theblondebeast 
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(6/14/03 10:43 pm)
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Haunted 1901 Indiana Funeral Home
In 2000 I purchased some property in downtown Kokomo, Indiana. One of the lots was the only black owned funeral home in centeral Indiana durning the early 1900's called, Jacob's Funeral Home. We spent the next year or so remodeling the 2nd level which we now rent out as a downtown apartment. The second level was remodeled for office space used by law offices and insurance compaines. The total square feet is about 14,000. This year in 2003 we started remodeling the 4,000 square foot basement. After a few months of knocking down walls and moving old doors and windows left down there we came into problems with piles and piles of old rotted boxes in one of the old store rooms in the basement that had been blocked off by the debris. Since then my wife has been going through the boxes and all the items inside them, cleaning up anything she can salvage. A lot of the boxes contain stacks upon stacks of old funeral home records and documents that are rotted and you can hardly read them but, several of the first boxes she has went through have items like artwork, old yellow stained photos, picture frames, jewerly, melted candles, antique candle holders, old gas lighting equipment, and even an old wash basin which was used durning the imbalming process. One of the boxes marked "misc belongings" was kinda creepy and distrubing none the less. We kept putting it to the side. We finally opened it up and dug through it. We're not sure if this was actual dead peoples belongings that was not properly placed on the corpses or in their coffins with them. It has a few old bibles which are in bad shape, some jewelry like a gold wedding ring, and a creepy little rotted stuffed animal. Kinda sad, but creepy as hell. Anyhow, after we are finished with the basement and demolish the coal chamber we hope to start remodeling the 3rd level which is an estimated 3,000 sqaure foot attic that has tons of broken funiture, new looking boxes, dusty old frames, a few chairs, and other misc junk in it. I looked through it a little with a flash light several times. I found a 1940's Coke can in a box of old newspapers dated 1932 - 1954. I like the can because I'm a big Coke fanatic so like a few other of the items I'm keep it. Besides it's made out of all steel, how cool is that? I don't know what else is up there but, it will take us a lot of time to sort through. Looks like it is more mid 1900's and up items from the newspapers. The problem with the attic and why we keep delaying is not just because we are doing one level at a time. We orginially wanted to remodel from the top down but, we skipped the 3rd level because the walls up there contain old gas lines which durning the early and mid 1900's was used for lighting. It's going to slow us down and cost a lot to have them removed. Plus we don't want to stir up all the old lead paint all over the 3rd level until we have to. Lead paint can be really nasty stuff to work with and clean up. Slowly but, surely we will have everything sorted and we'll be adding all these antiques and odd items to our eBay auctions.
More information about the funeral home and the list of hauntings at:
members.ebay.com/aboutme/...rporation/
Which also list the items for sale my wife and I are finding in the building.
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