Haunted Hoosier Trails. Wanda Lou Willis
HAUNTED HOOSIER TRAILS
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Copyright © 2002 by Wanda Lou Willis
No part of this book may be reproduced or copied by any means
without express permission from the publisher.
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CLERISY PRESS
c/o Keen Communications
PO Box 43673
Birmingham, AL 35243
ISBN 978-1-57860-115-8
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 2002111437
Cover design by Lloyd Brooks, Thrive, Inc.
Text and layout design by April Altman Reynolds
Maps and illustrations by Steven D. Armour
Cover photograph by Mike Fender
Printed and bound in the United States of America
For my parents, Ethel and Raymond Willis—
I hear the mockingbird sing;
the black-eyed china doll smiles;
I am the keeper of the dream.
And for my brothers, Chester and Donald.
CONTENTS
Merbrink Cottage—The Winona Lake House of Love
The Ghost of “I” Street Medical Clinic
Child’s Play
Osceola Poltergeist
Oscar, The Beast of “Busco”
Things go Bump in a Grand Manor—Hazelcot Castle
The One-Hundred Steps Cemetery
Chambermaid Haunts Hotel—Attica, Indiana
The White Hall Tavern
The Haunting of Eck House
The Plantation Club’s Hoodlums and Haunts
Danville’s Creature From Hell
The Haunted City
Little Girl in the Window
Nineteenth Century Eccentric Ghost Tales
Sam Maag . . . is it You?
“Good Night, Mr. ‘G’”
Miss Robert’s Mansion
The Acton Miracle
The Alverna Retreat Ghost
The Girl in White
The Haunting of Beck House
The Murat Shrine Temple’s Blue Light Special
The Slippery Noodle Inn
Indianapolis’ First Haunted House
The Haunted Morgan-Monroe State Forest