Villisca Iowa Unsolved Mysteries

In 1917 something awful happened in Villisca Iowa one of the scariest places on earth. It has become one of the creepist unsolved mysteries of modern times. A family was brutally killed and the murderer was never found. It became known as the Villisca Axe Murders.

The Moore family - father, mother and 6 children were murdered by a maniac killer with an axe. He hid in a closet in their bedroom until they were all asleep. Then he carried out his terrible deeds and fled before police could catch him.

The house was restored to the condition it was in at the time of the murders. This is what it looks like today. They say the ghosts of the victims and the killer still remain in the house.

Drawers are found open and their contents strewn about the room. Knives have been seen flying through the air.

Children’s laughter is heard in the bedrooms. There have been sightings of 2 ghostly little girls in white dresses in the Blue Room.

This is the closet in the children’s bedroom where the crazed killer is said to have hidden before carrying out his terrible murder spree.

People who have slept in this room awoke to see the ghost of a man holding an axe standing at the foot of their bed.

Ghostly footsteps have been heard walking up the stairs that lead to the bedrooms. The same stairs the killer walked up back in 1917.

This video shows the closet door opening and closing on it’s own.