Casio's Restaurant

 I listened to a couple of the ladies involved in your organization a few weeks ago on WZPL.  I am writing to see if your group has ever investigated what used to be Casio's restaurant or the old Plantation Club as it was known in the 1920's.  I worked at the restaurant about 10 years ago and had an 'interesting thing' happen.  I say interesting thing because up until a few weeks ago I didn't believe in ghost.  I have always thought there is some scientific explanation for what we humans 'think' are ghost. (i say that even though i am certain i saw a ghost as a child living in a 100 year + old home in Oaklandon Indiana growing up...but that's a different story, a story i passed off as a child's imagination run wild) Anyway, during the winter of  1990 I worked in the coat check at Casio's it was a freezing cold night and with only a thin dress on and no heater in the old place it was always terribly cold in there.  But I made really good tips and it was worth it...one night though while in the coat check I felt the room get hot, fast, I mean with in less than a minute I'm certain it was every bit of ...I don't know it got hot fast, like a burst of heat you might feel when you walk outside into the heat on a hot summer day after being inside the air conditioning, that kind of hot.  Then I heard a knock on the coat check door (three quick knocks)...I went to the door and nobody was there.  Thinking it was one of my coworkers or my brother (who worked in the kitchen) I passed it off as a prank, one that no one ever fessed up to, even after I asked everyone.  The owners (Mike and Donni Nickerson) joked that there were ghosts there, and this other girl said she ha! s seen one there late at night once....I of course didn't believe in them so that was the end of that, basically.

Then I picked up a book one day about Indiana myths, legends and history "Haunted Hoosier Trails"  I get to the story about the Plantation Club, and I must admit to you I cried.  The legend has it that a couple of murders took place there, one of the stories is that a young woman was murdered by her husband...in the cloak room.  I cried because I wondered what this person was trying to tell me, or why I felt what I did. After reading the story I also felt like the cowardly lion chanting, I do believe in spooks, I do I do I do believe in spooks.

I am just wondering if your organization has any info to back this story up.  Don't get me wrong, I believe what I felt.  I just am looking for more information about the spirit that I felt that night. I really want to know about this girl, and I'd love to sort out which month it was this took place....I will really freak if it was around Christmas and new years I think I've narrowed it down to about then. They only ran the coat check on busy nights and I was definitely in there on New Year's Eve.

On a side note, a high school friend of mine took some pictures at the restaurant a few months back, before it closed, she says that there are smokey white spirit looking 'things' in the pictures.

Elaine