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| Business Case - #22 |
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Date:
Time:
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Location:
Jesse
James Farm
816-628-6065 |
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Investigators
on Scene: Brenda, Dee Ann, Misty, Joyce and John, Denise (guest) |
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Attendees
on Scene: 2 curators from the Jesse James Farm Museum, a reporter and photographer from the Kansas City Star, a free-lance writer and her husband and 5 additional guests invited by the museum. |
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Conditions:
Rain / Fair Temp:
42 degrees / 35 degrees Barometer:
30.00 / 30.18 Humidity: 87% / 75% Lunar Phase: New Moon, 0% full Solar
X-Rays: Normal / Normal Geomagnetic:
Unsettled / Storm Wind: NW 14mph / NW 9mph |
Evidence
Collected:
Digital
Photos Taken: 164 Positive
Digital Photos: 2 35
mm Photos Taken: 72 35
mm Photos Positive: 1 Video:
Several
orbs were captured on video before camera malfunctioned EVPs: 7 (See Reported Findings and Experiences for details.) |
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Brief
Property Description: +
Jesse
and Frank James became two of +
Jesse
James was born on a +
The
3-room log cabin was built in
1822 by James and David Groomer. In 1827 it was sold to Garrett Groomer
who later sold it to a businessman named Robert Gilmer. Gilmer added a two
story addition to the east side of the cabin. In 1845, a Baptist minister
named Robert James and his wife, Zerelda purchased the log cabin to raise
their growing family. The property included 205 acres of good farm land. +
Rev.
Robert James was a pillar in their growing community, helping to establish
two churches in Clay County, one church in Ray County and William Jewell
College. Being a minister, he soon felt the calling to go to +
Two
years later, Zerelda married a neighboring farmer named Benjamin Simms.
This marriage was short lived as Benjamin Simms was rumored to have been
cruel to Zerelda's children. Before a divorce could be finalized, he was
killed in a horse accident. +
Zerelda
then married again to Dr. Reuben Samuel and this marriage turned into a
life-long commitment. Dr Samuel proved to be a good father to the James
boys and he and Zerelda had a son whom they named Archie. +
On
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After
the war, for reasons known only to themselves and perhaps fueled by their
hatred towards the Union government and the hardships brought on by their
guerilla involvement, James and Frank became outlaws. Along with the
Younger brothers: Cole, Jim, Bob and John, they took to bank and train
robberies and became local legends. Some regarded them as heroes,
comparing them to "Robin Hood" because often times they robbed from
the rich and gave to the poor. The Pinkerton Detective Agency heavily
pursued them and rewards were placed on their heads. It is unknown how
many robberies that Jesse and Frank actually participated in because they
were blamed for most all robberies in that time period, even when it would
have been physically impossible for them to be near two places at the same
time. Jesse and Frank continued their life of crime, successfully dodging
the law. +
Allen
Pinkerton desperately wanted Frank and Jesse James. Their continued
success at alluding capture by his detectives was an embarrassment to him.
On +
Jesse
James was killed in 1882 and his body was returned to the homestead for
burial. Zerelda and Frank both gave tours of the family farm until their
deaths. Zerelda died in 1911 and Frank died in 1915. Frank's wife,
Annie, continued to live on the farm until her death in 1944. The house
remained in the James family until 1978, when it was purchased by For more
information on the James Family, visit the " |
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Current
Reportings: + Internet reports indicate that staff members have reported seeing unexplained lights in the house after it has been closed up for the evening and hearing the sound of horse hooves in the woods along with rifle shots and hushed voices. Interviews conducted by MPR with staff members deny these reports, however they did admit to having feelings of being watched and/or being uncomfortable after dark. They also stated that visitors have reported capturing facial images in photographs. |
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Reported
Findings and Experiences: +
One
of the James Farm employees was sitting in the corner of the old kitchen
by himself when he noted that the motion detector in the room kept going
off. Being familiar with the security equipment in the house, he stated
that the sensor was set to disregard possible animal intrusions and only
triggered when something tall enough passed by. He also stated that he was
not within the range of the motion detector when it signified movement. +
A
sequence of noises was heard while team members and others were sitting in
the old kitchen. This began with what sounded like 2 knocks on the door
which led to the porch at approximately +
A
possible EVP of a male voice was recorded in the cabin kitchen, saying
what sounds like, "I'm
lying to ya, I'm James Holt……." There
was another word/words following this, possibly a last name, but
we have been unable to decipher it. A possible EVP of a female voice was
recorded saying what sounds like,
"You'll
both need Sarah"
while
Misty was conducting her reading. +
Dee
Ann reported smelling the scent of fresh peeled apples by the fireplace in
the kitchen. Misty was communicating with Zerelda at the time of the odor. +
A
possible EVP was recorded in the cabin bedroom of a voice saying what
sounds like "I
couldn't get out of it." Another
possible EVP was also recorded in the cabin bedroom of a male voice saying
what sounds like, "Damn,
you're a woman." Perhaps
we eavesdropped on a passionate moment that we shouldn't have. +
A
possible EVP was recorded in Frank & Annie's bedroom of what sounded
like a male voice saying, "I
can feel" or giving
the name of "Campfield" in
the background. This was followed later by two more possible EVPs of two
male voices. The first one says something that sounded like "James
had eyes" in
which another man responds with, "James
was hung." Staff
members reported feeling cold chills and cold spots during the time that
they spent in Frank and Annie's bedroom. + There were several other possible EVPs but because there were so many people in the house during the investigation, we could not rule human voices. The above EVPs all fell outside the human voice range. |
| Psychic
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Curator
comments and questions will be given in green. JOYCE |
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Cabin
Kitchen +
I'm
in the fall of the year and it is cool out. There is a heavy set man with
red curly hair and a bushy beard. He has very, very dark eyes. He has dark
skin from being out in the sun. I almost want to call him a red-headed
Indian. He has great big hands. I can see him sitting in a chair by the
fireplace. Zerelda is by the stove and he's asking questions about Frank
and Jesse. She knows that they are to by home before too much longer she
just doesn't know when for sure. She's upset with him. She asked him
to leave and he tells her in a not very nice way that he's not leaving.
He's not going to leave. He says his name is Henry. There is a nickname
but I'm having trouble getting that. She knows that he's one of
Pinkerton's men and she even asks him if he is and he says no. She knows
he's lying to her. She has a gun over by the stove where she's at. She
told him she would make him some hotcakes. Instead of hotcakes, she shoots
him. She gets a hold of him and puts a blanket over him. It isn't long
until Frank and Jesse come in. Frank comes to the door first. She goes out
into the yard and tells them to come in. They take the man and they take
him north of the house, in a low place and they bury him. They do not mark
the grave. There were children in the house and she told them that she had
just shot a skunk. Later on some lawmen came asking if they had seen a man
that looked like this man and they said "No, they hadn't." They hid
the saddle and bridle from his horse and later on sold it. +
There
was another time during the winter and it was very cold and windy and
blowy. Jesse and Frank were out and when they came in they had a dead man
hanging over the saddle. He had tried to ambush them along the way home.
There were 3 or 4 of them and they killed one of them. They brought him
with them. They took him several miles away to bury him. It was a
difficult job because it was so cold and there was snow on the ground. +
I
can also see a little girl dancing around the fireplace who's dressed in
a long dark skirt and a dark top and a bonnet. She was not killed here,
just was just someone who lived here and had a lot of fun here. +
I
see Jesse bringing Frank in. Frank has a head wound and his head is
wrapped in a dark cloth. It looks like someone took a shirt and ripped it
up strips and put around his head. It was just a bullet graze on his head.
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Frank
comes in every now and then to visit this place. He just comes in and out.
He's not a ghost here. Zerelda may come in and out but I haven't felt
her presence yet. I was here once before and I saw Zerelda here but
she's in heaven because when I saw her she had a golden light around
her. It may surprise people but Jesse and Frank also have this golden
light. +
Archie
is the one who runs in and around the house a lot. Archie comes and goes
too. He was a sweet, young lad. I will look later but I can see the night
that he was hurt real bad and died. +
The
yard is full of men, at least seven, there could be more. +
In
the front part of the house, I'll go there later and see if I can see
Annie. She was here the last time I came here because she welcomed me into
the house. She was frail but she was a beautiful woman. She loved it here.
+
I
think something will happen around +
There
is a whole lot more that I can go into because I keep seeing flashes and
flashes of things. +
I
see a black man. It's Perry, that's who that is. +
Does
Zerelda welcome the fact that we have her home open to visitors? Yes. Does
she know how much we respect the family? Yes.
If you remember, she used this thing as a money making thing in order for
them to survive. She had tours here also. So it is alright. It wasn't
alright with Frank at first because when I asked Frank he turned his back
on me and I couldn't get him to talk to me for awhile, but he talks now. +
Do
you think they would help me, Rebecca, to understand the structure of the
house because we've been told a lot of things that we are not sure are
true and we want everyone to understand the house and eliminate a lot of
the myths. We want to get their story correct. Yes.
So
she would help me? Yes.
Will she help me tonight? Yes.
Will
she take me on a tour, room by room? Yes, if
you will ask her. Zerelda
will you give me a tour of the house? Yes,
maim. Thank
you very much.
This
house is different than it was back then. The house is very different.
When Jesse and Frank were little, there were only the two rooms. There was
not the other rooms in the house, they were added later. There used to be
a room on this house with an upstairs where Jesse was born. It's where
the bedroom is now. It was hooked on to that part of the house over here
and there was an upstairs to it. She says, "yes, maim." Frank was not
born there. Jesse was born there. The other children were born downstairs
because they were born in the winter and they had fire down here. It was
always warm upstairs. +
The
children were asleep the night the red-headed man was here. There has been
many that have been buried on this land but she will not talk about it but
it's alright if you know that. It's
fine with us if they are here because they were probably going to cause
the family harm. They were going to hurt them
and she knew that.
I never thought that Frank and Jesse were bad people. They did what they
had to do to survive. To
her, they were not. To me personally, they were not. It was a time of
survival and a time of terrible strife. Especially for this land around
here. Quantrill was not a bad man. Quantrill came here all the time and
she would make him his favorite, apple pie and pancakes. He used to come
here for fried eggs and pancakes. +
The
barn, she said, used to sit right out there. Joyce's
voice changes and she begins to channel Zerelda, speakly rapidly.
The
barn was right over there and we had hog barns right down here. She
didn't like that hog barn right down here because she said that hog barn
was too damn cold and that hog stuff would just run right down there into
the stream.. She didn't like them hogs there she wanted them hogs moved
down over there. That hog stuff just run right down there in the stream.
Course it didn't get into the well because the well's right here. The
house that used to be right out there, that's where Perry stayed. Perry
was our hired man. We had Perry there. Perry was here all the time. Laurie
and Perry had family too. Who
are Perry's parents? Does Perry know? Does anybody know?
Perry come to us from somebody young, very,
very young. They always said that Perry belonged to me, but Perry didn't
belong to me. Perry didn't belong to me. Perry belonged to me because
Perry liked it here. He really liked it here, he liked us, he stayed with
us, clear up until he died.
We
found records where you received money from Clay county to help take care
of Perry. So we thought Perry must have been adopted by you. Yeah,
yeah. He come here. We had him from the time he was little.
Was he 5 years old?
NO!
He
was a baby?
He's
was a baby. He was a baby. When Perry come here he was a baby. Did
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Frank & Annie's Bedroom - Original Quilt made by Annie |
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Frank
and Annie's Bedroom +
I
see someone giving birth but I don't know to which one of the children
and I can't tell which woman it is. It's not Zee. It might be Annie or
Zerelda. I should be able to tell because Annie was real tiny and Zerelda
was a large woman. They give birth in here and I do not see the child as
making it. I don't see a name. I don't think the baby was far enough
along for them to give it a name. I see it in the springtime, like May or
June. This is at a time when I see Frank coming alone. Jesse was too small
and too young to be with him. I'm seeing the farm. I'm seeing the
barn, the chicken house, the pigs, the horses and I see everything like
that. I see a big, huge woodpile. My mind is outside right now. I'm
trying to get them to come in. +
As
I come back in, I see Annie and she is older. I see her here and I see her
taking care of Frank because he was ill. And I see her being ill. I see
her very, very ill. I see Frank carrying her around. I see a lot of
paintings with her. I didn't know that but I see a lot of drawings and
paintings with her. She could have been an artist. I see her with someone
who has been shot in the right shoulder, up into the deep part of the
shoulder and her taking care of him. I think that's Jesse. She's
helping to take care of him. +
She
had one child and a miscarriage of two. She comes here. She comes in and
out here as a spirit, not as a ghost. I can see her with the golden light
around her. She says to tell them that I love the smell of jasmine and she
liked jasmine perfume. Frank brought her some one time when he was gone.
He had been to +
When
I see her here, it's like they all come once a year to see each other
here. I see her being a very gentle woman, very petite with a good
disposition. She comes from money. She comes from not wealth but
well-to-do people. Frank was very, very protective of her in every way. +
I
see her helping with….I don't know which child it was but it was a
child that had the right leg hurt really, really bad. It's bleeding.
It's around the knee joint, but I don't know which child this was. It
wasn't Archie. It was one of the other boys and I think his name was
Henry but I'm not sure. +
I
see her writing a letter and she's writing Catherine on it. Catherine
Mimms and I don't know whether her mother's name was Catherine or
rather her sister's name was Catherine but she's writing the name
Catherine on this letter. It's to be sent by train. +
She
shows me her feet. She says, "See my feet, they are little." I guess
she had tiny feet and she was proud of them because she's showing me her
feet. +
She
wasn't here or even in this family when they hung Jesse. They hung him
and burnt his feet trying to get him to say where Frank and Quantrill was.
He would not say. They threatened to take him to the barn, they were going
to take him into the barn and do it and then they hung him up and burnt
his feet and rode off. Zerelda went out and cut him down and carried him
in and she doctored his feet. He had rope burns on his neck. He had been
shot many times. I don't know how many times, but many times. +
Annie
says that she loved being a wife and she loved being a mother. She loved
being in the family even though it was very scary. I don't get a lot
from Annie because she's a very private person. She doesn't like to
talk about the things of the family. Will
she talk to you about her life after Frank was dead? It
was very difficult, very hard. Very cold, very lonely. Robert would come
and see her as often as he could. He went as a businessman.
Everybody wants to know how she kept her
beautiful black hair. She just washed it with
lye soap like everybody else did back then and it just stayed the way it
was. She was a very good seamstress. She could play the piano. She was
very musically inclined. How did she get to
the outhouse after her eyes starting giving her trouble? She
knew how many steps it was from her house, which direction to go and she
had them to put up like posts, like a line to the outhouse. She also had
someone that stayed with her part time. It was a neighbor woman by the
name of Long or Longtree or something like that. I can hear the name but
I'm not hearing it clearly. She would come in to see her and to help
her. Did she get along with Zerelda or will
she tell you that?
Yes.
She got along with Zerelda. She was very quiet but Zerelda was very
outspoken, very straight forward. She said she always knew where Zerelda
stood on any kind of issue. Were Annie and Zee good friends? Yes, Annie
loved Zee. When they were in +
There
is so much history here on this land. So many that were killed here. So
many that were hurt here. So many that were buried here. All over the 200
some acres, there's just dotted places of people being buried. Will
Annie tell when or where her and Frank were married? They
were married at a friends house just like Jesse and Zee were. It was in +
I
can see different places of robberies, I can see things that have to do
with the men and she doesn't like to talk about those things. She never
talked about them. She just does not like to talk about it. Was
she afraid?
Yes.
In fact she was very, very afraid. Afraid of them getting caught, afraid
of what they would do to her and Robert and afraid of what they would do
to the rest of the family. She was a quiet person and did not want to
talk. She definitely did not talk about a lot of the stuff that she KNEW
Frank and Jesse did. She just did not mention it. +
There's
a place called Blackwater and she says you do not talk about Blackwater.
She will never tell me about Blackwater. I know there is a place of
Blackwater, I don't know where, but something terrible happened there
and she would never tell me what and neither would Jess or Frank.
In +
It
was as easy here as it was anywhere, other than being in town where you
might have had some running water. It was okay to live here because she
thought the house was good. But, it began to fall apart before she
died…it was beginning to fall down. +
Was
she fond of her daughter-in-law? Robert's
wife? Yes, she always babied Robert a lot and she knew she did, but
yes, the daughter-in-law was all right. Not
someone she'd want to pick for Robert but she did tolerate it.
What was her feeling when they got divorced? She
did not like that because that was unheard of. And….she didn't like it
when Robert was with other women. That was not right for him to do that.
But she did take up for Robert to Robert's wife. +
Did
she ever say anything about Frank? No.
What Frank was Frank's business. She knew what Frank was when she
married him and she stayed married to him because she loved Frank. She did
not approve of the things he did. He did keep a lot of things from her but
she did not approve of the things that he did. +
Did
they ever have another child? No. She had the
one and that was all. I do not see her with a 2nd pregnancy. I
do not think that she could have any more. I think something happened when
she had Robert. He lived to be old. Robert did. I see 1968 or 1969 when he
died. I don't know.
Curator
corrected Joyce and said that it was 1959. +
What
did she think when her son married a Catholic? Was that a problem? She
didn't like it too good but it was alright if that is what Robert
wanted, then it was alright. Back then they separated themselves among the
Baptists, Catholics and such much more than they do now. +
I
can go into a lot of gruesome details about some of the things they did
and robberies and so forth but I really don't want to. That's all in
the past and has nothing to do with the house and it having spirits in it.
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Who
is the strongest spirit that you feel here? Frank.
Will
he say anything? No,
Frank won't say anything. He might quote Shakespeare for you but I
don't want him to do that through me. (laugh). That's all I can see
right now. If you have more questions later, you can ask me then.
Everything is good. Annie was a good cook, she was a good wife, mother.
She loved Frank, she wanted to stay with him. She didn't approve of a
lot of the stuff Frank did so she finally just quit asking questions. She
just went along with him and whatever he wanted to do. That's about all
she has to say except "Welcome to her home" and she welcomes everyone
here. She thinks it's wonderful that the house is being fixed up and
preserved. When she died, she truly thought the house would not be
preserved. That it would die out with the rest of them. +
Does
she know that we're getting ready to do some more work to the house? Yeah.
She's okay with that. She's okay with whatever you want to do as long
as you try to keep it authentic. The furniture wasn't really good. They
didn't have good enough furniture but it was okay for back then. After
they got the new part of the house on, then they had better furniture in
it. We're trying to take care of all of her
stuff. To her, that's wonderful and I'm
going to quit now. |
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Cabin
Kitchen +
Two
kids, a young woman and two men. The older woman is not here, she's out
back. I feel back out this way was where the washing was done because I
see the older woman doing the laundry. +
I
feel 2 children, a man and a woman and another man in here. +
There
was some kind of fight that happened. Does the last name Edwards mean
anything to anybody? What did he have to do with the James' brothers?
There was an argument. Edwards is the 2nd man I'm seeing.
John Emmett Edwards was Jesse and Frank's
publicist. He rode with +
When
I went outside, I felt that someone had been hung around here. Dr.
Reuben Samuels was hung on the property by the Union troops. I don't
know where the tree stood because it blew down in the 1930's. Give
me a second and I'll tell you where the tree was. When I headed towards
the bathroom is when I felt there was a hanging out there. It was out by
the barn. +
There
was a baby lost. Somebody lost a child. I hear a baby. Was
it one of the servants?
No.
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Jesse's
mother is in here. Zelda? She seems upset with something about Jesse.
There used to be a bed over there by the wall. There used to be another
window on the back wall of the kitchen. Either another window or another
doorway, something he could look out of. Jesse stayed mostly in this room
when he'd come home. He'd run in and out. Jesse always kept where he
could see what was going on outside. He was mostly worried about things
coming from the west than he was from any other direction.
There is a room off the porch but to my knowledge there is no
documentation of a window being on that wall. +
Zerelda
lost 4 kids? She lost 2 to chicken pox? I'm also feeling some black
servants. Two females, one of them had children, she had 2 children. They
are all buried to the north. Were there servant quarters out that way? +
Who
is Lindsay May? I don't recall seeing that
name on any records. She had two children? We
know that there were children. The only name one that we know of is Charlotte
that had children. There
was another one and this one had two children. Lindsey May or Lizzy May. +
I
keep wanting to say there was a window on that west wall and Jesse had a
twin bed there. There could have been but we
don't have any pictures from that side of the house. We did have a
picture from the 1970's when there was a twin bed in here. No,
it's further back than that. Jesse always wanted to be behind a door
when it opened. We
knew people slept in here but we thought it was +
Jesse
had 2 children? Yes
he did. 4 total, only 2 lived. Did
you know he had a 5th one? No.
Yes, he did. He has a 5th one. Not
by Zee?
No.
This is from a place where he had stayed with a woman. Did
he know about that child? Yes he did.
Did
that child live in +
Will
Jesse let me ask him some questions. Sure.
Is
Jesse here now? He's over by that north
door. This
child of his, was it born in +
They
used this room quite a bit. This was the common room. I see a lot of
sitting around. Annie loved kids. I see her with 2 children but she only
raised one but then I see 3 or 4 other children around her but they
weren't hers. Well Jesse and Zee had
children and Robert and his wife had children. Interviews with family
members remembered Annie as a child. They loved coming out here, they
loved being a family. I can see her telling
stories to the kids and doing some sewing and something like needlepoint. Yes,
she did tatting. We have lots of her tatting. She
was very good at it. I don't feel her as much in the other areas of the
house as I do in this part of the house. This is where she liked to stay
the most. When things were going on with Jesse, she would pull away from
that. She didn't want to be involved. She didn't want to know anything
or anything that was going on. Did
she and Jesse have a good relationship? At
first they did and yes, they did but it was one where she didn't want to
be real involved with what was going on. How
old are you seeing her right now? I'm
seeing her as a younger woman. Annie is in the room right now and I see
her sitting and sewing. She's
in a rocking chair and kids are around her.
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After
Jesse died, why didn't Zee live out here on the farm with Zerelda? They
didn't get along. They tolerated each other. Was
it because of Jesse that they didn't get along? Yes.
+ So how many dogs were around this place because I'm feeling quite a few? Frank had pets, his son and his wife had pets, dogs. I'm feeling quite a few dogs around here. One of the museum employees stated that earlier he had looked out the window and thought he saw a dog but assumed it was one of the dogs from around there. There were two cur dogs that they used as guard dogs. |
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Frank
& Annie's Bedroom +
There
is an older man sitting on the edge of the bed, at the foot. It's like
he's waiting for someone to come through the door and he's not happy
about it. The 2 museum employees who had been
sitting in this room throughout the evening reported sensations of being
touched and cold spots on their back. +
There
is a ghost dog here. It was probably a pet of the James family. |
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Old Kitchen where most of the activity took place |
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Old
Kitchen +
Oh
my back and chest are hurting. Someone died in this room, right over by
the door. He didn't hardly make it in the door and he was shot.
Jeremiah. Jeremiah. Jeremiah Jackson, last name +
There
are a lot of vibrations here and you have to kind of push away some of it
because it was a busy, active place. There was always something going on. +
Zerelda
had a long illness. She had something. She
lived to be an old woman and she died of a heart attack.
Okay,
that's probably what I'm feeling, that her heart was bad because I'm
seeing an illness with her before she died. She could have had a sick
heart for a long time. It was like an illness. A deterioration. She had
arthritis too, real bad. +
Was
it the right arm that got hurt the worst because I have right arm pain. Yes,
it was partially amputated. She's
trying to come in for some reason. So
Zerelda is wanting to come in right now? Well
she's here. She's here. Did you have a question for her? Yes
I wanted to ask her about the Pinkerton raid and I wanted to ask her about
Benjamin Simms. Okay.
Will she talk to me? Yes,
go ahead and ask? On
the night that the Pinkerton's threw the bomb in the window, where did
Archie die? Was he inside the house or was he outside the house when he
died? He was taken outside. Did
the house catch on fire? Just a small portion
but it was like she had something else down, what did she have down over
this way? That's
the window that the bomb came in. Oh my arm
is hurting, my right arm.
Okay,
let's talk about Benjamin Simms.
No
there is something else you should ask her about the Pinkerton's. Go
ahead and ask it because there is something else that you're wanting to
know. Was it outside where the house caught
on fire, where the Pinkerton's tried to set the house on fire? Yes.
Did anyone else get injured that night? Yes.
Was
it Charlotte and Reuben? Yes. Were
they injured very badly? +
This
place was active at night time. They hardly slept. They would take turns
staying up and standing guard. There was so much for them to worry about. +
What
is underneath this floor? It's
on the ground. This sits right on the ground.
It's
going to be on concrete pretty soon. (Liz,
the other curator added: There is a tiny crawl space underneath.)
Thank you, thank you, because that was a nice
hiding spot. A lot of times when they were watching the place and knew
Jesse was here and then couldn't find them when they came, he was hiding
down there. Under the floor? It
wasn't a very big spot. It was only big enough for 2 bodies to be side
by side and be cramped. I can't tell you which end of the house and it
might have been in the corner underneath where he kept his bed. He stayed
in the spot a lot until he married. Did they rebuild on top of this or
move anything. Well they restored it and used
some of the same stuff but we don't know what all they might have dug
up. So that is probably why when they knew he
was here, they couldn't find him. +
They
did keep a lot of pistols and weapons throughout the house so that they
could get to them easily. |
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Zerelda's Bedroom |
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MPR
SUMMARY: MPR was unable to conduct a thorough investigation of the Jesse James Farm due to the number of people who were present on the night of the investigation. The team was out-numbered 2-1 making it difficult to maintain control over the environment. We feel that much more evidence could have been collected if the circumstances would have been different. All team members were in agreement that the house seemed to feel very peaceful and comfortable and even after all these years, seemed as if it was a safe haven from the outdoors. Neither Misty nor Joyce felt that any of the James family members were earthbound ghosts. However, outside the family home, the feeling was much more ominous. We got the constant feeling of being watched, as if suddenly out of no where something might appear. Misty and Joyce both feel that the land is haunted by unwelcome visitors who may have met their fate on the James land or were brought there for secret burials. Due to the rainy conditions on the night of our investigation, most of our time was spent indoors. How many ghosts may be haunting the James land remains unknown. Hopefully sometime in the future, we'll have the opportunity to continue our investigation and perhaps provide some answers to those questions. Grave dowsing and further readings by our psychics may provide some valuable clues to whom and how many may be buried on the farm and haunting the James land. |
| Photos: |
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Fireplace in which Dee Ann smelled the scent of fresh peeled apples |
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Door located in the old kitchen in which those present heard unexplained knocking |
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Original cabin is located on the back side of the current structure |
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Please
visit the "Friends of the James Farm" website at
www.jessejames.org Open
daily May
thru September – October
thru April –
2006
Adults
$7.00 Sr.
Citizens (62+) $6.00 Children
(8-15) $3.75 Children under 8 -Free |
