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[queenlillian1962]

With Halloween around the corner it's time to share all things spooky.


I'm in the Kitchen doing dishes when Hubby walks past me into the living room. I finish and go to join him only to find he's not there;nobody else was in the house and nobody passed me on the way out of the living room. I call his name and he answers from the bedroom. I ask him if he was just in the living room and he says no he went right into the bedroom after dinner and hasn't left since. It's a railroad car apartment,you have to go through one room to get to another, if it wasn't him, who was it!

[queenlillian1962]

http://www.millersparanormalresearch...e7_History.htm

One the morning of June 10, 1912, a small community in Villisca, Iowa awoke to find 8 of their own had been brutally murdered by an axe during the middle of the night. What once had been a peaceful community where everyone knew and trusted their neighbors, attended church together and left doors unlocked, changed forever on that bloody morning.



Joe B Moore (43), his wife Sarah (39), their four children, Herman (11), Katherine (10), Boyd (7), Paul (5) and two visiting children, Lena (11) and Ina (8) Stillinger were found in the early morning hours of June 10. All had been brutally murdered while they slept in their beds sometime between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. They had attended Children’s Day at their local church and arrived home about 11:00 p.m. the night before.



After the bodies were discovered and law enforcement arrived, the law quickly discovered that they had already lost control of the crime scene. Neighbors had already filed into the house to witness the carnage and contaminated any evidence that might have been useful. The murderer/murderers had covered all the windows and mirrors of the home, and had cover the victims with blankets and clothing. A long, black handled axe lay against the wall in the downstairs sewing room where Lena and Ina lay. The mutilation of Lena and Ina was so severe that they were identified by their personal Bibles which were left on the dresser in their room. A bloody pan of water was found in the kitchen along with a half eaten meal. Kerosene lamps were carefully placed at the foot of each bed in both the parent’s room and the sewing room. The chimneys of the lamps had been discarded and the wicks turned back.



Neighbors and law enforcement began to compile a list of suspects. No longer were doors left unlocked and everyone began keeping vigils at night to ensure the safety of their families. Accusations, rumors, and suspicion ran rampant. The state and neighboring counties sent in law enforcement agencies to assist with the thousands of interviews that took place, but the crime was never solved.



One of the prime suspects of the murders became Frank Jones, a very wealthy and powerful businessman. He was also a State Senator and very involved in politics. Joe Moore was once employed by Frank Jones but quit that job to open his own business. Jones and Moore soon became bitter business rivals. It was also rumored that Joe Moore was having an affair with the Senator’s daughter-in-law, Dona and this further aroused suspicion.



Another prime suspect was Reverend Lyn George Jacklin Kelly who was a traveling minister, a peeping tom and a man with peculiar habits He had attended the Children’s Day Services at the Moore’s church on the night of the murders. He boarded a train during the early morning hours of June 10 and it was reported by an elderly couple, also on the train, that he talked about the murders before the bodies were discovered. Rev. Kelly confessed to the murders several years later, but charges were dropped after one trial ended in a hung jury and the 2nd jury acquitted him.



William Mansfield also became a suspect. He had recently been released from prison and was known to have associations with the other criminals. He became a suspect when his own wife, his infant daughter and his in-laws were murdered by an axe in Blue Island, Illinois in 1914. The murder scene in Blue Island was very similar to the Villisca murders. It was rumored that Mansfield was hired by Frank Jones. Similar axe murders had occurred in Kansas and Colorado in which Mansfield could be placed in these locations on the nights of those murders.



The house was originally built in 1868 and became the home of the Joe Moore family in 1903. Since the murders, ownership has changed hands several times. It was purchased by Darwin and Martha Linn in 1994 who have returned it to its original condition. All electricity and plumbing have been removed. Period furniture has been bought and placed as closely as possible to their reported positions on the night of the murders. Recent renovations have sparked reports of paranormal activity and have stirred an interest both locally and nationally. The house remains vacant but lamplight tours and overnights are available by appointment.



To learn more about the crime, the victims, suspects, and available tours, etc., please visit the Official Villisca Ax Murder House website located at www.villiscaiowa.com.



After the initial investigation conducted by MPR, we felt that this house may be one of the most haunted locations in the United States and that a possible intelligent residual haunting may be occurring.




UPDATE: After a return visit to Villisca on September 12, MPR verified their findings after the intelligent residual haunt, once again took place, with interaction, room changes and EVPs...and again, triggered by the whistle of the train.

[queenlillian1962]

The Phelps Mansion: Stratford CT.

The Phelps Mansion was lived in by the Dr. Eliakim Phelps, a a Presbyterian minister and his family, which means that the mansion may have been owned by the Presbyterian Church, as a parsonage. The Phelps and perhaps other pastors and their families lived there until 1947, when it was turned into a convalescent nursing home. In 1968, the Mansion was abandoned and became a refuge for Stratford's dregs of society, mainly drug addicts and vagrants. In 1998, the Mansion was spared the wrecking ball when it was assimilated into the hospital being built on the property next to it.

History of the Manifestations:
It seems that Dr. Eliakim Phelps was fascinated by the occult and spiritualism, and as a hobby tried to get in touch with spirits through holding numerous seances, which is very dangerous for an amateur to do. In March of 1850, he inadvertently summoned a rather bad apple, the disgruntled spirit of a witch, possibly Goody Bassett, who was hanged in 1661.

1) When the Phelps family came home from church, they all saw a phantom corpse laying on their parlor table, later identified as being Goody Bassett.

2) Later that same afternoon, various family members found their clothes laid out on their various beds, in positions suggesting the way bodies are posed for their coffins.

3) Strange life-size, life-like bodies made from stuffed clothing would appear unexpectedly.

4) Apports in the form of strange puppets and dolls made of material scraps would appear out of nowhere.

5) Poltergeist manifestations began to take place, increasing in degree and veracity.

a) Family heard a constant stream of strange knocking noises.

b) Small objects around the Mansion began to move by themselves.

c) Two of the Phelps children, 12 yr. old Harry and 4 yr. old Anna suffered nightly attacks, being physically thrown out of bed, and beaten by an invisible presence.

d) In front of other witnesses, furniture, such as tables and chairs would rise off the ground. A candle stick beat itself against the floor until it broke.

e) As the haunting intensified, many people witnessed furniture throwing itself through windows, and moving across the floor effortlessly by itself.

However, when Harry and Anna were sent off to boarding school, most of the hauntings stopped. It seemed that this spirit was drawn to these two children, and was able to draw energy from them to do its mischief.

The hauntings began again in 1947 when Phelps Mansion was converted into the convalescent hospital.

6) For 20 years, the staff reported hearing strange voices whispering in dark places, heard unexplained knocks and saw heavy doors open and close all by themselves.

7) In 1971, police spotted a little girl inside the now deserted, disheveled Phelps Mansion. They chased the little girl into a third floor bedroom, where she vanished into thin air.


http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/...ps_mansion.cfm


When I was a kid I used to pass by this house on my way home from roller skating. One night as we were going by I looked up at the mansion window and saw two very large green glowing eyes looking back at me.

[queenlillian1962]

Lake Compounce Amusment Park Bristol CT.

A Haunted Theme Park? A Cursed Theme Park?
Lake Compounce is said to be named after Mattatuck/Tunxis Native American Chieftain John Compound. The legends about John Compound vary a bit. Each legend has him selling the lake and the land around it to the Norton family in 1684. The story has it that he, and other members of his tribe sold it for a limited amount of coin, some trinkets and a kettle. Depending on the tale, the kettle varies from a copper tea kettle to a brass kettle large enough for him to sit inside of. The legend ends with Compound's death mere days after the land deal. One story has him paddling out into the lake in the brass kettle (using it as a boat) and then sinking and drowning. Another story has him realizing that he had been ripped off in the sale of the lake, rowing out into the lake in a boat with the copper tea kettle tied to his neck and throwing himself overboard to his death in despair. Another version of this tale has John Compound drowning himself in the lake the day prior to its sale. The last story has his own tribe members murdering him in anger over the sale by throwing him in the lake.

Story also has that the Norton family members were spiritualists who fled persecution in Massachusetts. Their spiritualistic rituals are blamed in some stories as being the real cause of hauntings on the property. The problem with this aspect of the tale is that the spiritualist movement didn't exist until the 1800s. The legend also says that the head of the Norton family also died from injuries sustained falling from a ladder within days of the land purchase.

For a park that has been around for more than a century and a half, it is not unusual that there would be some deaths within the park. Unfortunately a string of deaths occurred in a five year period around the beginning of the new millennium. There had been eighteen years since the fatal accident prior to the five year string of misfortune. Some claim the deaths are the result of a curse upon the lake starting with the death of Chief John Compound.

In July of 1981, Michele Johnson (age 16) died in a fall from a roller coaster after she stood up and reached out the side while it was operating. On August 20, 1999, Matthew Henne (age 16) an employee of the park jumped aboard the Tornado ride as it was moving and was dragged underneath and crushed. He died from his injuries on the following day. On July 1, 2001, Devon M. Alexander (age 5) drowned in the lake. He had been on an inner-tube slide that emptied into a 10-12 foot deep section of the lake. He sank to the bottom of the lake and was not recovered for nearly a half hour. He was apparently revived but ultimately died in a hospital within the week. Another employee of the park, Wilfredo Martinez, was struck by the Boulder Dash roller coaster on June 13, 2001. He had been trimming weeds prior to the day's operations. Martinez (age 23), standing on the coaster tracks and wearing ear plugs, apparently did not hear the coaster going through its test run and it caught him unaware, striking and killing him. On May 17, 2004 a six inch diameter tree limb fell fifty feet from a dead tree and landed on park customer Gwen Rice (age 36) and her son, Sean Rice (age 5). Gwen survived her injuries, but young Sean died shortly after at Hartford Hospital.

There are also stories of deaths prior to 1981. The details are vague in comparison to the deaths recorded in the late 20th Century and beginning of the 21st. There are tales of workers killed by early roller coasters and rotor rides and another young child drowning in the lake.

There have been stories circulating for over a hundred years about supernatural happenings in the park. Lights flash on and off on their own. Objects move about of their own accord. In the ballroom, disembodied music and voices have been heard as shades of past revellers flit by the windows.

Known for featuring live musical acts during its history, the park has hosted performances from musical acts ranging from Cab Calloway to Frank Sinatra (in the Starlight Ballroom) and Bob Dylan to UB40 (at the outdoor amphitheater). On July, 21 1989, the pop music act Milli Vanilli was performing on the amphitheater stage when the recording they were lip-synching to began to skip. The performers took a beating from critics and finally on November 12, 1990, the band's producer, Frank Farian, revealed to the public that Milli Vanilli's front men, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, had never sang any of the vocals both on the album and during live performances. This resulted in the Grammy awarded to Milli Vanilli being withdrawn. It also resulted in multiple lawsuits and ultimately led to drug addiction, crime and eventually suicide for Rob Pilatus eight years later.

Milli Vanilli...cursed by Chief John Compound?

[86Dùde]

I can only definitely say without out a doubt that I've have 2 certified experiences with the parnormal.

I was five or six staying with my grandparents. The jack russell terrier was barking in the front room so I got up to check it out and there was this black, 2 dimensional mass in the form of a person. The moonlight didn't reflect from it. It followed me, making no sound. I jumped into the bed and it leaned over and then just vanished. Never saw it again.

2nd time around I was metal detecting in a large field, digging up civil war relics at dark since it was too hot in the day. Something tapped me hard, 3 or 4 times, on the shoulder. I turned around and nothing was there but I remember it was cold. I ran out of there as fast as I could.