Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky.

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Frequently, I'm asked a very disturbing question.

Do you believe the ghosts of children are demons in disguise?

No, really, people ask me this on the regular, and my response

is always the same. That's not the sort of thing I would be okay with myself being wrong on.

So I guess I'm risking demonic possession every time I encounter the ghost of a child.

Can you imagine the spirit of a lost child coming to investigators for help

only to be treated as though they were an evil entity? Personally, I'm not willing to take that chance.

The reality is, I think this idea was born from the fact that it's hard for us to imagine

children ending up as spirits, somehow condemned to an eternity

of wandering the earth. The universe couldn't possibly let that happen, right? So of course, they must be

demons. In all my years investigating, not once have I encountered a spirit of a child who I believe

to be something evil or sinister

in disguise. That being said, there is a location, one I've had yet to visit, where time and

time again it is stated there is something very ominous there, masquerading as the spirit of an

adorable child named Sally. Let's see if we can get to the bottom of this, shall we?

Join me as we head to Atchison, Kansas to visit the Sally House.

I'm Amy Bruny, and welcome to Haunted Road.

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.

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.

On the outskirts of Atchison, on an otherwise unremarkable residential street,

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