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Haunting Endeavor: Nicole and Michael Kobrowski Explore the Unexplained
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ENDEAVOR The Kobrowskis started participating in ghost tours on Halloween in 2001, formally incorporating Unseenpress.com, Inc. at that time. Their tours, known as Historic Nicole and Michael Kobrowski Explore friends’ could be a murderess, but there is strong evidence to suggest that she was, regardless of never being charged with the history from their extensive research and a healthy dose of ghost-related content. Tours are currently scheduled in downtown the Unexplained crime,” says Nicole, who loves scary movies and has watched Sammy Terry, a television Indianapolis, Westfield and Noblesville. Writer / Kara Kavensky horror host, since she was a child. “As the crowds grew over the past couple Photography Provided decades in Broad Ripple, we had to curb During the 1970s and 1980s, it was not our walking tours due to the size of our tour The official website for Unseenpress.com, uncommon to have someone committed groups and the massive number of people Inc. touts “Real Ghosts. Real History. Real to an asylum if they claimed to see out and about in the Broad Ripple Village,” Indiana.” Co-owners Nicole Kobrowski and ghosts. Although Nicole grew up in an Michael says. her husband Michael are partners in the alleged haunted house, it was not a topic unique business of ghosts, and many people of conversation. Much later she and her Some parts of Broad Ripple are tied to stories have engaged in their haunted tours, haunted sisters all experienced events she says were of hauntings including Broad Ripple Park, overnight experiences, and consultation suspicious and inexplicable. Nicole says the The Monkey’s Tale, Butler University, the services for help with supposed unwanted family who now lives in that home claims to Indiana School for the Blind, Crown Hill spirits and entities. experience various oddities different from Cemetery and Broad Ripple Brewpub. what Nicole and her sisters experienced. Indiana Ghost Walks and Tours, combine Nicole has been fascinated by the One local story includes a little girl supernatural since she was a child. She Nicole met Michael online during the supposedly seen on the swings at Broad describes a Scholastic book she read as a early days of the internet. They engaged in Ripple Park. Historical reports indicate child that featured the alleged ax murderer conversation in a ghost-themed chat room. that a young girl died in a roller coaster Lizzie Borden. Michael was in Germany at the time, and accident when the park was home to a large Nicole followed her heart and moved to amusement park more than 100 years ago. “I couldn’t imagine that someone who Europe for five years before the two of them Legend has it that on a still day with no donated the bulk of their estate to ‘furry moved to the Indianapolis area. wind, a swing was moving. The girl has been
reported as visible in either a plain or floral dress, with ankle socks and Mary Jane shoes.
Further back in the park, at the river’s edge, a canoe of Native American traders has supposedly been seen paddling by.
According to another local legend, in the early 1900s two boys were fishing in the Millersville Road footbridge area across from the Indiana State Fairgrounds, and one of the boys fell in the water. People have claimed to see the boy on the bridge and hear him splashing into the water. During a bus tour several people were reported to have felt ill at the location, including Nicole, and one person passed out upon claiming to have experienced a vision of the drowning event.
The Kobrowskis also offer their help to people who claim their homes are haunted. For investigations, they heavily vet the homeowners with a questionnaire. They believe homeowners should attempt to communicate with any spirits they claim are inhabiting a house, and try to let any alleged spirits know whether they are welcome or not.
Depending on the homeowners’ personal beliefs or needs, Nicole may direct them to their pastor or minister, or other types of investigators and cleansers.
For overnight investigations and private home consultations, the Kobrowskis use professional gear for data collection, including thermal cameras and temperature gauges as well as photography equipment.
Nicole and Michael have authored fourteen books and are currently collaborating on another. Titles include “Encyclopedia of Haunted Indiana,” “Fractured Intentions” (which focuses on Central State Hospital in Indianapolis), and “Betti Meets a Ghost,” which is for kids. They also created “The Big Lizzie Borden Coloring Book,” which is for adults and contains historical information. The couple is currently working on two ghosts books and a psychological thriller set in Indiana.
The Kobrowskis’ books are available on Amazon.com and unseenpress.com, which includes a calendar of walking tours, store, contact page and more.
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