The year was 1746. The place - Tobinsport, Indiana. Reverend Michael Carr accepted his first assignment in the local Methodist Church in 1746 and later married his long time sweetheart, Miss Alice Merriweather. Everything seemed alright in the world for the new Mrs. Carr until the night of October 30th, 1747, the first anniversary of their marriage. Alice began to see and hear strange things in her new home; animals were mutilated, local children began to disappear and her husband had become someone she no longer knew. He had become obsessed with the occult. He knew he could exorcise the demons of his parrishoners if he could just understand what they were. The morning after their first anniversary, Halloween, Reverend Carr went to the local magistrate to report that his wife had taken her own life by hanging herself from a tree on the trail leading to their home. After some investigation, the magistrate concluded that Alice had disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again. Some say that if you visit Chappel House today, you can still see Alice swinging from the 'Hanging Tree', you can hear the screams and crys of those who have disappeared and you can even hear Alice's haunting words being whispered through the trees, "Go away, if you enter here, you too will become a victim of Chappel House"!

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