Phantasmal Crime 11 - Thornhaven Manor

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Thornhaven Manor is located at 2172 S. Spiceland Road in New Castle, Indiana near the Big Blue River Valley. The dilapidated home sits on seven acres of former farmland that is encircled by marshland and woods. The manor was built in 1845 and originally sat on a property that stretched to 1,000 acres. Many people died in the house from illness, but in the early 1900s, this home would be the scene of a murder by poison. Today, there are reputedly many spirits at this location with the most prominent ones belonging to people connected to that murder.

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0:00.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.0	True crime can be strangely fascinating.
0:18.0	This true crime is odd, macabre and haunted.
0:22.0	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.
0:25.0	Welcome to Fantasmo Crime.
0:31.0	Thornhaven Manor is located at 2172 South Spiceland Road in Newcastle, Indiana.
0:37.0	You're the Big Blue River Valley.
0:39.0	The dilapidated home sits on seven acres of former farmland that is encircled by marshland and woods.
0:45.0	The manor was built in 1845 and originally sat on a property that stretched to a thousand acres.
0:52.0	Many people died in the house from illness, but in the early 1900s this home would be the scene of a murder by poison.
0:58.0	Today there are reputedly many spirits at this location, with the most prominent ones belonging to people connected to that murder.
1:28.0	Simon T. Powell was one of the richest men in Indiana.
1:48.0	Powell was born in 1821 in Cambridge City, Indiana, but his parents eventually moved to Illinois.
1:54.0	When he was 14 he was struck with what was deemed paulzy and his excessive swimming was blamed for causing that.
2:01.0	The affliction would cripple him for the rest of his life.
2:04.0	He attended Vincent College and completed his education under Professor Samuel H. Hoshhauer at the Seminary in East Cambridge.
2:12.0	By 1841 he was living in Newcastle and would spend the rest of his life there.
2:17.0	He married Elizabeth Thornberg that same year.
2:20.0	She was a widow with five children and came from a prominent family in the community.
2:24.0	She and Simon had four children together.
2:27.0	Simon had made a nice income serving as the deputy county clerk and he held that position until 1855.
2:33.0	He and Elizabeth built a large manor house in 1845.
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