very well written and best tells the story of the events that occurred at the John Wornall house.

?     Smells of tobacco smoke

? Unexplained misty shapes and dark shadows

? Unexplained voices and footsteps

? Doors shutting

? Closet door in children's room opening on its own

? Toys in children's room sometimes found moved

? A civil war soldier was seen smoking on the landing of the stairs

? Occasional feelings of being touched

? Cold spots and breezes on the stairway or in the entry hall

? Feelings of being watched and/or followed

? EMF meter gave a reading of 10+ in the dining room while over the dining room table and a table leaf that was up against the wall.

? Mark, disc jockey for Fox 101 continuously felt something following him. Dee Ann scanned him with the EMF meter and when she placed the meter behind his shoulders a significant increase in the EMF reading was noted.

? The smell of tobacco was detected upstairs by everyone present while Misty was doing a reading in the master bedroom.

? The smell of urine was detected by a couple of team members in the children's room. The smell filled the room for a few minutes and then dissipated.

? An EVP of a male voice was recorded in the Master Bedroom as Misty was deciding where to aim her video camera saying, "Probably Down That A Way." A little while later, the same male voice was recorded in the same room saying, "We're All Getting A Little Bit Crazy." These EVPs were just prior to her picking up a male entity in the room who she named as Doctor Frank Thomas.

? An EVP was recorded in the children's bedroom which was both of a male and female voice. The male sounds as if he is saying, "They Are All In the House." The last couple words he said are hard to make out due to the fact that a female voice enters in and says the name "Daniel." This is soon followed by another EVP of the same male voice saying "Tell Them Not…..Up Here." In listening to these 2 EVPs, it sounds as if the male voice could be that of a wounded or dying soldier and the female may have been Eliza Wornall trying to comfort him or keep him from losing consciousness. This was soon followed by a 3^rd EVP of the same voice saying, "Get Out of Here." Could this conversation have occurred during the transition of the house from a Confederate Hospital to a Union Hospital and the soldier was worried about being discovered by the enemy? Or perhaps the male was expressing an objection to our presence.

? An EVP was recorded in the dining room of a male voice saying, "You Won't Stop The Havoc." Is this EVP referring to the havoc of the battle or is he talking about all the spirits that still linger around the house?

? 3 orbs were recorded on video in the music room. 25 orbs were recorded on video in the parlor where the surgeries took place when the house was used as a hospital during the Westport Battle.

? I'm getting the impression that this is where some of the people stayed that came to visit. I'm getting the names Mary and David, who were a husband and wife that came through. They were celebrating something but something happened to both of them. They were going somewhere but something happened to them before they got to their destination. Something happened that was hot. It's getting really hot in here. Fire. The fire was somewhere else. Somewhere towards downtown. According to the director, after the death of Roma Wornall, the house was sometimes used to board young married couples until they were financially able to obtain their own housing.

? Liza Mae was the name of one of the slaves that worked here. She had 2 children. Her and her husband were separated, split apart. She's still looking for one of her children who died.

? There is a doctor here, his name is Thomas. He's still here. He's connected to some of the people who were here. He paces back and forth and pulls his hair.

? There are 2 bodies buried outside in the back. There is a mass grave down the road.

? Do you smell tobacco? Those in the room, Dee Ann, Genny and Mark all confirmed the smell of tobacco. That's the doctor. He's pacing back and forth waiting for the next one to come up. He's trying to figure out what he can do to have more people help him so he doesn't have to do this by himself. He's scratching his head. He's trying to pull in a couple of other people so that they can help. He's needing someone to hold them down so he can amputate their limbs. There are 2 guys who were shot in the head. There's nothing he can do with them. They are not functioning, they are just looking and moving around and he's trying to figure out what to do with them. The wounds are deep enough that they are probably going to die anyway. He had them tied so that they couldn't wander off. He wants them put off to the side. They have no mental functions, just body functions. After all of this was over, the doctor committed suicide. He couldn't live with all that had happened.

? The black lady had 3 children. One died away from here. She miscarried with a baby. She's buried out towards the front corner of the yard. She buried the baby herself. She didn't tell them that she had one. She couldn't bring the baby home with her.

? There were a lot of people that traveled through here.

? Upon entering this room, Misty became nauseated and dizzy and did not continue her reading.

? There's somebody looking for something in here.

? I'm really picking up the soldiers in here. I'm getting pain in my hip, all over my body.

? One right after the other, one right after the other. Body after body. I don't want to watch. It's just one right after the other. The doctor is standing here pacing all over the floor. EMF readings went extremely high and cameras would not work. The EMF meter led us to the dining room.

? There are a whole bunch of them in there. They'd bring them in the front door and then take them out the back door.

? What is it you're trying to show me? What? I think they may have done some surgeries on that table. It was determined that the high readings were coming from the dining room table and the table leaf. The director said that the table was donated by the Wornall family but that she didn't think that it was in the house during the War but she wasn't sure.

? The rest of Misty's reading was lost in this room due to the tape recorder not recording. She did say that Mark had felt someone following him and she identified this entity as a soldier named Jeremiah. When Dee Ann checked Mark with the EMF meter, it gave off a low reading when pointed as his chest, but when ran across his back, increased significantly. The exact measurement was not determined due to the fact that they did not have a flashlight to check what those readings were and could only go by sound.

? There is lots of boiling water, cooking and cleaning utensils.

? There were two women here that did all the stuff. There was an older woman and a middle aged woman. The older woman was a woman related to the family that was here.

? I hear children playing out in the back.

? There was a lot of activity in this room but I really am not picking up a whole lot in here.

JOYCE

? I can see 2 doctors during the surgery on the soldiers. One was a young man and one was an old man. One of them had a mustache and the other one had a beard. One was named Henry and I can see him.

? There is a man here who was tall, slender, in a dark suit, a dark cowboy hat and he says "Welcome to the house and welcome to my home." It must be John. The museum director later told Joyce that this description fits the man who dresses up to play John Wornall during their Christmas season and that this was the "phrase" that he used to greet the visitors.

? There is also a man here who I see leaving his body. He goes up out of his body. He was in surgery when this happened.

? I can see the man with the white hair and white thick eyebrows and I can see the white chin whiskers on him. He was one of the doctors but I don't see if he was on the Union or Confederate side. He was just here.

? I can see more people being brought in. I see the horses being brought in from the north, some more from the east but not as many from there as from the north and northwest.

? I see a man yelling "Captain, Captain, where's the Captain?" He doesn't give a last name, he just keeps yelling. He's out of his head.

? They are all gathering around me tell me their names. There's John, Jim, George, Henry, Hank, Sam. They are all around me, just voice after voice after voice. They have all this energy and they're wanting to say something to me. One of them wants to go back to Colorado, he's crying and crying, "I need to go back to Colorado, I've got to go home, I don't want to be here."

? I hear a man yelling on the stairs something about a college but it's a cross over of times. I keep going back and forth from the war to better times in the house. John Wornall was one of the founders of William Jewell College.

? Some men are wondering where Quantrill's men are. It's the man who keeps yelling Captain. He's wondering where Quantrill is. He wants to know which direction he's coming from.

? Now I'm seeing the Union soldiers. The Confederate soldiers have been moved out.

? I don't know how many passed over in this house but I know that all of them did not leave this house. They stayed until some kind of ritual was done to cleanse the house out. The cleansing was done by the people that were in here. There were many prayers.

? There are so many names. They show me a roster of names. There's Johnson, Jacobs, Stone, a man by the name of William Stone. He said "Don't forget to tell them that I am here. My name is William Stone." He was a Confederate that died here in the house.

? I need to move from this room because I can't get away from what I'm seeing. They are just all around me.

? There is lots of activity in this room. I see them bringing in buckets and buckets of water. I see blankets being torn.

? I see myself looking to the southeast to a huge cemetery and I think I'm crossing over to another time here. I think this cemetery has something to do with a cholera epidemic that happened during the early 1800's. John's brother died of cholera in 1849 somewhere in the western plains. Perhaps this is what they were trying to show her.

? I'm getting very nauseated now. There was a lot of nausea.

? I'm seeing flowers in here and a casket. There is a lady in the casket. It's possibly John's mother or his wife's mother. It is not Civil War. It is after the Civil War. John's wife, Eliza died on July 5, 1865. Most likely her funeral was held at the home. It is unknown rather any other of the female members of the Wornall family or in-laws may have had their services conducted in the home.

? I see children playing but these children lived to be old. They did not die young. Most of those that died young they were infants, they were very, very young.

? At one time or another, this was used for a bedroom. I see a baby carriage here. I see a woman bent over the carriage taking care of a girl child who is no more than 6 or 8 months old. Eliza gave birth to 5 daughters who all died before the age of 3.

? I'm trying to stay away from the Civil War because they are hurting me, they're hurting me. In my back and my chest, they're hurting me. I have to get out of this room.

? Someone was been shot through the right side and chest area. He was shot in that room. I get the name of Harry and I get the name of McAnally or McIntoch.

? I can see the little girl that plays on the stairs. This was after the war was over and the house was cleaned up and the house was normal again.

? I see a lady with child and this is in 1872. This child is a boy. John B. Wornall was born to John & Roma (his 2^nd wife) on March 13, 1872. She shows me the year 1892 or 1893. John Wornall, Sr. died in 1892. I see him laid in a cemetery southeast of here and I see him laid by his infant children. The director confirmed that John's grave was in a cemetery that's located southeast of the house but the infants are buried in a different cemetery. I see her taking a big bouquet of flowers to John's grave and small bouquets to the infant's graves. She died of consumption or something with the chest or heart. She loved the house. Something happened with the house near the end of the 1930's or early 40's with the house. She shows me papers and lays them out before me. The Wornall's sold the house in the 1920's and then bought it back and lived in it until the 1960's. Some of the adjacent land was sold in the 1940's. She was very concerned about one tract of land that she sold. She didn't want to get rid of that one at all, but needed to and had to.

? Did another family live a short time in here? A tall, slender light-haired man and a dark-haired woman. After Roma's death, the family allowed young married couples to move in until they could afford to get their own home.

? This is where the black lady comes in. I can see something to do with a stove and a lot of cooking. The table was bigger. The table was long and covered. I also see a very young black woman. Back during the war, that was a big no, no to have slaves but after the war, then they paid them.

? I feel them even putting people in the kitchen during the war. They were trying to get them to food and cook in big kettles, trying to feed the soldiers. They also brought food in a big wagon, with hogs and stuff so they could butcher them to feed the soldiers. I saw big crocks of lard that they were smearing on the soldiers.

? The vibrations in the kitchen are not as strong as there are in the other parts of the house. I don't see the death and stuff going on in here. I do hear some shouting and yelling as if they didn't always cooperate in here. There was some dissention in here but it was among the people who worked in here.

? This is where I heard the music and singing coming from. She's teaching music. She mostly played hymns. She didn't allow anything else. Did John's family come from Kentucky? She's telling me that she taught the children some songs that she brought back from Kentucky. She calls them ditties. John's family came from Kentucky.

? I go back to the war and once again there are all wanting to tell me their names. One of the soldiers wants me to write home for him, he doesn't know that he's passed over. He was hit in the left shoulder. It took the whole upper part of his shoulder off. He raises up and says "Look what they did to me."

? When I can get away from the war, I see the happy times.

? There was a fainting couch in this house. A lady said "Look at my fainting couch." She was proud of her fainting couch.

? I would not be surprised if you see dark shadows in this room and feel things.

? I'm being shown a great big wooden crate. When you take the top off there is sawdust and in that sawdust is a set of dishes. They have little blue flowers on them. She's very proud of them. She takes the lid off this box and holds up a plate. These dishes were very important to her. The director showed Joyce a tea cup and saucer which belonged to the Wornall's and Joyce was able to identify the pattern as the same as what she saw on the plate. The tea cup and saucer was all that was left of the set.

? There is so much in this room. I could not sleep in this room.

? This room was absolutely crammed with soldiers during the battle. They took the bed sheets and linens and tore them up for bandages. They had them laying everywhere. It took them about a week to get everyone moved out. There was another hospital set up somewhere else.

? There is a man and he sits in the corner and he says, "My name is Jake, and I'm not moving." I don't know if he was hurt and they were trying to get him up walking around, but he's very determined that he's not going to move.

? I hear a bell tinkling in here. I felt an older lady being in this room.

? The rooms up here are really, really heavy. I'm not sure if they brought the worst of the injured to these two rooms or the least of the injured.

? John outlived all of his siblings.

? Eliza comes in as a spirit, but she's not earthbound. She died a terrible death. Lots of pain. All of the placenta didn't come out after the birth of her baby and she got an infection. Gangrene settled in on the lower parts of her body. John loved her very, very much.

? I keep seeing an infant girl. She looks like a doll in a very little cradle.

? They had money, they were not destitute for money, even through the depression and the 40's.

? The servants didn't stay in this house. They would stay in the house sometimes during the winter time to keep the fires going at night.

? The boys stayed in this room. They also stayed in the room across the hall but they stayed in this room for a time because I see several beds. John stayed in this room too.

? This room is comfortable to me. I feel alright in this room. I can see an old man in this room but when he died, he was ready to go on up.

PARLOR

It was determined that high readings were coming from the dining room table and the table leaf. The director said that the table was donated by the Wornall family but that she didn't think that it was in the house during the War but she wasn't sure.

An EVP was recorded in the dining room of a male voice saying, "You Won't Stop The Havoc." Is this EVP referring to the havoc of the battle or is he talking about all the spirits that still linger around the house?

MUSIC ROOM

It was reported to MPR that a civil war soldier was seen smoking on the landing of the stairs


CHILDREN'S ROOM

The smell of urine was detected by a couple of team members in the children's room. The smell filled the room for a few minutes and then dissipated.

An EVP was recorded in the children's bedroom which was both of a male and female voice. The male sounds as if he is saying, "They Are All In the House." The last couple words he said are hard to make out due to the fact that a female voice enters in and says the name "Daniel." This is soon followed by another EVP of the same male voice saying "Tell Them Not…..Up Here." In listening to these 2 EVPs, it sounds as if the male voice could be that of a wounded or dying soldier and the female may have been Eliza Wornall trying to comfort him or keep him from losing consciousness. This was soon followed by a 3^rd EVP of the same voice saying, "Get Out of Here." Could this conversation have occurred during the transition of the house from a Confederate Hospital to a Union Hospital and the soldier was worried about being discovered by the enemy? Or perhaps the male was expressing an objection to our presence.


MASTER BEDROOM

It is the conclusion of MPR that the house is occupied by the ghost of a doctor and possibly the slave woman who buried her child. The EVPs recorded seem to indicate that a residual haunting remains in the house and from time to time, voices and visions from the past may surface when the conditions are right. Joyce and Misty both felt that many soldiers haunt the grounds.

After the investigation, MPR went up to Loose Park and took some photographs of the Westport battlefield. Several photos of ghost mist and orbs were captured.  You will find these photos posted at a later date.

MPR was very fortunate to be able to conduct our investigation on the 141^st anniversary of the Battle of Westport.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the John Wornall House Director, Leslie and her husband for their wonderful hospitality, the information they shared with us and the opportunity to investigate such a historical location.

We would also like to thank Mark and Genny from 101 FOX for arranging the investigation and taking part in it with us. We hope they enjoyed their experience.