Ghosts of Kansas Investigation
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION REPORT
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Case No. 236-1676
Date: 06-18-2001
Time: 0600-2334
Equipment: 35 mm camera loaded with 400 speed film, and EMF meter.
Paranormal Investigator: Brian Roesch
Investigation Case: Ghosts of Kansas Investigation
Results from investigation: Negative...
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History of the location:
For many years, the state of Kansas has gotten the short end of the stick. For most of us, when we think of Kansas, we think of little more than open prairie, seemingly endless stretches of open highway and a young girl named Dorothy and her trip over the rainbow.... but there is much more to Kansas than that. Kansas boasts perhaps the richest history of any region on the Great Plains.
And it is a history that is troubled, violent and bloody... giving rise to legends and tales of ghosts!
During the years leading up to the Civil War, the state was known as "Bloody Kansas" as those both opposed and in support of slavery clashed in terrible incidents that left many dead. In the years that followed, Kansas was a part of the western movement and many travelers crossed over her on their way to points west. Many of these travelers made it no further, succumbing to disease, starvation, weather, Indian attacks and worse. Kansas was also a staging point for the Army's war against the American Indian, leading to more bloodshed and disaster.
Kansas is state that is ripe for hauntings...as the following sections will show.
Like many other states and regions which have appeared on this web page, devoted to ghosts, hauntings and the haunted history of America.... there are a number of tales that simply are not long enough to be able to devote and entire section to them. There are also the tales which stretch credibility to the point that they lie just beyond the realm of the ghostly and somewhere in the land of the "urban legend". Many of these tales are nearly as chilling as their documented counterparts, and yet I have always found that truth is stranger than fiction. If there are any stories that haunt the landscape of Kansas that I have not mentioned on the pages that follow, then it may be because they either seemed to good to be true.... or that I missed them altogether.
Regardless, the stories below were all good Kansas ghost tales... they just were not long enough for a separate page. Take a moment to read them over though because you may just find that some of these stories do not have to be long to give you goosebumps!
----- There is said to be the ghost of an old Indian man who appears along the Saline River in Ellis County. The ghost once appeared to a cowboy who was camping there in 1879. The spirit was doomed to roam the banks of river until he found the skull of his father, who had been murdered by white men in the 1840's.
----- There is a section of Kansas City known as Morningside Park where houses have been effected by strange phenomena like odd noises, moving furniture and smoke which appears and disappears. The land was once known as Hinkle's Grove in the early 1900's but a century before, it was used as a rest stop on the Santa Fe trail. A house burned down on the site in 1876 and may be the source of the strange phenomena.
----- The Johnson County Industrial Airport in Olathe is haunted by unexplained noises, strange sounds, whistling and phantom footsteps. They have plagued Hangar 43 for more than 50 years and employees and staff members have dubbed the elusive spirit who haunts the place the "Commander". They believe that he may have been one of the 54 men killed at the navy flight training base, which was located there in 1942.
----- The ghost of a former band student is said to haunt the Paola High School. The boy was killed on a steep metal stairway while entering the building and his ghost has apparently been there ever since. Today, students and visitors claim to hear the sound of a single trumpet playing in the building, even while no band members are there.
----- One of the most enduring legends of Kansas is that of the Albino Woman. When I looked into the story, I found so many versions of it that it smelled suspiciously like an urban legend... or at least the Kansas version of the "Hook". The woman is said to haunt the city of Topeka and has appeared in various places and guises over the years. The ghost was especially active in the late 1960's and seemed to be attracted to young people. She was also said to frequent Rochester Cemetery in Topeka and trace her path from the graveyard to her home some distance away. I have not been able to discover just how much of the story is true.
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