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An 1845 Henry County farmhouse purchased in 2012 after four decades of abandonment, featured on Ghost Adventures and Ghost Brothers for its documented paranormal investigations.
2172 S Spiceland Rd, New Castle, IN 47362
Research updated September 2026
Age
18+
Cost
Free
Private property; no public access or ticketed events identified. Drive-by exterior view only.
Access
Limited Access
Rural property on Spiceland Road; no public paths or trails
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1845 · Built 1845 in Henry County Indiana · Abandoned 1970s-2012 · Subject of multiple cable paranormal TV productions
Thornhaven Manor sits on seven acres along the Big Blue River Valley in Henry County, Indiana. The structure dates to 1845, placing its construction in the period when Indiana's central counties were being settled and farmed by families moving west through the Cumberland Road corridor. The property passed through multiple owners over the following century, accumulating the kind of layered private history that is difficult to document fully from public records.
By the 1970s, the property had been abandoned. It stood vacant for roughly four decades, which accounts for much of its deteriorated and atmospheric condition. In 2012, new owners purchased the manor and began to restore and investigate it. The new ownership coincided with the property's emergence as a paranormal investigation site.
Local accounts collected by Fox 59 News in Indianapolis describe the manor's history as including deaths that occurred on the property over its long occupation. Specific claims about the nature or number of those deaths appear primarily in aggregator and paranormal-media sources and have not been independently confirmed in newspaper archives or county records available to this research. The property's documented history of abandonment, age, and rural isolation are verifiable; specific historical events beyond those require primary source confirmation.
Thornhaven Manor is privately owned and is not open to the public as a commercial attraction. Its national visibility comes primarily from its appearances on cable paranormal television.
Sources
Thornhaven Manor's paranormal reputation rests substantially on its television appearances, which brought professional investigators to the property under conditions designed to document unusual activity. Ghost Adventures, produced by Travel Channel, filmed a dedicated episode at Thornhaven Manor in Season 8 (Episode 10). Ghost Brothers, a separate paranormal investigation series, returned to the property in Season 2, Episode 1. The presence of two separate major production companies and multiple investigation sessions gives the manor a documented paranormal investigation record unusual for a private residential property.
Reported phenomena from investigation sessions have included unexplained sounds, equipment anomalies typical of paranormal investigation methodology, and accounts of physical sensations reported by investigators. Mediums brought to the property during investigations have described significant numbers of presences — one account cited by aggregator sources puts the figure at 47 identifiable spirits, though this reflects mediumship practice rather than independently verifiable documentation.
The property's decades of abandonment — roughly 1970 to 2012 — gave it the isolation and deterioration that paranormal productions prize. The combination of genuine age, documented vacancy, rural Henry County setting, and multiple television appearances makes Thornhaven Manor one of Indiana's most nationally visible private paranormal sites.
Media Appearances
The 1845 farmhouse is visible from S Spiceland Road in Henry County. It was abandoned from the 1970s until purchased in 2012 and has been the subject of paranormal investigations featured on major cable TV series.
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