Phantasmal Crime 38 - Murders at the McCormick Farm

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The McCormick Ranch is located in a remote part of the Eastern Plains in Stratton, Colorado. Mike McCormick and his father worked the property with the help of homeless men they hired during the 1980s. No one can be sure if these homeless men were actually paid for their work because many of them ended up dead. The ranch was the perfect place for serial killers to do their dastardly deeds as no one would hear the victims scream. Several bodies were found on the property, but not all of them, and that may be why this ranch is crawling with paranormal activity.

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0:00.0	listener discretion is advised. True crime can be strangely fascinating. This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted.
0:22.0	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to
0:26.3	fantasmal crime.
0:27.8	The McCormick Ranch is located in a remote part of the Eastern Plains in Stratton, Colorado.
0:37.0	Mike McCormick and his father worked the property with the help of homeless men they hired during the 1980s.
0:43.0	No one can be sure if these homeless men were actually paid for their work
0:47.0	because many of them ended up dead. The ranch was the perfect place for serial killers to do their dastardly deeds as no one would hear the victim's scream.
1:10.0	Several bodies were found on the property, but not all of them.
1:13.6	And that may be why this ranch is crawling with paranormal activity. The town of Stratton in Colorado was incorporated in 1917 and was named in honor of the gold miner and philanthropist, Winfield Scott Stratton.
1:40.0	This has always been a tiny agricultural community, and it was here that a twisted family laid down roots with a farm.
1:46.2	I don't know the name of the patriarch who established the farm or when he bought the land,
1:50.6	but it was bordered by the state of Kansas and spread out over more than 2,000 acres.
1:55.4	The farm grew corn, soybeans and wheat, and livestock was raised.
1:59.8	This early patriarch was rage filled apparently and not liked in the community.
2:04.7	The farm was passed on to his son, Thomas McCormick, and Thomas described as a man who was
2:09.3	very antisocial.
2:11.3	The apple didn't fall far from the tree.
2:13.0	Work on a farm can be tough, especially when it basically is in the middle of nowhere.
2:18.0	Tom McCormick needed help on the farm, and so he would travel to Denver to recruit workers.
2:23.0	He had very specific requirements.
2:26.0	He wanted transient and homeless men, which more than likely meant they had no connections to anybody,
2:32.0	so they wouldn't be missed. The best place to find these men were
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