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Haunted Road

The House Often Left Him Fighting the Impulse to Stab his Wife

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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.

Special Guest: Johnny Houser

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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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