"Paranormal Witness: The Fox Hollow Farm" EP 208 Recap

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A family fears their Indianapolis mansion is haunted by the serial killerwho previously resided there.
In 2006, the Graves family yearned for life outside the busy, city life andwhile looking for homes out the country, they found a beautiful manor completewith a barn outside and an indoor pool, surrounded by beautiful, lush greenwoods. The family was very impressed the first time they saw the beautifulhome. "It was breathtaking! You walk into the home and living room and youwant to stay,” Vicky Graves said about her first visit to the home. Herhusband, Rob agreed: "It was in a very desirable location and property.But no one is living here. So you ask yourself what is going on?” As Rob lookedmore around the home and landscape, he realized that it might be a property heremembered hearing about in the local news so he asked the realtor about it. Therealtor told him that Indiana’s notorious serial killer Herbert Baumeisterlived there. Baumeister was known to be responsible for the death of 9 single,homosexual men, 7 of them whose remains were buried under the estate. Vicky wasa laboratory medical scientist so having been exposed to one's mortality, theidea of living in the home didn’t bother her so much; however, she acknowledgedshe felt a bit different knowing who owned the home and what had happened. Thefamily moved in anyways and figured all would be well at the Graves household. 

One day, Vicky was cleaning around the pool area.Rob and Vicky had two teenage boys that loved to use the pool and because theygot rambuctious like boys are, gravel was tracked in the pool house so Vickywould have to use the vacuum cleaner to clean it up. One day when she was usingit, the vacuum randomly turned off. Thinking she yanked on the extension cord,she goes back to plug it back in and continued vacuuming. The vacuum turns off again.Vicky stands up and looks, and this time, the cord is pulled apart and 12inches apart. This is really odd becauseI know that I didn't pull it apart, Vicky thought. Vicky proceeds to plugit back in again. The plug then sparked out and yanked off again. "Thehairs in the back of my hair stood up. There was an unsettling presence there,”Vicky recalls; “It felt like someone was there and someone didn't want methere.” 

From who else's point-of-view?

Meanwhile, Rob worked at a car dealership when aman named Joe was hired on to work with him. Rob and Joe immediately becamegood friends and enjoyed working together. However, Joe was having troublemaking it to work on time because he lived an hour away and traffic was brutal.Rob then suggested an apartment at the house Joe could use. Rob also warned himabout the history of the house and who used to live there but Joe figured sinceall the “bad things” in the house were gone, it would be okay to live in. Afterspending a day moving in the apartment, unloading boxes and boxes from themoving truck, Joe was exhausted. Joe brought his dog Fred with him and passedout on the bed from exhaustion. Finally, everything was settled and Joe felt asense of relief! However, Joe had a less-than-pleasant sleep. He recalls adream he had where he had a sensation to run. "I felt like something waschasing me...I was running from something bad,” Joe explains. “I was runningfor my life".  Joe immediately gotup to run and smashed into the doorframe and fell on his face. He laid there inpain as shards of glass dug into his fingers. Joe didn't know what he wasrunning from but he felt a sensation to run out right away. He didn’t reallyknow where the sensation was coming from…

An odd sensation to run....

One afternoon, Rob was on a ladder painting thehouse and Vicky came home from work. Vicky was looking at his work whensomething caught her attention out of the corner of her eye. “I saw someonestanding there,” she said. “I realized that he's got a red t-shirt on and Ifigure it’s a trespasser. He had his back to me and he slowly walked away. Ithen realized I couldn't see his legs! And suddenly, he disappeared into thetrees…” she recalls. Rob immediately thinks it’s what he describes as a “serialkiller groupie”. Both went to the sight where the man was standing but they sawnothing. Because of her job, Vicky claimed she was one of the biggest skeptics."You have to prove things to me! But I gauruntee you that I saw what Isaw!” she exclaimed. One night at around 9pm, Joe was was washing dishes andheard a knock on the door. He grabbed a towel, dried his hands, saying he’d beright there but the door kept knocking. He opens the door wide and no one is inthere. He looks over the balcony and staircase and still saw no one. However, Joefelt like he was being watched. But he still didn't see anything. In anotherscenario, Joe is watching TV when he turns it off to go to bed. He catchessomething on the screen and turns around. He catches what he describes as a"wisp of something”.  Joe looks backin the bedroom and again, doesn't see anything . Meanwhile, Rob became concernedwith what both Vicky and Joe saw and experiences so he installed surveillancecameras that were placed from the barn that had views of the front of thehouse, in the back of the house, at the front door, and at the back door. Thecameras were on continuously. 

Cameras rolling...

Three weeks after Joe moved in, Joe would takewalks with his dog Fred and walk up and down the driveway on clear nights. Hehears a noise coming from the woods. Fred stops and his ears perk up. He'smaking low growling noises as well. Fred takes off running and Joe ran afterhim to see what he was looking at. He saw a man in a red shirt. Once again, theman disappeared into the trees. Joe was fearful to go into the woods because ofthe man, thinking he may have ill-intent to hurt Joe. But Joe slowly goes intothe woods to call out for Fred. As Joe follows Fred's barks, he sees the man inthe red shirt for the second time. While Joe doesn’t go into exact detail ofwhat the man was, it was enough to scare both Joe and Fred and both shoot outof there like a bat out of hell. The next day, Joe tells Vicky about it andshows Vicky where he saw the man and where he disappeared to. "There wasno evidence that anyone had been there and I'm thinking, okay.....what's goingon?" Vicky said. But this wasn’t the last time Joe would experiencesomething in his apartment. 

Joe LeBlanc recalling his dark days spent at the home and what would haunt him....

"One night, I woke up with this startlingfeel and I hear knocking on the door,” Joe said. Joe was calling out and wasn'thearing a response. The knocking repeated and repeated and Joe actually feltthe wood in the panel vibrating inside the door. Joe opens the door and no oneis there. The door knob was still horizontal and knocked one last time."That scared the hell out of me!" Joe remembers. Again, there was noevidence of footsteps being seen or heard. Joe goes out to explore the premisesbut sees nothing so goes back in his apartment. He's walking upstairs andcouldn't see something beyond the lights but still felt like he was beingwatched. Joe shuts the door, locks the deadbolt and then Fred starts growlingat Joe. Joe looks around and hears what he said sounds like the door knobturning. He heard the spring compressing too. Then it stopped turning….BANG!The door flew open and slammed in the wall, sending woodchips flying all overthe apartment. "I saw this man. He had a complete look of terror on hisface. You can tell he was running for his life, his breathing heavy and he wastrying to run from something. I've never seen anything like that in my life!"Joe explains. After much thinking and reflecting, Joe starts thinking that theman he saw was a victim of the serial killer. Joe also wonders why the victimis reaching out to him. "I think I see the victims because they reach outto us to find closure, to seek assistance" Joe explained. Joe and Vickystarted researching more on the Herbert Baumeister investigation and thevictims of his crimes. They called the local news station to get originalfootage from the coverage of the case in 1996. In the video coverage, theystarted showing photos of the victim. One particular one popped up. Joe beginsfreaking out because he recognizes him… it was the man he had seen in hisapartment. But as they watched more of the footage, they learned the policefound around 5,500 bone fragments from the property and more were to be found.This inspires Joe to explore the woods and take Fred with him. As they areexploring the woods, Joe looks to the left and something caught his eye. Acertain item was lying on the ground as if being meant to find it. "At onepoint, it all started to make sense,” Joe said about the mystery item he found.It was a Sunday night when Rob and Vicky came home from dinner when Joe runs upto the driveway and said "I found something, you need to see!" Thethree of them go to the kitchen. 
Joe then shows them a bone, which Vickyidentifies as a human femur bone.
What surprised Vicky more so than the actualdiscovery of the bone was at how flawless the condition of the bone seen…shewas even more amazed when she learned of where Joe found it, right on top inthe woods, not buried within dirt covered and decayed. Joe then contacted thelead detective on the case and he agreed to come out and show them whereeverything happened. According to the detective, victims were selected by gaybars in downtown and how he would bring home his victims in for a swim in thepool. Mannequins were found around the pool in various poses, like a setup tolure his victims. What the detective concluded is that the killer would drughis victims with alcohol and/or drugs, lure them into the pool for sadistic,sexual acts and then kill them by strangling them. Herbert eventually killedhimself by a gunshot wound to the head on July 3, 1996 to avoid arrest. Hetraveled to Canada to commit his own suicide.

One night at around 6 o’clock, Joe, his friendJeremy and the Graver boys were taking a swim in the pool, horsing around oneanother. One of their pool activities was diving to the bottom of the poolpicking up large beetles found there. All the sudden, Joe felt a sensation inhis neck, like hands were on his neck. He thought it was one of the guys butthey were on the other side of the pool from where Joe was. All the sudden, Joefeels these fingers and describes it as if he was being strangled. When all ofthis is happening, Jeremy turns to look at him and sees Joe with his hands tohis neck and pure panic in his face. Jeremy knew then that Joe was not joking. Thehauntings continued. In another scenario, Joe was at the front door where hiscomputer was when all the sudden, he heard “metallic scraping”. Joe then noticessomething strange in the wall. He sees knife marks on the wall and they wentacross the wall. At this point, Joe is thinking someone could've been murderedor stabbed. Inspired by ghost shows on TV that he saw, Joe uses a voice audiorecorder on his phone and turns off everything in his house, from lights tofans, anything that would cause noise and begins conducting an EVP (electronicvoice phenomenon) session in the kitchen. EVP’s are audio/voice recorders beingused to ask questions to ghosts/entities and is a way a person can possiblycommunicate and hear the “voices” of spirits. Joe then asks “Is there anyone inhere?” He doesn’t hear a response. All the sudden Fred growls in thebackground. After looking back and listening to his recorder, he all the suddenhears an answer to his question “Are you here?” Joe hears a crystal clearmale’s voice respond;
“The married one”
Shocked at his paranormal discovery, Joe looks through his files ofinformation on the victims. All the victims were single. Herbert Baumeister wasthe only one in the case that was married. Joe then believes then that it’s notjust the spirits of the victims that may be still lingering in the house…..
The femur bone was tested by a laboratory and remains unidentified.
Janes Notes: After last week's headache of an episode, I was pondering whether to getout the vodka for this one or not. However, I didn't need the liquor for thisone because it had me hooked from start...and it wasn't towards the end Iliterally felt chills. But before we get to the end part, let's get into thecase. Fortunately, I was able to pull up this article from Peoplethat dates back to 1996, which can be found here. I tried to then look up the lead detective in thiscase but sadly, he passed away at the age of 61 in the beginning of the year. Further information about Herbert Baumeister and the timeline of his life leading up to his suicide can be found here in a PDF format that goes into great detail about his childhood, his rather bizarre behavior during adolescence leading up to his murder cases and murder profile. What intrigued me more so about this case was the part about Joe and Jeremyplayfully picking up dead beetles from the pool. Part of me just suggests thatthis is boys just being boys.It's a common theory that serial killers will "make their start" not by going immediately after humans but experimenting and killing animals. Is there a correlation between the dead beetles, the boys playing with them and Joe's strangling sensation. I personally don't think so but it has been something that I found interesting. As far as the EVP goes? I think out of all the EVP's I've heard in my years of studying this kind of thing...that one is one of the most chilling because of how clear it is. A lot of EVP's I've heard have been whispers, mumbles...not very clear. This one? So clear and so chilling.....


I could easily plaster pictures of this man allover this blog post but this is the paranormal and death were talking and Iwould instead rather take the time to use this as a place to honor the victimswhose lives were taken too soon. So let me close this recap with this;
On behalf of all who contribute here to “MOBWives”, we all send our deepest condolences and sympathies to the families ofthe victims. We cannot imagine the grief you’ve had to endure and we all praythat you all find comfort and bask in the wonderful memories you've have with yourloved ones. To those whose remains have yet to be found, whose remains still have yet to be properly identified, may your souls find peace and may your families find peace as well.

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