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Report by Renae Leiker:
We don’t have much in the way of EVP, pictures or evidence of any kind. We actually thought about never returning and talked about this.
I remembered the radio upstairs. Maybe it was our equipment or the way we listened to the recordings that restricted getting the EVP. Instead of allowing the furnace to run maybe we should have turned it off. We questioned ourselves and also wondered if possibly someone had convinced the ghosts to move on.
We decided to look closer at equipment and see if we needed to make changes. I believe this was the first time we heard growls and hisses but we failed to get any of it on recording media.
Jennifer had been researching the history of this house and would bring information that she had found. Comparing our notes to what had already come out about this house just didn’t support any of it.
We heard that Peter James had given the name of the little girl as Sallie but we couldn’t find anyone by the name of Sallie that had lived there or died there. Frankly, we couldn’t prove anything of what we had heard about this house.
One name floating around was that of a woman named Sallie Hall. Our research showed that Sallie Hall was married to a Black man and we found records showing Dr. Finney was her doctor. (At least he signed her death record. Not to read anything into this because Dr. Finney was one of two doctors, at the time they say Sallie died.
From what we had read from psychic’s they say that ghosts stay the same age as when they die. Once a person crosses over and becomes spirit then they can be what ever age they prefer to be and can show themselves as any age they want.
Keeping this in mind when we found that Sallie Hall was 34 years old it seemed that she would not have been the Sallie that reportedly died in this house after her mother rushed her to the doctor, no matter what version you refer to this made little sense with the facts we found.
Digging up the records of Sallie Hall and her obituary write up didn’t help to clear anything up either. It doesn’t say she died in the house on Second Street nor does it indicate she had ever worked for the Finney’s. If she is in this house we don’t think that it is the Sallie child this house is so well known for.
The good news is that Jerry grew up in Atchison and happened to know one of the librarians from child hood. The librarian had been contacted by a professional researcher, Liz Lane who had given some material she had on the case.
They explained to us that they had worked hard to put together a few things about the house but when they tried to offer this to another group the information had been turned down. We opened our arms and said bring us what you have we are interested and by the way can we contact you about any questions or confusion we might run into?
I could go on for a long time about these three researchers, but it is easier just to say, if I was running from the law and these three people were hired to find me I would just walk in and give up. They even have newspaper clippings that say when Agnes Finney holds her garden club meetings.
We had also asked about the couple that lived there when Sightings had been going there. We couldn’t find anyone that would actually come out and say they were lying or had made it up. The closest we got to that were those that said they really had no way of knowing if it really happened but they had never been given any reason not to believe the couple.
So we couldn’t find anyone that would say they didn’t think it really happened or anyone that would say anything negative about this couple. One person told us that they had a very hard time after meeting Tony, believing this was just for attention. Nope she said if anything he acts like he doesn’t want to have anything to do with it.
A conversation with Jerry over whether or not to return to the Sallie house ended with us thinking there had to be something to this one. What will another visit or two hurt? We didn’t feel we had enough actual facts to be able to call this case one way or another. Looking at where the house was sitting also raised our eyebrows.
The house is sitting pretty close to the Missouri river, lots of lime stone in the area and we had heard there were mine shafts running under the town that usually had water seeping into them. The town itself sits so close to the Missouri river that common sense and a little history of the area would tell you this land had many stories to tell.
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