First of all, Maryville is in Missouri, it's about 30 minutes from Villisca so the part where Jess asks why anyone would move to Iowa is irrelevant because if she is going to school with Caleb, who is in the Maryville Paranormal whatever and who lives in Maryville and went to school in Maryville, then she moved to Missouri and not Iowa. I went to college in Maryville and have unfortunately had to make that drive around Clarinda and Villisca multiple times and both towns are kind of terrible so if she had truly moved to that part of Iowa she wouldn't have even had to ask that question sarcastically because it's obvious that the only reason anyone would ever move there from Chicago would be because they decided to be a farmer or got a job teaching at Northwest Missouri State.
Two, I can confirm that the place is not guarded . Unless things have changed in the past 5 years, and they most likely haven't, it isn't guarded and most of the time no one is even there. There are several paranormal sites in Northwest Missouri/Southwest Iowa that NWMSU Bearcats frequent and having been to a lot of them I can confidently write that they aren't guarded. Most of them, including Villisca, are in the middle of BFE away from any real population of people and they don't need to be guarded. Being that this place is probably 2-3 hours from the nearest major airports there isn't a lot of people going to these areas because they are out of the way and a pain to get to. I've probably driving through Villisca about 10 times and have never once seen anyone stopped at the axe house.
Also it would not shock me if they had a murder weapon out in the open. I haven't been inside but I do remember a friend telling me something like that.
Two, I can confirm that the place is not guarded . Unless things have changed in the past 5 years, and they most likely haven't, it isn't guarded and most of the time no one is even there. There are several paranormal sites in Northwest Missouri/Southwest Iowa that NWMSU Bearcats frequent and having been to a lot of them I can confidently write that they aren't guarded. Most of them, including Villisca, are in the middle of BFE away from any real population of people and they don't need to be guarded. Being that this place is probably 2-3 hours from the nearest major airports there isn't a lot of people going to these areas because they are out of the way and a pain to get to. I've probably driving through Villisca about 10 times and have never once seen anyone stopped at the axe house.
Also it would not shock me if they had a murder weapon out in the open. I haven't been inside but I do remember a friend telling me something like that.