Freddy Stuart story
So what is the story with Freddie Stuart? The show wasn't televised here.
He was supposedly murdered by his mother in 1886? Have they got any genealogists or historians to trace the family and see if that was true?
The 1880 census can be accessed for free at (not allowed to post url) familysearch.org and the Stuart family are easy to find. Wonder what the 1890 census shows? Don't think that is free anywhere though.
Jonquill, if you go to youtube and look up the user
ParanormRUs, you can see the whole episode in parts.
What I could tell about Freddie's story was that the little girl in question, age 8, has reported that she is in contact with a spirit of a young boy named, originally, Freddy Stuart. As this post has continued, someone else was kind enough to point out that in the opening of that episode, the name 'Freddy' is drawn on paper, along with the child's rendition of the entity she claims has contacted her. At one point, the name changes from 'Freddy' to 'Freddie' - and it's hard to tell who changed the name, either the young girl, Faith, or the interviewer. Chip Coffey, who is the main investigator behind the show, has a group therapy session with the young children (and their parents), in an traditional American Mid-Western Inn, called Story Inn, in Nashville, Indiana.
Freddie, according to the story, was killed by his mother Catherine and has since haunted the earth and attached himself to the young Faith. Catherine is claimed to also harass the young girl much like she did Freddie while he was alive.
Once they reach the Story Inn, Faith says that the inn is haunted (which is one of the selling points of the actual place on it's website - google the '
story inn Nashville Indiana'). If you watch the episode "The Ghost of Freddie", then visit the Story Inn website, it's obvious that the Inn was dressed down to look like a haunted house - at least at the time of the filming.
Many of the parents are stressed out, the kids are claiming the whole place is haunted. In regards to Freddie situation, both the mother and the child in this episode are already exhibiting extreme psychological distress, and much of the show plays on this as the psychics try to rally the troops and do intervention counseling.
During this session, Chip drops the bomb; that Freddie exists and they found him (see above post for details.) This provides validation for the young girl, who continues to claim that Catherine has followed them there, along with Freddie, and is threatening young Faith. The archival record establishes that Freddie Stuart existed and that his mother was a lady by the name of Catherine in the year 1880.
The young girl is elated, but the mother seems more distressed as the events progress surrounding the show.
In my mind, taking the children to a place that is known to be traditionally 'haunted' by rapport was a bad idea. Kids pick up on ghost stories, alot quicker than than adults, and remember those places in their minds. For example, Chip claims none of the young girls knew they were going to meet up at the 'Story Inn' (where the girls are supposed to met up together for the first time).
As the drama unfolds, one of the little girls draws the 'Story Inn' on paper before they get there, with far greater accuracy than any Uri Geller could have done. One has to ask, did the young girl already know, even though they weren't told of the official name of the place, but the direction, that they were going to a traditionally haunted inn that has a long history of ghost sightings?
Finding and watching this episode is crucially to see what the parents, not just the children, are going through as well.
What would be more interesting to find out, and I didn't notice this in the episode, was any possible death records. However, the girl did mess up on one thing. The Freddie Stuart that we can find on record, is 8 years old at the time of th 1880 US consensus, having been born in 1972 to Catherine and Augustus Stuart. Faith says Freddie was a young boy, Freddie was actually 14 years old if he died in 1886.
Here's the kicker, did this Freddie Stuart actually die in 1886?
That's the most important record to find.
