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The Sense of Charms
Date:
Feb
21, 2009 History: Before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, the area where Shawnee sits was an established territory. On March 18, 1895, the Choctaw Oklahoma Gulf Railroad Company, under the director of John McLoud, sold the property to Daniel P. Page. The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (CO&G), known informally as the "Choctaw Route," was an American railroad located in located in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The company, originally known as the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, completed its main line between Memphis, Tennessee, and western Oklahoma by 1900. In 1901 the CO&G chartered a subsidiary company, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, to continue construction west into the Texas panhandle, and by 1902 the railroad had extended as far west as Amarillo.
1897:
Mr. Page owned the property for around 2
years until April 2, 1897 when he sold one half of it to Max Herskowitz
and the other half to G.M. Steel for $1500.00 a piece. Max was born on
July 29, 1850 in Hungary. He and his wife, Hermione and their family
traveled to the United States from Hamburg, Germany prior to 1978, and
settled in New York where they had their first son, Emanuel. Over the
years they ended up moving to Ohio and had a total of 11 children. The
1897-1911
– The Aurora Store
(Dry Goods) - Still owned by the
Herskowitz 1945 –The property and building was sold from the Herskowitz Estate to Felice Gold of California for $38,000. Felice Gold rented the property out to local tenants.
1945-1970
– Arden’s Dress Shop
(Dress Store) The building still
owned by Felice Gold but leased out. 1970 – The property and building was sold again from Felice Gold to Neil Satterfield and Alvin Squires. In 1977, Satterfield and Squires joined to create Satterfield and Squires Building Corporation. It remained Arden’s Dress Shop
1971-1980
– Shoe Land
(Shoe store) The building still owned by
Satterfield and Squires but leased out. 2000 – The property and building was again sold by Lloyd Penson to Michael and Joni Little
1998-2001
– Two Old Crows (or Crown)
(Hobby & Toy Shop) The building still owned by Michael and Joni Little and leased out 2006 – Sold from Michael and Joni Little to current owners 2006-Present – Sense of Charms (Gift Shop)
Things
that have been reported by the business owners and their guests have
been the following:
We arrived at
the location and began getting set up for the investigation.
This location seemed very quiet and nothing appeared out of
When I first walked through the doors of this building I didn’t know
what to expect however I didn’t feel
Evidence Collected
Photographs: There was 1 interesting photo taken from this investigation.
Video: There were a couple of positive video clips recorded. Evp: There were 3 evps recorded from this investigation.
"Here
we are, look up"
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The CO&G came under the control of the
family eventually moved to Oklahoma City and Max became a well-known
real estate businessman. Max had a building built shortly after he
purchased the property somewhere in between 1897 and 1901and opened up a
dry goods store called, “The Aurora Store” in which he had their oldest
son Emmanuel manage, since Emmanuel lived in Shawnee at the time.
Emmanuel also managed various hotels in Shawnee as well and had turned
out to be a good businessman like his father.
After Max’s death on August 22, 1911, his
family took over the property and business and it stayed in the family
until it was sold in 1945. The Herskowitz family owned the land and
building for 48 years. Next is the list of business this location has
been.
A Large cabinet fell over with Raggedy Ann doll and broke 1 of the door
off before they arrived, dolls get knocked off shelf all the time, loud
crashes and bangs upstairs but nothing is moved, in the balloon room
footsteps are heard and even the running footsteps of like a small
child, they hear walking upstairs, Their kids who frequent the store
with them are scared to go to the bathroom in the back and everyone who
goes towards the back area is scared to go past playroom, the CD player
turns itself off and on, especially on before they arrive to open the
shop, and lights have been on when they come into the store and they
have made sure the lights were off when they left. One time the former owner’s
daughter was hiding upstairs and she felt something tap her and she
thought it was her brother but he was across the room. This same girl
also saw image in computer screen. 
the ordinary. The business owners gave us a walk-through of
the building and then our team met up to divide into two
teams. We had one team in the building at a time followed by
a couple of the business owners who decided to stay with us
during our investigation. 
the
upstairs rooms. Also there was a time when 2 of the team
members heard rustling coming from the artificial Christmas
trees which were being stored upstairs. No team member was
near the tree when it omitted the rustling sound. A little
boy’s voice was heard saying, “I’m scared.” upstairs as
well. Just as the team was conducting their sweep of the
last room, the investigator running the walking cam noticed
two light anomalies on the stairs. One of the investigators
heard a soft whisper say “Wait” right as the team was
getting
ready to go downstairs. Then without warning the
entire team heard a loud crash and when they looked over,
there was a wooden arm of a scarecrow holding a pitchfork
and lying on the ground. No one was up against or around the
little wooden figure when this happened. The team marked and
documented the arm for reference. Here is the audio clip of
this incident:
was the fact that 3 of the group members that
were upstairs conducting the sit-down, all witnessed seeing
a partial apparition of a little boy sitting by one of the
doorways to one of the rooms. The sighting of him was
strange because he appeared in partial forms each time which
looked somewhat like a heat vapor. This little boy looked
like he was around 5 or 6 years old. He had light brown hair
and was wearing a light colored shirt and medium toned
pants. He looked as if he were from the time period of the
early 1900’s. He seemed very interested in some of the hand
held equipment that we were using such as the emf meters
with the lights and sounds. He never would come up close to
them though because he acted a bit afraid of them. Several
pictures were snapped during this time but his image was
never captured. We were however able to capture a couple of
recordings of him, especially one while we part of the team
was going upstairs to conduct our sit-down in which we think
he followed us up too. This evp of his voice is neat because
you hear him say,
Psychic Investigator's
Comments: 
anything right away. The building
actually felt very peaceful to me and I wasn’t sure if we would find
anything paranormal there or not. As I began my walk through of the
building and about half way back, I felt the energy start to change in
the building. The farther I walked towards the back of the building, the
stronger the feeling got so I knew the back area was more so a place of
interest for any paranormal activity. When I got into one area of the
store that had colorful items along with balloons and nick knacks, I
happened to catch a little boy acting like he was going to grab an item
off the table from out of the corner of my eye. I did not get a great
glimpse of him because I saw him so quickly but I got another glimpse of
him when I went over by the balloon area. I saw him jump upwards and
reach up as if he were trying to grab a balloon. I didn’t know it then
but I would encounter this little boy later on in the upstairs part of
the building. It was when Team 1 was doing their sweep (which I was a
part of) that I happened to see the little boy hiding from behind one of
the old Christmas trees. As quick as he was there he was gone again. I
felt like this little boy was very curious about us and when I asked him
he name, he told me Jeremiah. During the sit-down I saw this little boy
again sitting by the doorway to one of the rooms upstairs. He would come
in to view and then
disappear and at times only parts of him could be
seen. He seemed to be interested in the emf meters we had with us but
when I offered for him to come play with them, he shied away as if he
was unsure and a bit scared of the meters.
