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Post by stormblast on Mar 29, 2008 1:39:21 GMT -5
 Investigate These Areas at Your Own Risk!
Some of the listings on this page are located on private property and you could be arrested for trespassing. We do not advocate or advise people to trespass. If you would like to investigate a location that is on private property, we adivse you to contact the owner and get written permission before entering. If they deny your request or do not respond, then simply do not investigate there. It will not be the end of the world if you can't get into one location. We are also not liable for any injuries that may occur as a result of visiting these locations.
We do not guarentee you will experience any paranormal activity on your visit either. Remember this is a list created mostly by users, and we have not visited the vast majority of these locations to tell if they are safe or will produce the desired paranormal activity.
We also don't advocate other illegal activities at these sites such as: vandalism, drug & alcohol use, ect. If you're looking for somewhere to go party, please look someplace else. We don't need you ruining things for the rest of us, who are respectful to the locations and the law.
www.theshadowlands.net/places/indiana.htmThis just provides a link to the Shadowland's list of haunted places in Indiana. It's where almost all of the lists you see floating around the web are copied from, and while I have many issues with the list I still believe it is relevant enough to post here. The good thing about this forum set up is that you can post whatever inaccurate information you find on the list here. Also feel free to add any locations you believe are missing. |
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Post by stormblast on Mar 29, 2008 2:30:38 GMT -5
Thought I'd catch us up by importing the new locations that were listed in that thread on the Force here. Credit goes to Scott for most of these.
Charlestown
The Red House - Not much history is known about the house. I've heard one story of a man who committed suicide after the ammunition plant in the area was shut down. Cold spots felt, whispering voices heard, and orbs have been seen along with an apparition of a middle aged man.
Henryville
Mountain Grove Cemetery - whispering voices heard, and a feeling of constantly being watched is felt. Could possibly be in connection with Dan's Run.
Roann
Haunted House-Out in the middle of a field, with no driveway or lane, sits an old house. It is halfway eroded but both stories are intact and one can safely climb the steps. Nobody remembers who lived in the house or why it was just left out here. On the grounds you can feel the family watching you, almost go back to their time as if you were the ghost. People that have gone back here have reported that the deer will gather and look at you distrustfully. There is a bull that will chase you out to the fence. When you make it to the fence and get over it, which most do quickly, and turn around the bull will have vanished. Some have claimed to encounter a phantom train on the abandoned tracks.
New Castle
Old Correctional Facility - There are people that work in the new prison that have heard things in the old part that didn't get renewed. Behind the prison on st rd 103 is an abandoned mental institution. Disembodied Voices heard.
Anderson
The Noose - It is an abandoned bridge where a man once hanged
himself.
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Post by stormblast on Mar 29, 2008 2:32:47 GMT -5
North Manchester
Haunted Houses-At 104 East 2nd Street there is a big brick house that has apartments in it. We had the entire house as we had a big family. It was months before we discovered it had a second attic, behind a wall in the upstairs kitchen. It joined the upper attic by a passageway. I have seen at least two ghosts at this house and on frequent occasions. The main apparition is a tall, gangly man, dressed either in period clothing from the 1800’s or like the Peabody/Amish ghost. I often wonder if it is not the same being. At least five times that I recall I have seen him and my friends have had a show from him also. He will walk right past you and discount you as anything out of the ordinary. People near me have joked “Maybe he thinks you are the ghost and he is afraid to look at you“. Once, as a friend of mine and I were sitting outside of my house, a shadowy outline of him stood in the window upstairs. I said nothing. I asked my friend if he wanted to go uptown and he answered “Yeah, as long as you don’t say anything about that ghost in the window”, I said “Oh, you saw that, huh?“. We had just left the house, we both knew there was nobody inside. About a week later that friend and his sister and I were walking late at night. We were going towards their house when we saw that same ghost walking up the steps and on to the porch, heading for the door. We were right behind him going in their front door but there was nobody there when we got inside. We had told her about my ghost before and asked her “Now do you believe?”. The answer was yes. The second known apparition was that of a young, red headed boy that accompanied the other ghost coming down the outside basement steps. If you drive through the alley behind the house, it has those Amityville House kind of eyes. (I always say “that’s what you get for building houses with faces”). There were always the classic symptoms of a haunt there like doors shutting on you as you opened them.
The second house I lived at is at 207 West 4th Street. It appears to be the same gangly, Amish looking man I see here. You could not walk the upstairs hallway without shuddering, thinking something was just about to make itself known to you. Doors would open and shut, sometimes in your face as you tried to enter a room. Inanimate objects seemed to take life. Heavy footsteps are heard often from upstairs when nobody is there and in the living room when there is nobody in it. Pictures have fallen off of the walls and landed quite a distance from where they were hung. I remember a time when a bunch of us were playing cards in the dining room. There came a noise above us that sounded like a soldier marching in his boots. My brother said “Dang your kids are making an awful racket up there” to which I replied “Ummmm, there’s nobody here but us”. Besides, the way the house is built we were under a flat spot that is the ceiling of the dining room and the slope in the roof. It was impossible for anyone to be walking there. There was an attic space but no access to it. My sister swears the spirit of our mother lives on in the house. She said she woke up one night while visiting us and a picture of our mother seemed to float across the room and land beside her bed. She could not say she was 100% positive it happened like that, just waking from a sound sleep. My daughter, when she was an infant, was playing on the floor between the front door and the stairway that leads upstairs. Her focus shifted from her toys to the front door and her head seemed to follow someone walking. She had to reposition herself to crane her neck to see someone behind her and her gaze followed around and all the way up the stairs, crouching to see around the landing and the turn. She stared for a brief second as if the person walked around the turn of the stairs and could no longer be seen and looked at me with a slightly puzzled look, pointed her finger up the stairs and said “Mamaw”. My mother died four years before my daughter was born. An ex girlfriend was in the kitchen and, looking pale as a ghost herself, hustled into the living room and told me she heard a voice in the kitchen. Once, the bathroom door refused to let her out. We left the house later and when we returned, one of the bushes grabbed onto her. In a semi panic she bolted through the front door. I had an old candy dish that was a turtle with a hinged shell and when you pressed the head, the shell opened. As she passed the turtle, it’s shell opened up and after a few “I rebuke thees” she vowed never to step foot in that house again, and she didn‘t. The ghost got into a stomping fit in my living room when I was on the phone with her and she asked, knowing the answer, “is that him?”. She could hear it over the phone. Across the street, the neighbors house burned to the ground. Two houses down, another neighbors house befell the same fate. The wood working factory cattycorner from me went up like kindling. Less than one month after I moved out of the house it too, caught fire.
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Post by nate on Mar 31, 2008 19:45:01 GMT -5
I have printed the entire list of haunted indiana places. I'm making notes about which places have actual directions or list something to help find it. I'm going to retype the good ones and post them here.
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Post by stormblast on Mar 31, 2008 20:58:40 GMT -5
Nate have you ever come across the Google Earth KMZ file that has almost all the haunts in the state, particularly in the Center and North? That might help provide directions to places that aren't included in the Shadowlands list. Hmmmm I should probably post a link to that here anyway.
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Post by nate on Mar 31, 2008 22:58:03 GMT -5
no, I havn't had any experience with the KMZ files. I would be interested in checking it out tho.
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Post by IN Ghostdude on Mar 31, 2008 23:08:32 GMT -5
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Post by stormblast on Apr 1, 2008 0:09:18 GMT -5
Hah, I was just telling wicked about how she could host a KMZ file on mediafire  |
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Post by wicked on Apr 1, 2008 9:27:01 GMT -5
lol thats ironic! looks like i dont have to stumble my way thru it now  |
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