Phantasmal Crime

One of the reasons cited for a soul to be at unrest is a lack of justice. And sometimes that justice hasn't come because a body hasn't been discovered. Some of the most interesting ghost stories feature a spirit of a murder victim that leads people to the spot of their hidden burial. Two of these stories date back to the late 1800s. One story features the typical haunted house and the other features a ghost wagon.  Bruce Marshall had inherited the Eanes-Marshall Ranch House. This property had been in his family for over 130 years in 1991. That was the year the body was discovered. Alexander Eanes had been born in 1806 and he moved from Mississippi to Texas in 1845 and bought ranch land in 1857 near Austin in Westlake Hills. Alexander sold the land to his brother Robert in 1873 and this eventually was sold to Robert's son-in-law Hudson Boatner Marshall. Hence the name Eanes-Marshall Ranch. Hudson didn't like where the ranch house was located, so he dismantled it and move...

Thornhaven Manor is located at 2172 S. Spiceland Road in New Castle, Indiana near the Big Blue River Valley. The dilapidated home sits on seven acres of former farmland that is encircled by marshland and woods. The manor was built in 1845 and originally sat on a property that stretched to 1,000 acres. Many people died in the house from illness, but in the early 1900s, this home would be the scene of a murder by poison. Today, there are reputedly many spirits at this location with the most prominent ones belonging to people connected to that murder. Simon T. Powell was one of the richest men in Indiana. Powell was born in 1821 in Cambridge City, Indiana, but his parents eventually moved to Illinois. When he was fourteen, he was struck with what was deemed Palsy and his excessive swimming was blamed for causing that. The affliction would cripple him for the rest of his life. He attended Vincennes College and completed his education under Prof. Samuel H.Hoshour at the seminary in E...