Ruthmear Mansion
This mansion is plagued by many phantoms throughout the year, but especially on Halloween night. On Halloween, alarms sound and lights go on and off, though the house is empty. Objects may also be seen flying through the rooms, and there have even been reports of gun shots in the house.
First of all, the name is spelled wrong, it should be spelled Ruthmere. I have heard things about the mansion but nothing specific.
Comment by Tricia | 01.22.2006 | 9:40 pm
I have toured this house several times and never felt or seen anything. It’s a beautiful place to go see.
Comment by Debi | 01.29.2006 | 2:04 pm
i seen it and my house is haunted too there is a lil gurl in my halls all the time & i hear ppl walking my house is about 200 yrs old too
Comment by makaila | 04.13.2006 | 7:59 pm
Im 8 years old. I think okland park elemantary school is haunted couse . ONES i was in the kinderrgatenn bathroom i found hand in blood prints.
Comment by aurelhia segersbol | 04.24.2006 | 7:59 pm
I am sorry, but the Ruthmere Mansion is not haunted. Some places are, granted, but this definitely is not. A close friend of mine has a grandmother who used to date a guy that lived there, and there were no reports of hauntings then. I believe that people supposedly see the strange phenomenon only when driving by or staring at this place. Perhaps they see lights flicker on and off because it can be rented out, and gets decorated for Halloween. It’s nice to see Elkhart on the map for something but if only it were true.
Comment by Emily | 06.3.2006 | 12:31 pm
My uncle Ed Beardsley’s family on the other side owned and built this house. when i was a child we were in it all the time. they moved away to arizona several years ago and i can tell you personally that not one scary thing had ever happened to me or anyone else in the family in all the years i spent visiting there.
Comment by jena | 06.23.2006 | 3:16 pm
sorry emily but i tottally dissagree! you are just to ignerent 2 idmit it! also, people are not allowed to live in that house so you shouldent be sayin that!!!
-spirit believer NOT a denier
Comment by person | 07.9.2006 | 8:36 pm
accatuillay jena the house wuz made a long time ago! you are such a lier!
Comment by person | 07.9.2006 | 8:38 pm
Actually Jena is correct. The Ruthmere mansion was orginally the Beardsley mansion , which is Ed Beardsley’s great grand father. Check across the street and you’ll see a statue.
Comment by one who knows | 07.27.2006 | 4:30 pm
If this place is haunted all the time then why are you saying that you can really see things on Halloween. I f it haunted then you will see things during the day and all year round. It sounds like people are just trying to outsiders to come and visit. Don’t make up things just tell the truth.
Comment by person | 08.8.2006 | 12:10 pm
I’ve lived in elkhart all my life and never heard about it being haunted even at halloween. There are tons of old houses around here that are haunted but that is not one of them.. There is a tower at high dive park that I heard was haunted because someone fell of the sprial stair case a long time ago, about 7 yrs ago city boarded it up, just wondering if anybody has heard about that.
Comment by jen | 08.25.2006 | 11:38 pm
I have also lived in Elkhart all of my life, and although it is tempting to believe Ruthmere is haunted, I have heard over and over that it is not.I would like to hear of other places in Elkhart that are or thought to be haunted!
Comment by Sherri | 09.11.2006 | 9:19 pm
i think you all are a bunch of losers that don’t have anything else to do but sit around and make up stuff…
Comment by Justin | 10.20.2006 | 10:26 am
That…I went there once and someone whispered Weirdo…I HATE GHOSTS MORE THAN ME!
Comment by Stacey | 12.22.2006 | 5:38 pm
Jen, I have lived in Elkhart for 20 plus years and i have also heard the stories of High Dive Park Tower being haunted. Something about someone jumped or was pushed. Sorry it’s been a really long time ago but i remember when it was not boarded and you could go up in the tower then the city boarded it and now no one is allowed to go up there anymore.
As for Ruthmere Mansion, I used to live right behind Ruthmere and there were odd things and noises but I cant say that in all the years i lived behind the mansion that i ever experienced anything personally. Who knows but the Ghosts?! lol
Comment by CC | 01.5.2007 | 11:27 pm
well maybe we could get ghost experts to see
Comment by megan ann | 02.2.2007 | 7:11 pm
wheres the house at
Comment by Julio | 02.19.2007 | 7:19 pm
Jen or Jena,
It is very important that you remove this ridiculous rumor from your site immediately. This impacts Ruthmere’s ability to deliver its educational mission. If it is not removed by 5 pm on Monday, it will be necessary for our organization to take steps.
Thank you,
Ruthmere management
Comment by Ruthmere Executive Director | 02.23.2007 | 4:45 pm
Sorry Jen or Jena,
I mistakenly addressed my comments to you. I agree with and appreciate your support of the fact that Ruthmere is haunted. It is not.
My comments were adressed to the webmaster of this site, or to whomever posted the initial assertion that Ruthmere is haunted. This is false and must be removed immediately.
Thank you,
Ruthmere management
Comment by Ruthmere Executive Director | 02.23.2007 | 4:49 pm
“One Who Knows”, you are incorrect. The statue of Dr. Havilah Beardsley stands at the corner of Beardsley and Riverside, nearly two blocks from Ruthmere. Though you are correct, the house was built by the Beardsley family, specifically A.R. Beardsley, who is coincidentally the one who had the statue of Dr. Beardsley erected.
Comment by T Bone | 03.11.2007 | 3:34 pm
That is so fake. There is no proof that story is true.
Comment by brittnee | 06.24.2007 | 6:41 pm
To Whom it may concern:
If this place is or is not haunted it is probably not up to us. But rather than fight among yourselves some people can see, hear, feel things that most can not. Simple because you are more sensitive to that frequency, that paranormal edge and it might be that people who do not see is because they choose not to or they are a negitive ward to them.
Sincerely,
Hallows
Comment by Ward of Hallows | 08.7.2007 | 11:27 pm
i know of two houses that are haunted and i am far form the only one who is aware of this.for one my house has been haunted since the very first time i steped into it ( a young girl had died inside of it at one time) i mentioned it to an older lady when i was a kid (only 5) and she flipped out on me- but there would have been no way i coulda known what to tell her unless i actualy did see her. secondly, the big blue house on high street is very much so haunted, try goin upstairs at night and turn the lights off, and have a seat- cause whatever happened upstairs was more than just visciously brutal, and i really dont get into the whole paranormal thing, muchless afraid of the dark, there was a boy and a girl upstairs and in a room that had a toybox- looked like a play room more than a bedroom, the little boy was forcibly picked up at the top of the stairs, enough to rip the wooden **** from the screw that held it to the banister and thrown down the stairs hitting his head on the overhang bouncing back onto the stairs and rolling down rest of the stairs to the sitting room (or would say sitting room), the girl was in the playroom and i could seriously hear a jack n the box being played so it’d open.. im not sure about whatever it was that happened in the bathroom but if you know what the odor blood puts off while its drying, youll know it.. as far as the Ruthmere mansion, i used to know a girl who actulay did live there but we didnt get along to well for the most part. but im sorry the house is much much older than a few decades old, and yes there is a history behind the (gunshots and ocassional footsteps) or a CERTIAN GIRL in 1977 wouldnt have been hiding in the closet with a little boy and a lit candle back then…. but regretfuly he was killed on his 5th birthday (october 31) of 1977 not much further away from there…..
…and now for somethign completely differnt….
Comment by noneedforname | 10.7.2007 | 5:07 pm
Does anyone know the story about the Cable Line Monster in Elkhart IN? It was near where the dead man’s tree was. About 25 years ago a kid on a motorcycle hit the tree with such an inpact his outline scarred the tree. It was that way for years on Cable Line Road. Last time I was in IN the tree had been cut down.
Comment by Karla | 10.22.2007 | 4:45 pm
I’ve heard of the Cable Line haunting, yes the tree is cut down but there is a blue glow that come out of the ground where the tree once stood.
Comment by Lucy | 10.22.2007 | 6:42 pm
I was born and raised in Elkhart, and my parents used to drive me by the Cable Line Tree. It has been said that on foggy nights you can hear the screams of the person who hit the tree. You could see an outline of a person in the tree. I think this happened sometime in the 60’s or 70’s.
Comment by cwells | 10.29.2007 | 1:31 pm
When did all this start happening? Love, Haley Mays
Comment by Haley | 11.4.2007 | 9:33 am
oh please, it’s Elkhart… The things flying through the house” are obviously rocks thrown by bored kids, and the gunshots are unavoidable in that city. Case solved.
Comment by amanda | 12.8.2007 | 11:13 pm
all u are ******* liars i went into that house and all i seen wasa big *** blunt and a box of cherios on the table oh and i heard the door slam but it was my mommy in our car i was little well my **** was but i really had fun at age 15 thats the last place i sucked my moms tits at
Comment by dayne nordman | 01.2.2008 | 11:29 pm
honestly, who goes into that house? It isn’t scary or anything but isn’t it a museum? and i truthfully no one goes to that museum or the one down the street from it, if that is a museum. but i never heard any stories about that house what-so-ever and i looked on the site and it seemed like the people who lived there were fine and they just died, no reason for them to stay in the house. but that is my opinion. and where is cable line road, i lived here for 18 years and don’t know where it’s at. but anyways, can someone tell me if it is true that in union, michigan on kesington road a guy murder his whole family? cause me and my friends have been going up there and it seems strange.
Comment by jamie | 04.10.2008 | 10:00 pm
ruthmere is haunted whether you believe it or not.
Just because you don’t see or hear anything doesnt mean that spirits are there just like ward of the hallows said, and im paraphrasing here, spirits and memories both reside in that house therefore it is haunted in a sense
Comment by name | 04.14.2008 | 11:15 pm
Ok, first of all, Ruthmere is NOT haunted. Second of all it is not even worth arguing about. I have lived in Elkhart for 29 yrs. and I have yet to hear of Cable Line Rd.? I honestly think people need to get a life other than arguing over something so juvenile.
Comment by Anonymous | 06.9.2008 | 12:24 am
i have lived in elkhart since the day i was born i am 15 i have heard that place was haunted dont beleive it iv heard of the cable line monster me and my mom drove down that road at midnight on a foggy night nothing happend because acording to legend if you go down that road at the time of midnight oon a foggy night when you get to the end of th road there will be a bloody hand print on your car …… its a bunch of bull
Comment by erika thompson | 06.16.2008 | 3:53 pm