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- If there was ever a place

that there would be
paranormal activity,

it would be fox hollow farm.

[Resounding boom]

- If investigators are right,

Herbert baumeister, a
Hamilton county businessman,

was a serial killer.

- I am the biggest skeptic.

[Camera clicks]

[Electricity crackling]

- [Yelps]

- But it felt like
someone was there.

- I saw someone.

[Dog barking]

- There's stuff going
on that I can't explain.

[Doorknob rattling]

- Who is there?

[Wood splintering]

- I had the sensation to run.

[Dog barking]

I was running for my life.

[Blade scraping]

- True fear.

True panic.

- [Wails]

- I was scared to death.

- [Screams]

[Eerie whooshing]

[Birds chirping]

[Wind chimes ringing]

[Haunting music]

- 4... 40...

- 44212.

[Murmurs indistinctly]

- Getting close.

[Blinker ticking]

- Oh, yes. There's the sign.

- Yeah. Oh, good, good, good.

Okay, we're here.

- In 2006, we decided
we needed more space.

- Hi, there, are you
here for fox hollow farm?

- Ah, yeah. Rob graves.

- Everyone loves a good deal.

And on outwards
appearance, it was a great deal,

and it was a steal, actually.

[Lock clicking]

[Gate creaks]

♪ ♪

- I really wanted a
change from city life

and from having
neighbors close by...

Somewhere we could
just be ourselves.

- My goodness.
Is that the house?

- The first time that
we saw the house,

it was very impressive.

Just the way that
the property is laid out

and the architecture
of the home,

it's just... it's beautiful.

- And here we have an
800-square-foot room,

great place for
entertaining your guests.

- Wow.

- It was breathtaking.

You walk into the home;

you walk into the living room,

and you want to stay.

- Another feature
that the house had

was a swimming pool.

It's a large swimming
pool, 18x36 feet.

- I was thinking
to myself, "wow.

"I can't believe that you
could actually buy a home

that you have a swimming
pool in your basement."

It's like, how cool is that?

- So you guys follow me,

and I'll show you the rest.

- Fox hollow farm
is a beautiful house.

It's in a very
desirable location.

It's a desirable property,
but no one's living here.

You just start to ask yourself,

"what... what's going on?"

[Eerie whooshing noises]

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

- [Sighs]

- It started to dawn on me

that this might be a property

that I had remembered
hearing about

in the local news some time ago.

- Oh, uh, this place...

- So I asked the realtor,

"is this in fact the place
where herb baumeister lived?"

He said, "yes, that's why
it was such a good deal."

[Electronic beep]

- It took years to
unravel the mystery,

but investigators
say they now know

who killed nine young
men, ages 16 to 30.

- A small army of investigators

blanketed the normally
tranquil fox hollow farm.

- After detectives dug up
the remains of seven men

buried on the wooded estate.

- The feeling of
everybody right now is that

one person did all these crimes.

- And that person is...

- Herb baumeister.

- Want to go out
to see the grounds?

- Uh, yeah, sure.

This is herb baumeister's house.

- Vicki and I walked away

and just talked amongst
ourselves for a moment.

And I said, "could
you live here?

Would it bother you?"

And initially, she
said, "I don't know."

- See, there's the apartment
above the barn, uh...

- It's really big.

- I'm a medical
laboratory scientist,

so I worked in a
hospital all of my career.

[Men speaking indistinctly]

Death and dying
is part of living.

It's part of life.

But when you go into a home

where you know people
have lost their lives,

you just feel kind of different.

[Door rattling open]

[Wood creaking]

[Wind whistling]

- Honey?
- Oh!

- Oh, sorry.

Wow. It's dark in here, huh?

Come on.

- Rob and I talked about
the impact on our family

from living in a home, you know,

that had once been
owned by a serial killer.

A lot of people live in homes
where people have passed away,

and they may not even know
it when they buy the home.

You know, at least we
knew this going into it.

- Whoa!

[Laughter]

- All right.
- Ah.

- Boys!

Come for dinner!

- Coming!

[Swing creaking]

[Water splashing softly]

- We have two teenage boys

that love to use the pool.

There was a lot of gravel
that had been tracked in,

and I thought, "I really
need to vacuum this."

[Clicking]

[Vacuum whirring]

I'm starting to suck
up some gravel.

[Whirring slows, stops]

All of a sudden,
the vacuum turns off.

It's like, "oh,
great. I pulled it.

You know, I've unplugged
it from the extension cord."

So I plug it back in.

[Click]

[Whirring resumes]

[Whirring slows, stops]

And the vacuum turns off again.

So I stand up. I look.

And this time, the
cord's pulled apart,

and it's about 12 inches apart,

and they're just laying there.

And I'm thinking to myself,

"this is really odd."

Because I know that
I didn't pull it apart.

[Click]

[Whirring resumes]

[Loud popping]

- Oh!

- It... it just kind
of... It startled me.

- [Exhales]

- The hairs on the back
of my neck just stood up.

It was definitely a
unsettling presence there.

It felt like someone was there,

and it felt like someone
didn't want me there.

- I work at a car dealership,

and Joe had just
come to work with us.

[Delicate piano music]

- I met Rob at
the car dealership

where we work,

and he and I were
pretty good buddies.

- He was chronically late.

He couldn't get to work on time,

and I said, "why?"

- Sorry.
[Chuckles]

- What's the problem?

- [Sighs] Traffic's just insane.

- It was taking me a long time

to get to my new
job from where I lived.

It was 55 minutes away.

So I decided to
find a new apartment

on the north side of town.

- You know, Vicki
and I have a...

- I offered a solution
to his commute.

I said that we have an
apartment at the house

that no one's using.

- So why don't you
come check it out?

- Really?
- Yeah, really.

- Rob told me about...
Briefly about the history.

He didn't hide anything from me,

but he didn't tell me
a lot about it either.

But it didn't really
affect me much.

All the things that were there

at the time during the murders

has all, since
then, been gutted.

So, like, all the bad
things were all gone.

[Car horn honking]

So the day came when I moved in.

And we're unloading
all the trucks

into the apartment,

putting boxes down.

- That's fine. Wherever.

- I thought it was
a beautiful place,

and I thought it
would be a great fit

for my dog, Fred, and I.

- [Sighs] Okay.

Oh, man... [Fred barks]

- Whoa.
[Chuckles]

- Oh, jeez.

- Are we done?

- We're done, yes.

- Once we finally got
everything... last piece moved in,

I was just relieved.

- Okay, I'll see you later.

- Okay. Thanks, Rob.

- I was very, very tired

and sat down
and just fell asleep.

I was so exhausted.

[Leaves rustling]

I don't remember most
of my dreams, usually,

but this one, I did.

[Twigs snapping,
leaves rustling]

I had the sensation to run.

I felt like something
was chasing me.

I was running from
something bad.

I was running for my life.

- Run!

- I got up to run...

- [Grunts]

- And smashed
into the doorframe.

[Glass shatters]

I just fell to my face,

and I just laid there
in so much pain.

- [Grunts]

- There were shards
of glass everywhere,

and I got it into my fingers.

- [Wincing]

[Fluttering]

- I don't know what
I was running from,

but I had the sensation to
get out of there right away.

[Wind chimes ringing]

- Rob?

Rob, I'm home.

[Wind chimes ringing]

Rob?

Oh!

- Hey.

- You scared the
daylights out of me.

- I was on the ladder, painting,

and Vicki came home from work,

and I think she was impressed

by the amount of
painting I had gotten done.

- I was looking at the work
that he had done and...

[Eerie whooshing noises]

Something sort of caught my eye.

I saw someone standing there.

I realized that this
guy's got a red t-shirt on,

and I thought, "well, it
could be a trespasser."

He had his back to me,

and he was slowly walking away.

And then I realized I
couldn't see his legs.

And then suddenly,
he just disappeared

into the tree.

My heart just started
beating really hard,

because I'm
thinking, "oh, my gosh.

"This person just disappeared

right in front of my eyes."

- Vicki?

What's wrong?

- I saw someone.

- My first thought was,

"it's one of these
serial killer groupies."

[Leaves rustling]

Unfortunately, it's a
hazard of living in a house

where, you know,
a serial killer lived.

- We went over to the spot
right where he disappeared,

and, you know, I was
looking over Rob's shoulders.

There's nothing there,

absolutely nothing.

- Whoever it was,
honey, he's gone.

- This is all very
unfamiliar territory.

I am the biggest
skeptic, you know?

I am a scientist.

You have to prove things to me.

But I guarantee you,

I saw what I saw.

[Crickets chirping]

[Fred panting]

[Indistinct chatter on TV]

- I'd been living there
for about a week.

It was probably about
8:45, 9:00 at night,

and I was washing
a couple dishes.

- [Over television] Hey,
nobody ever asked you...

[Knocking]

- All of a sudden, I
heard a knock on the door.

- Just a minute.

- I grabbed a towel.

I still had my hands wet,

and I dried off my hands.

[Knocking]

And meanwhile, the
door is still knocking.

- Be right there.

[Knocking]

[Fred barks and growls]

Just a minute.

Take it easy.

- I opened the
door, opened it wide.

There was no one there.

- Hello?

- I looked out,

did not see anyone at
the bottom of the staircase.

I looked over the balcony,
didn't see anyone there.

Didn't know who would
have knocked on the door.

[Lock clicking]

I kind of paused
to gather myself.

I actually didn't
feel too comfortable.

And I just felt like there
was something watching me.

But I couldn't see anything.

[Television static crackling]

[Door creaking]

[Fred barks and growls]

[Fred snarls]

Then all of a sudden,
something caught my eye.

It was like a light
wisp of something.

[Dramatic music]

♪ ♪

So I looked back
into the bedroom.

[Music swells]

[Music stops]

[Crickets chirping]

I saw nothing.

[Fred whimpering]

- Did you see
something too, boy?

[Static crackling]

- After what Vicki had seen,

I became concerned
for everyone's safety,

so we installed a
closed-circuit television system.

[Static crackling]

We put cameras on the
barn facing the house,

one on the back side,

one at the front door,

and one at the back door.

The cameras are on all the time.

And we can watch them
from the kitchen on a monitor.

[Static crackling]

- Here you go, Freddy.

Let's go.

[Light clicks on]

- It was about three weeks

after I had moved
into the house,

and what I had
been doing at night,

on clear nights, I would
take my dog, Fred, with me

and walk up and
down the driveway.

[Branch snaps]

I hear this noise
coming from the woods.

[Fred barking]

Fred actually stopped,

and his ears are perked up.

[Branch snaps]

I look down at him,

and he's making
quiet growling noises.

[Fred barking and growling]

- Fred, come on, buddy.

Let's, uh... let's go back.

[Fred barking]

- And then my dog
took off running.

So I looked around to
see what he was looking at.

[Fred barking]

I saw this... this man,

this man in a red shirt.

[Fred barking]

- Fred!

- He's walking into the trees,

and he walked in
front of two of them,

and then he just faded
away and disappeared.

[Fred barking]

- Fred!

[Gasping softly]

- I was fearful to
go in the woods

where this man was.

I thought, "is he
a bad person or..."

I didn't know what to think.

- [Panting]

Fred?

Come on, boy.

Got to go home.

[Fred barking]

Fred?

[Fred barking]

[Panting]

[Shouting]

- I saw the guy in the red shirt

for the second time.

- [Gasping]

- I focused right on this man.

- [Screaming]

[Screaming echoes]

[Fred barking]

- [Screaming]

- He... he was kind of
standing right about there, right?

And then he turned, and
he walked into the woods,

kind of, like, striding,
like this, you know,

like with a purpose.

- Red t-shirt and...
- Yes.

- Everything that Joe described

was exactly the
person that I saw.

- Right up into these
woods, right about here.

This is where he...
This is where he...

Disappeared.

- We realized that we had
actually seen the same thing.

- There was no evidence
that anyone had been there,

and I'm thinking,
"okay, you know...

What's going on?"

[Crickets chirping]

[Static crackles]

[Wood creaking]

[Distant creaking]

[Knocking]

- [Gasps]

Hello?

- I woke up with
kind of a startling feel,

and I heard this knocking.

- Rob, is that you?

[Knocking]

[Rattling]

[Fred barks and growls]

Who's there?

[Knocking continues]

- I was calling out,
"what do you want?"

And I wasn't hearing
any sort of response back.

[Knocking continues]

- Who is that?

[Knocking]

- But it just kept going
on and on and on.

Knock, knock, knock, knock.

[Knocking and rattling]

- Who's doing that?

[Knocking and
rattling continues]

- You can feel the vibration,

and you can actually feel

the wooden panels
vibrating inside the door.

[Knocking and rattling]

- Who's there?

Who is that?

- There was no one there.

- [Panting]

- But the door knocker
was still horizontal.

- [Panting]

Bang!

- And then it fell and
knocked one last time.

And that just scared
the hell out of me.

- Who's there?

- I looked around.

All the lights were
off on the house,

at Rob and Vicki's house.

There was no one awake.

I didn't hear any footsteps
of anyone running away,

which I would have hear
'cause it was silent that night.

I didn't know what to think.

[Soft whirring]

[Whirring]

[Skids and stops]

I couldn't see what was
out beyond the lights,

and I just felt like there
was something watching me.

I shut the door.

I locked the dead bolt.

- Hey. Hey, Fred.

It's okay. You're okay.

- And then the strangest
thing happened.

My dog, Fred, he
starts growling at me.

[Fred barking]

[Metal squeaking]

And I heard what sounded
like the doorknob turning.

[Squeaking]

As the doorknob started to turn,

you'd hear...

[Squeaking]

[Creaking]

And you'd hear the
spring compressing,

which just made this
horrific "errr" sound.

[Metallic creaking]

And then it...

It stopped turning.

Bang!

[Wood splintering]

- Bang.

The door flew open and
slammed into the wall,

and wood chips went
flying all over the apartment.

- Who's there?

[Footsteps pattering]

- I saw this man.

- [Shrieks]

[Fred barking]

- He had a complete
look of terror on his face.

- [Shrieks]

- You could just tell he
was running for his life.

He was breathing heavy.

I mean, he was trying to
get away from somebody.

[Wood creaks]

I've never seen
anything like it in my life.

- [Shrieks]

- I honestly think that I saw

one of herb baumeister's victims

running for their lives.

[Wood splintering]

I think I see the victims

because they're trying
to get our attention

to help them find closure.

They're seeking our assistance.

- Let's look at this stuff here.

I found all this...

- The first person I
told was actually Vicki.

- Oh, wow.

- We started researching
more about the victims,

about everything that
was found on the property,

and we started becoming
a lot more interested

in the investigation.

- [Sighs]

- We had called a
local news station

to get some of the
footage of the news stories

that I didn't remember
even seeing back in 1996.

[Static crackles]

- They had been in the
woods for 16 months.

The bones discovered
in June of 1996

contain the DNA
identities of 11 victims;

only 8 are identified.

- Investigators
say all the victims

were young, white, and had
ties in the gay community.

An informant told
Indianapolis police

that herb baumeister...

- They started showing
photographs of the victims.

- Missing person
they were looking for...

- And then one particular
photograph popped up.

- Oh, my god.

[Stammering]

That was the guy. Pause it.

[Grunts] Give me that.

- What guy?

- That guy.

- And then I realized...

- [Shrieking]

- That's the young person
that runs through my apartment.

That is the person.

Without a doubt,
that is the person.

- Really?
- Yes.

Vicki, that is the guy I
saw in my apartment.

- But we have not
reached the end of it.

There still might be
some information out there

that might take
this investigation

a little bit further.

- The police found
5,500 bone fragments

on the property.

We all know that
there's more out there.

- Fred! Come on, buddy!

Let's go!

- Living in a place like that,

you're out in the
woods, walking around,

and you're near the areas
where they found a lot of bones.

You can't help but think
about herb baumeister

and the victims.

I'm not really sure what
made me look to the left,

but I just happened
to glance that direction,

and something caught my eye.

It was just laying on the ground

like I was meant to find it.

At that point, I think it really
did start to make sense.

- The new Italian restaurant...

I think we should take the boys.

- Oh, okay.
- You know?

- Sure.

- It was a Sunday night.

Vicki and I had just
come home from dinner.

- You think they'd
like Italian, honey?

- Oh, pbbt. I think
the boys like to eat.

- They'll eat anything...
- [gasps]

- I found something.

I found something.

- Joe met us in the driveway,

and he said, "I
found something."

- Where did you find that?

- You could tell it
was a human bone.

- That's a femur.

- You sure?

- No, it's definitely human.

- I was surprised at

how good a condition
the bone was in,

and then when Joe
told me that he found it

just laying on the ground,

I was amazed.

- Just lying there, Rob,

like I was meant to find it.

- It was found
sort of in the area

where we saw the
guy in the red shirt.

And maybe this was
what he was leading us to.

- I'll report it to the police
first thing in the morning.

- I felt the need

to get the person
that was actually there,

so I contacted the lead
detective on the case,

and he agreed to come out

and show us where things
had actually taken place.

- The baumeister investigation

was one of the largest
cases we've ever had.

- I remember this place.

- It was a big part
of my life at that time.

I found the place
to be disturbing

not only in '96,

but it brought those
disturbing feelings back to me.

- Yeah.

In our investigations,
we found that...

- He told me how herb baumeister

had selected his victims
from gay bars downtown,

that he would offer
to bring them up

for a swim in the
indoor swimming pool.

- As I was looking around,
it was like I was back in '96.

Mr. Baumeister had
mannequins around the pool

in various poses.

[Camera shutter clicking]

It just seemed weird.

It seemed like a setup

to lure his victims there.

We surmised that Mr. Baumeister

had gained control
over his victims

by the use of either
alcohol and/or drugs...

[Camera shutter clicking]

Brought them into the pool,

asked them to participate
in autoerotic asphyxia,

and then killed these
individuals by strangulation.

[Camera clicking]

His victims probably
thought it was cool.

It's kind of like a spa.

In fact, it was
a killing ground.

It was a trap.

[Screams echoing]

At the end,

when everything
was coming to light,

Mr. Baumeister killed himself

with a gunshot
wound to the head.

[Gunshot]

- [Laughs]
- Oh, my goodness.

- All right.

Incoming!

- A friend of mine,
Jeremy, came over,

and he's been wanting
to see the house

and get a tour of the
house for quite some time.

- Oh, sure.
- Oh, yeah!

- This was the
first time I had been

to visit Joe at his apartment.

It was about 6:00.

It was dark outside.

- We're just having fun,

you know, just playing
around with the kids.

- [Gasps] Blah!

- Oh! Oh, man!

- Nice.

- That is disgusting.

- We were actually
picking up the large beetles

that were dead in
the bottom of the pool.

- Okay, here we go.
They're down here.

- I'll get 'em for you.
- That's disgusting.

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

- [Laughs]

Yes! There you go.

I got one right here.

- All of a sudden, I felt
this sensation on my neck.

[Distant screaming]

- I first thought...

I thought it was
one of the boys.

[Laughter]

But I saw them in the
opposite end of the pool,

and I realized that
it was not them.

[Water splashing]

I just felt these...
These fingers.

And I felt like I
was being choked.

- [Gasping and coughing]

- I turn and look at him,

and he puts his
hands up to his neck.

- [Gasping]

- Pure panic just
comes over his face.

It was not fake.

Joe and I joke
around all the time.

He was not joking whatsoever.

- Joe, are you okay?

- Boys, Jeremy, out. Let's go.

Out. Everybody out.

Come on.
- Why?

- We're getting... let's go.

We can't be in there anymore.

Come on, let's go. Out.

Get out! Go on, guys!

- True fear. True panic.

He wanted to leave.

- [Coughing]

- There's no
question of what I felt.

I mean, I was scared to death.

[Knocking]

- Joe, you okay in there?

What's going on,
man? Are you okay?

- I couldn't help but think

of herb baumeister
and his victims,

and I had kind of a picture

of what the victims
were going through

their last final
moments in life,

and that was just
rather frightening.

- [Over television] Are
certain the same man

killed all nine victims.

All were discovered
in or near...

- I was in my apartment
over by my front door

where my computer is.

[Wings flutter]

[Scraping and clattering]

All of a sudden, I
heard a scraping sound,

a metallic scraping.

And then I noticed
something strange on the wall.

And there was actually
these knife marks...

Multiple knife marks

that go across the wall.

And now I'm thinking, you know,

that someone could have
been murdered or stabbed

in my kitchen right
next to the sink.

It's actually quite horrifying

because the stuff that's
happened in the past,

potentially, some of it

actually happened
in my living quarters.

And there potentially
is still someone in here.

[Dramatic music]

We've all seen all
these ghost hunter shows

and how they go
around investigating

with voice recorders
and so forth.

So I had my telephone;

it has a great
voice recorder on it.

I turned that on,

and I turned off the a.C.

I unplugged the
refrigerator, the TV.

Everything that could
potentially make a noise

was off.

- Is anyone here
with me right now?

- I felt extremely
silly doing this,

but I really wanted to
see if anything was there.

[Floorboard creaks]

And when I was standing
there in the kitchen,

I asked this question.

- Is there anyone here?

[Soft whooshing sounds]

- There was
absolutely no response.

[Fred barking]

At that point, my dog started
growling in the background.

[Fred barking]

That was a big sign to me.

Is anyone here with us tonight?

Who keeps walking
in the kitchen?

[Muffled murmuring]

[Fred barking]

All of a sudden,
I heard a sound.

[Recording whirring in reverse]

So I listened to it again...

[Muffled murmuring]

And again...

[Muffled murmuring]

And again.

[Muffled murmuring]

[Louder indistinct murmuring]

[Feedback screeches]

And then I hear this
voice, which is so clear...

"The married one."

- "The married one."

Without a doubt, this
voice was not mine.

I've never heard
that voice before.

It was no question that
something was trying

to let me know
that they were there.

- The married one.

[Feedback screeches]

- Victims have been found.

All the victims were
young, single men

with ties...

- single men who were
vulnerable members of society.

[Indisinct speech]

- The man responsible

is a well-respected husband,

father, and businessman.

- Suspected married businessman.

- Suspected married...
- Married.

- Married.
- Herbert baumeister.

- I was convinced
that herb was back.

[Static crackles]

[Electronic beep]

- The crime tape
came down today,

but investigators
wonder what other secrets

Herbert baumeister took with him

to the grave.

[Camera clicks]

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- Everyone that's
owned the property since

has really tried to
distance themselves

from this whole history,

when, in fact, you'll
never get away from it.

It's always gonna be that place.

- If herb baumeister's
spirit came after my boys,

I would take action right away,

and I would leave.

I'm not gonna stay somewhere

and put the family at risk.

- I don't think we'll ever
get rid of herb baumeister.

He's far too strong
of a presence.

But if we can keep
him out of the apartment

and the house... from Rob
and Vicki and the two boys...

I'd feel very good about that.