The Summerwind Haunting

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Located in the northeast region of Wisconsin, the Summerwind Mansion is one of the oldest and most popular tales of a haunted house in America. Beginning in the early 1900s, several owners who have lived at Summerwind have experienced unexplained and disturbing paranormal activity. From ghostly apparitions, creepy voices and shadow figures, corpses found in hidden crawlspaces, and the house’s apparent ability to change its shape, the Summerwind Mansion remains as a favorite scary legend among the locals.
Though the house is now just a site of burnt ruins, the mansion had a dark history of paranormal events. Three different owners experienced strange and disturbing occurrences during their stay. The first owner, Robert Lamont, was so startled by the sudden appearance of a spirit that he fired his pistol at it. The Hinshaw Family lasted only six months before being driven away by the wide range of disturbing and frightening experiences, to the point that the husband and wife had mental breakdowns. Finally a man named Raymond Bober wrote a book detailing his time staying at the mansion, claiming that the dimension and layout of the house would change overnight without any explanation.
Is there any legitimacy to the claims of the haunting at Summerwind? Are all these events just a coincidence, or is there something unknown underlying and tying together the plights of these three owners? Listen in and hear all about this fascinating haunting!

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Strange Matters podcast.
0:39.3	Here are Strange Matters we discuss everything that is mysterious, bizarre, and unexplained.
0:44.9	I am Sean, and I am joined by my fellow co-host Eric.
0:48.3	What's up, everybody?
0:50.6	In this episode, we will be discussing the story of what is called one of the most haunted houses in the United States.
0:57.0	It is a spooky tale that started over a century ago and is a place where numerous people have claimed
1:04.3	paranormal activity over the decades. This is the story of the summer wind
1:09.8	haunting and for this episode we like to thank our listener Greg for writing in and sharing the suggestion to us.
1:17.0	Thanks, Greg.
1:19.0	So to start off with a little history, the mansion has been called an abandoned hotbed of demonic possession.
1:27.0	And though it was initially built as nothing more than a simple fishing lodge where you could rent the building and go out fishing on the lake for
1:34.6	about $10 a night is rumored to have been haunted before anyone had a chance to even live in the
1:40.9	structure. It was the first mansion in the area to actually use
1:46.6	running water and electricity to power lights. So quick history, the first kind of strange things that started to happen started occurring when the mansion of Summerwind was purchased in 1916 by a man named Robert Lamont.
2:03.0	Located in the northeast area of Wisconsin,
2:07.0	it would serve as a summer house for his family.
2:10.0	Though the majority of unexplained phenomena would come later, the origins of the legend of the house would actually start all the way back with Robert Lamont.
2:20.0	So up until Robert's first encounter the maids and servants in the structure had been trying to tell him that the house was haunted.
2:30.0	However, he usually just brushed it aside and didn't really put any stock in what the servants were telling him.
2:38.0	They and the Lamont family would, over the course of about 15 years encounter an array of
2:45.6	paranormal experiences however while they lived there but it wasn't until the
2:50.8	mid 1930s when they finally encountered something that would
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