They have investigated three
separate locations in the Flint area and have aired four episodes featuring
Flint.
They first visited for an episode
that aired in June 2013.
The Dead Files Battlefield
Outside the city of Flint a private
residence was experiencing such a profound haunting they called in experts.
Historical records found by Steve
DiSchiavi indicate the house sits on the site of a War of 1812 POW camp. Native
Americans used the land to hold white soldiers for ransom. During Amy’s walk
around the land she sees the spirits of many men looking worn and haggard.
The land is also reported to be in
Section Five of the old Smith Reservation.
In 1819 the land was designated by
Jacob Smith (Flint’s founder) to go to a woman named Mokitchenoqua.
Smith’s heirs say that Mokitchenoqua was his daughter, Maria Stockton. (However
historical records list a Supreme Court Case, Stockton v
Williams, in which
Nancy Smith Crane, Marie Lavoy and Elizabeth Lyons each claimed to be
Mokitchenoqua to lay claim to land- the Supreme Court declared Elizabeth Lyons
to be Mokitchenoqua
however local Flint courts refused to evict Smith’s heirs so Stockton and Payne held onto the land in question).
(In the episode they use the name Nondashemau, which is another name listed on the treaty
however all the documentation regarding this land dispute declares the disputed
name to be Mokitchenoqua)
More of Steve’s investigating
revealed details about a little girl, Loretta, who died in the home in 1936 by
falling inside a hot water laundry tub. This fit with Amy sensing a little
girl’s spirit (possibly Loretta) during the investigation.
Amy also sensed a shape shifting
demonic entity which was the main force behind the chaos and the evil occurring
in the home. The youngest child was being manipulated by an entity Amy called
“The Babysitter”. She concluded that at
some point someone on the property was into dark magic and conjured a demon
that had attached itself to the family currently in the home.
The investigators advised the Flint
family to move out because it was too dangerous to continue living there after
reports of being choked by unseen hands, being dragged out of bed in the middle
of the night, and pets mysteriously dying.
The Dead Files Revisited:
Battlefield and Violated
In this revisited episode that
aired in November 2013, an exorcism was performed to get rid of the demon that
had attached itself to the mother of the household from the Battlefield episode.
The family decided to move out of the house even though things seemed better
after the exorcism.
The Dead
Files Living Nightmare
This
episode first aired November 2014. Ryan, a local Flint police detective,
requests Steve’s help to figure out what is going on in his mother’s home.
Upon
arrival Amy senses multiple spirits.
She
senses an angry man- a convict and felon. She feels him in the guest bedroom
and basement. Ryan had a terrifying experience in the bedroom; he was pinned to
the bed by an unseen entity.
Homeowner
Dawn often hears a voice in the basement telling her to leave. Other strange
happenings occur in the basement - doors opening and shutting and things being
moved.
Amy
feels a very depressed woman in her mid-20s in the master bedroom.
The
previous owner’s husband, who was a career soldier, passed away suddenly inside
the home, in the bathroom of the master bedroom. Steve investigates meanwhile
Amy senses a military man moving throughout the hallway, confused, perhaps not
realizing he is in a house and not on a mission.
During
his research Steve uncovers that the original owners of the land, John and
Lydia Utley, experienced tremendous tragedy. 6 grandchildren, a daughter in
law, along with John and Lydia all died on the property.
Amy
senses a matronly, grandmotherly like spirit, very religious woman. The woman claimed
that her family was cursed and haunted by demons. She believes Lydia Utley is
the grandmotherly spirit.
Amy
also sense shapeshifting creatures and elements on the property.
More
research reveals notorious criminal Tommie Nesbit (also spelled Tommy
Nesbitt in different news clippings) lived next door to the home. Steve teams up
with local retired detective, Robert McFadden, to learn more. McFadden finds
that Tommie was a career criminal. He spent years in and out of jail and prison
but was eventually released early because both he and his mother had
tuberculosis. They both passed away soon after he was released from prison. Amy
believes the violent criminal entity to be Tommie Nesbit.
Amy
suggests the family hire a shaman to get rid of the elementals, a psychic to
offer counseling for the depressed spirit to pass on, and a strong male psychic
to get rid of the criminal spirit. Once the dark spirits are gone the old woman
will be satisfied and can move on.
The Dead Files Triggered
In an episode that first aired in
February 2018, The Dead Files returned to Flint for a third time to investigate
a house filled with shadowy figures.
After moving into the home the new
residents underwent emotional changes and started suffering from depression.
Then physical attacks from unseen entities started.
Amy sensed an influence that pushed
males to violence.
Steve uncovered a murderous past
tied to the Thomas Brent family who originally owned the land the
house is on.
Brent’s daughter Charlotte fell in
love with a married farmer and got pregnant.
The farmer’s wife and child
mysteriously disappeared. They were suspected to have been murdered but no charges could ever be filed.
Charlotte’s mother did not approve of the couple. Six months
after they married she died of arsenic poisoning. The farmer, Palmer, was considered a suspect in this murder but he disappeared.
Is he the murderous spirit
haunting this land?
Quite a few deaths are linked to
the area around this home. Amy felt so much chaos and sensed numerous spirits.
The most concerning spirit was that of a violent mustached man.
Things were so bad Amy and Steve
suggested the family call in a male medium and a Chaos Magician to get rid of
the evil spirits.
Haunted Flint
Haunted America Series
Roxanne Rhoads and Joe Schipani
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date: September 2, 2019
ISBN-10: 1467143049
ISBN-13: 978-1467143042
Book Description:
Sinister Secrets in Flint’s History
Home to ancient burial grounds, unsolved murders, economic depression, and a water crisis, Flint emits an unholy energy rife with ghostly encounters.
Colonel Thomas Stockton’s ever vigilant ghost keeps a watchful eye over his family home at Spring Grove, where guests occasionally hear the thump of his heavy boots.
Restless spirits long separated from their graves lurk among the ancient stones in Avondale Cemetery.
Carriage maker W.A. Paterson’s spirit continuously wanders the halls of the Dryden Building, and something sinister and unnamed resides in a Knob Hill mansion waiting to prey on impressionable young men.
Join authors Roxanne Rhoads and Joe Schipani on a chilling tour of Flint’s most haunted locations.
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