The Haunted Sallie House

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Society & Culture, Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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The Sallie House In this special Halloween live episode, we traveled to Atchison, Kansas to explore one of America's most infamous haunted houses—the Sallie House. We dive into the dark backstory dating back to 1905, when a desperate mother allegedly brought her six-year-old daughter to Dr. Charles Finney's home for emergency surgery. According to local lore, the doctor began operating on the girl's appendix before the anesthesia took effect, and she died on his operating table from blood loss. While we acknowledge there's no concrete historical evidence this event actually occurred, we explore why this story has persisted and discuss other tragic deaths that took place in and around the property, including a disturbing incident involving the woman next door and her young son. The episode takes a personal turn as we share our own experiences from investigating the house for two hours the day before this live recording. We discuss what happened when our group used the Estes Method and spirit box equipment during our investigation, including multiple people hearing the same disturbing growl, our skeptical friend Parker getting mysteriously scratched, and the eerie responses we received when asking questions about what lurks in the attic and basement. We detail the intense haunting experiences of Tony and Debra Pickman, who lived in the house during the 1990s and endured everything from toys rearranging themselves to violent scratches appearing on Tony's body—even during filmed investigations. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 ⁠⁠Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? ⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit it here.⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Union #salliehouse #hauntedhouse #thesalliehouse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our lives are becoming more reliant on electricity than ever.
0:03.6	We're streaming, cooking, working, charging our cars, even spying on our neighbours through the doorbell camera.
0:09.6	So soon we'll need even more electricity.
0:12.2	We could be harnessing our own homegrown energy, but we need to grow our electricity grid to connect it.
0:18.7	Then we can make the country more self-sufficient.
0:21.9	And leave you to keep an eye on Sandra at number 42 in case she steals your green bin again. Moving the grid
0:27.3	forward moves us all forward. Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a
0:36.8	really good one.
0:38.6	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:43.7	They looked good.
0:45.9	Really, really good.
0:48.2	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car. Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:57.0	Thanks, Canva.
1:00.0	... The
1:13.6	The Welcome to Believing the Bazaar.
1:34.5	We dive into the unknown and the unusual.
1:36.7	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
1:39.7	That is right.
1:40.5	Welcome in, everybody.
1:41.1	I know it's not Tuesday, but it's Halloween.
1:43.3	Charlie's like, i'm enough enough of
1:44.4	that audio i don't need to hear that i don't need it so we are here we are here on a live
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