WEATHER & EQUIPMENT INFORMATION Weather: , 64 degrees, 48% humidity, 29.93" barometric pressure Solar Activity: Normal Geomagnetic Activity: Quiet/Unsettled Moon Phase: Harvest Moon, 99% Full Equipment Used: Kodak C330 Digital Camera, Sony Hi-8, Olympus VN-240 Digital Voice Recorder, 3-ELF zone EMF meter, Film: All digital format Tapes: All digital format

Centralia Battlefield Centralia, Missouri ---------------------------------------------- Date Of Investigation: 9-27-07 Time: 9:30 pm Investigators on Scene: Rusty,Dwayne,George Photos taken (digital): 255 Positive Photos (digital): 6 (orb photos) EVP's: 0 Anomalous EMF readings: 0 Anomalous temperature changes: 0 Positive Motion Sensor Readings: Video: 200mins

CASE INFORMATION At 3:00 p.m. Sept. 27th 1864, Union Major A.V.E. Johnston, with roughly 155 men of the 39th Missouri Infantry rode into Centralia after seeing smoke on the horizon coming from the burning depot. The 39th Missouri Infantry was a mounted infantry unit that carried single shot Enfield muskets as their weapons. Most of the men were recruits from North Missouri, and had seen little to no action prior to this day. On entering town, the men saw the naked murdered Union soldiers lying across from the depot. Major Johnston was incensed and began to interview civilians about the number of rangers involved in this incident. The townspeople told him that eighty partisans came into town, but that many more were in camp. Johnston believed that the pro-Southern citizens of Centralia were trying to deceive him and decided to go after the band responsible for the massacre. The civilians begged Johnston not to go after the partisans but the Major refused to listen saying that he would bring Anderson’s head back with him after battle.It was over in a minute. According to Frank James, the rangers rode over the Union ranks, Jesse James singled out Major Johnston and shot him in the forehead. Ranger John McCorkle said that some soldiers tried to escape, others tried to surrender while others tried to fight. They were all killed.

Columbia, Missouri