In February 1925, a strange report out of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, told of a missing man, a repeated dream, and the discovery of a body exactly where the dream had shown it.
John Kennedy, seventy years old and a resident of Rural Valley, had vanished on December 1 after serving on a jury in Kittanning. He had accepted a ride part of the way home, then got out near the place where he intended to continue on foot. After that, he was not seen alive again.
For weeks, his disappearance remained a mystery. Then Samuel Lowery, a neighbor of Kennedy’s, began having the same troubling dream night after night. In it, he saw the missing man lying in a stream.
Whether moved by fear, instinct, or the haunting persistence of the dream, Lowery finally went out to search.
Four miles from Kennedy’s home, he found the body of the missing man lying in a small stream, just as the dream had shown.
No marks of violence were found on Kennedy’s body.
Dream Discloses Missing Man’s Body
KITTANNING, Pennsylvania. — A dream led to finding the body of John Kennedy, seventy, resident of Rural Valley, who had been missing since December 1 [1924].
Samuel Lowery, a neighbor of Kennedy, said that he had dreamed of the missing man for several nights, and that his dream always showed him the body lying in a stream
Going on a search, he found the body lying in a small stream four miles from Kennedy’s home.
The aged man had served on a jury in Kittanning on the day of his disappearance, and had accepted a ride in an automobile, leaving it near where his body was found. From that point he intended to walk home.
No marks of violence were found on the body.
Source: The Washington Times. Washington, D.C. February 6, 1925.
