Episode 47
The House Where Eight Never Woke Up
The documented facts
- On the night of June 9-10, 1912, eight people were killed in a house in Villisca, Iowa. The killer was never identified and no one was ever convicted.
- On the morning of June 10, a neighbor noticed the house unusually quiet and silent. The homeowner's brother entered and found the scene, and the town marshal was called.
- Investigators found the axe inside the house, a slab of bacon left beside it, mirrors covered with clothing, uneaten food, and a bowl of bloody water.
- The house was restored to its 1912 condition in 1994, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and operates as a museum offering tours and overnight stays. Visitors report phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, cold spots, and shadow figures.
The Draugr does not invent. He documents.
Episode 47 case file
The facts
- On the night of June 9-10, 1912, eight people were killed in a house in Villisca, Iowa. The killer was never identified and no one was ever convicted.
- On the morning of June 10, a neighbor noticed the house unusually quiet and silent. The homeowner's brother entered and found the scene, and the town marshal was called.
- Investigators found the axe inside the house, a slab of bacon left beside it, mirrors covered with clothing, uneaten food, and a bowl of bloody water.
- The house was restored to its 1912 condition in 1994, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and operates as a museum offering tours and overnight stays. Visitors report phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, cold spots, and shadow figures.
The evidence
- On the morning of June 10, a neighbor noticed the house unusually quiet and silent. The homeowner's brother entered and found the scene, and the town marshal was called.
- Investigators found the axe inside the house, a slab of bacon left beside it, mirrors covered with clothing, uneaten food, and a bowl of bloody water.
- The house was restored to its 1912 condition in 1994, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and operates as a museum offering tours and overnight stays. Visitors report phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, cold spots, and shadow figures.
Sources
- Sources are being gathered for this file. The facts above are documented.
The words, as I spoke them.
Transcript
Eight people slept under my roof in June nineteen twelve. None woke up.
At dawn, a neighbor found my curtains still drawn, my chimney cold, my rooms silent. He went for help.
Investigators walked my dark halls with lamps. They found the axe in my back room. They covered my mirrors. And they never found who did it.
Now a curator locks my doors each night. And after the last lock clicks... I hear footsteps on my stairs. And I am empty.
Visitors hear voices in my halls. Footsteps where no one walks. Cold spots that follow them from room to room. They come to prove me empty. They leave knowing I am not.
Stitch this if you would spend one night locked inside me. Follow for a new true nightmare every day. Sleep with the lights on, if you can.
Dramatized for the telling. The facts above are documented; the narration is the Draugr’s retelling of them.
Wear the nightmare
The Dreaded wear the mark.
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