Crown Hill National Cemetery Investigation
The blog post was written by Whitney Dankemeyer, one half of Two Halves of a Soul.
On September 5, 2022, Nicole, Swan, and I ended our last day in Indianapolis investigating the Crown Hill National Cemetery. This cemetery was established back in 1866, and has our former 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, buried underneath its ground.
We started our investigation by driving through the cemetery and having a look around. Once we got a good feel for the area, we parked the car to get out and get a feel for the land. We all felt incredibly connected to the land, and on our walk, we actually felt even more energy coming from a nearby tree.
As we started to approach the tree, our Ovilus device said “Come” and “Stars,” almost like it was referring to us as starseeds and lightworkers. When we got up next to the tree, it felt very welcoming. We all hugged it to ground and proceeded to call it grandmother (with Swan actually making a Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas reference). It was then that the Ovilus said “Grandfather” and “Geek,” like he was telling us he was a grandfather tree and that we were silly for referring to him as a woman spirit embodying it.
There were other Ovilus words we received indicating the land had a massive impact on the cemetery and the spirits free roaming inside of it. However, there were other things we had on our agenda for this investigation, so we got back into the car and headed to our next destination, which was Benjamin Harrison’s grave.
When we got to his grave, we got out and walked around. We saw that he was buried with his family and that others have been leaving pennies on top of his headstone. We decided to do the same and leave him one before performing an Estes Method session, to you know, give an offering.
When we started the Estes Method session, keep in mind we didn’t have time to research this particular location at all. This one wasn’t on the agenda until we were driving through the city and saw a cemetery going on for blocks. Not having remembered much from History in school either, we went into this investigation totally blindsided. It wasn’t until we did research after we got home when we found out how connecting all of his responses were to the questions being asked.
To give you some background on Benjamin Harrison first (‘cause Gods know we needed it), he served as our 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was the grandson of William Harrison, who was our 9th President of the United States and died 31 days after his inauguration in 1841. He was born on the Ohio River but moved to Indianapolis after graduating from a University out of state. He had even served in the Union Army during the Civil War before he ran for office in 1888.
Benjamin began our Estes Method by telling Swan “Europe, it’s on!” and when we asked him to clarify, he didn’t say anything. We then asked him if he could tell us more about him and when he was president. He responded with “Sing.” I asked him if he liked to sing and he said nothing. When I asked aloud if he liked to hear people sing, Swan mentioned seeing a soldier banging on a drum. That’s when Swan also said the words “They’re all-,” “Right,” “One,” “Now,” “Over,” and “To stand.” It all kind of sounded like chanting or in reference to people marching. With what Swan was saying about the drum and Benjamin saying “Sing,” this all connected in our future research.
To break the story with a recap of history, Benjamin Harrison served in the Civil War in 1862. Abraham Lincoln appealed for there to be an additional 300,000 men in the Union Army. Harrison, seeing the slow response in recruiters, volunteered to serve. There he was encouraged to raise a regiment, and when he was appointed Colonel Harrison, raised 1,000 recruits. Over the next couple of years, Harrison led many men. We believe this was the connection to his early responses, because we found a link to Youtube of 10 of the greatest Civil War songs of the Union Army. We also found old photos from the Civil War of men marching, with a drummer boy in the front, connecting us to Swan’s vision of a drum.
Going back to our Estes session with Harrison, he brought up the words “Threat,” “Drunk,” and “Church.” When trying to make the connection back to what he said in the beginning, “Europe, it’s on!” Swan said “Mammy.” We knew that if this was relating to the Civil War and Europe, it could be indicating the issues with slavery back then. Getting “Mammy” on the device solidified that even more. However, we weren’t going to find all of that out until again, after we got home.
When we did get home and dove into our research on those responses, we found that Harrison supported aid for the education of the Southerners because he wanted the black population to rise to political and economic equality with whites. This was back in 1881. Around this time and for years prior, Europeans were going overseas, enslaving African Americans, and transporting them to the Americas where they were sold and used for their skills. This makes the connection to “Mammy,” and why Harrison was ready to square up with Europe. After our research, we were ready to square up too.
Aside from Harrison arguing with us not to leave, we didn’t get any more evidence regarding his life or position as President. And after all the research we found, we have no doubt in our minds that Benjamin Harrison was exactly who we were communicating with that day. If you want to go have a conversation with the former President yourself, you can find him located at the Crown Hill National Cemetery on 38th St in Indianapolis. He'll tell you all about it.
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