July 22, 2023, Belton, Texas
Do you hear the drum beats? This EVP recording was along Nolan Creek along the Chisholm Trail at Yettie Polk Park. At first you can hear the water and then the drums kick up. Both Confederate and Union (Federal) Civil War Soliders had a presence in Belton, TX
EVP from the common grave site of the nine Belton Jail Prisoners on July 22, 2023. Towards the end “outside” is clearly heard. Can you hear what the first part of the response is?
July 15, 2023, our team went to Maxdale Cemetery located in Bell County, Texas. The Maxdale Cemetery and Maxdale Bridge has been an attraction to many. The bridge alone has many myths from hangings to a school bus crashing. Lore has it that all those that perished there are buried in the cemetery across the road. The hangings is believable! As for the school bus crashing into the Lampasas River where all the children allegedly perished and are buried at Maxdale Cemetery. Eh, not so believable. The width of the bridge would have to be a single direction. The bridge was actually constructed in 1914 to connect the farm road directly to the cemetery. The bridge entrance to directly at the cemetery was much shorter in distance of 0.286 of a mile verses from the where the bridge entrance is all the way around from Maxdale Road to the cemetery gates on Wolfridge Road at 0.772 of a mile. Maxdale Bridge has sadly been permanently closed and blocked off due to vandalism and ill repair due to funding.
Maxdale Cemetery was established in the 1860s to serve the rural community of Pleasant Grove, this cemetery is one of the oldest in Bell County. Land for the graveyard was given by Frank N. McBryde, Sr., whose 1883 application for a post office for the community resulted in the name change to Maxdale. The earliest documented grave is that of Louisa Marlar (1849-1867), although an 1863 tombstone marks the site of a grave reinterred here from another location. Others interred here include pioneer settlers and veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and some more recent. Most of the children buried there are infants that are buried near their parents or other family members, some never reach the age of 2.
On our arrival of at the cemetery our team found an object belonging to a child. We picked it up, where later one of our team members placed it on the headstone of a young child.
We had no luck with EVP’s and nothing on the IR video cameras. We did have so