Latest / Mystery Archives Episodes / The Untold Story Of The Willow's Weep House - Indiana

Transcript

The Untold Story Of The Willow's Weep House - Indiana · Mystery Archives Episodes

• 0:00
  There are many places in this world, that Harbor darkens.
• 0:05
  Evil entities hiding in the shadows.
• 0:08
  Waiting to strike when the time is right.
• 0:12
  Paranormal happening seem to be all around us the house.
• 0:16
  Across the street could be haunted, or even your own home.
• 0:20
  As many of you have experienced yourselves.
• 0:23
  When horrific events take place, they often seem to leave a wound
• 0:27
  upon the land and the wounds often develop and to scars.
• 0:33
  This is the story of a place that Claim to be the most evil
• 0:36
  place and America where multiple mysterious deaths, Supernatural,
• 0:42
  occurrences and Poltergeist activity have taken place.
• 0:48
  This is the untold story of Willows weep,
• 1:10
  Located in Cuyahoga, Indiana once home to mound building
• 1:14
  Native American tribes and the site of several battles between
• 1:18
  natives as well as Natives and settlers Willows weep.
• 1:23
  Is it would come to be known was originally built in 1890 by a
• 1:28
  man. By the name of Jesse Sykes, the
• 1:31
  home got its name from the large willow tree that sits next to
• 1:35
  the house and the horrible events that would later take
• 1:38
  place there. The home is across or t Cottage
• 1:43
  with evident alterations that have been made over the years
• 1:46
  similar to, but slightly a typical of standard,
• 1:50
  victorian-style Homes at the time.
• 1:53
  Many theories exist as to why the home was built in the shape
• 1:56
  of an upside-down cross facing the East.
• 1:59
  And other than the fact that he was a farmer, not much is known
• 2:02
  about mr. Sykes's personal day-to-day
• 2:05
  life, it wasn't uncommon for people to be very religious and
• 2:10
  Stitches back in those days. One theory is that it was
• 2:14
  constructed in such a way to ward off any evil.
• 2:17
  That could be lurking. Near the Sykes family, another
• 2:21
  theory that ties into this one, is that the home?
• 2:24
  Rest on top of an ancient Native American burial ground and after
• 2:29
  the arrival of the settlers, a hex was placed upon the land.
• 2:34
  Another more disturbing theory is that what if the home was
• 2:38
  constructed, not to worry? Ward off, evil, the to attracted
• 2:42
  and potentially trap it as to encapsulate, the Ethereal realm,
• 2:47
  in ours, and as to why someone would want to do that, we may
• 2:52
  never know, but it would certainly make sense given what
• 2:55
  would occur later on the family, originally included, Jesse and
• 3:00
  his wife, Elizabeth but would later grow to include a son by
• 3:04
  the name of annual. It is speculated that annual
• 3:08
  later fathered several children with the Next door whose name
• 3:12
  was Marianne Petty. She would later take the Sykes
• 3:15
  last name, although described as a good man, who would go on to
• 3:19
  found a general store and the fledgling town, there seems to
• 3:23
  be a darker side. To Jesse Sykes, he was charged
• 3:28
  in 1874 with incest, for engaging in unlawful intercourse
• 3:33
  with the daughter of Mary Ann and his son.
• 3:35
  Andy well a girl named Elizabeth after his own wife.
• 3:40
  Wife from here, things seem to grow only stranger and more
• 3:44
  disturbing. One day.
• 3:47
  While going to feed the Hogs, Jesse Sykes met a gruesome and
• 3:51
  horrific death. Now, in his later years and
• 3:55
  suffering from epilepsy, Jesse had some sort of a seizure while
• 3:59
  feeding over 100 hogs on his farm.
• 4:02
  And before his family knew it, he had fallen face-first into
• 4:06
  the Hogs pit. Then was quickly devoured by the
• 4:10
  starving animals due to the location of the pain.
• 4:15
  This screams would fall upon deaf ears.
• 4:19
  Realizing that her husband was taking an unusual amount of time
• 4:22
  to feed the animals. Elizabeth went to check on him
• 4:26
  and found the animals fighting over what remained of.
• 4:29
  Jesse the site was so traumatic to mrs.
• 4:32
  Sykes that she would go on to spend several years in a mental
• 4:37
  institution. With the loss of his father and
• 4:40
  his mother being institutionalized, the home was
• 4:43
  given to annual who had Mary Ann and her.
• 4:46
  Now, six children move in annual will continue to run the
• 4:50
  family's General Store and farm and would welcome his mother
• 4:54
  back. Some years later, she would then
• 4:56
  pass away from natural causes not soon after her return
• 5:01
  shortly after his mother's death any, well would unexpectedly
• 5:05
  drop dead as well from a cerebral hemorrhage.
• 5:08
  And the home was put up for auction shortly after the home
• 5:13
  would then be purchased by a man named Robert Sandlin Sandlin,
• 5:17
  just months after purchasing the property would mysteriously died
• 5:21
  as well, leading to a court. Battle over the home, as well as
• 5:25
  the rest of his belongings amongst his children.
• 5:29
  Once settled after quite some time, the home would again be
• 5:32
  purchased and sold twice in quick succession.
• 5:36
  Just several years dating between In sales as to why this
• 5:41
  would happen. It's not exactly clear heading
• 5:44
  into the 21st century and 1999. The home was again purchased by
• 5:49
  the Skinner family consisting of a husband and wife Curtis and
• 5:53
  Cheryl Skinner, not many details are available about what the
• 5:57
  family's home life or relationships were like, but it
• 6:01
  seems like Willows weep has a track record of conjuring
• 6:05
  Darkness within its owners lives.
• 6:08
  Sadly Cheryl would pass away from a cardiac event in 2001 and
• 6:13
  eight years later, Curtis to would pass away.
• 6:17
  But from a self-inflicted gunshot wound within the home,
• 6:21
  like, a curse Willows. We'd move generation to
• 6:25
  generation and despite its now famous track record is being an
• 6:29
  evil place. It would then yet again be
• 6:31
  purchased in 2010 by Brenda Zimmerman also known as Brenda
• 6:37
  Johnson. With the hopes to renovate the
• 6:39
  home for her and her son to live in.
• 6:42
  But shortly after the perches she began to have a very
• 6:46
  different view that made her question.
• 6:48
  Just what she had gotten herself into the renovations began
• 6:52
  shortly after the purchase was finalized, Brenda and her son
• 6:56
  quickly, got to work starting with the seal And right from the
• 7:01
  get-go. Thanks just didn't feel right.
• 7:05
  As her son was removing a section of ceiling to be
• 7:07
  replaced. Several of the old boards on the
• 7:10
  wall flew off and hit him leaving him both shocked and
• 7:15
  terrified after this event Brenda hired a maintenance
• 7:19
  worker to assist in the renovation to do tasks that were
• 7:22
  out of their field of expertise during his employment.
• 7:26
  The worker would find a human bone buried on the property I'm
• 7:30
  sure of what they were looking at Brenda decided to take it to
• 7:33
  a friend of hers that was a local police officer given the
• 7:37
  Aged appearance of the bone and the circumstances of how it was
• 7:41
  found. She was given the option to
• 7:43
  either dispose of it or place it back where she had found it.
• 7:47
  Like most of the area's residents, the officer had heard
• 7:51
  of the ancient burial grounds and wasn't going to push his
• 7:54
  luck of the Wrath of the Unknown.
• 7:57
  By further disturbing the grave Faced with this task Brenda
• 8:01
  decided to further research where the bone could have came
• 8:04
  from and the result put a cold chill of her spine searching for
• 8:09
  answers. Brenda reached out to one of the
• 8:12
  living previous owners who told her about a story that she had
• 8:16
  heard but couldn't confirm the story was about a former tenant
• 8:20
  and her children roughly around the 1940s The woman moved in
• 8:25
  with her two children. One, a little girl of about six
• 8:29
  years old and the other, a teenage boy, some of the locals
• 8:34
  were concerned about the children because they had heard
• 8:36
  stories about their mother. It said that she had gone
• 8:39
  through three different husbands and each one of them had died
• 8:43
  under mysterious circumstances. But other than gossip, not much
• 8:48
  else, came out about her her children, however, were a very
• 8:52
  different story. It all starts with the little
• 8:55
  girl who one day goes missing, no one can find her.
• 9:00
  And no one has any idea as to where she could be.
• 9:04
  There is, in fact, no signs of her as if she vanished Into Thin
• 9:08
  Air. As a result, her older brother
• 9:12
  either due to the grief of losing his little sister, or the
• 9:16
  torment within the house, or a combination of both.
• 9:20
  Sadly, hangs himself. And that is where Brenda
• 9:23
  believes the bone came from. She thinks it's possible that
• 9:27
  the little girl somehow passed and could have been buried by
• 9:30
  her mother upon the property. The bone would later be
• 9:33
  identified as an arm bone, belonging to a young child, this
• 9:38
  disturbing Discovery. Would soon be paired with even
• 9:41
  stranger paranormal activity. Within Willows weep Brenda
• 9:46
  describes that she's been scratched, revealing six, claw
• 9:49
  marks several times doors and cabinets would regularly open
• 9:54
  and slam on their own. And there was often intense
• 9:57
  banging coming from within the walls and underneath the floors
• 10:02
  on more. One occasion.
• 10:04
  At this point, she begins to believe the dark tales about the
• 10:07
  place. She now, owns and speculates.
• 10:10
  If she could continue to own the property and end up like one of
• 10:14
  the previous owners, or if she should take the risk and sell
• 10:19
  the home, possibly Shifting, The Curse to someone new no longer
• 10:25
  living at the residence as she had originally planned.
• 10:28
  Brenda takes to venting her frustrations to some local
• 10:31
  friends. And eventually the word gets out
• 10:35
  about the dark past of the house, as well as the
• 10:38
  experiences that Brenda and others have endured there.
• 10:42
  And it soon captures the attention of local and National
• 10:45
  paranormal investigators. Eager to try and experience
• 10:49
  Willows weep for themselves. One such investigator is a man
• 10:54
  by the name of David Spinks who has been involved in several
• 10:58
  high-profile cases. Spinks makes contact with And
• 11:03
  along with several Associates, begins to investigate the home
• 11:07
  and captures more EVPs in his first night there than at any
• 11:10
  other prior investigation. Which further intrigues, him
• 11:15
  desperate to get to the bottom of what could be taking place
• 11:18
  there Sphynx along with others Associates.
• 11:20
  Head back to Willows weep for a follow-up investigation but as
• 11:25
  soon as Spinks and his colleagues enter, they are
• 11:28
  struck with an overwhelming sense of dread, and the dread is
• 11:31
  soon pair. Word with crippling headaches.
• 11:34
  Unable to continue any further, they all head outside for some
• 11:38
  fresh air, and continue to speak with Brenda, Brenda refuses to
• 11:43
  ever go back inside, that one story portal to Hell Spinks,
• 11:47
  then does something unforeseen knowing that Brenda wants to rid
• 11:51
  herself of Willows weep once and for all and not wanting someone
• 11:55
  unsuspecting or unexperienced, a deal with whatever could be
• 11:59
  lurking inside. He offers to purchase the home
• 12:03
  from Brenda so that he can further investigate with his
• 12:06
  team, Spinks did end up purchasing the home and the deal
• 12:10
  was finalized roughly in 2019. He has gone on to write several
• 12:15
  books and make a film about his findings there, but his actions
• 12:20
  have not gone without controversy.
• 12:23
  The children of the Skinner family, Adam and Haley prior
• 12:27
  tenants, whose parents both passed away within the home.
• 12:30
  One from Sue. Side.
• 12:32
  Do not share the fears that others, do despite growing up
• 12:35
  there and dealing with their own dark happenings, they claim that
• 12:40
  their mother actually passed away at the hospital from a
• 12:42
  heart attack. And that their father did indeed
• 12:45
  commit suicide within the house. But this was due to the fact
• 12:49
  that he had been diagnosed with cancer and couldn't afford his
• 12:52
  treatments. So they launched their own
• 12:55
  petition and media campaign to try and bar.
• 12:58
  Dave Spinks from exploiting people's deaths.
• 13:01
  To legitimize The Haunting of Willows weep.
• 13:05
  Why I do understand where the scanners are coming from?
• 13:08
  I don't necessarily think that Spinks engineered said,
• 13:11
  narratives in order to profit from the alleged haunting that's
• 13:14
  taking place there given its strange and dark history, weird
• 13:19
  architecture and the amount of tragedies that have unfolded
• 13:22
  upon the land which will lose weep.
• 13:24
  Now sits, it's hard to imagine if the place at a minimum didn't
• 13:28
  have some sort of a residual haunting To it and I hope that
• 13:33
  was Spinks. Now owning the property that no
• 13:35
  one else will meet a mysterious and untimely fate and that
• 13:39
  hopefully whatever Terror that resides there can now Slumber
• 13:45
  forever. But what do you think is the
• 13:49
  Willows weep haunting genuine? What are your thoughts?
• 13:53
  Leave me a comment down below. Please hit the like button to
• 13:57
  help the channel grow. And don't forget to subscribe
• 14:00
  with notifications on if you haven't already so that you
• 14:03
  never miss a new mystery. I'd like to say thank you to
• 14:06
  everyone who not only has subscribed.
• 14:09
  Has donated a super thanks or has joined our YouTube
• 14:12
  membership program. You guys are awesome.
• 14:15
  I really look forward to the future and providing you with
• 14:17
  Much content as I possibly can. Now, as always, this has been
• 14:22
  Cody here at mystery archives, stay safe out there and take
• 14:27
  care.