The shadow came to April Navarro one night in 2008 at her parents’ home in the Philippines – and it never left her.
The first piano on the Missouri frontier was brought up the river to Fort Osage by Mary Easton Sibley. It was a great curiosity to the Osage Indians, who simply adored her beautiful music, which seemed to be from heaven. As a teacher, Mary did her best to educate the settlers and Indian children alike around the Six Mile district of Fort Osage.
Shadow People walked into eight-year-old Justin Wirth’s life and he’s been fascinated by the paranormal ever since.
My dear ol’ grandmother Noland was born during the 1890s and spent most her life farming the soil of Eastern Jackson County. During my childhood, the folks always raised corn, wheat and alfalfa for the livestock, which consisted of hogs, cattle and chickens.
When Dan Mitchell and his wife moved from their southern Wisconsin three-bedroom townhouse, they kept in touch with their neighbors. When Mitchell’s wife called to announce they were moving back into the townhouse in early March, she found someone had been looking for them.
Not all African Americans in this country were born into slavery prior to Emancipation; such was the case for Hiram Revels and his older brother, Elias. They were both “born free” in Fayetteville, N.C., the sons of a free father of mixed blood.
The entity would visit 5-year-old Dan Mitchell’s bedroom at night. The thin, androgynous creature that called itself “the tooth fairy” would appear and tell him stories.
Across much of the south and throughout the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas, the farmers raise chickens instead of cattle.
Steam boating on the Missouri River began shortly after statehood, bringing tons of freight and passengers upriver. One of the more unusual cargo’s packed aboard in those early days was crates of house cats.
The voice came from downstairs, but Alex McFeeters didn’t know why he heard his father’s voice. His father, Craig, wasn’t supposed to be home.
“Alex, come down here,” the voice said.
