152 haunted destinations cataloged across Indiana, spanning 76 counties. The collection features cemetery, outdoor, and museum — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Madison, IN
Established in 1834 on Broadway Street near the Ohio River, the Broadway Hotel and Tavern has operated continuously as a tavern, hotel, and restaurant — claimed by the venue and tourism sources to be Indiana's oldest continuously operated family tavern.
Madison, IN
Springdale Cemetery is Madison's oldest still-active municipal cemetery, established in 1839 after the Third Street Cemetery (now John Paul Park) was abandoned. It straddles W 5th Street between Vine and Cragmont and includes Civil War veterans, African American burials from the historic Georgetown neighborhood, and early-20th-century Jewish community members.
Madison, IN
The Historic Ohio Theatre is a 1,018-seat (now ~301 active orchestra seats) Colonial Revival movie palace built in 1938 on the site of the earlier Little Grand Theatre, which was destroyed by fire in 1937. A nonprofit, Friends of the Ohio Theatre, Inc., has been restoring the building since 2016.
Nashville, IN
Dr. George P. Story founded the village of Story in 1851 under a federal land patent signed by President Millard Fillmore. After flourishing as a logging community and then declining following the Great Depression, the abandoned village was purchased in the 1980s and reassembled into the Story Inn — Indiana's oldest country inn and one of the best-preserved 19th-century villages in the American Midwest.
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Black Oak is a Gary, Indiana neighborhood that during Prohibition hosted illicit roadhouses near the Illinois state line. Author Ursula Bielski documented one such site — a speakeasy and brothel — in her book Haunted Gary (2016).
Indianapolis, IN
The route covers two of Indianapolis's earliest near-downtown neighborhoods — Chatham Arch and Lockerbie Square — both designated historic districts on the National Register. Stops include the 1911 murder of Dr. Helene Knabe, one of Indianapolis's first female physicians, and the boarding-house corridor known historically as Cockroach Row.
Indianapolis, IN
Central State Hospital in Indianapolis, originally the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, operated from 1848 to 1994. Its 1895 Old Pathology Building — designed by Adolf Scherrer under hospital administrator George F. Edenharter — survives as the Indiana Medical History Museum, the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the United States.
Indianapolis, IN
Crown Hill Cemetery was established in 1863 and formally dedicated June 1, 1864 on 555 acres of rolling land north of downtown Indianapolis. It is the third-largest non-governmental cemetery in the United States and the final resting place of President Benjamin Harrison, three U.S. vice presidents, poet James Whitcomb Riley, abolitionist editor Levi Coffin, and gangster John Dillinger. Crown Hill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Indianapolis, IN
Ghost City Tours is a multi-city ghost-tour operator with programs across the United States. The Indianapolis program covers downtown landmarks including Hannah House, Allison Mansion, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the former Indiana Central State Hospital site, and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument area.
Indianapolis, IN
Hannah House is an 1858 Italianate mansion at 3801 Madison Avenue on the south side of Indianapolis, built by Alexander Hannah, an Indiana businessman who returned wealthy from the California Gold Rush. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Indianapolis, IN
The Wholesale District grew up south of Washington Street in late-19th-century Indianapolis as the city's commercial freight and warehousing center, anchored by Union Station and the Slippery Noodle Inn. The district preserves a dense layer of brick warehouses and historic taverns now rebuilt as restaurants, hotels, and theaters.
Indianapolis, IN
The Indiana Theatre at 140 West Washington Street in Indianapolis opened in 1927 as a Paramount Pictures Publix Theatre — a Spanish Baroque movie palace with Indian and Egyptian decorative motifs. The Indiana Repertory Theatre took over the building in 1980 and converted it into three performance spaces. The 1927 structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Indianapolis, IN
Irvington Ghost Tours runs each October through the Irvington Historic District on Indianapolis's east side, a planned 1870s suburb that was the original home of Butler University. Tours depart from the Irving Theater at 5505 East Washington Street.
Indianapolis, IN
The Morris-Butler House is a Second Empire-style mansion built 1864-1865 for John D. Morris on land originally owned by Butler University founder Ovid Butler. Architect Diedrich A. Bohlen designed the home, which later passed to bankruptcy lawyer Noble Chase Butler in 1881 and remained in the Butler family until daughter Florence Butler's death in 1957. Indiana Landmarks (then HLFI) purchased and restored it 1964-1969 as the organization's first preservation project.
Indianapolis, IN
The Murat Temple was built in 1909 by the William P. Jungclaus Company to designs by Murat Shriner and architect Oscar D. Bohlen, opening February 28, 1910. The Moorish/Egyptian Revival temple was commissioned under Potentate Elias J. Jacoby to give the Indianapolis Shriners a permanent home and remains the largest Shrine Center in North America. It is now operated as a multi-venue performing arts complex called Old National Centre.
Indianapolis, IN
The Old Northside Spooky Tour is Indiana Landmarks' annual fall walking tour through the Old Northside Historic District in Indianapolis. The tour departs from the Indiana Landmarks Center at 1201 Central Avenue and includes interior access to the 1865 Morris-Butler House.
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The small Kitley-King family cemetery sits in the wooded southeastern edge of Paul Ruster Park's soccer-field complex, on what was the Kitley family farm in eastern Marion County. The park itself is an 82-acre Indy Parks property acquired in 1970 and named for a kid-loving east-side resident.
Indianapolis, IN
Opened in 1850 as the Tremont House roadhouse, the building is the oldest commercial structure in Indianapolis still operating in its original use. The faded 'Tremont House' lettering remains visible on the brick exterior, and the venue has cycled through names including Concordia House, Germania House, and Beck's Saloon before becoming the Slippery Noodle Inn in 1963.
Indianapolis, IN
Das Deutsche Haus is a German Renaissance Revival cultural center built in two phases by the Socialer Turnverein, with the east wing completed 1893-1894 and the west wing 1897-1898. The Vonnegut & Bohn design (the architectural firm of Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather Bernard) housed a bowling alley, ballroom, beer hall, restaurant, and gymnasium. The building was renamed The Athenaeum during WWI anti-German sentiment and was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Indianapolis, IN
Central State Hospital, originally the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, opened in November 1848 in Indianapolis with five patients. It operated for 146 years until closing in 1994 amid allegations of abuse and reduced funding. The 1896 Old Pathology Building survives as the home of the Indiana Medical History Museum and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Indianapolis, IN
The Wicked Wraiths of White River Tour is operated by US Ghost Adventures and meets nightly in front of the Indiana Repertory Theatre at 140 W Washington Street in downtown Indianapolis. The tour's route covers Monument Circle, the Indiana State Capitol, and additional historic downtown buildings.
Indianapolis, IN
Woodruff Place, established 1872 by entrepreneur James O. Woodruff, was Indianapolis's first planned residential suburb. The neighborhood's three north-south drives are connected by tree-lined esplanades and lined with Victorian-era homes. Indiana Landmarks operates a seasonal lantern-lit walking tour each October.
Indianapolis, IN
Woodruff Place is an eighty-acre planned residential suburb established by James O. Woodruff in 1872, now Indianapolis's first such district. The Spooky Tour is a 90-minute lantern-led walk co-presented by Indiana Landmarks, the Woodruff Place Civic League, and the Historic Woodruff Place Foundation, running on Friday evenings in October.
Fort Wayne, IN
Built in 1884 for Civil War veteran Robert Clark Bell, this Richardsonian Romanesque limestone mansion operated as a funeral home from 1926 to 2018 — a span of 93 years. It was reopened by new owners in 2021 as a paranormal event and wedding venue.
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The Bostick Road Bridge, constructed in 1894 by the Canton Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, is a pin-connected Whipple through truss spanning the St. Marys River in Allen County. After closure for safety concerns in 2004, the historic structure underwent a comprehensive $1.1 million restoration, disassembling and replacing worn components while preserving its original engineering.
Fort Wayne, IN
John Henry Bass, a Fort Wayne industrial magnate who made his fortune in brass manufacturing, built the Brookside estate in 1902. The mansion served the Bass family until 1944 and is now part of the University of Saint Francis campus. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Cedar Canyon Road is a rural road in Allen County, Indiana, northwest of Fort Wayne. The Devils Hollow nickname refers to a wooded section of the corridor associated with local folklore; we found no police record, news-archive coverage, or court documentation that confirms the early-1980s arson incident attached to the legend.
Fort Wayne, IN
The Embassy Theatre opened in 1928 as a vaudeville and silent-film palace designed by architects Rapp and Rapp. It survived the transition to sound film and decades of changing entertainment habits, becoming a Fort Wayne landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Lakeside Park and its surrounding neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana were platted in 1890, with the park designed in 1912 by landscape architect George Kessler. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 and contains more than 470 buildings, the majority built between 1890 and 1940. The park's original design included four lagoons and a system of carriageways used for early recreational development in Allen County.
Fort Wayne, IN
The Lincoln Bank Tower opened in 1930 as Indiana's tallest building at 22 stories, an Art Deco landmark that anchored Fort Wayne's downtown banking district for decades.
Fort Wayne, IN
Lindenwood Cemetery was established in 1859 on Fort Wayne's west side, designed in the rural cemetery tradition popular in mid-19th-century America. Over 165 years it grew to 175 acres and more than 70,000 interments, making it one of the largest and oldest cemeteries in northeast Indiana.
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The Main Street Bridge in Fort Wayne, Indiana carries an urban legend dating to the late 1880s when newspaper reports described a woman in white appearing on and near the bridge over the St. Mary's River and vanishing upon approach. A Fort Wayne police officer's encounter — attempting to cover the figure with a blanket that fell to the ground alone — became the defining incident of the legend. A separate account eventually attributed the sightings to a magic lantern projection from a nearby house.
Fort Wayne, IN
The Fort Wayne Masonic Temple opened in 1926, a 12-story Classical Revival building that remains one of the most architecturally significant structures in northeast Indiana. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and continues to serve as an active lodge.
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Dunn Cemetery is the private burying ground of the Dunn and Brewster families, who owned the land that became Indiana University. When IU acquired the property in the 19th century, the family retained a deed covenant preserving the cemetery in perpetuity, leaving it surrounded by one of the nation's largest public universities.
Bloomington, IN
The Step Family Cemetery is a small pioneer burial ground located within the boundaries of Hoosier National Forest in southern Indiana. The surrounding land passed from private agricultural ownership into the national forest system during the early 20th century. A folk legend claims two brothers killed each other over a disputed inheritance of their father's property, and both are buried at this site.
Bloomington, IN
The Indiana Memorial Union opened in 1932 and has grown into one of the largest student unions in the United States, occupying over a million square feet and containing a hotel, multiple dining facilities, and meeting rooms. The building sits on land associated with early Indiana University history and the adjacent Dunn family cemetery.
Bloomington, IN
The Monroe County History Center operates out of the Old Monroe Carnegie Library, built in 1917 in the Neoclassical style on a raised limestone basement. Established as a community history museum in the historic library building, it holds collections documenting Bloomington and Monroe County from Indigenous history through the twentieth century.
Bloomington, IN
Owen Hall is one of the oldest buildings on the Indiana University Bloomington campus, part of the Old Crescent group constructed in the mid-19th century. It housed the Department of Natural Sciences, which used the third floor for cadaver storage and operated a dumbwaiter to transport bodies between floors.
Bloomington, IN
Built in 1897, the Portico House was described as 'the most beautiful house in Bloomington' at the time of its construction. Over the following century it transitioned through residential, restaurant, and professional office uses.
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Stepp Cemetery is a small rural burying ground in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest north of Bloomington, Indiana. The cemetery dates to the early 1800s and contains roughly 114 graves, including that of War of 1812 veteran Isaac Hartsock. It has become a fixture of central-Indiana folklore through the Lady in Black legend.
Evansville, IN
Boehne Camp was one of Indiana's most significant tuberculosis sanatoriums, beginning as a fresh-air tent camp on Evansville's West Side in 1908 and built out by 1912 largely through the efforts of former mayor John Boehne. It closed in 1967; the main building was demolished in 2000, while the administration building survives as private condominiums.
Evansville, IN
This 1886 building near the Ohio River in Evansville's Riverside District was associated with author Annie Fellows Johnston, who wrote the popular 'Little Colonel' series of children's books, and her sister Hallie Eaves Johnston. It now operates as Penny Lane Coffee.
Evansville, IN
The Reitz Home was built in 1871 for John Augustus Reitz, one of Evansville's most successful lumber merchants. The three-story French Second Empire mansion at 224 SE 1st Street was among the finest residential structures in 19th-century Evansville and has operated as a preserved house museum since the 1970s.
Evansville, IN
Built in 1868 by Civil War veteran and city auditor Henry Gwathmey, this Italianate home in Evansville's Riverside Historic District was the Gwathmey family's showpiece. Mary Eliza Gwathmey, Henry's wife, died shortly after the house was completed.
Evansville, IN
USS LST-325 was commissioned in 1942, participated in the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, and landed troops and vehicles on Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. After decades of decommissioning and foreign service, American veterans sailed her from Greece to Evansville in 2001, where she has been a museum ship ever since.
Evansville, IN
Willard Library opened in 1885 in Evansville as Indiana's oldest public library, built with a bequest from businessman Willard Carpenter. His daughter Louise Carpenter contested the bequest in an 1890s lawsuit, arguing she should have inherited the estate; she lost. The building is a Victorian Gothic structure designed by architect James Reid.
South Bend, IN
The Birdsell Mansion was built in 1898 for J.B. Birdsell, an industrialist connected to South Bend's manufacturing economy. The Victorian property was listed by Indiana Landmarks as one of the state's 10 Most Endangered historic sites, reflecting its deteriorating condition and uncertain future.
South Bend, IN
Copshaholm was built 1895–1897 for Joseph D. Oliver, president of Oliver Chilled Plow Works, and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Charles Alonzo Rich. The 38-room mansion at 808 W Washington St is a National Historic Landmark, named after the Scottish village where the Oliver family originated.
South Bend, IN
The Morris Performing Arts Center opened in 1922 as the Palace Theatre, a vaudeville house in downtown South Bend. It has since been preserved as one of northern Indiana's primary performing arts venues, retaining much of its original architecture.
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Portage Prairie Cemetery served the early German Township community in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The burial ground holds the graves of pioneer settlers who arrived in the region in the early-to-mid 19th century as part of the German immigrant wave into northern Indiana.
South Bend, IN
Built 1889 as the residence of Studebaker wagon and automobile magnate Clement Studebaker, designed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb. Continental Restaurant Systems converted the mansion into a restaurant in 1980 after a $2 million restoration.
La Porte, IN
Between 1896 and 1908, Belle Gunness used her 48-acre farm northwest of La Porte to murder an estimated 40 or more people, including at least two husbands, her own children, and a series of suitors lured by matrimonial advertisements in Norwegian-language newspapers. The farmhouse burned on April 28, 1908, and the case was never fully resolved — Gunness was never captured.
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Patton Cemetery in La Porte County serves as the documented burial site for several named victims of Belle Gunness, including 15-year-old Jennie Olsen, suitor Andrew Helgelien, and Peter Gunness. The cemetery became a true crime pilgrimage destination after the 1908 discoveries on the Gunness farm made national headlines.
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Pine Lake Cemetery in La Porte holds the remains of approximately ten unidentified individuals whose bones were recovered from the Belle Gunness farm following the 1908 fire that destroyed the farmhouse. The victims — divided into two caskets — were buried at Pine Lake because no one came forward to claim them. A monument was placed at the burial site in 2008, a century after the Gunness farm was excavated.
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Posey Chapel was a Methodist congregation organized in the Door Village area of LaPorte County in the 1830s, with a frame chapel built on a hilltop in 1841. The adjacent burial ground served local farm families for well over a century. The chapel building stood until it burned in the 1970s; today a maintained cemetery and a memorial pavilion mark the site.
Kokomo, IN
Built in 1889 during Kokomo's natural gas boom and named for industrialist Matthew Elliott, the house served as a private residence before passing to the Dow Harvey family. The building's defining tragedy occurred in 1935 when the youngest Harvey child fell from a second-story window.
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Erected in 1901, Jacob's Funeral Home was the first Black-owned mortuary in Kokomo. Its position near the Howard County Courthouse placed it adjacent to the site where the county once carried out executions on the courthouse lawn, with remains reportedly brought to this mortuary afterward.
Kokomo, IN
Built between 1889 and 1891 at a cost of $50,000, the Seiberling Mansion was constructed during the height of Indiana's natural gas boom. It has been owned by the Howard County Historical Society since the 1970s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Madison, IN
The Hillside Hotel opened in 1924 on East Main Street's hilltop overlook above downtown Madison, built by Dr. George Denny as one of the city's first stucco buildings. A December 15, 1964 fire killed one guest and gutted the structure; the hotel was rebuilt and reopened as the Hillside Inn on June 13, 1966.
Madison, IN
Madison's library service began in 1818 with the Madison Society Library founded at the Ristine Inn. The library moved several times before securing the Powell House at Main and Elm in 1929, and dedicated its current 420 W Main Street building in 1968.
Madison, IN
Greek Revival mansion completed in 1844 for banker James F. D. Lanier and designed by Madison architect Francis Costigan. The property was donated by the family in 1917, became a State Memorial in 1926, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
New Albany, IN
William Culbertson left Pennsylvania at age 21 and built a dry goods empire in New Albany, Indiana, eventually becoming the state's wealthiest man with a net worth of $3.5 million. He commissioned this 25-room Second Empire mansion in 1867 at a cost of $120,000, with construction completed in November 1869. Culbertson was widowed twice and married a third time at age 70. He died in 1892. The mansion passed through several owners, nearly faced demolition for a gas station in the 1960s, was purchased by Historic New Albany for $24,000 in 1964, and became part of the Indiana State Museum system in 1976.
New Albany, IN
Established in 1838, the Floyd County Poor Farm was Indiana's county-run facility for the destitute, mentally ill, Civil War veterans, and unwed mothers. The Indiana State Board of Charities in 1890 described conditions as overcrowded and grim. A 1916 fire in the wooden attic dormitory killed at least five residents, and an estimated 300 or more individuals are buried in the adjacent potter's field under three marked stones.
New Albany, IN
New Albany was one of Indiana's most prosperous cities in the mid-19th century, positioned at the falls of the Ohio River and serving as a major shipbuilding and commerce hub. The Civil War transformed downtown buildings into hospitals, and the city's boom-then-decline arc left behind a dense concentration of historic structures with documented tragic histories.
Porter, IN
Alice Mabel Gray (1881-1925) was a University of Chicago honors graduate who abandoned urban life in 1915 to live alone in an abandoned shack on the Indiana Dunes shoreline. Press coverage of her naturalistic lifestyle created the mythologized identity 'Diana of the Dunes.' She died on February 9, 1925, and is buried in Gary, Indiana.
Porter, IN
Indiana Dunes National Park preserves fifteen miles of Lake Michigan shoreline in northwestern Indiana. The park was designated as a National Lakeshore in 1966 and elevated to National Park status in 2019. Alice Mabel Gray, the University of Chicago scholar known as 'Diana of the Dunes,' lived on the shoreline from 1915 to 1925 and helped build public support for preservation.
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Devil's Bridge is a rural road site on the Porter/LaPorte county line in northwestern Indiana. The location has carried a reputation since at least the 1980s as a site of alleged Prohibition-era criminal activity, with local lore claiming the area was used for the disposal of bodies by organized crime figures operating in the early 1920s.
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On April 6, 1968, a natural gas leak beneath the Marting Arms sporting goods store ignited, producing two massive explosions that killed 41 people — including seven children — and injured more than 150. The blast destroyed 15 downtown buildings and prompted Congress to pass the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968.
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Earlham College was founded by Quakers in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana. The Athletics and Wellness Center carries two campus folklore traditions: a basketball ghost who plays on the empty court at night, and a separate legend about two students who died falling from a pipe crossing a creek on campus.
Richmond, IN
The Starr Piano Company built its manufacturing campus along the Whitewater River gorge in Richmond, Indiana, beginning in the 1870s. In 1917 the company launched Gennett Records, whose studio recorded foundational jazz, blues, and country sides by Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, and others. Most of the complex was demolished in the 1970s; surviving elements anchor the Gennett Records Walk of Fame.
Terre Haute, IN
Built in 1860 for the Condit family, this Italianate home is the oldest building on the Indiana State University campus. Helen Condit, the last family member to inhabit the house, donated it to ISU in 1962 (she died in 1965) on the explicit condition it serve as the university president's official residence.
Terre Haute, IN
Highland Lawn Cemetery opened in 1884 and spans 139 acres in Terre Haute, Indiana, with more than 45,000 graves. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1990. Notable burials include labor leader Eugene V. Debs and poet Max Ehrmann.
Terre Haute, IN
The Sage-Robinson-Nagel House was built in 1868 for a prominent Terre Haute family and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After serving at various points as a private home, halfway house, and other uses, it became the Vigo County Historical Museum — also known as the Historical Museum of the Wabash Valley.
Vincennes, IN
Vincennes served as the capital of the Indiana Territory from 1800 to 1813, and the downtown streetscape preserves several structures from that era, anchored by the 1838 Old State Bank now used as the tour's meeting point.
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Established in 1788, Greenlawn is Indiana's oldest public cemetery and the final resting place of more than 10,000 people, including Revolutionary War-era figures such as Francis Vigo.
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The Wabash Cannonball Bridge was built in 1897 as a railroad crossing of the Wabash River, connecting Knox County, Indiana, near Vincennes with Lawrence County, Illinois, near St. Francisville. The railroad abandoned it in the 1960s, and a local owner later converted it for one-lane vehicle traffic as a privately operated toll bridge.
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Ewald Cemetery, popularly known as Little Egypt, is located near 5A Road and Hawthorn Road in Marshall County. Burials date to the early 1850s, with the oldest confirmed marked grave belonging to Alfred Knobloch (1852). The 'Little Egypt' name likely derives from an 1870 Egypt school established nearby.
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The bridge crosses the Yellow River in Marshall County near Bremen, Indiana, a small community in north-central Indiana. The bridge sits near the Ewald Cemetery (Little Egypt), and both sites share a connected body of local paranormal folklore.
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Southeast Grove Cemetery, known locally as Gypsy's Graveyard, is a mid-19th-century burial ground near Crown Point, Indiana. The cemetery dates to the early settlement of Lake County and has accumulated a folklore reputation built largely on a single, disputed legend about traveling Romani people who allegedly camped near Crown Point in the 1820s.
Crown Point, IN
The Old Lake County Jail and Sheriff's House at 226 South Main Street in Crown Point, Indiana, was completed in 1882 as the first permanent Lake County jail. The complex expanded in 1928 to a capacity of about 150 cells. John Dillinger escaped from the jail on March 3, 1934, reportedly using a hand-carved wooden gun he had darkened with shoe polish. The building was used as a filming location for Public Enemies (2009).
Elkhart, IN
Albert R. Beardsley and his wife Elizabeth built Ruthmere in 1910 as their private residence. Beardsley had made his fortune in manufacturing — including the Miles Medical Company, maker of Alka-Seltzer's predecessor. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operates today as a public museum.
Elkhart, IN
Charles Winchester built the mansion in 1905 as a gift for his daughter Nellie Knickerbocker, an Elkhart socialite known for her eccentric personality. Knickerbocker famously purchased a casket for herself and kept it displayed in the mansion's foyer. The book 'Haunted Elkhart County' names the property as the most paranormally active site in the county.
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Boon Hutch Cemetery (also known as Boone-Hutcheson Cemetery) is located southwest of Greencastle in Putnam County, Indiana. The cemetery contains graves dating from the 1800s and contains a cave system with an underground chamber.
Greencastle, IN
The Edna Collings Covered Bridge was built over Little Walnut Creek in 1922 by Charles Hendrix, replacing a concrete bridge washed out by flooding. At 80 feet long plus 8-foot overhangs, it is believed to be Indiana's smallest covered bridge and the only one named after a woman. The bridge takes its name from Edna Collings — born August 30, 1851 — whose family owned the farm southwest of the crossing. Historical research has found no record of a drowning near the bridge.
Hartford City, IN
The Monroe House in Hartford City, Indiana is a mid-19th century home with a paranormal history that became the subject of an actual police investigation in 2016 when Paranormal Lockdown hosts Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman discovered human skeletal remains in the basement crawlspace. A local funeral home director estimated the remains were at least 100 years old.
Hartford City, IN
The Old Blackford County Jail in Hartford City, Indiana opened in 1879 with brick walls and foot-thick granite block transported from Michigan. It served the county for 116 years before closing in 1995, replaced by a modern correctional facility outside town.
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Colston Memorial Park in Jeffersonville, Indiana covers the site of a Civil War-era cemetery that was built over and forgotten. In 2018, construction workers excavating for a pedestrian ramp to the Big Four Bridge struck human remains six feet below grade. Subsequent assessment estimated 350 to 700 burials, mostly Civil War soldiers — both Union and Confederate — whose original cemetery had fallen into disrepair and been subsumed by development.
Jeffersonville, IN
The Red Yeti Restaurant operates in downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana, in a building that has attracted paranormal attention through the Boo 812 regional investigation group and the SoIN Tourism Haunted History digital passport program.
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The Battle of the Mississinewa (December 17–18, 1812) was the first U.S. Army victory of the War of 1812. Lieutenant Colonel John B. Campbell led approximately 600 dragoons against Miami villages along the Mississinewa River in present-day Grant County, Indiana, leaving twelve soldiers dead and seventy-five wounded.
Marion, IN
The Battle of the Mississinewa was fought on December 17-18, 1812, in present-day Grant County, Indiana, during the War of 1812. Lt. Col. John B. Campbell's dragoons attacked Miami villages along the Mississinewa River and were then counterattacked in the early morning of December 18. The engagement is commemorated today by a historical marker and the long-running Mississinewa 1812 reenactment.
Muncie, IN
Beech Grove Cemetery was established in 1841 on land in Muncie, Indiana. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and holds more than 42,000 burials across 100 acres, serving as the principal cemetery for the city of Muncie and Delaware County.
Muncie, IN
On September 17, 1985, Muncie Northside High School students Ethan Dixon and Kimberly Dowell were shot and killed while parked in a car at Westside Park. The double murder has never been solved.
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Tillett Cemetery is a small historic burial ground in Miami County, Indiana, north of Peru along a road locally known as Lovers Lane. It is documented in cemetery records by Find a Grave and BillionGraves and includes military-veteran graves.
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Okie Pinokie is the local name for a section of Frances Slocum State Forest along the Mississinewa River near Peru, Indiana, reached by a gravel road off CR 510E. The river corridor was the site of Miami villages and an 1812 engagement, and the wooded stretch has become one of Indiana's most circulated 'haunted woods' legends.
Winchester, IN
The Randolph County Infirmary was built in 1899 to serve the county's poor, sick, mentally ill, and orphaned. The brick institutional building, distinguished by its twin witch's hat towers, sits on what was once a 350-acre farm just south of Winchester, Indiana. It is preserved by S.T.O.P. (Saving the Old Properties) and operates today as a paranormal-investigation site.
Winchester, IN
The Randolph County Infirmary traces its origins to Indiana's 1820s poor-relief system, which evolved into a formal county asylum by 1851. After the original wooden building burned in 1857, a brick replacement was built. The current 58,000-square-foot, four-story facility opened in December 1899 on the original foundation. Approximately 1,487 people resided there between 1899 and 2006, with roughly 500 dying on-site and receiving unmarked cemetery burials. The facility closed in 2006 and now operates as a paranormal investigation venue.
Anderson, IN
Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana preserves ten earthworks constructed by the Adena-Hopewell peoples between approximately 160 and 120 BC. The site later hosted a commercial amusement park in the early 1900s before becoming an Indiana state park. The Great Mound, the park's largest earthwork, is 9 feet tall and 384 feet in circumference.
Atlanta, IN
Newton and Clara Roads opened the 22-room Roads Hotel in 1893 in Atlanta, Indiana, serving travelers on the railroad line that passed through the town's commercial district. The hotel functioned as an inn through the gas-boom era, was repurposed during Prohibition, and operates today as a privately owned paranormal investigation site rather than a working hotel.
Avon, IN
The Haunted Bridge is a 305-foot Gothic spandrel-arch viaduct constructed in 1906–07 for the Big Four Railroad (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway) at a reported cost of $70,000. Designed by engineer W.M. Dunne, it spans White Lick Creek south of Avon and was double-tracked in 1908. The bridge remains operational today under CSX Transportation and appears on the official seal of Avon, Indiana.
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100 Steps Cemetery, also called Carpenter Cemetery or Cloverland Cemetery, sits on a wooded hillside in Clay County, Indiana, between Brazil and Terre Haute. The burial ground was established around the time of the American Civil War and remains an active cemetery for descendants of early Cloverland-area settlers.
Bristol, IN
Built in 1896-1897 by brothers Cyrus and Horace Mosier, the Bristol Opera House (originally the Moiser Opera House) opened with a production of U.S.S. Pinafore. After decades of service as a theater, music hall, and cinema, the building deteriorated significantly by the 1940s. The Elkhart Civic Theatre company leased and restored it beginning in 1960, reopening in July 1961 with theatrical performances that continue today.
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Butler is a small community in DeKalb County near the Indiana-Ohio line. The adjacent area known as the Land of Moses and Gypsy Hill encompasses woodland, a cemetery with a crematorium, and forest sections that have long held significance in regional folklore. The specific historical origins of the area's names remain locally grounded but are not formally documented.
Cannelton, IN
The Old Perry County Courthouse in Cannelton, Indiana was built in 1897 for $30,000 raised entirely by local citizens, who donated the completed structure to the county. Designed by Louisville architect John Bacon Hutchings in the Renaissance Revival style, the building served as Perry County's seat of government until 1994, when county offices relocated to Tell City. The Perry County Museum acquired the building in 1998.
Chesterfield, IN
Founded in 1886, Camp Chesterfield is the oldest operating Spiritualist camp in the United States. It carries a documented history of medium fraud: 14 mediums were arrested in 1925, infrared film exposed spirit-materialization deceptions in 1960, and a former medium published a whistleblowing exposé in 1977. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and continues to operate today.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPCloverdale, IN
Cloverdale Cemetery is a large burying ground in Cloverdale, Putnam County, Indiana, dating to the early 1800s with several thousand interments. Well documented in genealogy collections, it is also one of the most frequently cited haunted cemeteries in central Indiana, known above all for its 'seven witch sisters' legend.
Columbus, IN
The Crump Theatre's front building dates to 1871, with the theatre itself added behind it in 1889. Crump's New Theatre opened October 30, 1889, after John S. Crump purchased the property following the burning of his earlier opera house a block away.
Corydon, IN
Blue River flows through Harrison County near Corydon, Indiana. The river has long been used for recreational canoeing and boating. The waterway is surrounded by natural forest and scenic landscape characteristic of southern Indiana.
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Crawfordsville, IN
Built in 1882, the Montgomery County Jail in Crawfordsville, Indiana was the first rotary jail constructed in the United States under a patent issued in 1881. The carousel design allowed a single guard to control cell access without direct contact. The building's historical record is dominated by the October 1885 hanging of John Coffee, in which the scaffold failed twice, requiring three attempts before Coffee died. The Indiana Historical Bureau confirmed the event. The jail is the only surviving rotary jail in the US that still operates.
Cunot, IN
The Cataract Covered Bridge was built in 1876 under contract with Owen County Commissioners, replacing a bridge destroyed by flood over the Eel River in Jennings Township. Constructed by the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio in a Smith's High Double Wood Truss design, the bridge was at one point one of the most photographed covered bridges in the United States. It is the only surviving covered bridge in Owen County. Vehicular traffic was diverted to a parallel concrete bridge in 1988, and the Indiana DNR undertook extensive restoration in 2000. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and rededicated in 2006.
Cutler, IN
Adams Mill was constructed in 1845 by John Adams as a grist mill in Cutler, Indiana. The mill operated for over 100 years producing assorted grades of flour. Today, the structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operates as a museum of early rural Americana.
Ellettsville, IN
The Matthews Mansion, also known as Graymont, is an 1880 French Second Empire limestone residence in Ellettsville, Indiana, built by a member of the Matthews family of the Matthews Stone Company. The mansion is privately owned and is part of the Matthews Stone Company Historic District.
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Moody's Light is a long-running Indiana ghost-light legend tied to a rural road between Francesville and Rensselaer in Pulaski County. The legend grew up around the Moody family farm; the real Granville 'Van' Moody, the last of the family in the area, lived alone, quit farming in the 1930s, and later died in a Francesville apartment. Investigators and a local newspaper have attributed the light to distant car headlights on a nearby highway.
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Reeder Road is a former connecting roadway between Griffith and Merrillville in Lake County, Indiana. The county closed the road to vehicle traffic in the 1970s; the right of way remains as wooded land and an informal walking path, with Ross Cemetery anchoring the southern end of the local legend cycle.
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Hanover Cemetery serves the small college town of Hanover, Jefferson County, Indiana, perched above the Ohio River and home to Hanover College. Among its interments is Benjamin H. Bennet, recorded as having drowned in the Ohio River on July 2, 1829 — the figure at the center of the cemetery's haunting tradition.
Henryville, IN
Mt. Zion Cemetery is a rural burying ground in Monroe Township, Clark County, Indiana, near Henryville. It is the reburial site of Danny Guthrie, who was murdered on May 28, 1991; Charles Edward Sweeney Jr. was later convicted of the killing. The case, documented in the Indiana Supreme Court decision Sweeney v. State, underlies the area's 'Dan's Run' haunting tradition.
Huntington, IN
The Historic Forks of the Wabash in Huntington, Indiana preserves a 7.3-acre site at the confluence of the Wabash and Little Wabash Rivers, including the Chief's House associated with Miami leader Jean Baptiste de Richardville. The 1838 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash was signed at this location. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and preserves multiple structures including an 1841 log cabin and a pioneer schoolhouse.
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Jerome Cemetery is located in Howard Township in Howard County, Indiana, in the small unincorporated community of Jerome, approximately one hour north of Indianapolis. The cemetery's paranormal reputation centers on the legend of a phantom dog — an entity that may have originated from the documented death of a loyal dog at its owner's grave.
Kendallville, IN
The Strand Theatre at 119 N. Main Street in Kendallville, Indiana opened May 22, 1890 as the Spencer Opera House, built by Edward Spencer for $29,000 on the site of the Blockbuster Hotel. The 750-seat house was renamed the Boyer Opera House under A.J. Boyer in 1905, converted to a movie theater in 1919, and renamed the Strand Theatre by the Hudson family in 1929. The theater is one of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the United States.
Knightstown, IN
The Pest House in Knightstown, Indiana served as a quarantine facility during the 1902 Henry County smallpox outbreak, one of the most severe in the state that year. The board of health and county commissioners placed the entire town and surrounding area under strict quarantine. The building is a private residence and is recognized as a local historical landmark.
Kouts, IN
Baums Bridge Inn is a long-running bar and grill at 1092 S Baums Bridge Rd in Kouts (Porter County), Indiana. The establishment sits in the historic Baum's Bridge area near the community of Mayville, a rural Porter County locality with documented nineteenth-century settlement history. The area's most compelling ghost story documents a 1912 rainstorm encounter and was preserved in 'The Stroller' column of the Vidette-Messenger of Porter County by William Ormond Wallace.
Lagro, IN
Established in the mid-1930s as a demonstration riverside forest for the reclamation of eroded farmland. A 200-member Civilian Conservation Corps camp designed and built the recreation facilities, including Hominy Ridge Lake and the large CCC stone shelter house. Located in Wabash County, Indiana, near the confluence of the Salamonie and Wabash rivers.
Lawrenceburg, IN
Whisky's Restaurant in Lawrenceburg, Indiana occupies two historic structures in the city's Newtown district: one built around 1835 and a second from approximately 1850, connected at their entrance foyer. The restaurant opened in June 1984 and is well-regarded for its regional American cuisine.
Lewisville, IN
The Guyer Opera House was built in 1901 in Lewisville, Indiana after physician Dr. Oscar K. Guyer persuaded local citizens to fund construction on a block where earlier buildings had burned in 1893. Guyer died in March 1901 at age 49 before the building opened; his funeral was held in the auditorium. In spring 1923, six-year-old Newell Calpha was fatally shot in the forehead when a bullet ricocheted during a firearms demonstration, dying in his father's store downstairs. The theater closed in 1942, was rediscovered in 1969, and has operated as a nonprofit community civic theater since 1976. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPMartinsville, IN
Stepp Cemetery is a small rural burial ground located within Morgan-Monroe State Forest, approximately 15 miles north of Bloomington, Indiana, near the border of Morgan and Monroe counties. The cemetery sits off Old State Road 37 and is accessible via a narrow forest road. Monroe County Historical Society has documented the site and the legends attached to it.
Mishawaka, IN
The building at 706 Lincolnway W has served as a Hacienda Mexican restaurant location for decades, housed within a mansion that has older roots tied to the Mishawaka brewing trade. An alternative tradition holds that a young man fell to his death from a brewery tower on the property during the industrial era.
Mitchell, IN
Whispers Estate was built in 1894 in Mitchell, Indiana. Dr. John Gibbons purchased the property around 1899 and established his medical practice on the first floor while his family lived above. The Gibbons family was known locally for adopting orphaned and abandoned children. Three family members died in the house within a short period: ten-year-old Rachel (burned in a parlor fire), infant Elizabeth (unknown cause), and Jessie Gibbons (double pneumonia).
Morristown, IN
The Kopper Kettle Inn opened along old Route 52 in Morristown, Indiana in 1858 and has operated continuously as a restaurant for over 150 years. The dining rooms are decorated with marble and alabaster statuary, Dresden china, and Chinese chests collected by the original owners.
New Castle, IN
Built in 1845 on seven acres in Henry County, Thornhaven Manor stood abandoned from the 1970s until its purchase in 2012. Local accounts associate the property with deaths that occurred there; it has attracted major paranormal television productions.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPNew Corydon, IN
New Corydon is a small community in Jay County in northeastern Indiana. The surrounding area has developed a concentrated body of regional folklore, including the Laughing Scarecrow legend, a Cry Baby Bridge, and accounts of anomalous lights near an abandoned stone quarry. The Laughing Scarecrow is a seasonal apparition reported near the wooded areas south of Highway 116.
New Haven, IN
The Old New Haven City Hall is an Indiana limestone structure built in 1913 in New Haven, Indiana, just east of Fort Wayne. It served as city hall, fire station, jail, and police station through most of the twentieth century, with the police function ending in 1999 when a new municipal complex opened. The building is recognized as a historic site on the Fort Wayne/Allen County preservation registry.
Noblesville, IN
Noblesville, the seat of Hamilton County, retains a well-preserved courthouse square anchored by the 1879 Hamilton County Courthouse and a former county jail now operated by the Hamilton County Historical Society. Unseen Press runs the Nefarious Noblesville Ghost Walk through the district, drawing on the criminal-justice history of the courthouse and the surrounding 19th-century commercial buildings.
Notre Dame, IN
Washington Hall opened in 1881 as Notre Dame's primary performing arts venue. In November 1920, All-American football player George Gipp died of a streptococcal throat infection at age 25 after reportedly sleeping on the building's front steps; a steeplejack also died falling from the building in 1886.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPOakland City, IN
Blackfoot Cemetery is located in Morgan Township, Pike County, Indiana and contains over 800 interments dating from the 1800s. The cemetery occupies the traditional burial grounds of the Blackfoot Native American tribe before it became a formal cemetery.
Orleans, IN
Bonds Chapel is a rural Methodist church and cemetery in Northwest Township, Orange County, Indiana, between Orleans and the old community of Huron. Its most famous feature is the gravestone of Floyd Elmer Pruett (1894-1920), on which an image resembling a chain has appeared — the subject of one of southern Indiana's best-known cemetery legends.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPPendleton, IN
Falls Park in Pendleton, Indiana preserves the site of the 1825 public hangings of white settlers convicted of murdering nine Native Americans along Fall Creek — the first documented case in which white Americans were tried, convicted, and executed for killing Native Americans under U.S. law. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Plymouth, IN
The Hayloft Restaurant in Plymouth, Indiana was originally built as a barn in the 1800s and converted to an upscale restaurant in the early 1970s, including a converted silo dining room. The building burned to the ground in 1998.
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Finch Cemetery, also recorded as Wentz Cemetery, is a small burying ground dating to the 1800s located on the grounds of the Jay County Conservation Club near Portland, Indiana. Among its markers is a child's headstone reading 'Cinderlla,' which has made the cemetery the focus of a local legend in which the number of visible graves seems to change.
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Bulldog Bridge is a small creek bridge on an agricultural-access road in rural Gibson County, between Princeton and Wheeling, Indiana. For many years it was a steel-truss span associated with a series of suicides, and around 2010 the county replaced it with a trussless bridge in part to discourage further deaths.
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Built in 1912 to accommodate railroad traffic through Redkey during Jay County's gas-boom era, the Gray Hotel accumulated a violent history over its operating decades. At least two homicides are documented: a barber whose remains were found buried under the building's porch, and a grocer whose body was dumped in a nearby field.
Rensselaer, IN
Memory Gardens of Rensselaer was chartered in 1961 as a not-for-profit cemetery corporation in Newton Township, Jasper County, Indiana. It is managed with two trust funds for perpetual care and features a Christ Resurrection Columbarium imported from Carrara, Italy.
Rockville, IN
The Indiana State Sanatorium opened in Rockville, Indiana in 1908 as the state's primary tuberculosis hospital, following a 1905 legislative commission and a $250,000 state appropriation. Built on 504 wooded acres near Little Raccoon Creek, it operated under the 'Camp Trudeau' designation during construction — named for Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who established the first TB hospital in New York. The facility operated through 1968, was repurposed as the Lee Alan Bryant Health Care Center nursing home in 1976, and closed in 2012.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPRolling Prairie, IN
Lamb's Chapel was established as a Methodist congregation in La Porte County, Indiana. The chapel building was constructed in 1854 on land donated by Oren Lamb, and the associated cemetery holds approximately 370 documented burials. The chapel building was relocated twice over its history, in 1876 and 1887, before eventually serving simultaneously as a school and house of worship.
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Dog Face Bridge is the local nickname for an old, now-largely-collapsed bridge that carried S 1000 W over the Kankakee River near San Pierre in Starke County, Indiana. The crossing fell out of use decades ago and survives mostly as concrete abutments amid swampy lowland. It has become one of northwest Indiana's most circulated rural ghost legends.
Scottsburg, IN
The Scott County Heritage Center and Museum at 1050 South Main Street in Scottsburg, Indiana occupies a building that once operated as the county poor farm. The original frame structure was replaced by the present brick building in 1892, and the site is now a county history museum.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPShelbyville, IN
Werewolf Hollow is a local name for a rural area of Shelby County, Indiana, centered near the intersection of county roads 575E and 400N, southeast of Shelbyville. The same area is home to the Electric Bridge, a span beneath high-voltage power lines that has become entwined with the hollow's folklore.
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Brooks Bridge carries Brooks Bridge Road across the East Fork White River in rural Martin County near Shoals. Constructed in 1894 by the Lafayette Bridge Company of Lafayette, Indiana, the structure employs a metal pin-connected Pratt through truss design with ten panels. The single-lane bridge remains in active use.
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The Big Tunnel near Tunnelton, Indiana, was bored through limestone for the Ohio and Mississippi Railway and completed on April 15, 1857. At roughly 1,731 feet it was among the longest tunnels in Indiana. Now operated by CSX as the Ritner Tunnel, it carries active freight traffic and gave the community of Tunnelton its name.
Valparaiso, IN
Josephus Wolf, a successful 19th-century Porter County landowner, built this Victorian Italianate mansion in 1875 at the heart of his 4,500-acre Portage Township farm. The three-story, 18-room house tops out in a 45-foot rooftop cupola and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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Batson Cemetery sits on a bluff above the Salamonie River in Jackson Township, Wells County, Indiana, near Willow Road off State Road 3. Cemetery signs date it to 1855, with roughly 400 burials; the land was donated to a cemetery association in the early 1920s by a daughter of landowner Henry Batson. It is locally famous for a cluster of counting and apparition legends.
Warsaw, IN
The Barbee Hotel opened in 1897 on Big Barbee Lake in Kosciusko County, Indiana, originally as Hotel Ormond. The building was a fashionable summer resort in the early 20th century, and Al Capone is documented as a frequent guest in the 1920s. The hotel's overnight operation has ended, but the ground-floor restaurant continues to operate.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPWest Lafayette, IN
Harrison Cemetery, also known as St. Joseph Cemetery or Lafayette Catholic Cemetery, is a pioneer-era burial ground in West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, with origins in the 1830s and gravestones dating to the 1840s. It sits directly behind William Henry Harrison High School and includes the graves of early settlers and war veterans.
Westfield, IN
The Westfield Historic Underground Railroad Ghost Walk is operated by Michael and Nicole Kobrowski of Unseenpress.com, longtime authors of regional Indiana hauntings. The tour covers Westfield's founding by Quaker abolitionists in 1834 and the documented Underground Railroad infrastructure that ran through the town's residential streets.