ASHER WALTON HOUSE

The night after our incredible investigation at the Roads Hotel, our paranormal investigation team walked 300 yards to get to our next location, The Asher Walton house. Yes, these two notoriously haunted locations exist one house apart in the small town of Atlanta, Indiana. The opportunity to do a back to back investigation was one we couldn’t resist. 

Construction on the Asher Walton house first began in 1868. The sixteen room house was intended as a gift to his new bride, Julia Wolf. While Asher was a successful businessman, the house took four years to finish. Once complete, Asher, Julia, and their children moved into the once gorgeous white house. 

The house belonged to the Walton family up until their deaths. Many people suspect that post death, the Waltons never actually left. Their spirits continue to roam the halls of their once beloved home. 

Today, the Asher Walton house operates as a paranormal hotspot, where teams can pay to investigate and spend the night. The Asher Walton house is considered to be one of the most haunted homes in all of Indiana. 

I’ve had the pleasure of investigating this house on two separate occasions and neither time did it disappoint. During my first visit with a former paranormal investigation team I had joined, we caught a spirit hanging out in what was once the nursery attached to the master bedroom. We took turns sitting in a chair alone in the nursery, and a figure appeared on our SLS camera. 

Our team was small, so we each got our own bedroom to sleep in that night. As I crawled into bed, I realized disembodied voices were whispering from the hallway. The voices were low, too soft to discern what they were saying, but the spirited conversation went on until I fell asleep. It sounds bizarre to say, but I slept extremely well that night. 

On my second trip to Asher Walton, the team immediately ventured up into the nursery. Once again a figure appeared on our SLS camera, standing beside several team members as they took turns sitting alone in the small room. Having this phenomena repeat a second time was exciting enough, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what we experienced at the end of the night. 

Feeling collectively exhausted, the team was winding down for the night. We decided to end the evening by having an impromptu seance in the dining room. Kelly, the leader of our paranormal team, elected to go into the closet beneath the stairs so we could conduct an Estes Method session. 

During this exchange, which was thankfully recorded, we had the opportunity to speak with two different spirits. One, a female, seemed connected in some way to the house itself. The second spirit was a man named Ed, who had actually been popping up at every location the team had investigated for the last five months. For whatever reason Ed seemed to like us and had been following us around, crossing multiple state lines in the process. 

Both of these spirits asked for help crossing over. Throughout all of my experiences and previous investigations, this was a new experience for me. Ed, who seemed to possess both Jewish and Christian beliefs expressed fear and doubt about feeling safe to cross over. We reassured Ed he had nothing to worry about, that he would be welcomed on the other side. Ed’s wife then came through, prepared to cross over with him. It would seem that she had been waiting for him to be ready to do so, together. We helped these spirits seek the other side. Afterward, Ed came through to thank us and to inform us to tell Kelly to “get out of the closet.” We took this as a sign that our assistance was no longer needed. 

We gathered round and watched the video playback of the entire exchange immediately after. The back and forth conversation was so concrete, so clearly a conversation with spirits, that I would happily provide the video as proof to any skeptic I encounter in my life. It is sure to change their minds.