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Many communities can lay affirmation to apparitional aspects of their towns.
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The arduous celebrated characteristics of abounding areas of our country accommodate calmly to belief of the paranormal, unusual, and absolute ghostly.
Lee’s Summit is no different.
I bethink back I confused actuality in 2009 about anon audition mystical belief from architecture owners, historians, and adept residents, abnormally in our burghal area.
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It’s no wonder, too, with 150 years of history, including a alternation annex that brought with it the anguish and realities of assorted wars and abundant fires over the years.
As Kathy Smith, our citizen historian in Lee’s Summit knows and credibility out, the alternation annex abandoned lends itself to adventure afterwards adventure of accident and heartache. She’s accustomed abounding tips of apparitional and abstruse action over the years. Much of it advancing from barrio with added than a aeon of history and, likely, some abandoned belief to tell.
Imagine the scenes over the decades at 9 S.E. Third Street, aboriginal a home to the aboriginal Lee’s Summit hospital and after the Dayton Hotel, breadth Dr. Ragsdale took his own life. Belief accept been for years floated of footsteps — pacing, in actuality — actuality heard aloft them by those on the arena floor.
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Or the old Commercial Auberge at Third and SW Main Streets, the armpit of the above auberge and Bank of Lee’s Summit has continued been accounted to be apparitional by an old innkeeper or alike a “ghost cowboy” whose spurs can be heard at night awkward beyond the board floors upstairs.
When an breadth is as accepted in history as burghal Lee’s Summit, there are absolutely the stories, the history, the tales, and yarns, that will appear with it — anesthetized bottomward from bearing to generation, from abundance buyer to employee.
Each year, Burghal Lee’s Summit Main Street conducts a berserk accepted Apparitional & Celebrated Tour. And the byproducts are assorted and to the annual of the business district.
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Haunted is entertaining. For those who accept that accept accomplished abnormal action or are absorbed in the topic, this bout gives a immediate annual from abounding barrio and angles in downtown. And celebrated is, honestly, an acutely important basic to this bout as well.
Telling the belief of the 1909 architecture as a above blaze base and mayor’s office; talking about the history building and its offerings; discussing fires that ravaged abounding areas of downtown, including Third and Douglas and abreast Third and Market Streets; administration history of barrio that housed the business in burghal Lee’s Summit that brought offerings of aggregate from appliance to advantage to caskets and mortuary casework — all of this helps accumulate our history animate and relevant.
Are there apparitional barrio in burghal Lee’s Summit?
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History would acquaint us that is awful likely. Whether or not you accept in the paranormal, administration our past, our beginnings, our roots, and talking about our burghal is consistently constructive.
Lee’s Summit citizen John Beaudoin writes about burghal and borough issues, bodies and personalities about town. Reach him at johnbeaudoin4@gmail.com.
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