Keefer purchased the property. Keefer reported not feeling safe in the house and started to believe the house was haunted. Unexpectedly, she left the Mansion, abandoning all her belongings clothes, food, furniture.
She told her neighbors that they could take anything from the mansion but that she was not responsible if something bad happened to them. In Arnold and Ginger Hinshaw bought the mansion from the Keefers and moved in with their six children. They stayed for 6 months only.
The Hinshaws reported seeing a ghost of a woman floating back and forth past the French doors leading off from the dining room, seeing vague shapes and shadows flickering throughout the hallways, claimed to hear muffled voices in empty rooms, and when they would walk around the house the noises would stop.
Arnold nailed shut some windows because they were allegedly opening by themselves. Two appliances, a hot water heater and water pump, would break down but suddenly work again before a serviceman was called to the house. During renovations, the skull of a human with black hair was allegedly found in a crawl space by one of his daughters.
However, this was never reported to the police and the skull was never seen again. Arnold would constantly play an organ very late at night and eventually quit working. He said that the spirits told him to play. Within 6 months, Arnold suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent off to treatment whereas his wife Ginger contemplated suicide.
She eventually moved to Granton with her children to live with her parents. The property was sold back to the Keefer family who, in turn, sold it to the father of Mrs.
Hinshaw, Raymond Von Bober, Sr. When Mr. Von Bober began remodeling the mansion to convert it to a Bed and Breakfast, workers complained that some of their tools would disappear, only to reappear at different locations.
Also, the rooms would change length and width on a daily basis, forcing an end to the renovations. The house was purchased by Harold Tracy in as a wedding anniversary present to his wife Babs. The current owners live in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The popularity of the mansion as a paranormal site exploded when it was covered by Life Magazine in November , featured as one of the top 9 most terrifying sites in the United States. Summerwind was portraited with a dark sinister photograph of a decaying structure.
The information was presented based on myth and legends, different from the information uncovered by more recent investigators. The abandoned mansion became a magnet for thrill seekers and young teenagers who wanted to hang out possibly as a place to smoke, to consume alcohol and to use drugs.
The building was in decay, with the attic full of bats, with the theft of many of the belongings, and vandalism of the property. On June 19, , the mansion burned to the ground. The local media reported that the fire was caused by a lightning strike but others dispute that account. The landscape of the property had changed over the years of abandonment, with an overgrowth of trees and under-brush. Yet, none of the surrounding vegetation burned, only the building. In addition, the mansion still had functioning lightning rods.
One local resident interviewed by the PIM team claims that the Fire Marshall sent a letter to the neighbors warning that the property was condemned as unsafe and was going to be burned by the fire department.
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During their time on the property, the paranormal investigators have come up with some amazing evidence, including shadows and disembodied voices. On June 19 and July 31, , Fox Valley Ghost Hunters will be hosting ghost tours of Summerwind, giving the public a chance to legally explore the property. In addition to participating in an actual investigation of the ruins of Summerwind, attendees will learn all about the home's history and its ghosts while sitting around a bonfire. Wisconsin In Your Inbox spinner.
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