Something doesn't want us here.
I feel like I'm being strangled by human hands.
Somebody grabbed me.
You shouldn't have had a park here for children.
Why would anybody build an amusement park
out in the middle of nowhere?
People are being brutally murdered.
We found these children dead, scalped.
I don't feel safe here.
I just hear death, too much death.
This is not a good situation.
My name is Amy Allan.
There's death here.
Don't want to go down there.
I see dead people.
They hide in the walls and they watch.
I speak to dead people.
She's definitely a serial killer.
And they speak to me.
She's going to torture them.
But there's only one way to know if my findings are real.
They were all murdered.
I rely on my partner.
I'm Steve Di Schiavi.
I'm a retired New York City homicide detective.
So, is this the only time you've been physically attacked?
And I know every person, every house has secrets.
There's no question in my mind
that he was talking about Satan.
It's my job to reveal them.
Who do you think possessed you?
But Steve and I never speak...
We never communicate during an investigation.
...until the very end...
Well, you're not gonna want to see this.
...when we uncover if it's safe for you to stay...
Hell no!
...or time to get out.
Everyone is in jeopardy.
I'm in Lake Shawnee, West Virginia.
It's about 90 miles south of Charleston.
I got a call from a guy named Chris.
Now, he owns an abandoned amusement park,
and it's been in his family for years.
Now, here is the problem.
The activity is bad, and it's getting worse.
Chris thinks it's just a matter of time
before someone gets hurt.
Hopefully, we can help this guy out.
I'm going to start with the easy part,
removing any information in the house,
but this is a huge property with an abandoned theme park,
so I need to cover any signs or memorials,
which could influence Amy's findings.
When I'm done, the location will be ready for tonight's walk.
There's something bad here in the ground.
It's, like, not good.
It's not pure.
It puts off a vibe, a bad, bad vibe.
Now, Chris, when we spoke on the phone,
you had a real sound of concern in your voice.
What's going on?
My mother lives on my property. Activity is picking up.
I just want to make sure that my family
and also the volunteers and the tourists
that come here to visit the property,
I want to make sure everybody is just safe.
So, Chris, you got to help me out here.
I notice it was an amusement park,
but I see a rusted out Ferris Wheel.
What do you do with this place?
So we give a history tour, and we do ghost-hunting tours.
Listen, I don't know how Amy is going to feel about that,
but just be ready.
She may ask you to cut the ghost-hunting stuff out.
Do me a favor.
Give me a list of what's going on as far as activity.
Guests or volunteers, they're hearing voices,
seeing full-body apparitions.
They are being pushed and shoved.
Chris, you mentioned on the phone that this place
has been in your family a while.
My father had bought this property in 1985.
His dream was to restore it back to an amusement park.
So now, Chris, your father, is he still around?
No, he passed away in 2010.
He died from cancer, but this is a picture of him.
Now, did your father die on the property?
No, he lived here for the last 10 years of his life,
but he died in a hospital.
Okay, so besides your mother,
any other family members live here?
My brother lived on the property,
but he died from a heart attack.
How old was he?
He was 51.
And this is a picture of him?
Picture of my brother.
I got to ask the question, you don't think anything
with the paranormal activity had anything to do
with any of the deaths here, do you?
I really can't tell. That's why I called you guys.
Okay.
Why don't you just cut your losses
and just sell this property?
I'm sure you can do pretty well by selling it.
Because it's too important to my father,
and it's too important to the community.
All right, so this was your dad's dream,
to restore this to an amusement park.
I mean, what about you? Do you want to do that?
We pretty much let the land do what it wants.
Okay. If the land wants to create back into an amusement park,
we'll let it happen,
but if it doesn't, we just follow the land.
I have no idea what you're talking about,
but it's your place.
It's your property. All right.
So what do you think is causing the activity here?
I feel that my father and my brother is here.
I mean, you don't think your father and your brother
are causing any of the pushing and shoving that's going on?
Absolutely not.
I think there's other activity here.
Okay.
I'm trying to focus, and it's hard because
there's probably at least
12 conscious entities around here.
I don't feel safe here because something doesn't want us here.
Obviously, there were Native Americans here
because they're saying that,
"This is, like, spiritual," you know,
"A sacred place for us. Don't take it."
And we did anyways.
And so, Chris, this is where your mom lives?
Yes, she lives on the property by herself.
I mean, this is in the middle of nowhere.
I mean, you got to be worried about her
even though you live close.
Yeah, she'll call me late at night,
and I just come down to check on her, make sure she's safe.
So now, we talked a lot about your guests,
your volunteers having experiences.
What about you? Have you had any?
Yeah.
Sometimes, whenever I'm in the park doing a little bit of work,
I'll catch images out of the side of my eye,
just like shadows.
So what makes you think it's not an actual shadow
from somebody or something?
It's a big lot. Nobody is allowed on it.
Okay, anything else?
One time, there was a paranormal investigator.
He came to the park, and he stepped inside
of one of the ticket booths we had here.
- Okay. - And whenever he stepped inside,
he'd come flying backwards out of it,
and it looked like something had shoved him out.
Listen, I run into a lot of these people,
and they tend to exaggerate a lot of things.
The way he flew out of that ticket booth,
I don't think he could have done it by himself.
Okay, so it looked legit to you.
To me, it did.
Okay, so you've seen somebody get physically attacked.
Anything like that ever happen to you?
Yeah, whenever I was over at the swing or the Ferris Wheel
and mowing grass, I could feel a pressure
on my shoulders and around my back.
Now, does this happen every time you're out there working?
It's happened several times but not every time.
So it sounds like you've had some pretty scary experiences.
Now, is being here really worth the trouble?
Well, my father had experiences while he was here,
and he wanted to protect the place
for the living and the deceased.
- Okay. - I'm the same way.
I want to protect the place to keep it safe for both.
I'm feeling, like, sick and nervous.
I feel like I'm being strangled by human hands.
It's the Native Americans.
They really don't want me to keep going.
I'm seeing, like, blood.
Where are you seeing the blood?
It's, like, dripping. It's on all of the chains.
The Native Americans caused something bad to happen.
So, Jewell, I was talking to your son, Chris,
and he thinks you may not be safe with all this activity.
Do you agree with that?
- No. - You don't?
Chris wants me to go live with him, but I won't do it.
All right, so have you had any experiences?
Personally, yes.
Okay, so can you tell me about some of them?
There's things always moving.
Sometimes, it's a pencil, keys, just papers, sometimes.
I misplace stuff all the time.
I mean, are you sure it's nothing like that?
No, there is things that I misplace, too.
Okay.
But these things will be things that I just put in a place,
and then I walk out and walk back in, and they're gone.
Okay, so anything else?
Yes.
I've seen an apparition of an Indian warrior.
Why do you say it's a warrior? How do you know that?
Because of the way he's dressed.
He has no shirt, and he had some type of instrument in his hand.
Okay, so it appeared like he was ready for battle.
Right.
Kind of brushed the side of my face.
I think, if I walked in,
and there was an Indian warrior holding a weapon,
I think I'd be a little uneasy about it.
Maybe, you would be.
- But you weren't. - No.
I feel like maybe they've experienced stuff
from the Native Americans.
I'm feeling like someone who's alive,
they're panicking about things being moved...
and I do feel like there would be depression here.
I want to extend my condolences.
I understand you lost your husband and your son
while they were living here. Yes.
When you guys were all living together,
did they have experiences?
Yes, they both did.
Jewell, your husband's passion was turning this place
into another amusement park and making it work.
But when that didn't happen, how did he take it?
I think he thought we were failures,
that we couldn't get the business going,
that we couldn't get anything working for us.
Do you think that had something to do with,
maybe, whatever is here doesn't want
another amusement park built.
Yes.
I think that whatever is here wanted to be the attraction.
I don't think it wanted anything else.
I understand your son's death was pretty sudden.
Chris told me he suffered a heart attack.
He was a young man.
He was about 51?
Yeah.
Do you think the paranormal had anything to do
with your other son's death?
Never thought about that.
There was a living person associated with the property,
as having heart issues.
Someone has had a heart attack, male.
It's a result of being exposed to the energy.
I believe it stems from the Native Americans
who don't want anybody there.
I just hear death, too much death.
So, Christian, I was talking to your dad today.
I understand you might have had
some scary stuff happen to you here.
- Yes. - All right.
Can you tell me about one of them?
When I walk around here,
sometimes I feel like there's people walking behind me.
All over the place or in certain spots?
It's at random times in certain spots.
Do you hear anything behind you?
I feel like I hear footsteps and people walking in the grass.
Okay.
Anything else happen?
When I was down over at the swings,
and I felt like somebody grabbed me
and held my arms to my body.
Okay, you mean, like, somebody grabbed both of your...
Like that?
Yes.
So when you got grabbed, do you think
it was somebody trying to tell you something?
Yes, like there's a bad spirit maybe in front of me,
so they were trying to stop me and make me turn around.
Now, would you ever stay here by yourself overnight?
No, not really.
Okay, what about staying at grandma's home?
- No. - No?
Okay.
This is weird.
There's something trying to protect the living here.
It's not human, and it was very, very large,
at least eight feet tall.
It was behind us on the road.
It had, like, robes on.
You know what's weird is that that thing that's here
with the robes is not Native American, but it's old.
He's more trying to keep people away
because bad things happen to people,
so I don't think he's exactly bad, but he scares me.
After meeting with Chris and his family,
I started talking to people who had spent time at the park.
I never feel alone.
It always feels like there's somebody around me,
with me, that feeling of being watched.
It is definitely an uneasy feeling for me.
And each one of them has some damn good reasons
to be terrified.
I saw an apparition of a man walking right here on the road,
and he take four to five steps, and he vanished into nowhere.
But one thing they all had in common,
they were seeing shadows, lots of them.
There was a time where I've seen a shadow figure.
It was like a figure of a man.
There was this overwhelming sense of anxiety,
and I just felt like I had to get out of there.
I'm trying to focus.
There is this other thing, a child,
a male between 8 and 9 years of age.
He has taken it upon himself to be, like,
a guard or something,
and he's, like, watching all the time.
I think that people would absolutely mistake him for,
like, a shadow person because he's completely solid black.
Like, he feels like it's stronger
than just looking like a person.
They shouldn't have had a park here for children.
I don't like it. It makes me uncomfortable.
Like, I'm scared, feel like I'm being watched.
There's a bad person here.
I know it's a male.
This person is crazy and isn't thinking straight,
anger, lots of anger.
Like, I want to throw up.
It's almost like he blanks out from the rage.
I don't like this.
All right, I'm going to start my investigation
with the obvious question,
who the hell built an amusement park in the middle of nowhere,
and why did it shut down?
I'm heading back to the property to meet
with a local historian who says it's a story
I'm definitely going to want to know about.
Pat, I want to thank you for helping me out with this case.
So why would anybody build an amusement park
out in the middle of nowhere?
It is the intersection of two main roads
where there are a lot of people coal mining
that had nothing to do.
Who opened this place?
A man named Conley Snidow,
and here's what it looked like in its heyday.
He opened it in 1926.
The biggest attraction was the swimming pool.
Over here was a fishing hole.
There was paddle boating.
There were canoe rides, and then right here, where we were,
was the bath house, which had Saturday-night dances.
- Are you from this area? - I am.
I came here a lot when I was small.
You mentioned on the phone there was some information
I was going to want to know about.
What did you mean by that?
There were three deaths that were connected
with Lake Shawnee. - All right.
So let's go through these deaths one by one.
What was the first one?
In 1927, Conley Snidow's 3- year-old daughter, Eloise,
was killed at the hotel where they lived.
One day, she ran for the elevator to get on it.
She grabbed for the floor of the elevator,
and it pulled her up and crushed her between that and the doors.
That's a pretty sad death.
What about the second one?
Second death actually happened here
at Lake Shawnee in the swimming pool.
It was a 6-year-old child named Wayne Harman.
That happened in 1961.
Evidently, he jumped in, and no one paid attention,
and someone brushed up against his body
at the bottom of the pool,
and they came up and yelled to the lifeguard,
and they pulled him out, but it was too late.
What about the third one?
The third one happened July 3, 1966,
right in the pool here,
John Richard Tolley, who was 11 years old.
Here's an article about it,
and he was stuck in the drain at the bottom of the pool.
What a shame.
So in the matter of five years,
he has two drownings in the same pool.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back
for Mr. Conley Snidow.
He closed it down, never reopened it.
Anybody who can relate to what those parents went through,
it was him. - Absolutely.
It must have weighed very heavily on his conscious for him
to close down a park that was making money for him. Right.
So, Pat, I wouldn't normally ask
a person like you this question,
but you told me you came here as a kid.
Now, was there anything that happened that you can't explain?
Yes.
I was swimming right here as a 5-year-old,
and something grabbed me by the bottom of my leg
and pulled me under, and I went down into a hole.
My father had to pull me up by the hair on my head.
Any thoughts about what might have happened to you here or...
Something grabbed me.
It felt like a hand.
When I heard about those children,
the first thing that came into my head was,
"What grabbed them and pulled them under?"
The water repels me.
There's been losses.
I'm feeling tragedies associated with this.
I think that people died there when it was a park.
I'm seeing two, so I don't know if two people got hurt
or they died.
- How recent? - '70s?
maybe it is '60s.
Native Americans caused accidents to happen.
It's just horrible.
So I'm walking over to meet a genealogist
who was doing some research on this place for me,
and he came up with something big.
Turns out, the original owners of this land
got ambushed by local Native Americans,
and it was a bloodbath.
Well, Dan, I appreciate you helping me out with this case.
You said on the phone there was a pretty brutal
Indian attack on this land.
That's correct.
Okay, so before we even get to that,
what do you know about the original owners?
The original owner was a man by the name of Mitchell Clay.
He was from Eastern Virginia.
He was a wealthy tobacco planter, a slave owner,
and in 1775, Mitchell Clay, his wife, Phoebe,
and their 14 children moved onto the land,
and this would have been the cabin
that they built and lived in.
Okay, so they settled here.
What about local Indian tribes?
There were no permanent local Indian settlements here.
However, the Shawnee Indians would pass through here
periodically to hunt.
Did Indians ever inhabit this land at some point?
In the 1400s, there were certainly
Indian settlements here.
In fact, the current landowner, back in the late '80s,
accidentally excavated a grave site
just on this corner of the property over here,
21 sets of remains, and 13 were children,
and it's possible that there are many more remains here.
Okay, so let's get to the attack.
What happened?
In the fall of 1783, Mitchell Clay
and his two oldest sons had gone hunting.
They'd left two of the boys, Ezekiel and Bartley,
to build a fence around some of their fields.
Shawnee Indians fired a shot and killed Bartley on the spot,
only 17 years old.
Bartley's sister, Tabitha, rushed to his aid.
She wound up being stabbed repeatedly,
and she died on this very spot.
Once Bartley and Tabitha were dead,
the Indians scalped both of them and then grabbed
and kidnapped their 16-year-old brother, Ezekiel.
Short time later, Mitchell Clay returned
with his oldest sons.
He found his children dead and scalped.
What does he do?
He then gathers a posse,
and they pursue the Indians who had taken Ezekiel
about 150 miles into Ohio.
Does he find them?
He finds them, but he finds them too late.
By the time he catches up with them,
they have tortured young Ezekiel
and burned him at the stake.
All right.
Mitchell Clay, three dead kids.
- Yes, sir. - And he comes home?
No.
He sells the farm, and then they move
many miles away back into Virginia,
and he lives there the rest of his life with his wife,
and they die there.
There's a bunch of happy people.
They were all white.
It's all good vibes.
You know, people are singing and dancing.
There's, like, a covered-wagon thing, I think 1760s.
Then, the Native Americans got really mad,
and then it kind of went a little nuts.
And I'm hearing screaming and yelling
and people running around.
They were caught off guard.
People are being brutally murdered.
Then I'm with this mother, and I think I want to die,
want to kill myself.
It's survivor's guilt.
There's a lot of pain here.
These souls are not at rest.
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So far, I've got a client who fears
for the safety of his mother,
volunteers, and guests
on a property where two kids drowned,
two other kids were murdered,
and where Native American remains were found,
but I want to see if there's anything else.
Searching through old records,
I found an article about a brutal murder
that took place in 1935.
Turns out, it happened right along Chris' property.
So I called the local cops,
and they don't want to talk to me about this case,
but my old friend Matt McGrew does.
I'm heading over to meet with him now,
and he says this murder turned out to be a crime of passion.
So, Matt, it's good to see you again.
I appreciate you helping out with this case.
Now, what do you know about this perp?
Well, his name is James Craft Belcher.
He's a local guy, 25 years old.
Belcher, the name sounds familiar.
I think it came up in my title search.
His grandparents actually owned the property
in the early 1900s.
So there's a good possibility
the perp spent time on my client's property.
Definitely, and he would have grown up there.
All right, so what do we know about the victim?
He actually was seeing a woman named Myrtle Taylor.
She's 19 years old. She's a local girl.
They've grown up in the same area.
All right, so now, take me to the night of the murder.
On the night of May 11, 1935,
Belcher goes into a restaurant and sees
Myrtle eating dinner with another man,
so as you might imagine, they start fighting about it.
Okay.
And she doesn't want to leave.
You know, she can tell he's upset,
but he forces her to leave with him
and forces her into the car.
I don't feel good, and I am getting, like, a pain, like,
here and here, really bad, actually.
I think somebody got hit there.
I think it's a woman.
I think between 14 and 16 years of age,
she seemed to be from a long time ago, like the '40s.
I feel like there's a bad person here.
I don't know who this person is.
I know it's a male, and she knows him.
Do you know what happened?
I know that his intentions were not good.
Okay, so this guy basically kidnapped his own girlfriend.
So what happened?
Somewhere along Rock-Shawnee Road,
which is right along your client's property,
they stop the car, and they get out.
He pulls out a gun, and he shoots her in the head twice.
I'm assuming she gets killed right there and then.
No, he puts her back into the car.
She's still alive, and he drives her to the hospital,
but obviously, she's basically in a coma at this point.
She dies a few hours later.
Does he confess to it?
He goes to trial, and he actually makes an insanity plea.
The jury doesn't buy it.
They convict him. - All right.
So did this guy ever get parole, or did he die in prison?
No, he dies in prison in 1993 when he was 85.
I've seen this a thousand times.
I mean, it's a crime of passion, a lot of rage here.
That's right.
It's a shame he never hung, though.
That guy that she knew was attacking her.
God, it hurts.
There was blood in her mouth, and the pain was horrible,
and she was, like, basically going into shock at that time.
This female, I believe, was abducted or murdered
by this man.
The sun is, like, just starting to go down
when all of this happened,
and there's, like, a lot of adrenaline and anger,
Rage, just blind rage.
During my walk, I saw several disturbing things,
but the teenage girl who was murdered really stood out.
She was younger.
I'd place her between 14 and 16 years of age.
Her eyes were more rounded in shape.
Her hair was brown or dark blonde.
Amy, is this what you saw?
Yes.
Now that Amy and I have completed our investigations,
we're ready to reveal our findings to each other
and our clients for the first time.
Well, Amy, let's start with the obvious.
I mean, I'm sure you figured out by now
that this used to be an amusement park.
Chris owns it here with his mom, Jewell,
who lives on the property alone.
We'll get into the reasons why this place means
so much to them later, but for now, Chris called us in
because he's not sure if it's safe for his mom
to be here alone
or for anybody else that comes onto the property.
Now that Amy knows a little bit about you guys,
I'll ask her to describe her walk with us.
This walk was really overwhelming
because I encountered
at least 12 conscious entities that are here.
It would take all night to go into each one of them,
so I'm just going to focus on the ones
specifically who can directly influence the living.
The first individual I encountered, actually,
a little boy, I would say he was about 8 or 9,
and what he's doing is he's taken it upon himself
to kind of, like, be a guard here
and watch everybody's coming and going.
Obviously, I think you would feel watched by him.
You might be able to see him, like a blocky shadow person.
Everybody I spoke to and interviewed
had the experience of feeling watched or seeing shadows.
Now, you told me you saw shadows, right, Chris?
Yes, out of the side of my eye,
I would catch a shadow every once in a while.
So, Chris, do me a favor.
Tell Amy how your son feels like he's being followed.
Yeah, whenever he goes around the park,
he feels like somebody is following him,
and then whenever he stops,
he hears two more steps behind him.
Interesting.
There was another dead male here who was an adult.
What I got mainly off of him was a lot of adrenaline,
a lot of anger, and a lot of rage.
If a living person was exposed to that energy consistently,
they could feel intense anxiety like they're being stalked.
I interviewed a guy named Bob who does volunteer work
for you on the property.
Now, he told me he got hit with some serious anxiety
by the old school bus that's right over here,
but it was so bad that he had to run off the property.
Wow.
Next, I ran into a very old and very strange thing.
It's, like, 8 feet tall, and it has all these robes on.
I was really uncomfortable at first.
So he's actually someone who's trying to warn
and protect, which I found freaking fascinating.
Well, let me ask you a question because
when I spoke to your son,
he told me he felt like he got grabbed.
Now, he told me he felt like it was somebody protecting him
to stop from going into a bad area.
Could be.
You told me you get touched while you're on your tractor.
Yeah, I feel a little bit of pressure
on my shoulders and stuff,
like something is behind me.
Now, who do you think that could be, touching his shoulders?
There's a lot of people.
Possibly, your dad.
Could be.
One thing that I got throughout my walk
was the overwhelming feeling of sadness and despair
because of the deaths over the years,
and I got that people did die when it was a park.
I got that two deaths specifically, I thought,
happened in the '60s.
Frankly, I was like, "Who would build this here?"
Like, the energy is not good.
It's funny because when I showed up here, I was like,
"Who the hell would build this place in the middle of nowhere?"
When this was an amusement park, it was called Lake Shawnee,
and it was built by a guy named Conley Snidow back in 1926.
I got a photo here of what it looked like
when it was pretty much in its heyday as an amusement park.
Now, you said you got a couple of deaths in the '60s.
Well, get this, back in June of 1961,
a 6-year-old boy named Wayne Harman
drowned in that pond right over here.
Here's an article on it.
Then, in July of 1966, an 11-year-old boy
named John Richard Tolley drowned in the same pond.
Now, the guilt was so much for Snidow
that he ended up closing this place for good
at the end of that summer.
Now, I almost never ask experts if they've had experiences,
but the historian I spoke to used to come here
when she was a kid and swim in the pond
until one time she felt like somebody grabbed her foot
inside the pond and pulled her down.
Now, she almost drowned,
but she's totally convinced to this day
that it was a paranormal event.
Interesting.
I think now is probably a good time to tell Amy
why this property is so important to the family.
It meant the world.
Now, Chris' father, Jewell's husband,
bought the property in 1985.
His dream was to own it and restore it,
but nothing worked right, and so finally,
we just had to kind of give up.
Now, would you mind telling Amy about how your husband passed.
It ended up being colon cancer.
And when he passed, he was still living here.
Right.
Chris, you're trying to preserve your father's dream.
Yes.
I think our intention is to preserve the property
just the way it is.
So I know that you guys have paranormal investigators
and all of this kind of thing.
We do.
Anything else?
I ran into a deceased female,
and I would have put her between 14 and 16 years of age.
She seemed to be from a while ago.
There was a male that she runs into,
and I think that this male killed her.
Now, I think you're describing the murder
I came across in my research.
Now, the killer was a local guy named James Belcher
who was 25 years old.
His grandparents actually owned this property
in the early 1900s.
Belcher was separated from his wife
and had a mistress by the name of Myrtle Taylor.
She was only 19 years old.
And on May 11, 1935, Belcher walked into a restaurant
and sees her with another guy, having dinner.
Well, he freaks out, and he basically kidnaps her
and forces her into the car.
Now, what he does is pulls over right on the road right here.
Belcher grabs a gun and shoots her twice in the head.
Holy...
I actually have a photo of both of them.
Is it possible that's who you saw?
I had a sketch done of the girl I saw.
I mean, the nose, the eyes.
I mean, the photo is not great, but it's very possible
that this is the same girl.
It looks exactly alike.
So, Mom, you think it could be the same girl?
I do.
You can see it, yeah.
The mouth, to me.
Another thing that I saw was very disturbing,
and it took place a long time ago,
and it was near a covered wagon.
Everybody is happy. There's kids.
They built a bonfire, singing and dancing,
having a good old time,
and then I'm hearing screaming and yelling,
and I got that it was, like, really awful murders,
and I think it was safe to assume that Native Americans
had committed this attack
on what looked like a white family.
I knew that these people had been caught off guard.
They totally did not expect this to happen.
There was a thing about the Native Americans
being all pissed off because they felt this was sacred land.
Do you have a time frame?
The 1750s or '60s.
Wow.
I think I know exactly what you're talking about
and what you saw.
This property is the site of the most brutal Indian attack
in the history of this area.
In 1774, a guy name Mitchell Clay
bought over 800 acres and moved onto the property here
with his wife, Phoebe, and 14 kids.
Now, they were the first white settlers
in this part of the country.
I got a picture of the house they lived in, actually.
Now, in 1783, Clay went hunting with his two oldest sons
and left everybody else home.
As soon as he left, a group of Shawnee Indians
stormed the property.
First, they shot and killed Clay's 17-year-old son, Bartley.
Then they slashed their teenage daughter, Tabitha, to death.
Then they scalped both these kids
and then kidnapped their 16-year-old brother, Ezekiel,
and took him to Ohio.
When Clay found out about this, he rounded up a posse,
and he went to Ohio to try and save his son,
but by the time he got there, it was too late.
Ezekiel had been tortured and burned at the stake.
Holy...
They mentioned the attack was retaliation for the land.
The expert I spoke to told me that the Shawnee Indians
didn't actually live here when the attack happened,
but they did have a settlement here way back in the 1400s.
In fact, back in 1989, Chris' family was excavating land here,
and they uncovered human remains that belonged to those Indians.
They found more than 20 bodies, 13 of which were kids.
Now, there's a good reason to believe that
there were more bodies still here.
I actually have a photo of one of the remains they uncovered.
- Wow. - Yeah.
It's hard to believe that something like this happened
on this piece of land.
Maybe, it is an amusement park for the dead.
So now, are these Native Americans still here?
Yes.
They're upset and active.
They didn't want us here doing the investigation.
Possibly, at times, they would make the living here
feel intimidated and nervous.
Unfortunately, one of the things that they were indicating
that they'd resorted to is making the living sick here,
putting emotions onto the living people,
trying to get the living to hurt one another
and causing accidents,
and one of the things that I got was
that a male associated with the property
was having a heart attack or heart issues.
I was hoping we wouldn't have to talk about this,
but, Jewell, can you tell Amy about your son?
He had 26 heart attacks before he passed away
with a massive heart attack.
And he was, like, 51?
And he lived on the property at the time.
- Yes. - Wow.
I actually have a photo of her son that they provided me with.
Wow.
Okay.
I saw him during my walk.
Does it make you happy or kind of sad?
Makes me -- I'm okay with it.
I think he's here protecting and protecting my mother.
All right, so what else?
Well, then, I went over to the house.
And that's where you live, Jewell.
Yes.
I got that the Native Americans are very active there,
and because of that,
I think that there would be experiences sometimes.
I got that they can show themselves and interact
with their surroundings.
I did see something being moved around in the house.
Tell Amy what goes on.
Sometimes, I'll lay something down and go to another room,
and when I come back, it's in a different place.
Sometimes, it's gone, and then a couple days, it shows back up.
Now, you had told me you saw an apparition
of a Native American warrior.
Yes.
He had no clothes, was holding something in his hand.
The big question, I think, is, what do these Indians
want from these guys?
So basically, the Native Americans believe
that this is their land,
and they want it back, and they don't want anybody here.
Their goal is to get them off this land.
I do know that they did possibly affect your son's health,
so that's troublesome.
I feel that we need to maybe see
if there's some way we can resolve this.
If it's moving her off the property, that's what we'll do.
I don't feel it's me that they want off the property.
So, Chris, I know that one thing you're passionate about
is honoring your dad's memory and keeping his dream alive,
and that means making this park safe for volunteers, guests
and, most of all, your mom,
but to see what that's going to take,
I'm going to turn it over to Amy.
It's really hard for me to say,
"Stop doing events and investigations here,"
because I feel like it should be investigated.
What I'm thinking is maybe that you kind of really screen
who's coming here and why
because you really don't want antagonistic people
that are, like, you know, "We're going to drink and party,
and we're going to, like, hunt ghosts."
You know what I mean?
And I think that after every event
and every investigation,
an offering needs to be left because the Native Americans
do not feel respected at this time.
So now, when they make the offerings,
do they have to say anything?
Is there any kind of a ritual?
They'll be guided as to what to bring.
Like, these Native Americans are very hands-on, I guess,
guiding what they want and how they want it.
You're nodding your head yes like you know
what she's talking about. Yes.
Do you know what she's talking about? I do.
Then, you guys are ahead of the game, then.
What about these physical attacks
that are happening to people that come here?
Will that stop with the offerings?
Yeah, the offerings are going to help a lot.
Okay, so what else do they need to do?
As far as the dead here,
I would like to see at least the murdered girl moved on.
You just need to have a medium come and call out
to her and move her on.
My question now is, are you going to take Amy's advice
and do what she's telling you?
- Absolutely. - Yes.
And I know 100% that they will be followed through with.
I think it's a big relief that we know at least
we can keep everybody safe.
Okay, how do you think your father would have felt?
I think he's pleased.
I know he's happy.
I can feel him.
That takes a burden off of him.
It takes a burden off of us.
It just totally relieves me.
I'm just so happy, and I know he's happy.
Chris and Jewell have a lot of work ahead of them,
but if they contact a medium to remove the dead girl,
screen people who want to visit the park
and make consistent offerings to the Native Americans,
Chris will be able to keep his dad's dream alive,
and maybe, one day, Lake Shawnee will be back open for business.