Post by Spooky on Jan 23, 2008 15:24:35 GMT -5
"At first glance, the staff member, thinks nothing of seeing a little girl playing under the huge cottonwood tree. But as the staff member watches more intently, she realizes the child hovers just above the ground, floating around the tree and then simply disappears. Many staff members have reported incidents like this at Edgewood Children's Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The center has been a home to troubled
children for one hundred and fifty years.
From 1968 to 1980 a great number of staff members have lived in the Rock House on the grounds of the Center. It was named the Rock House because it is constructed of rock from a nearby quarry. Those staff members have ranged from married couples, families, and single people. All have reported strange occurrences on the east side of the second floor of the house.
At night especially, on the second floor, a presence is felt. Objects disappear then reappear, sometimes right before your eyes. Noises of furniture being moved, when in fact it is not, have also been heard. The history offers no explanation to what occurs here. For one thing, the Rock House had been maintained as a sanctuary away from the troubled children of the center. A place for the staff to remove themselves from severe problems they face daily with the children.
Some say it was a 'safe house' or way station for the 'underground railway' for slaves escaping to the north. However, no evidence to support this claim can be found.
The house was once used as a private residence of a minister. The next life of the house was an orphanage. And has remained part of Edgewood since the Civil War. It is on the 23 acre campus of a residential treatment center for children who were rejected or abused early in life and who became severely disturbed as a result.
One employee living in the house received permission to bring in several psychics to investigate the hauntings. These psychics, independently, agreed that the haunting was primarily that of a child who died from extensive burns, the result of an accidental fire. Yet each psychic insisted there is more than one spirit roaming the Rock House.
As it happens, the orphanage records tell of the death of a young girl whose nightgown caught on fire while standing too close to a fireplace. However, the child did not live at the Rock House but in one of the main buildings of the center.
The other spirits, the psychics identified as young children who had died in the building."
children for one hundred and fifty years.
From 1968 to 1980 a great number of staff members have lived in the Rock House on the grounds of the Center. It was named the Rock House because it is constructed of rock from a nearby quarry. Those staff members have ranged from married couples, families, and single people. All have reported strange occurrences on the east side of the second floor of the house.
At night especially, on the second floor, a presence is felt. Objects disappear then reappear, sometimes right before your eyes. Noises of furniture being moved, when in fact it is not, have also been heard. The history offers no explanation to what occurs here. For one thing, the Rock House had been maintained as a sanctuary away from the troubled children of the center. A place for the staff to remove themselves from severe problems they face daily with the children.
Some say it was a 'safe house' or way station for the 'underground railway' for slaves escaping to the north. However, no evidence to support this claim can be found.
The house was once used as a private residence of a minister. The next life of the house was an orphanage. And has remained part of Edgewood since the Civil War. It is on the 23 acre campus of a residential treatment center for children who were rejected or abused early in life and who became severely disturbed as a result.
One employee living in the house received permission to bring in several psychics to investigate the hauntings. These psychics, independently, agreed that the haunting was primarily that of a child who died from extensive burns, the result of an accidental fire. Yet each psychic insisted there is more than one spirit roaming the Rock House.
As it happens, the orphanage records tell of the death of a young girl whose nightgown caught on fire while standing too close to a fireplace. However, the child did not live at the Rock House but in one of the main buildings of the center.
The other spirits, the psychics identified as young children who had died in the building."