South Haven

In 2007, I lived in South Haven, a small town in Indiana home to the Wolfe, a mansion like house that is claimed to be haunted. The story goes, that in the early 1900s, a man who owned the house enslaved his wife and children. He beat them often, saying, "Look around and see if you can find a place to hide!" One day, he killed his family, then hanging himself in the belltower.

I was very young, about 7 years old when I lived in the Haven at that time. One summer night, i lay upstairs in my sisters room in my house 3 blocks away from the Wolfe. I fell asleep quickly.

Only to wake up to the most emotionally disturbing moment of my life.

I woke up frightened, for reasons I cannot understand. I looked up and heard a stranger's voice saying "Look around and Hide!" Being a young child, I used my standard defense mechanism; pull the blankets over My head. He blanket had fallen on the floor, and when I reached down frantically to pick it up, the blanket was so heavy that I might as well have been trying to lift dumbells. I called my sisters name, but no sound came from my mouth. I felt like crying, but no tears were shed. Then, Mortifying, unfamiliar, muffled children's screams filled the air. This lasted for minutes before everything stopped. I wanted to run to my parents room, but I couldn't move my body. I was literally paralyzed with fear. Then came the worst part. A woman, dressed in a white and red dress, walked into the doorway and passed out. I looked up in shock to see that she wasn't there anymore.

Last week, my friend told me of a dream he had when he lived in that same town. He said he was utterly frightened in it, and was searching for a place to hide from someone in an unfamiliar house.

That practically knocked me off of my feet. Today, I feel certain that the man of Wolfe mansion, or the Wolfe demon, as I call him, haunts not only the Wolfe but the entire town of South haven, searching for vulnerable children to abuse and hurt just as he did while he was alive.

I swear that everything I described here did occur.