| Private Home Case #61 |
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Date: Sept,
2009 Time: 7:30 p.m. – 6:30 a.m. Location: Old Little Blue Hotel,
Kansas City, MO |
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Investigators
on Scene: Brenda,
Misty, Mark, David (Guest Investigator) |
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Attendees
on Scene: None |
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Conditions: (None
recorded) |
Evidence
Collected:
Digital Photos Taken: 252 Positive Digital Photos: 8 35 mm Photos Taken: 0 35 mm Photos Positive: 0 Video: several orbs on video, particularly upstairs EVPs: 2 |
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Brief
Home and Property Description & History: +
Little Blue Township was established about 1834. +The
property where the hotel sits was once owned by the Younger family. +
Little Blue was the end of the railroad running between St.
Louis and Kansas City. It was
not completed until July of 1864, being interrupted by the break-out of
the civil war. +
During the Civil War, Little Blue was populated by many of Quantrill’s
Raiders. Most of the buildings and homes were burned. Three buildings
besides the hotel survived the burning. Those buildings were the Post
Office, the Feed and Grain store and the blacksmith shop. +
At the start of the war, the union arrested a lot of the women of Little
Blue and took them downtown and kept them in a makeshift jail. The jail
collapsed and several women were killed. +
The hotel was built in 1860 to house the railroad workers. +
Cole Younger was a frequent visitor to the hotel, occupying the front
bedroom which allowed him to monitor the comings and goings of the town. +
The hotel is currently a private residence. It consists of three bedrooms
on the second level. Part of the master bedroom was once an enclosed porch
where numerous cots were set up for the railroad workers. The downstairs
consists of a kitchen, dining room, living room and an additional bedroom.
A cellar runs beneath the structure.
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Link to video of Halloween special by Larry Moore: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBGfZvPLV2c&feature=PlayList&p=B9FC1DF3A51BE461&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=8 +
Link to article written by Dale Castle for the Northeast News: |
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Current
Owner Reportings: +
some have reported seeing the figure of a tall man wearing a wide brim hat
standing at the top of the back stairway. +
sounds of footsteps pacing back and forth in the upstairs hallway and on
the porch. |
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Reported
Findings and Experiences: +
Brenda was pushed as she began to go up the stairway to the second floor.
Misty was about ½ way up the steps when she was also pushed into the
wall. It was if someone had come through the front door and dashed up the
steps.
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While Brenda was dozing in the master bedroom, she heard the sound of
footsteps approach the bed. Thinking it was a team member, she feigned
sleep. She then heard the footsteps leave the room and turned to say
something but no one was there. The footsteps sounded like boots on a
wooden floor. None of the team members had been anywhere near the room
when this occurred. +
Two EVPs of male voices were recorded upstairs. A man saying what sounds
like “I
was sighted” was recorded in the
hallway. Another male voice was recorded in the Cole Younger bedroom
saying what sounds like, “And
yes, I didn’t know.” Could these
two recordings be referring to the shooting incident? |
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Psychic
Readings: +
There is a gentleman in here. His
last name is Jefferson. He says, “Mr.
Jefferson”. That’s the way he addresses himself. He demanded respect.
I get the impression that he was a soldier. +
I am feeling someone black down here in the cellar. They protected someone
by hiding them down here. (Homeowner
confirmed there was a young female black slave that they were very fond of
and protective towards.) +
I am feeling a cemetery out back. There are no markers.
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There should have been another house over in this field. It was like a
small cabin that was occupied. It was before the hotel was here. I don’t
want to call it a slave house because that is not what it was. It was more
like a little shanty. (A
large orb was photographed in this area several times.)
We are looking at early 1800’s. It might have been the blacksmith’s
house. There was 2 or 3 small little hut like houses. +
I am picking up on the name Frisco….Frisno…..I feel as if it is a
person, a male energy. I don’t know whether that name has something to
do with the hotel but it does have something to do with the area. That
name keeps coming in real strong.
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There were two servants who were sisters. One was called Sissy. She was
the oldest. She was around the age of 19, slender, tall girl, medium skin
tone. She wore her hair braided tightly on each side in knots. She had
something tied in these knots like a bow but it wasn’t a bow. It was
something she just tied in them. They were separated from their parents.
Their mother was dead and they were with their dad for awhile. They came
from around Kentucky. They came across in a boat, a ferry like thing,
across the river she said. It was a flat boat. The people who had them
couldn’t keep them. They had to sell them. This was around the time of
the Civil War. They worked here. They were taken in here. I can’t
understand what she is trying to say about her little sisters’ name. Her
little sister got sick and died. She had a bad cough she says. A cough and
a cough and a cough. +
I am picking up on Jesse James being here. He stayed here a couple of
times. I am picking up on a black horse. +
There were soldiers coming through here on the train too but they
weren’t in uniform. I see them talking about heading up north. They are
going to meet up with some people and head up north. I don’t know
anything else about them, that’s all I can hear.
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There are two little black girls buried way out in the back. There are
also two men. One man got hit by the train. He went to get off and
something happened and the train ran over him. +
I see them unloading some horses and some cattle off the train. +
The man killed by the train, he was an older gentleman. I don’t even
know why he was getting off here. I think he was confused or lost. The
name I am picking up with him is something like Handerson, Henderson. He
still walks the tracks. We’ll need to bring him into the light. He is a
ghost. +They
had like a little town meeting in one of the buildings here. I won’t
really call it a meeting but they judged somebody, or accused them and
hung them. They were 3 males. They would hang them down by the river. They
didn’t bother burying them. They just threw their bodies into the river.
Two of them were brothers. I’m hearing something about stealing
something. After they were dead, they left them hanging there for 24
hours. They tell me “day, night and day”. They tried to steal
something. He says, “threw us into the water.” He doesn’t say river,
he says water. I only see one but he says there was three of them. It had
to do with some papers but they are not the ones that took it. There was
another man that took it. Something with money, papers, safer place and
Holman, Hoffman or something like that. Documents, wanting to make it
safe. They accused them but they didn’t take it… +
Very busy, very busy place. A lot of people coming and going. A lot of
soldiers came in and out of this place too. +
This was also and I’m not sure, but I’m getting that wounded soldiers
received aid here. It wasn’t a hospital but they were brought here for
aid. There was another place they were taken to also near here. +
The two little girls, the two sisters, stayed in one of the shacks out in
the field that I saw earlier. No two male slaves were here at the same
time. It was mostly female slaves. There was an older gentleman slave who
helped the blacksmith and there was another one a little bit later. The
first male slave was taken away from some reason. He went back with an
older man. It was like a military man. Oh, he was the personal servant of
this Jefferson man, this Mister Jefferson. Jefferson was the one who made
sure that the soldiers were taken care of in this dwelling. The people
that lived here were for the south. I’m getting that there were mixed
feelings of the people in the area. Some were for the south, some were for
the north. I am seeing this Mr. Jefferson as
being a very dominating and demanding man. +
The black girl has corrected me on her name. It’s not Sissy, it is CeCe.
+ I can feel them coming in the front door as I stand here. You can feel them walking right up to you. The energy is just too much. (Misty and Brenda both get pushed as they are going up the stairway.) I don’t know who that was, but whoever that was he was in a hurry to get upstairs. A man was shot in this hallway at the top of the stairs. I can’t tell you why. I am feeling it all in through my chest and into my shoulders. He is really heavy. +
There is a man coming up the road on a horse. He is being watched through
this window (in
the room where Cole Younger stayed.) I see a
guy coming in on horseback, across the road here. I’m seeing him hop off
and come up the steps. This is the guy that pushed us when we were coming
up here. It’s one of the Younger’s. I am so dizzy. I need to sit down.
No….it was one of the Younger’s that shot the guy who was coming up
the steps. I’m reliving this right now. He runs up here. He was going to
come and go into this room, but instead, he turned around and that is when
he got shot. I hear the name Gabe. I don’t know if it’s a first name
or last name. I just hear the name Gabe. +
There used to be a rocking chair in front of this window. He would sit
here and watch. He would be up until early in the morning, watching and
rocking. I keep hearing wait until later… +
This was a wild little hotel in the 20’s. A lot of liquor flowed through
here. I’m feeling drunk and woozy. There is somebody I am picking up on.
There was a lot of bootlegging going on here. +
There was also some prostitution here. + There was a ladder that went off the back of this house. It was a quick escape ladder for them.
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Most of the energy is towards the front of the house. The back part is not
that active. I am not feeling much back here. |
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MPR
SUMMARY +
MPR feels that the house has lots of residual activity along with two
interactive ghosts, CeCe the slave girl and the man that was shot in the
upstairs hallway. There are also a few ghosts wandering around outside,
such as the man who was killed on the railroad tracks and the men who were
thrown in the river. +
All in all, this was a very interesting investigation not only because of
the personal experiences but also because of the preserved history of the
home. +
MPR would like to thank the owners for their wonderful hospitality and
congratulate them on restoring such a beautiful piece of Little Blue
history. |