The Kratzville Phantom
In January 1916, the rural farming community of Kratzville, Indiana, was gripped by fear when residents began spotting a mysterious, glowing ball of fire floating through Earl Goldsmith’s farm and the surrounding Elmendorf’s Woods. Local saloon owner Fred Klenck organized a “Great Spook Drive,” leading an armed posse of 25 men and “spook hounds” into the forest to find the phantom.
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Imagine standing in the pitch
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black of Elmendorf’s Woods in
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the small community of
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Kratzville six miles outside
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Evansville, Indiana.
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It’s Saturday night, January
8th, 1916.
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The ground is frozen solid, the
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air is bitter cold, and you’re
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standing shoulder to shoulder
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with twenty four other men and
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boys.
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You’ve brought hunting dogs, and
every single one of you is armed
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with rifles, clubs and pistols.
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For over a week, terror has
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gripped the farming community of
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Kratzville Women and children
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refused to go outside after
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dark.
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Even many of the men are
terrified because something is
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lurking out in these woods.
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At 8:30 PM, the hunting dogs go
wild.
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You lock your grip on your
rifle.
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Your heart is pounding against
your ribs.
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You scan the thickets expecting
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a bobcat, a stray dog, maybe a
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trespasser.
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And then out of nowhere, out of
thin, empty air, a ball of fire
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drops from the sky.
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It doesn’t crash.
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It doesn’t ignite the brush.
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It just hovers gently, floating
among the bare tree trunks,
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glowing with a soft light about
three blocks away.
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For a few seconds, nobody moves.
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Nobody breathes.
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Then somebody yells.
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And all twenty five men charge
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into the brush, guns raised,
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boots crashing through the
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undergrowth.
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They run as hard as they can,
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but no matter how fast they
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sprint, that ball of fire glides
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through the trees, staying
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exactly three blocks ahead of
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them until it vanishes into the
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night.
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Grab your lantern, because
tonight we’re heading into the
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dark of Elmendorf’s Woods to
hunt the Kratzville Phantom.
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I see two horribly hideous
looking little dog like
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creatures in this house.
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It was a disembodied voice.
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It was like a little child
trying to scare us.
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I don’t know what this was.
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I I’ve I’ve heard everything you
can think of.
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This was nothing I’m ever
accustomed to.
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Ever.
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It was terrifying because it was
like our.
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There were so many people to.
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Where it was like, are we all
seeing this?
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So everybody is scared.
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The kids are crying.
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The women don’t.
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You know June’s about to lose
it.
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And what are they to do?
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These things will not die.
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Welcome back to River City
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Mystery, where we talk about the
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mysteries of southern Indiana,
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southern Illinois, and Western
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Kentucky.
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I’m your host, Matt Deig.
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To make sense of what happened
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in Elmendorf Woods that night,
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we have to rewind and go back to
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the very beginning of January
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1916.
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You see, Kratzville was a very
small, tight knit rural
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community nestled along
Kratzville Road around six miles
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west of downtown Evansville.
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Things were not normally very
exciting.
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It was a farming community, so
not a lot going on.
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However.
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Around New Years, things were
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getting really weird in this
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area.
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It all started on the farm of
Earl Goldsmith, who lived right
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along Kratzville Road.
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One night, Goldsmith stepped
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outside his farmhouse and froze,
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still floating right up through
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his barn.
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Lot was what he described as a
“lambent flame”, a soft, glowing
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flicker of light.
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It drifted silently across the
ground, floated right up to the
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door of his barn, and paused.
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The second Goldsmith walked
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toward it to see what was going
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on.
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The light vanished into thin
air.
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So Goldsmith talked to his
neighbors, and it turned out he
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wasn’t seeing things.
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Theodore Miller, who lived about
a mile and a half down
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Kratzville Road from the city
limits, reported seeing a light
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in the woods down at Fred
Klenck’s grocery store and
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saloon, which was like basically
the town hall for Kratzville.
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Several people said they had
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seen strange figures floating
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around the surface of a pond in
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Elmendorf’s Woods.
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Within a few days, there were
all kinds of rumors about what
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was going on.
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Women and children refused to go
outside at night, and as the
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Evansville Press put it, quote,
even some men were “skeered”.
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Unquote.
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By Sunday night, January 2, the
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men of Kratzville decided they’d
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had enough.
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They weren’t going to hide in
their homes while some phantom
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haunted their neighborhood.
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So local saloon owner Fred
Klenck rallied a crew.
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He got together James Duggan,
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Theodore Miller, Carl Miller,
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Charles Kirkpatrick and Claude
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Franks.
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Their plan was simple find the
Phantom.
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They drove out to the edge of
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Elmendorf’s Woods along the road
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loop, and used their vehicle
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headlights to flood the tree
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line.
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And sure enough, in the glare of
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those auto lights, they saw
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flickering beams moving between
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the trees.
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The men closed in, ready for a
confrontation.
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They found that the lights were
the flash lamps of hunters
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attempting to hunt possums.
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The next morning, the local
newspapers had a field day.
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The Evansville Press ran the
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headline ghosts were only possum
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hunters.
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A wave of relief washed over
Kratzville.
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The mystery seemed solved.
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Case closed.
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Well, not so fast.
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Around Friday, January 7, Earl
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Goldsmith announced that he and
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two friends were the ones who
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discovered the source of some of
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the lights while searching the
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woods.
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They had found two men and a boy
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from Avondale with an ordinary
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lantern.
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The boy and the men and the boy
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said they were looking for coons
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and possums.
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That’s what made the paper.
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Goldsmith publicly doubted.
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Their excuse, he said the
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existence of such animals in the
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forest was extremely unlikely at
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that time.
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The men admitted.
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He reported that they made a
number of trips to the woods and
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flashed the light around And
sure enough, over the next few
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days, the lights came back.
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Lights kept appearing in
Elmendorf’s Woods.
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By Friday, January 7, the
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community decided that half
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measures were not going to cut
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it.
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They weren’t just going to shine
headlights from the road.
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They were going to flush out the
entire forest.
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So formal invitations were
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published in the papers for a
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quote unquote great spook drive
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scheduled for Saturday night,
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January 8.
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The instructions were clear.
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Every able bodied man who wanted
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to take a crack at an “all-wool
spook”
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was to meet at Fred Klenck’s
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Saloon at eight o’clock sharp.
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would march into Elmendorf’s
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Woods with guns, clubs
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and dogs, and comb the woods
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until midnight on Saturday
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January 8. A crowd of twenty
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five men and boys gathered
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outside Klenck’s Saloon.
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They
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brought shotguns, rifles,
handguns and clubs. James
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Duggan, a local telephone
lineman,
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was among those involved.
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They
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also brought a pack of
experienced hunting dogs or
quote
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unquote spook hounds, as the
papers put it. At
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eight p m, the posse marched
towards
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the darkness of Elmendorf’s
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Woods. For
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thirty minutes they beat new
paths into the forest. Then,
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at exactly 8:30 PM, the dogs
began to bark wildly. The
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search party stopped, and right
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in front of them a little ball
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of fire appeared among the
trees.
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It
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floated gently among the gnarled
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branches, about three blocks
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away. The
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men stood still for a few
seconds. Then
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the entire posse marched. The
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twenty five men crashed through
the underbrush, shouting and
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trying to close the gap. But
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the fireball refused to let them
near. It
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glided through the dark trunks,
keeping the three block distance
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the entire time uncatchable,
before finally fading
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into the night, exhausted and
thoroughly mystified, the search
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party gave up. They
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headed back to Klenck’s Saloon,
unable to explain what they
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had just witnessed. So
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what was floating in Elmendorf’s
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Woods in January of 1916?
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the days that followed, theories
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flew back and forth across
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Evansville. Skeptics
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pointed to Ignis fatuus,
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which is Latin for “foolish
fire”,
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better known as swamp gas,
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or as it was more commonly known
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at the time, quote unquote,
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jack o lanterns, a natural
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chemical reaction where
decaying.
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Organic matter
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and wet soil produces faint
floating flames. But James
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Duggan shot down that theory
pretty quickly. He pointed
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out that Elmendorf’s Woods
wasn’t swampy at all, other than
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just normal dampness from winter
rains. If it
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wasn’t swamp gas and it wasn’t
hunters with lanterns, locals
turned
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to another theory. Older
residents
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around Kratzville recalled a
legend from years
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before. According to
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local lore, an old miser had
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buried bags of gold in
Elmendorf’s Woods.
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To the
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more superstitious folks in
Vanderburgh County, the answer
was
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obvious. The ball
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of fire wasn’t marsh gas. It
wasn’t
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hunters with lanterns. It was
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the spirit of the old miser
himself. He’d come
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back to guard the gold. No one
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ever found the miser’s gold, and
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no one ever caught the light.
After
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that
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final hunt, the story slipped
out of the newspapers and into
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local legend. Now, if
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you find yourself out on
Kratzville Road
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after dark, when the winter
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chill sets in, you may find
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yourself slowing down, looking
twice
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into the shadows, hoping to
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catch a glimpse of the
Kratzville Phantom.
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Thank you
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for listening to this episode of
River City Mystery. Until next
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time, take care.








