I got an interesting email from my mom the other day. Apparently work was slow and at about 4am she was talking to a new woman at her hospital, about all sorts of silly things. Somehow or another they got on the topic of ghosts, and my mom said 'Oh, you and my daughter Rachael would get along great, she hangs out at this cemetery all the time, and she stayed the night at Villisca'. When she mentioned Villisca the womans head snapped right up. It turns out that her great-grandmother was from Villisca, and that she was friends with Katherine. She was actually INVITED to spend the night with them that night, but her father said no because he thought that Katherine was spoiled and a bad influence. Can you imagine that? It 'haunted' her, so to speak, for the rest of her life, that if it had been to her, she would have been there, and died as a result. The woman who works with my mom said that she sort of wants to go to the house, but she is afraid that she would be recognized by the spirits there as a descendant of one who should have been there and it would be a very negative situation. In my opinion, I think it would be more likely that Katherine would recognize her as a descendant of her friend and would be happy to see her.
Weird, eh? What do you think?
p.s... she also said that her great-grandmother kept all the original newspaper clippings and pictures and stuff her entire life. My mom (knowing her daughter pretty well) immediately asked if the family still had them, but they are gone now.
