Allisonville Road is one of the oldest roads in the area. My dad used to joke that it was once a dinosaur trail. While that claim is obviously questionable, Allisonville Road has indeed been traveled for centuries.
In the early 2000s, a local newspaper ran an article about an old house by a stoplight on Allisonville Road. The house, it claimed, was haunted. Back in the early 1800s, that section of the road dipped low near the house. Robbers were said to lurk among the trees, robbing and sometimes murdering innocent travelers. According to legend, the spirits of those victims still haunt the area.
As a skeptical sixteen-year-old, I brushed the story off. Still, every time I drove by that stoplight (especially at night), I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off. The road had long since been leveled, so it no longer dipped, but that particular stretch always seemed to hold a strange energy. It was almost always foggy, and whenever I did have to stop, I would feel goosebumps tingling all over my body. I couldn’t help but feel watched.
Was it just my imagination fueled by the article? Probably. Or was there something about that place, like a lingering energy, that made it feel so eerie?
The area is called Heady Hollow in Fishers. The nearby Heady Lane family cemetery, now part of the Sunblest Neighborhood, dates back to 1812 and contains the oldest known grave marker in Hamilton County (Masoni).
Drive past that area late at night, and if you have to stop, I guarantee you’ll feel the chill, too.
Thinking back on this haunted spot from my teenage years made me wonder about other ghostly places in Hamilton County.
There’s the infamous Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield. In the 1980s, Herb Baumeister murdered at least two dozen people and buried their remains in the woods behind his home (Ryckaert). The property still stands today, its grounds brushing up against the Monon Trail. Whenever I pass that section of the trail, I feel the same goosebumps and creeping unease that Heady Hollow gave me. Again, is it just the knowledge of what happened there? Or something else?
There’s also the Phantom of Plum Street in Noblesville. As the story goes, a woman named Etta Crusemire died of tuberculosis in 1898. Not long after, her ghost was reportedly seen at her former home, terrifying neighbors and drawing national attention (Senisse).
Hamilton County may seem like a quiet, modern suburb, but if you look closely, the past still lingers. Sometimes in history books, sometimes in old cemeteries, and sometimes, maybe, in the shadows along the road at night.
Sources
Masoni, Laura. “Fishers Frights: Heady Hollow.” City of Fishers, 24 Oct. 2023. fishersin.gov/fishers-frights-heady-hollow/. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
Ryckaert, Vic. “Here’s What We Know about Notorious Indiana Serial Killer Herbert Baumeister.” WRTV Indianapolis, 28 Nov. 2022. wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/heres-what-we-know-about-notorious-indiana-serial-killer-herbert-baumeister.
Senisse, Jane. “The Plum Street Ghost.” Hamilton East Public Library Website, 17 Oct. 2024. hamiltoneastpl.org/the-plum-street-ghost/. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
