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In 1878, physician and Spiritist E. Winchester Stevens examined Vennum. Stevens’s accounts were published in the leading Spiritist journal of the time, The Religio-Philosophical Journal, and later in an 1887 book entitled The Watseka Wonder in which he described Vennum as "the most remarkable case of spirit return and manifestation ever recorded in history."
The film dramatically recreates the alleged events. After years of violent and self-destructive behavior, a young Mary Roff from Watseka, Illinois was committed to an asylum in Peoria, Illinois, and on July 5, 1865, she died. Twelve years later, a Watseka girl named Lurancy Vennum began exhibiting the same behavior as had Mary.
The series was narrated by Mason Pettit. Each episode started off showing haunted "hotspots" on a map of the United States.A particular haunted location was then selected by each of the series' "ghost hunters," and investigated by them and their team. Paranormal investigators, historians, psychics, and mediums all presented commentary on these ...
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The story of the Watseka Wonder, in which 13-year-old Mary Lurancy Vennum was supposedly spirit possessed by the ghost of 19-year-old Mary Roff in Watseka, Illinois, in 1878. 51 [ 53 ] "Within the Walls"
Watseka is a city in and the county seat of Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of the Illinois-Indiana state line on U.S. Route 24 . The population of Watseka was 4,679 as of the 2020 Census.
On October 12, Hulu dropped 'Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House.' Read on for all there is to know about McKamey Manor's spooky past.
Update at 3:40 p.m. WATSEKA, Ill. (WCIA) — The Iroquois County Community Unit School District has issued a brief statement in response to the arrest of a teacher. Dr. David Andriano, the ...