Quote from HauntedLineage on September 24, 2026, 3:30 PM

Back in October 1862, ten Confederate POWs were executed by firing squad outside Palmyra, Missouri under orders from Union Colonel John McNeil in retaliation for the disappearance of Andrew Alsman. The execution site on the old fairgrounds eventually became farmland before being partially turned into a subdivision.

As detailed in the Haunted Lineage piece "Ephemeral Soldier," a Polaroid photo taken at the site captured an unexplained shadow of a soldier holding a rifle standing right beside a visitor—an image that strangely faded from the print for years before reappearing. Has anyone else visited the Palmyra Massacre grounds or experienced anomalous figures or photo anomalies around Civil War sites in Northeast Missouri?