After a somewhat disappointing dinner at a local restaurant/brewery, we headed out to a house that was on the corner of Carter Road and 400 East. The problem was that the GPS could not locate that address. This particular house doesn't have a name so we couldn't Google it and according to the internet, Carter Road did not exist in Kokomo. So we decided to go to Speedway and pick up a hot chocolate. Let me sidetrack for a moment on Speedway's hot chocolate. If you mix some of their regular hot cocoa with some of the new white chocolate caramel and then stick a couple of the Caramel Macchiato or either of the Girl Scout flavors and then top it off with a shot of Bailey's, you have heaven in a mug! OK so now I need to go to Speedway. Be right back!
OK I am back. To continue, on our way out of Speedway we made a wrong turn and ended up on Carter Street. We went up one block. 100 East. Hey, I think this may be the road we were looking for. We drove up three more blocks and sure enough we were now at the corner of Carter Street and 400 East. Talk about luck. The house was right where we were told it would be. It looked out of place because the other houses in the neighborhood were real nice and up-kept. This house was boarded up and the grounds were a mess. According to the story an old man and his mother lived in this house. The man left the house after his mothers death because her spirit started haunting the house. There have been reports of something knocking on cars, apparitions in the windows and orbs seen in and around the house. This is what we saw. First that night:
It was just that dark out there. These pictures were taken with a flash and also the lights on the car were pointed towards the house. We went back the next day:
We did not experience any of the above phenomena. The weirdest thing about this house was the big satellite dish out on the front lawn. No clue why there would be one if the house has been abandoned for years.
On to the next destination for the evening, The Seiberling Mansion.
The Seiberling Mansion has long been known for ghost sightings. The mansion offers tours (it is part of the Howard County Historical Society) and people have reported seeing a woman sitting in one of the rocking chairs upstairs among other things. We did a drive by that night. We did not see anything and decided we would take the tour on Sunday. More on this location later. We were done for the evening and headed back to the hotel.
