In the 1980s, there was a last attempt at renovating the house after being bought by Raymond Bober. Raymond and his wife, Marie, planned to turn the old mansion into a restaurant and inn. It was a scenic location and they were clueless of their daughter's, Ginger Hinshaw, experience. Despite Ginger's pleas for them not to go through with the purchase, Bober was stubborn.
In 1983, Will Pooley, a freelance writer, set out to discredit Bober's findings and said that if Raymond found the deed, it wasn't legit because the British government was not in favor of the individual purchase of Native American land but rather given land for their assistance. Also, the fact that the Sioux never claimed land east of the Mississippi; they were not one tribe but a nation of tribes, and were never in Wisconsin. The other side of that coin is that Summerwind was build 130 years after Carver died. Even Herb Dickman, who helped pour the foundation, knew that nothing like a box was thrown in. To this day, it is unknown whether or not Bober even owned the land because the bank owned it & did not know what Bober was up to. In 1986, investigators thought they could renovate the place. That did not go in their favor. In the summer of 1988, the house was struck by lightening which burned down much of the house.
August 1914, while Mrs Mamah Borthwick Cheney's children visited, tragedy struck. Mrs. Cheny was a very stubborn woman who fired servants and staff members for the slightest offenses that seemed minor in the long run. One day, she fired a servant named "Barbados", he would return with gasoline and revenge on his mind. While Mrs. Cheney, her children, and some guests were having lunch, he poured gasoline around the two dining rooms they inhabited. He set the rooms ablaze just before running in and killing 7 of the 9 people with a hatchet, including Mrs. Cheney. When firefighters arrived, they rescued the two dying and badly burned victims to a cottage on the property named "Tan-Y-Deri". The female ghost of Mrs. Cheney, wearing a long, white dress, stays at the cottage as she roams around seemingly peaceful presence. Rather she is restless and frustrated as the doors and windows open and close on their own, and lights turning on and off.
Mrs. Gidding's fired her servant girl and Mary's father severly beat her and she tried to commit suicide by drowning herself in the local river but unfortunately for her, she was rescued. A high-standing doctor from Chicago was intrigued with her story. He studied her in a facility. What he discovered was that she sleepwalked & was "neurotic". Eventually after she was diagnosed and eventually cured, she was taken in by the doctor and his family.
Rumors of gas leak causing hallucinations arose but Wisconsin Power & Light Co did not find anything wrong. Tallmans thought the bunk beds were the problem & they buried them in a landfill.
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August 2017
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