Today on the Grave Talks, haunted New Harmony.

Once the site of two utopian societies, New Harmony Indiana today is now a sleepy community, home to roughly 800 souls, if you only count the living.

But that's the thing about New Harmony. You need to count the dead, because they are just as active.

Nearly every building in town is very much a home to both current and previous residents.

Many still continuing on with her goal of creating a perfect utopian society.

Are these spirits happy with how the town has transitioned over the years? Are they restless

and frustrated with generations that have come after them? Join us as today we talk with

Joni Mayhan about haunted new harmony. Well, I had grown up in the area in my youth and ended up

moving to Massachusetts and I spent 30 years there. But I really felt a pull to come back after my

children left the nest and I had more free time. I ended up making the decision to move back to southern Indiana.

And it was kind of strange because I never lived in New Harmony before this. It was a town I was

aware of and admired. But when I came back, I really had a very strong pull to come here.

And I was very adamant. People were helping me look for houses.

And I was not interested in any other town. New Harmony, it was New Harmony or nothing. And I'm glad.

I see kind of sometimes things work out for reason. And I kind of see that now that I'm here,

because it's been a wonderful move for me.

So what did you know of New Harmony when you moved there, having been in the area a bit,

but what was your knowledge of the town?

Well, I know it was a historic town and that it was a site of two former utopian societies.

It just had a very quaint aura to it that I really loved.

And I think as a child, I was more intrigued by the things like the labyrinth.

We have two labyrinths in town and just how old and beautiful all the buildings are.

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