Also referred to as the Historic Hannah House, this stately brick home was built in 1858 by State Legislator Alexander Moore Hannah.  An abolitionist, it was rumored that Hannah had reconfigured the basement to be a hiding place for slaves traveling north through the network of the Underground Railroad. Hannah married late in life and had no children, though in writings about the mansion it appears Mrs. Hannah had one pregnancy that ended in a stillborn birth. The home was sold to another family after Hannah's death in 1895. The 24 room mansion is still owned by the descendents of Roman Oehler who bought it in 1899 but in 1968 they started renting it out as a residence. In 1978 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and since then has been operated by the Elder family (Oehlers by marriage) as a venue that can be rented for events.  It was used by the local Jaycees as a community Haunted House at Halloween for several years.  When the Elders lived there a second floor bedroom was the most common site of phenomena which included doors opening/shutting, cold drafts, unexplained footsteps, and whispering voices.  People would sometimes smell either the foul scent of decay or the sweet odor of roses in that room and each would suddenly start and just as suddenly be gone. While the O'Brien family lived there from '68 to '78, they each witnessed the apparition of a man with old-fashioned mutton-chop whiskers in a dark suit.  One time Mr. O'Brien watched the handle on the attic door turn and the door open by itself. Supposedly apparitions of slaves have been seen in the basement and the story goes that an overturned lantern started a fire that killed some former slaves hiding there but this story has never been verified. Currently Hannah House is available for functions such as weddings, parties and corporate dinners.  You can take a tour of the mansion (but not in Sept. or October).  There is also "The Hannah House Experience" where you can spend the night there to ghost hunt either on your own or with a local paranormal group.  There are details on this on their website:  The Historic Hannah House  The Hannah House is at 3801 Madison Avenue, Indianapolis 317-787-8486

  The Story Inn, Nashville

The Story Inn, Indiana's oldest country inn, offers 13 guest rooms and a restaurant.  When the current owner, richard Hofstetter, bought the inn in 1999 he was a confirmed skeptic.  He discovered that each room had a guest book and this tradition had been around for many many years.  After reading the entries which contained paranormal experiences he went and looked at the filled books that were kept in the attic and found yet more interesting anecdotes of brushes with the supernatural.  His thoughts on these accounts of hauntings can be found at:  http://www.storyinn.com/is-story-haunted  He observed that most of the activity was in the room above the restaurant.  Because it is thought that the ghost is a wife of a former owner, Dr. Story, and that she is attracted to a blue light in the room, she is referred to as The Blue Lady and the guest room has been re-named for her. Staff and the former owner have seen an apparition of a woman.  Guests have also seen her, and heard their name called when no one is there.  When the owner was remodeling the bathroom of the Blue Lady room he closed it up and left for the night after checking that everything was off only to return several mornings to find the water faucet turned on!  The entire inn is non-smoking, and rooms do not have TV, phones, clocks or radios. It is available for functions. The Story Inn is at 6404 South State Road 135 - Nashville.  Phone: (800) 881-1183.  Story Inn Website.