Bøger af Nicole R Kobrowski

Note: This is the second edition of this book.Shudder when the children at the pond refuse to leave without their friends on a dark night. Spend the night in a haunted train station! Experience a visit from a wandering doctor who still makes house calls!Many of these places are open to the public and can be visited regularly! This book includes stories from: Indianapolis / Marion Co, Westfield and Noblesville / Hamilton Co, Anderson / Madison Co, Hendricks Co., New Albany / Floyd Co, Jeffersonville / Jefferson Co. and many high quality pictures of sites, people and possible hauntings. These real ghost stories have been researched in great detail by true believers with a vast background in historical research.

They came from everyday life. Their illnesses knew no socioeconomic boundaries. Locking people in cabins, smokehouses and outdoor pens was not the answer. Leaving them in county homes was no solution. Turing to doctors for help, families hoped for the best. The State of Indiana and doctors agreed on the need for hospitals to help the mentally ill. To understand the history of Central State Hospital, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Nicole Kobrowski began the story on the practices of European and Colonial roots. These theories and methods, including a way a hospital should be built and operated, influenced Central State Hospital and mental health in Indiana.Kobrowski gives readers a comprehensive historical view of Indiana's first psychiatric facility: causes of insanity, operations and staffing, architecture and buildings, legislative acts, burials and cemeteries, and other historical information.

Wander one of Indiana's most haunted cities with the state's most trusted paranormal investigator!Once a conductor hub on the Underground railroad, the very nature of Westfield has always been unusual. Author Nicole Kobrowski recalls chilling tales of ghosts who haunt many of the local homes and businesses. You will journey through the deserted streets of this Indiana city and visit with pioneers who refuse to leave. Through her accounts of unearthly inhabitants who would rather scratch or scare you than share the space, Kobrowski reveals for the first time in print, the creepy, unnatural, and downright frightening supernatural stories that are part of Westfield's history and allure.

On October 24, 1911 Augusta Knabe had a dream. In it she saw a big black snake winding its way between her and her cousin, Dr. Helene Elise Hermine Knabe. The snake, with its sharp, spiky fangs, leered at the two women, almost begging them to make a move. They were frozen with fright, clinging to each other. It was ready to strike, and it was only a matter of time before it had its way.Augusta awoke with a start, drenched in sweat. Her eyes darted around the darkness and as her mind came out of the dream, Augusta heard familiar sounds- the ticking of her clock, a horse clopping down the street, the creaks of her stepfather's house on Bates Street. Augusta was sure she was just feeling guilty. She'd decided not to have tea with Helene yesterday after shopping. It was just that the streetcars got so crowded around that time...Slowly, Augusta returned to a fitful sleep.When she awoke in the morning, Augusta made her way to school No. 33, Whittier School to teach German for the day. Shortly after she arrived at school, Katherine McPherson, Dr. Knabe's assistant, phoned her, "Something terrible happened to Dr. Knabe."Augusta arrived at Dr. Knabe's apartment within half an hour. She noticed the blinds in Dr. Knabe's laboratory and bedroom were up and lights were burning. Katherine met Augusta in Dr. Knabe's office. Dr, Knabe was dead. Her throat cut to the spinal bone. But who did it?