Welcome to part two of our interview with Joni Mayhan about Haunted New Harmony.

And thank you for being a gravekeeper and keeping this program alive.

Tell me about some more of the other areas of town that have hauntings in.

Yeah, for my book, I really covered buildings that the public could visit.

So I didn't delve into personal house hauntings

because I didn't want people to come and be peeking in people's windows.

Sure.

But Community House number two is another very active location.

This is a building that was built in the early 1800s by the first utopian group called

the Harmonist, and they would use the first floor for community events, and the second and

third floor would have been used for lodging.

This group was celibate because they believed that the second coming across was going to happen

soon, and there was no need to propagate the species.

So men lived on one side of the hall, women lived on the other side of the hall.

And once again, tour guides were the ones who initially felt the haunting because they would be there for longer periods of time.

And they would hear large groups of people

walking around and talking, and they would go to the next floor to look, and of course

there'd be nobody there. And I experienced that firsthand during one of my investigations.

I had my entire group down on the first floor giving a PowerPoint presentation

about the history of the town. And I was telling them at that point, I said, you know, I can't

make the ghost perform on cue. If something's going to happen, it's because they want to, but I

can't make it happen. So we could have a really quiet night, just be prepared.

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