Haunted houses: Sallie House, Kansas

Due to the measures surrounding the coronavirus, there are almost to no outings to visit in the coming time. But we do want to make you happy with our blogs. Before joining OpstapmetLisa, I had a blog about creepy places around the world. I especially love the history behind certain houses and stories! Because our blog about real haunted houses in the Netherlands was read a lot by you, we are now making a series about haunted houses in the world. Because there is a lot of haunting going on all over the world….

Sallie House

In the American town of Atchison, Kansas you will find a cute house called Sallie House. Sallie House once belonged to a local doctor, who had a home practice. One evening in 1906, an anxious mother brought her 6-year-old daughter Sallie to the house. The little girl had severe abdominal pains, and the awakened doctor quickly determined that she had appendicitis. Sallie needed immediate surgery. But Sallie panicked when she saw the surgical instruments. The doctor had to restrain the poor child and therefore gave her too little ether, which was used as an anesthetic in those days.

Poor Sallie

The consequence of administering too little ether had a terrible consequence. Poor Sallie woke up during surgery and died on the treatment table because of the horrible pain and shock. She never left the doctor’s house and continued to haunt it. When the house was rented in 1993 by a young couple with their infant daughter, Sallie immediately revealed herself. Sallie appeared to love a joke and she played harmless pranks on the family. The lights went on and off, paintings suddenly hung upside down and children’s toys flew through the rooms. Terrifying, of course, but otherwise harmless. But that soon changed…

Increasingly aggressive

Sallie’s pranks and pranks became increasingly aggressive and dangerous. Fires started in the house and the couple’s husband was literally attacked and scratched open to the point of blood. A medium explained that it was not Sallie who was behind the attacks, but the spirit of a 30-year-old woman. Her love was not reciprocated by a married man and this had made her so angry that she had attacked that man while she was still alive. After her death she targeted all men. The couple had had enough when the man was almost pushed over the railing of the stairwell. They moved out. Since then in the bad spirit gone, but Sallie just keeps on with her jokes.

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