UNION HAUNTING - My Personal Tribulation

by Gregory Myers, Co-Administrator Missouri Paranormal Research

"After having early life experiences with the paranormal up until my early teen years, I somehow shut it completely off for about a two decade period. During this period, my skepticism of the paranormal also grew as my earlier experiences became long faded memories. Eventually I married a wonderful woman and moved into a home where my sensitive wife kept trying to convince me that our lovely adobe was haunted by the spirits which use to reside in an early 1900's farm house which we later found out sat close to where our current home does now. As a good skeptic, I would just tell her that she was crazy and there were no ghosts in our home.

Well after about five years of hearing her rants and updates on the ghostly activity my senses went into another awakening. While sitting on the porcelain throne in our second floor bathroom one night about 1 a.m., I was looking out the door and saw a man on our stairs just standing there with his face between the rails watching me do my personal business. I suddenly jumped off of the throne and ran into the bedroom yelling at my wife to call 9-1-1 while I grabbed a nearby shotgun. In the midst of these actions my wife began to laugh and told me that I would not find anyone in the house. After about an hour of searching every room & closet, under things, in pantries, etc. I finally gave up on the search and destroy mission while she explained that I saw one of the regular spirits that she sees all of the time. I was a bit confused and baffled with an elevated blood pressure and a heart racing one hundred miles per hour.

I then started to get mild sensitive abilities where I could sense the presence of our visitors from beyond the veil with sometimes a casual catch of a figure from the reflection of a mirror or my computer screen along with a renewed interest & curiosity into the realms of the unknown. While adjusting to my awakened paranormal senses and environment I began to research the unknown realms further via the Internet. Eventually I came across a local paranormal message board in which Steven ******** and other paranormal investigators and enthusiast were sharing their experiences and stories. This is where I finally learned of the infamous House on North Christina in Union, MO. A house which drew me in like a moth to the flame.

It was August of 2005 when I went to a paranormal open house of sorts with my wife and her cousin. I was just intending to get a quick glimpse of what an extreme haunting was so I could further evaluate the conditions within my own home. When we arrived we were greeted by Steven ******** and Linda Marsh (the current occupant of this infamous place).

We were eventually taken inside where I was greeted by the most horrid nausea and headache one could be plagued with. My first trip inside was a very short one which lasted about a whole two minutes before retreating to the outside to recover and get back my senses. After about a 30 minute recovery period, I then forged bravely back in and was given a tour of the entire home from top to bottom with a narrated overview of the non-human occupants and the areas they liked to play the most.

Vivid memories remain from that night when we did a break out session with individual investigators dividing into groups to stake out various playground areas of the invisible dwellers. I was with the group lead by Steven and we were lucky enough to get the basement for our first assignment. During this period we tired to communicate with the spirits in hopes to capture unexplainable voices on some of our audio recorders. This is where I experienced my first "Hot Spot" where the temperature actually rose about 30 degrees above the ambient temperature in a small moving area. Being use to the cold spot experiences in my own home I found this very unique and was blind to the more negative causes for the reverse of what I was use to. I remember we also saw very notable shadow movement during the flash of various cameras and even a door partially opening then closing fully again. After the session and most people in attendance headed back up the stairway, I then stayed down there for some extra time with the cousin of my wife. When it was just the two of us we both experienced a very heavy dense atmosphere which slowly became so thick that our breathing became harder. It then seemed like an invisible 20 foot boa constrictor was wrapping around us causing tightness in our chest and pain to our back. It eventually subsided and we headed back up to socialize with others in attendance.

Later that night myself, my wife and her cousin made our way up to the famous breezeway area where we were told that the entity nicknamed "Bob" liked to play. After a short time we began to notice a foul odor similar to sulphur and sewage mixed which traveled around us causing our paranormal alarms to ring. I immediately summoned for Steven to come upstairs. As he made his way up, I felt the presence of whatever was there go out the window onto the overhang roof for the back part of the first floor. We told Steven what we smelled and experienced then I further added that I may be crazy, but I think it went onto the roof and asked to ghost do rooftops. Steven and I stuck our heads out the window at the same time when we both smelled that foul odor and heard a very low pitched growl tossed our way. Steven immediately said "Bob, you better be good" and went back downstairs. I then stuck my head back out with my recorder in hand and attempted to capture some audio in hopes of finding unexplainable voices or EVP after returning home.

Other notable experiences were handed to us and eventually we finally made the one hour journey back to our own corner of the paranormal world where myself and my family resided. The next day I decided to download my audio and to start listening. After reading many articles on EVP and seeing things on television concerning it, I though it was going to be like finding a needle in the haystack where I would need to really amplify the segments in order to hopefully hear voices from the other side. What I did not expect was to find the unexplainable voices with a volume that was heard as easily as if another human was present. I diligently worked hours on listening and extracting the unexplainable for further analysis. Then out of curiosity on how well my captures were, I sent some off to Todd Bates of Haunted Voices - http://www.hauntedvoices.com/) for further input. It was not too long afterwards I had replies from Todd stating how amazing many of them were including his analysis of the Hz ranges and classification levels. He even found many which played clearly and perfectly both forward and reverse and further explained how he theorized those types of EVP came from areas with possible portals or vortexes.

After sharing my finds with Steven, Linda and others which were in attendance the same night we were, I couldn't wait to return back to this house of horrors to see what else I could experience and capture. I did not realize this was the beginning of an addiction that I now wish I never had. Myself, my wife and her cousin were invited back out the following weekend for a private visit to investigate and attempt more EVP sessions. The experiences were just as spectacular as the first night and the EVP captures extracted afterwards were also equally notable. Like a junkie addicted to their drug, I could not wait to get back to get my para-fix. Several more visits were made during subsequent weekends with the addiction growing to new heightened levels as well as my sensitivities.

Eventually that addiction was brought to a halt as Linda finally left due to the negative influences that were brought upon her by that place of what I now consider evil. After her suicidal and homicidal ideation along with a lengthy stay in a mental health facility to receive treatment and eventual further visits by a Catholic Priest to help her spiritually she finally moved to escape the wrath and curse from the House of Demons. Besides the addiction, which is now an alarming sign for myself in which I take heed to even if the place becomes an EVP candy store of sorts, this house on Christina brought me much closer to a faith that I also drifted apart from over the years.

After being cut from my fix, Linda suffering from possible possession of sorts, this open gateway to other realms also must have became addicted to all of the attention and visitors it was receiving. It too became deprived of its fix of the human energizer batteries that were feeding it weekend after weekend. Though we could not go back there, it found ways to come visit many of us in our own homes. For a period of time, my own home became a battleground of good vs. evil. The normal activity of our regular paranormal inhabitants was replaced with the infestation and attempted oppression of the inhuman entities of the Union house. Myself and my family began to witness things like our wood clock in the kitchen flying from the wall and crashing into our sink 10 feet away, our children's toys launching from our kitchen table 8 feet down the hallway at our canines, pictures dropping unexplainably from our walls all of the time, our dogs tucking their tails with their hair standing up fleeing from rooms within our home, our autistic son seeing something frequently that he called a bad man while our one canine would defend him from the unseen by growling and snapping at whatever was there and invisible to our own eyes, light bulbs were burning out 5 times more than normal and the list goes all the way to me actually being pushed down hard in my own home when I stood up to it. Finally with spiritual advice and a renewed strength into our faith we were able to return to our normal routine and the unwelcome visitors from Union also either returned home or paid visits to others who were involved with the Union Home at one time or another.

Even today those demons still haunt my dreams and sometimes come for an occasional visit just to remind me that they do indeed exist and to let me know that they can come at anytime they desire. Even with the bad that was experienced from this location, there was still much good. This is how I became involved with MISSOURI PARANORMAL RESEARCH and made many new personal friends which I consider like a family now. If I had to do it all over again, I think I would because I love my new para-family and wouldn't trade them for the world!"

Greg Myers, Co-Administrator
Missouri Paranormal Research

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