The Villisca Axe Murder House - Exploring One of America's Most Haunted Houses!

Searching for Villisca on Google Maps displays a small remote agricultural town located in Southwest Iowa, a region defined by endless stretches of rolling hills and fields of corn. The town is appropriately marked with a crimson blotch, a bloodied stain left by an act of horrendous violence that has tarnished the Iowa map for 100 years.

My brother Connor and I are back, after eleven years, at one of the most haunted houses in the United States - the Villisca Axe Murder House located in Villisca, Iowa. We were last here in June 2012 for the 100th year anniversary of the senseless murders that occurred at this Iowa farm home.

It was here on the night of June 9-10, 1912 that six members of the Moore Family and two neighborhood children were brutally murdered in their sleep with an axe. The event shocked the American people to such an extent that it knocked the Titanic disaster from the front pages of newspapers. A lengthy criminal investigation yielded several suspects, yet no one was convicted. The identity of the “axeman” remains unsolved to this day.

A visit to this house is literally a step into a crime scene, a horrific and sad one at that. The very floorboards and walls were present in 1912, and the house has been refurbished to resemble the way it did that when the Moore family lived there.

Intro: 0:00
Exploring the Haunted Villisca Axe Murder House: 2:05
Villisca Cemetery: 33:03
Outro Song Haunted Hymn: 36:27
Severe Thunderstorm: 37:23
Fin: 39:28

Outro Song Haunted Hymn - Written and performed by me on piano.