Ghosts of North Central Indiana

by Dorothy Salvo Benson, W.C. Madden

Overview

North Central Indiana is rich in farmlands, wind turbines, and small towns. It is also thick with ghosts.

Ghastly apparitions roam the town of Battle Ground, where the infamous Battle of Tippecanoe occurred. A woman trying to put her life back together soon found herself disturbed by inexplicable events in a Fountain County apartment. Roads in Newton, Clinton, and Grant counties are but a few such roads where strange things suddenly appear--and often just as quickly disappear. The Rotary Jail Museum in Crawfordsville is said to have a pair of resident spirits. Purdue University and Indiana Beach harbor their own eerie tales.

Join authors and paranormal investigators W.C. Madden and Maria Salvo Benson on a spine-tingling journey of the haunts of North Central Indiana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439676028
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	09/05/2022
Series:	Haunted America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Maria Salvo Benson has written several books about the paranormal using the pennames Dorothy Salvo Davis and Maria Salvo. She developed the interest early on and, along with her passion for history, found a calling to validate others and their experiences. By connecting past events to current-day paranormal occurrences, she hopes to provide relief and assurance to those who are struggling to find answers and questioning their own sanity. She resides in Indiana, where today she is a teacher with a master's in education. W.C. Madden learned how to write courtesy of the U.S. Air Force. He became a journalist in the military and achieved many awards before retiring in 1986 after a twenty-year career. He wrote his first book while still in the Air Force and has now authored forty-three of them. For the last decade, he has been the editor of Monticello Magazine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction 13

1 Benton County 15

Scary Theater in Fowler 15

2 Blackford County 18

Blood Road Haunted 18

3 Carroll County 19

Ghosts by Adams Mill Bridge 19

The Delphi Murders 20

4 Cass County 21

The Ghost in the Road 21

Stranger on the Trail 22

Mount Hope Cemetery 23

Shiloh Church Has Ghosts 25

5 Clinton County 26

Haunted Hamilton Road 26

6 Fountain County 30

Haunted Wabash Shore Apartments 30

7 Fulton County 33

Monster in Lake Manitou 33

Cemetery Haunted by Boy 33

Old Slaughterhouse Reappears 34

Haunted School 34

8 Grant County 35

James Dean's Grave Haunted 35

Haunted Bridge 36

Old East School Haunted 36

Charles Road Murder 36

Ghost at the Hostess House 38

Spook's Corner 39

Mississinewa Graveyard Is Haunted 39

9 Howard County 40

Old Jacob's Funeral Home Was Haunted 40

Armstrong Street House Haunted 41

Two Old Historic Buildings Haunted 42

The Original Treasure Mart Haunted 43

House Haunted by Elderly Lady 44

Satan Church 45

Apartments Are Cursed 46

Jerome Cemetery Haunted 46

10 Jasper County 48

The Ghosts of St. Joseph's College 48

Haunted Statue at Memory Gardens 48

The Ghostly Truck Stop Area in Remington 50

11 Montgomery County 55

Haunting at General Lew Wallace Library 55

The Haunted Rotary Jail Museum 56

Uber Ghost of Crawfordsville 61

12 Miami County 64

Tillet Cemetery Known by Another Name 64

Peaceful Acres Not So Peaceful 65

Slaughter House Road 66

Mysterious House 66

Haunted House and Barn 66

13 Newton County 67

Strange Visitors to Foster Park in Goodland 67

Another Lite, Another Time 71

14 Pulaski County 73

The Mysterious Moody Lights 73

15 Tippecanoe County 76

Historic Greenbush Cemetery Haunted 76

Haunted School 81

Haunted Harrison Cemetery 82

Residual Haunting at Purdue 83

Ghosts in Battle Ground 85

Battlegrounds Haunted 86

A Ghostly Encounter Inspires 87

The Doppelgänger 90

A Haunting at Lafayette Jeff 93

Sitting around the Campfire Telling Ghost Stories 96

Waldron-Beck House 100

16 Tipton County 105

Old Factory Haunted 105

17 Wabash County 106

Haunted Gravel Pit in Disko 106

Wabash County State Forest 107

18 Warren County 108

Three Fires, You're Out! 108

19 White County 111

The Girl of Ghost Hollow 111

Spooky Indiana Beach 112

The Active Soldier 113

The Pacing Man 114

The Dark Man 116

Late Arrival 118

A Town on Fire 119

The Civil War Sword 119

Lakeview Home Was Haunted 121

Scary Factory in Wolcott 122

About the Authors 125