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🗓️ 5 February 2025
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The Sallie House has been deemed the most haunted house in Kansas. It's also left many experienced investigators believing that something evil and sinister dwells there.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky. |
0:07.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:11.2 | Frequently, I'm asked a very disturbing question. |
0:15.0 | Do you believe the ghosts of children are demons in disguise? |
0:20.3 | No, really, people ask me this on the regular, and my response |
0:23.7 | is always the same. That's not the sort of thing I would be okay with myself being wrong on. |
0:30.3 | So I guess I'm risking demonic possession every time I encounter the ghost of a child. |
0:35.0 | Can you imagine the spirit of a lost child coming to investigators for help |
0:39.7 | only to be treated as though they were an evil entity? Personally, I'm not willing to take that chance. |
0:46.6 | The reality is, I think this idea was born from the fact that it's hard for us to imagine |
0:52.2 | children ending up as spirits, somehow condemned to an eternity |
0:56.7 | of wandering the earth. The universe couldn't possibly let that happen, right? So of course, they must be |
1:03.5 | demons. In all my years investigating, not once have I encountered a spirit of a child who I believe |
1:09.9 | to be something evil or sinister |
1:11.9 | in disguise. That being said, there is a location, one I've had yet to visit, where time and |
1:18.9 | time again it is stated there is something very ominous there, masquerading as the spirit of an |
1:25.1 | adorable child named Sally. Let's see if we can get to the bottom of this, shall we? |
1:30.3 | Join me as we head to Atchison, Kansas to visit the Sally House. |
1:35.3 | I'm Amy Bruny, and welcome to Haunted Road. |
1:40.3 | Actress in Kansas is a small town with a population of just over 10,000 people. But what it lacks in numbers, it makes up for with rich history. The first European settlers built a trading post there so they could buy and sell with the indigenous Canza people. From there, Atchison became a stop on a stagecoach line, then a railway station. |
2:04.3 | It seemed to always be a temporary resting place for passers through, and it's the birthplace of one of history's most famous doomed travelers, Amelia Earhart. |
2:15.3 | On the outskirts of Atchison, on an otherwise unremarkable residential street, |
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