The airdates for The Travel Channel’s production of Atchison and its haunted residents are scheduled for 9 p.m. April 24, Thursday; midnight, Friday, April 25; and 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, on cable channel 37.
The series Destination USA will feature the town’s eeriest sites while showing Haunted Town. The Travel Channel’s Website, www.travelchannel.com, lists Atchison as “a pleasant town of Victorian houses and leafy streets and the birthplace of Amelia Earhart. But behind the quite facades, ghosts of all sorts are said to frolic.”
ABC producer Caroline Christopher, co-producer John Schultz and a film crew took a week-long haunt around town and filmed 25 tapes of footage for the documentary about ghosts in Atchison. The group patiently waited for shots and took part in the weirdest of midnight visits to cemeteries and hollows.
Looking for evidence of ghosts and spirits, the crew ventured to many places in Atchison including a house on North Second Street, where a little girl named Sallie is suppose to hate men and lurks in the halls waiting to scratch their eyes out; the Majestic House Bed and Breakfast, where footsteps of Benedictine monks are believed to be heading to chapel to pray; Jackson Park where a girl named Molly was supposed to have been hanged; Benedictine College where college students believe spirits still live in dorm rooms; and Mount Calvary Cemetery where they tried to communicate with the dead.
Ms. Christopher also invited Sueanne Pool a paranormal investigator from Kansas City, Mo. and Verle Muhrer who calls himself an eupraxopher for hire, to tag along.
“The shoot was very successful,” Ms. Christopher said in June. “What I came here to find I found.”