By Kristy Matthews
In October of 2009, the entire Jamison family, Bobby, Sherilyn, and their 6 year old daughter Madyson, disappeared without a trace. 4 years later, a deer hunter discovered their skeletal remains on Panola Mountain, a remote terrain in Oklahoma. The bodies were found lying next to each other, side by side, face down in the dirt, three miles from where their abandoned vehicle was found. The results of their autopsies are remain inconclusive, and the family’s disappearance and deaths are known by most as one of America’s most bizarre murder mysteries. Initially, rational explanations for what happened include murder-suicide, due to Sherilyn’s depression over the loss of her sister two years earlier, hypothermia as a result of wandering off to explore and simply becoming lost, and murder by an outside party. It is the belief of the remaining family members that the first two explanations just simply could not be possible because, according to the family, Bobby and Sherilyn were deeply in love and solely devoted to each other and their daughter. They weren’t shy about voicing their opinions concerning the family, stating they believe it was straight up homicide. “The way their truck was left, it looks like it had been forced to stop by someone or something. Everyone around here knows there are a lot of evil people up in those mountains. It’s where outlaws like Jesse James used to hide out. It’s so isolated, I’m scared to even go up there” a family member commented.
Other theories involve murder by white supremacists, a drug deal gone wrong, a begrudging relative working for the Mexican mafia, and even the discovery of a meth lab run by notorious drug users. All of these explanations lend support to the theory of this being a homicide. However, the interesting thing is there is no evidence whatsoever that points to drugs having any involvement in the disappearance or deaths of this family. Connie Kokotan, Sherilyn’s mother, has gone on the record stating, “What I truly believe is that they went up there, saw something they shouldn’t have seen and were murdered by someone because of it. Who that person was, I just don’t know”. At this point, the authorities are clueless themselves. However, recent information has come to light that suggests an even more bizarre series of events including witch craft, cult activity, Satanism, and paranormal possession.
According to relatives and personal accounts, The Jamison family had plans of buying a 40 acre plot of land in Red Oak, Oklahoma located in the isolation of the Sans Bois Mountains, roughly 30 miles from their home in Eufaula. The family was reported missing a few days after venturing out to seal the deal on this purchase. Only the family’s pet dog, nearly dead from starvation, remained in the locked vehicle, along with both Bobby and Sherilyn’s cell phones, car keys, GPS, and astonishingly, $32,000 in cash. The discovery of the truck forced Latimer County Sheriff, Israel Beauchamp, to launch a search and rescue mission consisting of 100 men, dogs, horses, and a drone. All of which, turned up nothing. The sheriff himself stated, “A lot of investigators would love to have as many leads as we do. The problem is, they all point in so many different directions.”
It has been noted that at the time of their disappearance, Bobby and Sherilyn were thin and emaciated. This is what led many to believe the couple were avid drug users, more specifically, meth users. However, another interesting angle of the case is a statement given by the family’s pastor, Gary Brandon. The pastor went on record stating that the family had been victims of spiritual warfare, and it was his belief that their home was possessed by spirits. Although, this could argue more towards the theory of drug use being a factor, it is important to note that the police working on this case, have found absolutely NO evidence of illegal substances or drug use at the property. Before she disappeared, Sherilyn made claims that the spirits of a long dead family had lived with them in their home, and even more shockingly, frequently held conversations with their young daughter Madyson. Bobby then took matters into his own hands, asking his pastor, who has since moved from the area and refuses to speak to anyone concerning this case, about obtaining a satanic bible and special bullets in hopes of exorcising his home of the spirits dwelling within. Upon investigating, a witch’s bible was found in the home. Investigators then discovered cryptic messages written on the walls of a moving container the family was using as a storage unit beside the house. One of these messages read, “3 cats killed to date buy people in this area. Witches don’t like there black cats killed”.
Although the mountainous area were the Jamisons disappeared was highly known for its crystal meth illicit drug activity, it has been testified that the Jamison family fell on financial hardship, and there was $32,000 in cash found in their abandoned vehicle. Even if they were using crystal meth, it isn’t necessary to spend $32000 on it unless the intent is to sell. Bobby and Sherilyn were both suffering from acute depression at different times throughout their lives, and a venomous letter written from Sherilyn to Bobby was also found in the truck. However, what was missing from the truck was Sherilyn’s .22 caliber pistol. The fact that Bobby was found with a hole in the back of his skull can lead to the conclusion that Sherilyn marched her family 3 miles out into the mountains to kill them, and then herself.
However, the paranormal angle to this case keeps intensifying. In addition to reports of their house being haunted, witchcraft, Satanism, and spirits of the dead, there is video footage of Bobby and Sherilyn loading up the car the day before they left where the couple is moving in a state of hypnosis, or as if they are in some kind of trance. There are three possible explanations for this. 1. The Jamisons were simply stressed out or tired and acting strangely for natural reasons. 2. They were victims of a paranormal possession or had some kind of satanic spell cast upon them. 3. The Jamisons were under the influence of drugs prior to their departure. However, explanation number 3 is already ruled out considering police have found no evidence of drug use or possession. There is however a fourth explanation brought on by Sherilyn’s mother, Connie. It was her belief that some kind of religious cult is responsible for the death of the Jamison family. “That part of Oklahoma is known for that… cults and stuff like that… from what I’ve been told and from what I’ve read. I was told around the time of Sherilyn’s disappearance, she was on a cult’s hit list. The disturbing subconscious thought here is that perhaps Madyson may have been a sacrifice to a cult or used in a satanic ritual.
There was no further information on the source of that claim or why she believed a cult was responsible and had targeted Madyson. But it should be noted that in 1993, around the time of the David Koresh Branch Davidian cult compound near Waco, Texas, the Oklahoman newspaper ran a story in which a U.S. Marshal confirmed, “Some cults have found a home in eastern Oklahoma, and some of them are extreme.” Another story by the Oklahoman reported the mysterious case of Tommy Raymond Eastep, who disappeared after a trip to Eufaula, the same town where the Jamisons resided. Police found his truck abandoned at a highway crossroads on the 35 degree north latitude, bringing us back to the paranormal conclusion. There has been discussion concerning the disturbing details of the family’s haunted house, the fact that Bobby had been reading a Satanic Bible, that it was discussed with his pastor to obtain special bullets to kill spirits haunting them, and it was also reported to at least one of Sherilyn’s friends that she was a witch, and she, or possibly Bobby or even Madyson, wrote the message about witches on the moving container at their home. All that is evidence enough to believe in a paranormal influence, however, there are other murders and disappearances that tie into this one, with the same weird patterns, all occurring on the 35th degree latitude aptly named, “the line of tragedy”.
Both the Jamisons and Tommy Raymond Eastep disappeared at this coordinate, which is also the site of a brutal murder that took place in Anadarko, Oklahoma that occurred a month before the Jamison family vanished. Pastor Carol Daniels was found viciously and sadistically murdered in her church, a crime scene that District Attorney Bret Burns described as the most horrific crime he had ever seen. Daniels’s body was found naked and mutilated, staged behind the church altar in a crucifix position. The location of this murder also rests on the 35th degree latitude, the same coordinate that Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bath tub in 2001. The list of deaths and murders that have occurred on this coordinate are endless, according to occult psychic and Cabalist Sollog. To this day, the murders of this family have yet to be solved. A cause of death has yet to even be determined.
Editor's note: this is the second of two “Paranormal Murder” articles by this author. The central case is real and remains unresolved. Bobby and Sherilyn Jamison and their six-year-old daughter Madyson disappeared from a remote track in the Sans Bois Mountains of Latimer County, Oklahoma, in October 2009. Their truck was found abandoned with around thirty thousand dollars in cash inside, along with their phones, identification and the family dog, which was alive. Three sets of skeletal remains were found by hunters about two and a half miles from the truck in November 2013 and confirmed as the family the following year. No cause of death has ever been determined and no one has been charged. The archive carries no roster entry for the case because there is no identified perpetrator. The occult material the article gathers around the case, including the Satanic Bible reported to have been in the truck, has never been connected to their deaths by any investigator on the record. The killing of Pastor Carol Daniels in Anadarko in August 2009 is a separate unsolved case and the two have never been linked by police.