| Everyone
loves a good mystery, especially when
it involves the paranormal and an
old cemetery. This mystery all started
when a photograph and information
was received by Paranormal Task Force
late last year (2007). The photograph
was taken at the location of an old
Jesuit Cemetery four years after burials
were supposedly exhumed and relocated
to another nearby cemetery. With the
photograph also came a story which
leads one to question if the actual
bodies were indeed removed or just
left there to be forgotten while six
foot under and just stripped of their
stone placards.
This property was once part of the
999 acre historical St. Stanislaus
Seminary which was originally started
in 1823 in the then Louisiana Territory
by 8 Belgian Jesuit missionaries,
including Father De Smet, under the
encouragement of Bishop DuBourg and
President James Monroe. This mission
first started as just a log cabin
residence and an Indian School near
the present intersection of Howdershell
and Charbonier Roads in historic Florissant,
Missouri. In 1840 the log cabins were
replaced with a four level stone building
which became the longest running Jesuit
novitiate in the United States until
1971. In 1971 most of the property
was sold to United Pentecostal Church
International and the historic stone
building became the Museum of Western
Jesuit Missions. Part of the property
sold contained 351 Jesuit burials
which were supposedly exhumed and
moved to nearby Calvary Cemetery.
This left 121 burials remaining at
this historic Jesuit location including
the oldest grave sites, some of which
were located upon an old Native American
burial mound.
In 2003 the museum closed its doors
and its contents were relocated to
the St. Louis University Campus where
a newer museum was dedicated. The
remaining burials of the "pioneer"
Jesuits were then supposedly removed
and reentered into Calvary Cemetery
in St. Louis, Missouri. The deemed
11 historic Jesuit burials were reported
to be placed in individual graves
within Section 33 with the remaining
110 non-historic burials being placed
in one mass grave.
However, per the information and
eye accounts we received, observers
only witnessed the backhoes moving
dirt around to level the ground after
the tombstones and monuments were
removed. After the workers finished
leveling the ground witnesses asked
them about the burials due to not
seeing any remains or caskets being
exhumed from the earthen floor below.
They were told that the remains were
going to be hand removed using shovels.
However, the attentive witnesses came
back day after day for a long period
of time and never saw a shovel on
the site or further excavation. Instead
they only watched new grass grow.
During the same period these concerned
and watchful individuals also kept
their eyes upon the Calvary Cemetery
location where the remains were to
be relocated. They never witnessed
ground breaking or any other indication
the any bodies were entered. However,
a stone wall monument was erected
containing the Jesuit's names.
Is the above photograph a paranormal
reminder and message sent by those
earthen residents possibly left behind
to let us know that they still inhabit
the ground at the old Jesuit Cemetery
location? Is the famed Father De Smet
one of the forgotten ones left behind?
Are Jesuits today that make the annual
pilgrimage in May to Father De Smet's
grave actually visiting the site of
Father De Smet or just a name engraved
on a wall at the wrong location? Maybe
in the near future science with its
ground exploring ultrasound equipment
could tell us the true story concerning
the plight of the possibly forgotten
Jesuits.
(The below pictures are of the same
location the ghost tombstones were
captured, but during the daylight
hours and of a picture of the same
area from an old news article concerning
the closure and relocation of the
cemetery and museum.
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