Private Home Case #61


Date:  Sept, 2009

Time: 7:30 p.m. – 6:30 a.m.

Location: Old Little Blue Hotel, Kansas City, MO



Investigators on Scene:

Brenda, Misty, Mark, David (Guest Investigator)



Attendees on Scene:

None



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



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. Two of the coffins were brought to Little Blue and buried.

+ 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.  


Little Blue Hotel (front)

Little Blue Hotel (side)

 

+ 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:

http://www.northeastnews.net/castle/index.html



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.



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.  


Bed where Brenda was sleeping when she heard footsteps come to the side of the bed


+ 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?



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.  


Orb in area of property where Misty detected some small shanties or huts - Brenda's photo

Another orb in area of property where Misty detected some small shanties or huts - Misty's photo


+ 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.  


Misty describing CeCe's hair (spelling of name explained later)


+ 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.  


Train running by Little Blue


+ 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.  


Orb photographed just outside door before Misty and Brenda started to ascend the staircase and were pushed.

Stairway where Brenda and Misty were pushed. EVP recorded at top of stairs.

 


+ 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. 


Orb on house


+ 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.



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.