Kelly, my Toy Manchester Terrier who has been gone these past three years, paid us another one of his visits just a few minutes ago.

While he was still with us, he discovered a new and tantalizing game. One day, he came trotting downstairs with a particular ladies undergarment glenched between his sharp little teeth. This particular undergarment was of a certain color and the only one of its existence in this house of two females. (I'll leave it at that.) Of course, that game was "I've got it and you can't get it." When we tried to ignore him thinking he would become bored and drop it, he would sit in the middle of the living room floor turning his head toward each of us never relinquishing his prize. No matter where we hid it, he would always find it and the games would begin.

About a month after he past, it suddenly appeared in the middle of the living room floor. It was always after my mom or I had just passed that location where, only seconds before, there was nothing. Every few months or so, it shows up somewhere on the living room floor (once we found it on the steps).

So, just minutes ago, my mom was coming down the stairs and spyed the object of Kelly's affection in the middle of the living room floor. We love it when he does this. It heartens us to know he is still around and visiting us. I'll never get over his loss, but I know that I'll see him again because our pets are the first to greet us when we pass. Geez, I miss him, the little devil!

I can't wait to hear if you have any experiences similar to those reported!

I'm hoping to get there during spring break. Something weird happened this morning. My daughter, the cat and I were cuddling in bed this morning before it was time to get up and I heard a knock on the bedroom door. Needless to say, everyone was in the room at the time and the rest of the house was empty. I had turned up the heat when I had fed the cat, about twenty minutes before, so the furnace was on and I would really doubt that air pressure caused the door to move and make the noise. Air pressure has never made doors move before anyway. Something else weird happened, my husband couldn't find the pack of razors he bought last week and he looked around and finally found them yesterday morning in the pantry, in a very conspicuous place. Now, I've been in that pantry umpteen times in the past week and I would surely have seen them. I'm wondering if Joseph Wright isn't back. This wouldn't be the first time things have gone missing only to turn up in very odd places. Joseph Wright is the boy who died on September 13, 2008 when he was crossing the highway with his brother and was struck by a pickup, whose driver was blinded by the setting sun. I passed the accident right as the first responders were arriving and I saw the picture of a blond haired boy in my head. He was surrounded by people so I couldn't see who was lying on the pavement. I think he followed me home that day and hasn't left.

OK, that is a really tragic story.

Razors in the pantry? Now that isn't a place where you'd put razors. It definitely seems out of the ordinary.

Was the knock loud and defined?

Yes it was loud and very distinct. It got my attention!

The Official Site of the Villisca Axe Murders

The Villisca Axe Murders of 1912

1912 ~ Villisca, Iowa

On a quiet residential street in this small town sits an old white frame house. On a dark evening, the absence of lights and sounds are the first indication to visitors that this house is different from the other homes that surround her.

Upon closer inspection, you'll notice her doors and windows are tightly closed and covered. An outhouse in the backyard suggests that this house does not occupy a place in the 21st century but somehow belongs in another era or another story.

A weather-beaten sign leaning against the decrepit front porch warns rather than welcomes. "J.B Moore Family Home, site of the Villisca Axe Murders."

She is the "Murder House"

Her walls still protect the identity of the murderer or murderers who bludgeoned to death the entire family of Josiah Moore and two overnight guests on June 10, 1912 and over ninety-four years later, her secret continues to draw many visitors to her door.

To some, she seems to be speaking.

Visits by paranormal investigators have provided audio, video and photographic proof of paranormal activity. Tours have been cut short by children's voices, falling lamps, moving ladders and flying objects. Psychics have confirmed the presence of spirits dwelling in the home and many have actually communicated with them.

If you ask Darwin Linn, owner of the Villisca Axe Murder House, however, if he believes in ghosts, he'll tell you that although he's never personally seen one, "there's something in that house". And then… he'll tell you about the plant.

The plant that grew unexpectedly in the side yard of the Villisca Axe Murder House. The plant that bloomed for two years during the renovations that returned the home to it's original condition at the time of the murders. The plant called "Love Lies Bleeding". The plant that has not bloomed again.

He'll tell you about the Disc Jockey from Des Moines, Iowa who stayed in the house and woke to the voices of children who didn't exist. He'll tell you why his nephew couldn't finish the wallpaper border in the room in which two young girls were murdered. He'll tell you about the closet door that will open and close on demand.

He'll tell you the stories other visitors have passed on to him.

And then…he'll invite you in for a visit. Many have been brave enough to accept his invitation. We've featured their stories, links, photographs, videos and audio clips on these pages. Feel free to take a look around – or email us to arrange a tour-All we ask is that you do so with an open mind and then let us know what you think.

Is the Villisca Axe Murder House haunted?

You tell us.

Lillys story…………………………………………………………………

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This is the true story of myself ,Sithys, Cowbud, and Two other members Investigation of the

Villisca Axe murder House, where 9 people were murdered in there beds in 1912.

The villisca Axe Murder House

OMG, What can I say, what a night! we all met in clarinda at 5:pm My Self, sithy, Cowbud, and A friend of hers, Sinister Grin and her Husband. We went to dinner talked , and got a chance to get to know each other, And then we drove to the Museum in villisca to meet our guide Darwin, and owner of the house,We got out of the car to start taking pictures, and the fun begin, with cowbuds friends camera went dead, new batteries, but it just went dead, Cowbuds cell phone would not let her make a call out of the area, Our guide was wonderful, had the bibbie overalls gray hair and was a great story teller, he started out with a few facts about the town,We all bought T-shirts with a picture of the house on the front , and across the back it say: 'I survived A Night'….we then followed Darwin through the town and up to the cemetery, The family graves are all lined up together, JB Moore and his wife Sara

and next to them all five of their children, across from them were the Two little girls that had been spending the night with the family, all 9 had been Murdered, hacked to death by an Axe in there beds, As Darwin told us the story. a lone train whistle blew,

as it came by the cemetery, That was when I got my first Chill ,Right up my spine, and the hair on the back of my neck stood up…The murderer was never caught, but its is thought that he did the deed and left by hitching a ride on the train that night, it runs very slowly right behind the house..

Then we followed Darwin to the house, It is a small two story house with no electricity, no running water no heat. by this time it was starting to get dark. we were all pleased to know that behind the house,sat the barn with LIGHTS a Modern Camode , fridge and Micro wave oven, the Indoor bathroom with soft butt wipe was a plus.. and then we went into the house, all sat down in the very small parlor with the house all dark and only the light from the lanterns flickering on the walls ,It reminded me of sitting around a camp fire telling Ghost stories but we were there.. they didn't call them living rooms, and Darwin told us the story, how the neighbor found the bodies, how the Law enforcement of the time handled the scene, it would take way to long to tell you all of the story, You will have to buy the DVD, or go to the library and get the book.

We were each given a Lantern. now by this time it was dark, and Darwin gave us a tour of the house, going into great detail in each bedroom of who, and how they were killed..after the tour we were on our own, The house has been restored to the 1912 I forgot to mention that all the mirriors in the house had been covered with either clothing or cloth,,they never really say if the murderer covered them or someone else..Sithy and Sinnies Husband went about setting up the camera. and all the great equipment, WE had EMF and EVP meters, I'm not going to be a steve and explain what that means..

did I also forget to say,that this group of people are Nuts ,and as crazy as they are on the boards, Even in such a grim environment. we laughed,. and Joked and I felt as if I had known them for years,,and Sithy, our great Host and Leader was so professional,and without him this night would never have been possible. and he is a true southern gentleman. MK is One Lucky lady. Between him and Mike, they had everything ready for a great investigation.. I'm going to stop now and Let one of the others continue, WE did have some great things happen, but each of us experienced something different, so they have to tell their story.

After Darwin left, we went lights out, there is no electricity in the house, and all the windows are blacked out, but we each were given a lantern that we could turn to a very small glow, no bigger than a match light, we sat in the parlor and sithy told us he had set up a camera in the upstairs bedroom where Sara and JB had been killed. there is a closet door that is suppose to open and close on its own, and he set up EVP detectors in the kitchen and other bedrooms, this house is very small. a narrow winding stairway that only fits one well fed person at a time. {and I am not a dainty little girl.} leads up to two small bedrooms, and one small bed room off to the side of the parlor, Sinisters Husband had brought a motion detector that lights up and has a meter on it, and Sinnie had a thinggy that shows temperature ,someone had said there was suppose to be a portal in the pantry, I tisk, tisk that, but took the EMF and stood on the spot where this portal is. I was just going to say it was bull ****, when all at once it went crazy, and started beeping, it turned red and the meter jumped to 5, now we all decided we weren't going to do the Dude Run thing, but believe me I jumped a foot.lol

cowbud came around the corner and it went off again. Sithy took a picture of me standing there on top of the portal, and said, OH my god! wow, I said what!! he said look!!, on the digital screen there was a sort of glow around me, with something shooting off me, We couldn't explain it..that was the first of many times that we felt cold spots or some of our different detectors went off.

we decided to go upstairs to the bedroom with the closet door, and went single file up the stairs, now this group is not a timid group we giggled and kidded each other all the way up, and Buds friend sherrie is not on any forums, but has a belief in the paranormal, and she put up with all of us. we have a story about her but that will come later..

Sithy had set a ball in front of the closet door and a candy bar, we sat around and talked to the kids, we asked them questions, and wanted them to open the door and get the candy,sherrie put some toys out and we continued talking to them. Sithy was sitting next to me on the bed and Mike, sinnies husband was standing by the door.

and I asked the question to the two little girls ,friends of the kids that had been killed, Lena or Ida did you see who killed you? and sithys meter beeped once. I asked the question..was it the Preacher that was visiting at Sunday school that day?

and both Sithys and Mikes detectors went off at the same time. Now that was soooo cool. we just kinda sat there for a few min, and watched the door, and waited to see what else was going to happen,,,,,,,

OK to continue..for the next few hours we went from room to room, just asking questions and poor Sin had bare feet and every cold spot in the rooms wrapped around her….Even up in the bedrooms the windows and curtains kept blowing on her, and they are suppose to be nailed shut….MK and Sithy talked on the phone and he kept her informed about the haunt, I wished she could have been there also..I will say Nothing touched me, We did see a shadow in the closet, but it faded away,we did not see any apparitions, but I for one believe the house to be haunted.I always said I had never had an Paranormal experience, But I did have at least two that night. and I will never forget them..

SinisterGrin and her Husband had to leave early, because he had to work early and had a long drive, but we were really glad they had been there,,And we missed her when she left, she was a lot of fun,but she left me some of there equipment because it had been responding so well for me, And this was just one of the odd coincidences of that night,it seems ,

{Sins Husband works with my son, So he said just to have my son give it back to him at work.. very cool} Now I had never met them. and didnt even know they lived as close to me as they did…..

Any way it really calmed down after that, but Poor Sherri, cowbuds friend was totally drained, could not stay awake and went up to the attic of the barn to sleep.

Sithy said that ghosts need energy and we think poor sherri was the one they drained..

the rest of the night was very Quiet, about 5:AM Sithy said to pack it up, so we did. And I really needed some coffee.. We went through the house and straightened up , Darwin is so trusting, he pretty much just tells us to lock the door when we leave and have fun..He said he believes there is something in that house, and there is a book in the barn that everyone who has stayed writes down there findings.we added ours to the list said goodbye to Bud And sherri, and left the house, but I am going back.

Thanks ,MK, Sithty, Cowbud, Sherri, Sin, and her man, for a wonderful adventure,

My Daughter is all ready looking to book a tour for next year……The most harrowing part of our journey was keeping Sithy awake for the drive to his motel , he had traveled through 5 states. Had spent 12 hours at waverly, drove 9 hours slept very little and turned around and did it again for us..

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We had some time to kill before the play at the Children's Theater yesterday and we went into the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (which is attached to the Children's Theater) and found the Connecticut room. Its definitely creepy.

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Recently I have been staying at a lot of hotels, and there is one in monterey, Ca That seems to have a lot of paranormal happening in it.

Unfortunately you can't just waltz in the place and see for yourself, you have to be military personnel or with someone who is to get in. (My fiance' is a marine)

My first visit there I was in the bathroom with the door shut to the rest of the room and I was alone at the time. I heard the door open (and since I was naked) I yelled out that I was in the bathroom, I assumed it was a maid. There was no response. I thought perhaps I had heard wrong, but I kept hearing those little creaking noises as if someone was walking on the floor in the room. It started to really weird me out, so I quickly threw some clothes on and looked outside the door. The room was empty, and the door to the outside hallway was latched shut.

Maybe I heard wrong, but it doesn't seem likely. I'm not so sure. I told my fiance' when he returned from work that afternoon. (I have told him of a lot of my experiences and he's usually accepting- but he doesn't believe in ghosts). He blew this off entirely. (This happened around noon by the way)

A month later I found myself at the same hotel in a different room, in a different building. I was in bed with my fiance' at around midnight, we were both fully awake with all the lights off. The kitchen light suddenly came on, and being the tough marine that my fiance' was, he had me go check it out. I inspected the whole room and found nothing wrong or out of place. I even played with the light switch to see if it could have clicked on by it's self. It couldn't. I swear I tried every possible way and I got nothing, it takes a hard intentional click to turn the lights on and off.

Due to a horrible rust problem in the bathroom, we had to switch rooms the following day, so I wasn't able to have another experience in that room.

The next day in the new room (the same building as my first experience posted here, but different room), I was alone again as my fiance' was at work. I was laying in bed trying to sleep, but I kept hearing something. It was like a small noise coming from the corner of the room (the corner nearest to where I was) It was almost like a rat rustling in paper, but it was off and on. I decided not to tell my fiance' this time, he would have said I was just hearing things or that I was upset by the light that had mysteriously turned on. I tried looking for what was causing the noise, but found nothing. This happened early in the morning.

Later that night at around 11:00, I was back in the room with my fiance', and I started hearing the noise again. I didn't mention it, but neither did he. After a while, the noise had stopped, I never figured out what it was. Maybe he didn't hear the noise, but I honestly wouldn't put it past him to not mention the noise thinking it would freak me out.

The hotel is called the Naval Gateway, and although these weren't major experiences I think it's odd that despite rarly being in the hotel when I'm there, I have yet to visit them without having something odd happen.

Also to prove my point about my fiance' not believing my stories, one time at the hotel I was walking to my car and I saw a huge peacock, when I told him about it he didn't believe me! He seriously thought I must have been mistaken or imagining it. Two days later we went with me to my car and we saw two of them. I don't know why a peacock is that mind boggling, they do exist after all. >.<