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Five Haunting True Crime and Paranormal Stories Linked to Kansas City · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: All right, So are you ready to explore the chills
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  and thrills of Kansas City?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're diving into some true crime and paranormal mysteries. Okay,
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  that'll make you see this city in a whole new light.
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  I'm talking unsolved cases, haunted houses, and stories that just
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  might make you sleep with the lights on tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I like where this is going.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with a case that feels like it walked
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  right out of a detective novel, The unsolved murder in
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  Room at ten forty six at the President Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, a hotel murder, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's nineteen thirty five and a young man named Artemis
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  Ogletree checks into the hotel. But he's using the name
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  Roland t Owen, a fake name.
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  Speaker 2: Sound suspicious already, right, Okay, I'm hooked, and.
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  Speaker 1: It gets even more intriguing. Ogle Tree was found in
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  his room, brutally beaten. Oh no, barely clinging to life.
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  Speaker 2: Oga.
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  Speaker 1: He died the next day, Oh how sick, but not
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  before whispering some cryptic details that only deepened.
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  Speaker 2: The Mysteryryptic details.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, that's just it. No one knows for sure, but
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  the most eerie part. He was clutching a note when
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  they found him.
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  Speaker 2: A note. Yeah, I would say.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. It was never deciphered.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty kidding, A mysterious note, a fake name. Come on,
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  it's like something out of an Agatha Christie story, I know, right,
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  but with a real Kansas City address. And get this,
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  almost a century later, the case remains ice cold.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you wonder what secrets died that night
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  in room ten forty six.
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  Speaker 2: Chilling, truly chilling.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of chilling, let's jump back to the year nineteen
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  oh six for a next case. Okay, this time we're
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  stepping into the world of Kansas City elite with a
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  case that's brimming with wealth, power, and more than a
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  hint of suspicion.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I love a good scandal. Tell me more.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Colonel Thomas H.
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  Speaker 2: Swape Swape Wait, like Swape.
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  Speaker 1: Park, the one and only.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, so what's the story with this Swape character?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he was a prominent figure in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: Makes sense with the park and all, but.
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  Speaker 1: His death it was anything but ordinary. How So picture this,
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  the colonel found dead in his own mansion.
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  Speaker 2: In his mansion.
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  Speaker 1: Initially ruled a suicide. Okay, but here's where it gets interesting.
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  Enter his nephew in law, doctor Bennett Clark Hyde, who
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  just happened to be set to inherit a hefty sum
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  from the colonel's estate.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, so we've got a wealthy air huh
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  and a suspicious death.
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  Speaker 1: You catch it on?
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  Speaker 2: I see this is starting to sound a bit familiar.
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  Don't you think?
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  Speaker 1: Money and murder a tale as old as time?
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  Speaker 2: You get that right?
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  Speaker 1: And just like our Room ten forty six mystery, the
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  Swape case was never officially solved. No way, really, Nope,
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  we'll lift with more questions than answers.
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  Speaker 2: So frustrating. Did greed drive someone to murder? Or was
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  it something else? Entirely?
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  Speaker 1: We may never know for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know they say some secrets go to the grave.
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  Speaker 1: That they do, that they do. It's true what they say.
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  Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy a
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  whole lot of mystery.
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  Speaker 2: Need that the truth.
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  Speaker 1: But let's shift gears a little bit for our next case.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: This one is as chilling as it is perplexing.
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  Speaker 2: Lailed on me.
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  Speaker 1: The story of Robert Bob Burdella, better known as the
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  Kansas City butcher.
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  Speaker 2: The butcher I think I've heard of this one. Wasn't
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  he brutal?
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  Speaker 1: That's putting it mildly. Burdella's crimes in the nineteen eighties
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  they really shook Kansas City. Imagine this. He tortures victims
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  in his own home, kept these meticulous records of their suffering,
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  gruesome details.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's awful. Yeah, that's just awful. What kind of
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  a person does something like that?
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing, right, It's almost impossible to comprehend. But
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  it gets even weirder. Okay, are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: He claimed that he was inspired by a.
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  Speaker 2: Movie, a movie, seriously, which one Sybil? Sybil, the one
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  about multiple personalities. That's the one that's messed up on
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  so many levels. And you hear about these true crime
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  cases and I know this sounds strange, but you never
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  think about where they get their ideas from.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's like this really disturbingly between fiction and reality.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly like the things we read, the things we watched,
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  they can have a real impact on us, sometimes in
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  really really bad ways.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilling, yeah, it really is. But you know what
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  they say, sometimes you need a little bit of light
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  to appreciate the darkness.
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  Speaker 2: Right, You got that right.
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  Speaker 1: So let's transition from the truly horrific to something a
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  little more classically spooky. Okay, let's talk about the Sally
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  House in Atchison, Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: Sally House. Now that's the name I haven't heard in
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  a long time.
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking for a classic haunted house story with
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  all the right ingredients, this one's got it all.
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  Speaker 2: My friend. All right, I'm intrigued. Tell me more so.
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  Speaker 1: Picture this a charming house with a heartbreaking past. You following, Okay.
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  Legend has it that a young girl named Sally died
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  tragically in that very house, and her spirit, they say
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  it never left.
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  Speaker 2: Oh a classic ghost story, Yeah, I love them. So
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  what kind of creepy stuff happened at this Sally House?
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  Give me the spooky details.
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  Speaker 1: Oh we're talking ghostly app disembodied voices, the whole nine yards,
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  objects moving on their own, you name it. People have
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  reported it at the Sally House.
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  Speaker 2: See. That's what I love about these haunted house stories.
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  You hear about people seeing things, hearing things, you can't
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  help but get a little creeped out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And it's not just some vague feelings or
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  cold spots. Okay, we're talking full on apparitions, physical contact,
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  the works.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've got my attention. Physical contact.
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  Speaker 1: Like wait, people have reported being scratched, shoved, you name it,
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  and the thing is okay. There's actually a whole YouTube
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  series documenting these encounters.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, seriously, a YouTube series.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know those paranormal investigators Sam and Colby.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I know those guys. They get into
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  some crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They actually investigated the Sally House, captured some pretty wild
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  stuff on camera too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, get out of here, no way.
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  Speaker 1: You know what this is why I love this stuff.
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  It's like, you hear these stories and it's easy to
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  be skeptical. But then you have these modern day ghost
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  hunters with their cameras and their EVP recorders and apturing
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  evidence exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it blurs the line between myth and reality.
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  You know. Yeah, Suddenly these old ghost stories they don't
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  seem so far fetched anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you wonder what else is out there? What
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  other secrets are these old houses, these historic places holding.
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  Speaker 2: On to It's enough to give anyone goosebumps.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of places with secrets, We've got one more stop
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  on our Kansas City Ghost tour, and trust me, this
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  one's a doozy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm ready hit me with it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Belvoir Winery in Liberty, Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: Belvoir Winery, Okay, I'm not familiar with that one. It's
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  not your typical winery, that's for sure. Imagine a place
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  it's not only a winery, but also used to be
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  a nursing home, an orphanage, and a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, all three in the same building.
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  Speaker 2: You heard that right, about a layered history. You've got
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  the sadness of a nursing home, the forgotten stories of
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  an orphanage, and the let's say, energetic residue of a hospital,
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  all swirling together in one location.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you could say that's a recipe for some
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  restless spirit.
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  Speaker 2: That's an understatement. People have reported all sorts of strange
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  happenings at Belvoir.
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  Speaker 1: Like what give me the spooky details?
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  Speaker 2: Cold spots, disembodied voices, shadow figures, you name it? And
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  get this. Rumor has it there's an unmarked cemetery somewhere
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  on the property.
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  Speaker 1: An unmarked cemetery? Are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: That's the word on the street. Now, whether it's true
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  or not, it definitely adds to the creepiness factor, don't
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  you think.
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely. But here's the thing that really gets me.
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  They still hold events at the winery. I know, right,
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  people getting married, attending parties, all with the spirits of
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  the past potentially looking on.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they say, you can't keep a good ghost down.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's true. Well, there you have it, folks.
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  We've explored everything from unsolved murders and a haunted houses
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  to a winery with a past full of eerie tails.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it
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  comes to Kansas City's spooky side.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing about these deep dives, right. We might
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  uncover some answers, but we always end up with even
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  more question It's.
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  Speaker 2: A never ending journey into the unknown.
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  Speaker 1: So until next time, keep exploring the shadows and remember
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  sometimes the most unsettling stories are the ones that are true.
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  Speaker 2: Happy haunting everyone and to all a good fright