I like the stories on the Wolfe Mansion, I’m 23 years old and lived in South Haven for 20 years. I lived only a few blocks away from that place. I was told many stories about that place but don’t know which to beleive. I believe in Ghosts but I have never once seen one. I don’t think I would want to.

I live down the street from the house and i have been thier more then a dozen and brought along with me a couple of my friends and i halfto to say that, the house is very much haunted you feel it right as you step onto the property. Trust me i dont scare easy but after being thier alot i def dont sense ghosts just a real and creepy erie feeling.

Hi..I was Wondering if you Could Send Me Directions and the location of this house.I was also wondering if people were allowed to go to this house just to walk around it and look?.i am not sure if this is a halloween attraction or a private property so i was wondering if we were allowed to walk through it .please email me with the informationi have asked.thank you!

My hubby and his buddies grew up and still live in Valparaiso. Him & his buddies broke into this house when they were teenagers to get that “thrill”. Nothing happened. He says over & over that it was very scary but I wonder if it was just their imagination. A friend who was with him took a book off of a shelf from the house and still has it to this day. The original house no longer is there, instead a brand new house stands right on top of where the old one was.

Anyone know any real haunted places near North Judson and Knox that still stands?

I have heard of all of these, but our favorites in High School, (in the late 70’s) where out off of Rt 2 towards Westville, Stero Bridge and the Pumpkin Heads Family who lived out on a Farm, the Pumkin Head Family where a real family with a bunch of kids who had some kind of disease like water on the brain and had enormous heads! They were always out in the yard, didnt attend school and the parents hid them from the public. The father was not real happy with everyone coming out to see them and was known to shoot a gun at lookers!!

Yes.. Out by NOrth Judson in I believe Francesville are the Frances ville Lights and the Dogface Tree. My teenage sons have been there and said they are really scary

out of curiosity…i was wondering if the house on 500 N. off of 49 in valparaiso is really “haunted”. there are pictures on a ghost hunting website (angelfire/the force.com) and the story goes, that during the early 90’s,a man in the kkk went crazy and killed his wife and locked his daughter in a trunk in the attic, while he slit his wrists in the tub. the story and the pictures are really creepy. just wanted to know if this murder really happened or if it’s another urban legend?

I HAVE BEEN THERE JUST RECENTLY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO. WE CLIMBED OVER THE FENCE AND WALKED DOWN A LONG PATH TO A HOUSE (WHICH IS STILL STANDING JUST SO EVERY ONE KNOWS.)THERE IS STILL A CAR THERE PILED HIGH WITH GARBAGE.IT WAS PRETTY SPOOKY WE DIDNT STAY LONG DUE TO ALL THE NO TRESSPASSING SIGNS

Hey yea i just went there today.And no one lives in that house there is so much garbage in it. Yes there was a car at the house piled with garbage. I really wish that we had some permission to go there at night.Yea me and my dad went i took my cell to take some pics, and so did my dad but his cell did not work till after we left. I dont know if it is true if the place had a murder there. But its a pretty cool place to go to. But dont get caught because i dont really think your sappost to be there because the property is for sale. yea but me and my dad and some friends are going to go to the cemetary at night. And mabe visit that house. But if any one has some info on it let me know.

Hey yea i just went there today.And no one lives in that house there is so much garbage in it. Yes there was a car at the house piled with garbage. I really wish that we had some permission to go there at night.Yea me and my dad went i took my cell to take some pics, and so did my dad but his cell did not work till after we left. I dont know if it is true if the place had a murder there. But its a pretty cool place to go to. But dont get caught because i dont really think your sappost to be there because the property is for sale. yea but me and my dad and some friends are going to go to the cemetary at night. And mabe visit that house. But if any one has some info on it let me know. Please i really want to know if there was a murder there.

i heard about this. i thought it was a mith!!!

hey where is this house at

I just got back from there. We first went to the barn and the torn down house. Then we went all the way back on the path, to the somewhat newer house with the car in the driveway. This was definatly one of the scariest places I have ever been, because it was 2 in the morning. The front door was wide open. Every room in the house was filled with newspapers and books. All clothes are still there. Old records, beds, everything. It was like people just left and never came back. The property is for sale, I don’t understand why this house hasnt been demolished or at least cleared out. I don’t know if this is the “dewey” house or whatever, but it was horrifying. Felt like I was in a horror movie.

this is a story about friends who pranked me using this story

Well, I heard this story when i was fourteen (not on the site, but my friends told it to me.) well, we were camping out in my backyard and my friends took the liberty of putting some fake heads on the fence and dressing up like zombies. well, they knew that i was really scared so that night, when i was going to the tent, they came out, i saw the heads, and i SCREAMED. the door was locked, and they were moaning, and on the other side of the yard (the part that had no heads on it) had a small hole under it. i was desperate, so i tried to squeeze under it. my head and torso forced their way through, but my hips got stuck! so, i’m petrified, thinking that zombies are going to eat my flesh and suck my blood (i’m easily scared and gullible) and trying to shove my rear end through a hole that i’m hopelessly stuck in. well, you can imagine how i felt when i heard the laughter of my friends who had gotten me wedged under the fence. you can imagine the embarrassment of me, who was stuck halfway under the fence and thought that she was going to be eaten. the worst part was, after alot of pushing at the girl who was an idiot, they couldn’t get me unstuck! thanks alot, hips, you could’ve gotten me killed.

i was eventually freed (from alot of pushing, pulling, crying, laughing, and squeezing) but i will never forgive my friends for what they did to me.

Go to the Valpo library Geneology Department and you can find Dewey’s obituary. He died at Whispering Pines Nursing home in ‘86 or something. In fact, you can find his wife’s obituary, who died after him. It also states that they had no kids. His name was Dewey Babcock. The story has no truth to it whatsoever. It’s unfortunate that this is all he is remembered for.

If you go to the Valparaiso Library’s Geneology Dept. you can find Deweys obituary. He never hung himself in his silo; he died at Whispering Pines Nursing home in ‘86 or so. His wife also survivied him, you can find her obituary aswell. They had no kids together for him to decapitate. His name is Dewey Babcock. This story has no truth to it at all. It’s unfortunate that he has this story to his name.

Sorry about the duplicate.

If you guys are speaking of The Wolf Mansion, he didn’t hang himself or kill anyone. His newborn and the 2-3 year old kids ( 2 of them ) died from disease. I’ve been to the Wolf Mansion, because I lived close to it. My MOTHER, Dianne Artis, worked there when it was a womens shelter. The place is “haunted” if you want to use that term, I’ve seen them multiple times. My mother has had encounters and so have many more people. Today, there are people who live in the house, and they have lived in there for almost 5 years or so now. Even though the spirits are still there, they are nothing but sweet spirits that haven’t moved on yet. And the children that are still there, are playful, but calming. The woman in the second story window that I seen almost everyday of my 6th grade year coming home from school ( I’m in 11th now ), isn’t harmful. Josephus did not hang himself, nor did he kill anyone. Small Pox was the reason the kittle kids died. A heartattack or so for Josephus. The bodies were burried in the back, supposively, and if that is the case, anyone could see why the spirits of the house haven’t moved on.

My great-grandparents and their children (including my grandfather) lived in the Wolf Mansion between 1915 and 1921, managing the farm for owners of the property who lived in Chicago.

The story of Josephus Wolf hanging himself is absolutely false. The children of Wolf died from typical diseases of the day, as pointed out by Tiana Artis above (although I believe he lost five of his children).

My great-aunt (now dead) told me that she could remember there being a small graveyard on the property and it could be viewed by looking out the window of the kitchen area. It contained about a half-dozen tombstones. No stones are now located in the area, and I presume that the graves were either removed to McCool Cemetery or possibly Kimball Cemetery, which would have been the closest to the farm.

By the way, someone above mentioned that if you walk between the two large trees in the back of Kimball Cemetery that you’ll die. That made me chuckle, as many, many of my ancestors are buried in Kimball Cemetery and I’ve probably walked between those two old trees dozens of times. I’m not dead yet!