give it up people-theres no burning house!!

Your all dumb too cause if there was a house that just burst into flames you think people would be talking about it. Let me enlighten you all about how to find it. Do a search on arson and look up previous records find out any info about arson cases in De Moines. At that point you can narrow down your search for te house to only the ones about arson cases and even more by finding out how many victims they had and such.

I was born and raised in Des Moines. I have never heard of this burning house but there are plenty of haunted areas. I have had 3 major haunts in my 27yrs. All three were in Norwoodville Iowa. Norwoodville is a very economically poor area it has always been. I think in the late 1850’s the entire area was a mining town, which is what the name Norwoodville comes from. These mines are now capped but you can visit the sites of these caps and that is where my ghost story begins.
I was maybe 14 years old the day after Christmas my cousin and I decided to go “down to the tracks” to ice skate. This was not only a stupid idea because there is very little frozen water down there but also because we didn’t tell our parents and the ice could have been thin. When we arrived at the tracks, which are just far enough in the woods you can’t see the road you just came from, my cousin began to put on his skates. I remember I was looking into a tunnel that runs under the tracks to allow for four mile creek drainage and as i did I heard voices. This I at first wrote off as nothing, so I kept quiet until I turned around and looked at my cousin who had froze in place. Before I could speak another word we both heard children laughing at us, all over the place, niether of needed to speak a word we ran as fast as we could out of the woods back to his house, I have never went back down there.

The second haunting took place at my cousins house. It is well over one-hundred years old, having had many additions to it over the years it appears fairly modern but it is not. This house like other was just like the one described by the original poster, two story, basement that has a very low ceiling and a huge cut out that was dirt floor, I never entered there it was dark and frieghtening. Most of the haunting that occured in the house consisted of footsteps. At night usually when you were sitting down stairs you could hear someone walk all the way down to the main floor and then back up, which I realize is extremely scary but this was. One night my cousin and I had fallen asleep downstairs in the living room. I remember I woke up suddenly for know appearent reason. I then looked over at my cousin to make sure I wasn’t alone since it was black as pitch. After I assured myself that I was safe I turned my head and looked down over my feet and as I raised my eyes I seen something I will never forget. I green orb the size of a light balb was hovering near the ceiling about ten feet from me. I don’t know how long I looked at it but it scared me so bad that the only thing I could think to do was to put my head under the covers and go back to sleep which is what i did.

I have many more stories from the area but the last one I will tell didn’t happen to me but to two separate people I consider my friends. The first person Scott, the most skeptical unbelieving person you would ever encounter, came knocking on my parents door when I was still living at home. It was midnight but he knew I would be up because I have always been a nightowl. I knew something was up because he wasn’t talking much which was odd. Eventually he said, “You’ll never believe what I did tonight.” Apprently Scott was upset over a some arguement so he decided to go for a walk. Norwoodville doesn’t have street lights so the only place to walk to is either the school or the community center. So he went to the community on broadway around 11pm. He told me he was sitting on top of a slide just thinking when he said something caused him to look into the tunnel slide, he formerly had his back to it, when he looked into it he saw nothing but the bottom but instantly a voice yelled “GET OUT OF HERE!”, he immidiately assumed it was anyone of the ignorent people who live in the area and responded by saying “LEAVE ME THE F@$# ALONE!” he told me he wasn’t sure of anything at this point except for the voice caught him off guard until a moment later, he said, I will do my best to decribe this, the voice whispered in his ears, I did say ears because it was in stereo, as if it was on both sides of his head. It said, “Leave now” so he said he got up went down the slide and ran to my house.

Years later another friend who knew nothing of the other story was shooting hoops late at night, this sounds odd but we did this together often, he says he remember letting the ball go when he heard from every direction, again a king of speaker effect, “GO NOW!” so he got his ball and called me one his cell to tell me the story, this happened at the community center in Norwoodville, Iowa…a township of des moines on broadway.

Hope these were of interest, it you want to go to the tracks they are located on NE29th street, just south of the brigde the interstate runs over, the caps can be heard to find they are usually located 20 feet from the tracks to the north. The house is still family owned so I am not going to say where it is located. Questions.. cbg001@drake.edu

Hey cbg I will check out the community center some night i am somewhat afraid of certain ghosts but very intriged by theme. I am more worried about some of the ingnorant people you talked about I know the neighberhood.But be asured the holy spirit will be there with me.

wlc jr,

It’s getting colder, those people I am speaking of should be cleared out. Just watch the roof the kids hang out up there.

Goodluck and God bless.
cbg

Who would take there time writting this when there’s no location?

Hey aisha it’s on hickman road diden’t you read the comment by william?

My bedroom sometimes get’s hot and thene burns. (WITH DESIRE) I think the spirit that causes this is Aphrodite.

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This one time I went in the woods with my friend, Wayne, and we saw something moving and I was all like “hey, what was that?” and he was all “it was probably just the wind”…it was pretty scaaaaaaary.

YOU’RE A LIAR LLAMAS IN BUSINESS!! I WAS IN THE WOODS ONCE AND I WAS LIKE, “HEY I HEAR SOMETHING,” AND MY BEST FRIEND SAID “IT’S PROBABLY JUST THE WIND” BUT IT WASN’T!! WHAT WE SAW WAS SO HORRIBLE!! IT WAS A SQUIRREL JUMPING FROM TREE TO TREE!!! IT WAS SO SCARY!

I saw the same thing in the wood’s! But it was much more scary there were three squirrel’s! Jumping from tree to tree. I could not get out of there fast enough!

Afraid of squirrel’s are you people crazy.

I don’t know about the chinese fire cracker’s! But I’m not crazy!! I’m a nut if you were a nut you whould be afraid of squrrel’s too!

I’ve seen that house. I used to live a few blocks away from it. (Strangely enough, the house I lived in at that time was haunted as well.) My brother told me the story, but I never saw it actually burn. I did see what I thought was a ghost woman looking out of one of the windows, though.

Ok angle you know where it’s at could you let the rest of us know?

Hello all. Well, as for the Des Moines house bursting into flames… I have no clue. It sounds like urban legend to me. Seems like someone is having to much fun with the story and lights the place up. Anyhow, I do however know about the Villisca House. I live only 30 minutes from there in sw Iowa. The murders occurred on June 10, 1912. Yes, the entire J.B. Moore family and two other children were murdered. Joe (Josiah), Sarah, Herman, Katherine, Boyd and Paul Moore. Also, Lena and Ina Stillinger were children staying overnight with the family. I believe all of those mentioned are buried in the Villisca cemetary. I do know for sure that the Stillinger sisters are buried side by side there. The house does offer tours given by the current owner Darwin Linn of Villisca, who renovated the home to the state inwhich it was in in 1912. He can also tell you many first-hand stories as well as those told by others. There is also a book out that people can buy and I know a small movie company out of Atlantic, Iowa has also made a documentary type movie that was shown at our local theater. There are also many, many, many websites that speak of this event.

This place doesn’t exist. I live in Des Moines, have my whole life, and have never even heard of it.