Is the Boogeyman real????

Where can you go, when the boogeyman might be hiding in your attic???

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Good evening, listeners, and welcome back to the podcast tonight. I hope your week's been going well. Mine has. Um it's late. So I think it's a perfect time to tell the story. Um it's all based on true events, so that's kind of uh terrifying in and of itself. So without further ado, shh it's gonna be okay. Imagine you are enjoying your children's program at church. You are there with your spouse and four children, two of which are in the program. The program ends about 9 30 p.m. and your daughter asks if her two friends can stay the night. You say yes, and all eight of y'all start walking to your house. By 9 45, 10 o'clock, you get home. Everyone gets ready to go to bed, and soon all are asleep. At 7 a.m. the next morning, your neighbor notices you nor anyone else in your family has been out doing any chores yet, and your horses are getting a little riled up, needing some attention. She comes over and knocks on your door, and nothing. No answer. No one is stirring. What's going on? she wonders. Is everyone sick? I better call one of their relatives to come check on them. So that's what she does. She calls your brother and he comes over, knocks on the door and no answer. So he uses his key to open your house and get in. What he walks into, no one should ever have to see or experience. You and your whole family, including the two friends staying the night, have been brutally murdered with an axe. This sounds like a making of a great movie, but unfortunately, this is the actual account of the Moore family. Josiah and Sarah and their four children, Herman, Mary, Author, and Paul Moore, along with Mary's two friends, Ina May and Lena Gertrude Stillinger. Doctors concluded that the family and girls were murdered sometime between midnight and 5 a.m. The investigator believes the murderer waited in the attic until everyone fell asleep and then did the unthinkable, took the axe and crushed the heads of each person there. Weirdly, the murderer also left a slab of bacon wrapped in linens on one of the bedroom floors. And in another bizarre twist, all of the mirrors in the house were covered with blankets, blankets, clothing, or any kinds of means of covering. The dresser drawers were emptied looking for clothing to cover mirrors. They finally get the bodies to the coroner, and he says the murders happened between midnight and 2 AM. While investigating the property, the investigators found an imprint in the hay in the barn beside a knothole where they believed the killer watched the family for a while. They believe the killer got in through an open window or an unlocked back door while the family was at church. I wonder if the killer had been hiding in the house for days. Like first he was in the barn watching, and then in the house, and they had no idea. They still have not found this killer. That brings us to now and the paranormal incidents going on inside the house. It was restored as a haunted attraction in the 1990s. The owners, Martha and Gavin Lynn, restored the 1868 farmhouse to look exactly as it did in 1912, without electricity or running water, to preserve its historical authenticity. This time capsule effect has amplified its eerie atmosphere. Some believe the name Valliska, meaning good place, may have been misheard as Wallisca, meaning evil place, adding to the house's ominous reputation. Paranormal investigators have reported seeing apparitions of the Moore family and Stillinger sisters. Some have heard voices, children's laughters, and footsteps. There have been cold spots, fog, and unexplained movement of objects. Electric voice phenomenon or EVPs capturing children's voices, sensations of being watched and unexplained noises in quiet rooms, feelings of concentrated dread, profound sadness, or inexplicable rage. People touring the house have witnessed their children playing with an unseen individual under the bed in a dark room, which is the parlor bedroom where the Stillinger girls died. Could it be them? I don't know. In 2014, a paranormal enthusiast took a hunting knife into the house. After being warned not to do this by the house caretaker, he did it anyway. He went in to provoke the spirits. As he did so, he saw a flash of light and woke up in the hospital with a self-inflicted knife wound he didn't remember getting. He later went back and apologized to the house for his behavior. The real thrill of spending the night is around 2 a.m. when a train passes through the sleeping town. The train's whistle is thought to trigger the residual events of the murder. Some investigators have reported that the fog sometimes appears moving from room to room, perhaps mimicking the order of the murders. During my research, I started with a gopher hole, which quickly became a badger hole. So what I did was I started with a Velisca Axe murder house. And in my research, there was an original article in the Day Book in Chicago over the murders, which was written four days later on June 14th. And in the article, it claimed that in the past two years, there was a madman axe murderer that had already hit four other states, killing more families the same exact way. So obviously I had to check it out. And what do you know? It's true. So let's do this in order. And by the way, there was actually five states. September nineteen eleven, Colorado Springs, Colorado, two families were axe murdered. October nineteen eleven, Monmouth, Illinois, one family, Axe murdered. Ellsworth, Kansas, nineteen eleven, one family, Axe murdered. June, nineteen twelve, Palo, Kansas, one family, Axe murdered. June nineteen twelve, Guilford, Missouri, one family, axe murdered. June nineteen twelve, Ballisca, Iowa, one family and two guests, axe murdered. Curiously, all the houses were close to train tracks. There was an investigator named W. M. McCloughrey. Connected uh he connected the crimes to Henley Henry Lee Moore. In December of 1912, Moore murdered his 59-year-old mother and 81-year-old grandmother with a rusty axe. Moore was in prison serving a life sentence. Well, when McLaughly compared the MO of the Midwestern axe murders, he found striking similarities to Moore. Interviews with Moore and his background led him to conclude that Moore was responsible for at least 22 to 25 of the killings across the five states. Now, from what I understand, Moore never confessed. He never said, Oh yeah, I did it, nothing. He just interviewed Moore. And because of what Moore did, he just took it upon himself to believe that Moore was responsible for these other killings as well. In 1949, Moore's sentence was commuted. When I looked into why, all I found was that there was new interest in the case and lack of evidence that Moore was involved, and his long sentence likely influenced the decision. Nothing I read said why he killed his mom and grandma. So it could have been for any reason. He could have just been abused for so long, or um just there's so many other reasons other than he's an axe murderer. Well, now he is, but I mean a serial-killing axe murderer. Um, it wasn't just because he he wanted to. Moore died in 1963, and I didn't find anything that shows any more whole family ex-murders happening after he was released. So did he just quit killing? Like he went to jail and went, oh, I don't like this, so I'm gonna quit serial killing families. Uh I don't think that's how that works. I don't, I personally don't think he was ever responsible for it. There was what they called Billy the Axeman, who has never been identified. They just call him that. Could have been him. So what the question is, is if not him, then who? And what happened to the killer? Like, where did he go? I mean, if the the killings just absolutely stopped. You don't that just doesn't happen with serial killers unless they get locked up or they get killed. Now more did get locked up. But at the same time he didn't kill any more after he was let out. So there's that. Now the scariest part to me on this whole thing is the fact that uh it he was hiding in the house. The place you're supposed to be safest, the place that you run to for security. You lock your doors so that no one can get you. And they weren't safe. That to me is the most terrifying part of this. It's not even the ghosts or the noises or the fog or the any of that. It's the fact that they were in their homes sleeping, thinking they were so safe. And they weren't. That is terrifying to me. I did get uh a lot of my information from Wikipedia, from ghost adventures. I got a lot of it uh from Murderhouse.com, uh US Ghost Adventures, um, murderhouse.com, thehorror collection.com. That's a good place to go if you want to research things. Um, House Beautiful. So uh this is where I got my information. I also did watch uh a few YouTube videos. Um BuzzFeed Supernatural has a it's funny because obviously Shane and Ryan are hilarious. Uh they have one over the Velisca Murder House, so that's a good one to watch. I don't know if you realize this. I didn't know this. They actually have a movie and it was made in 2016, and it's called The Murder The Murder House of Velisca, I believe. Um, I don't have that written down here, and if I I don't have it on my computer right now or laptop, but and I if I had it written down, I couldn't see it because I'm sitting here in the dark with a candle, and it's kind of creepy because I think my candle won out. So with that being said, make sure you lock your doors at night, check your attic, check your basement, check your windows. If you have a barn, check your barn. And don't worry because as we all know, shh it's gonna be okay.