Paranormal record / 1987
Horicon, Wisconsin. 1987. A young family buys a second-hand wooden bunk bed set for $100 and puts it in their children's room. Then the house changes. A clock radio switches stations on its own. Doors slam. A chair rocks with no one in it. The children describe an ugly old woman with long black hair and a glow like fire. Their father, Allen Tallman, watches a fog rise from the bedroom floor and take the shape of flames, green eyes peering out. A voice says: "You're dead." On the night of January 11, 1988, the Tallmans fled. The beds went into a landfill. The mystery never did.
Horicon sits beside the Horicon Marsh in Dodge County, Wisconsin. On Larabee Street, a young family bought a ranch house built in 1984. Allen Tallman was a shift supervisor at a manufacturing company. Deborah stayed home with the children: Danny, about seven, and daughters whose names and ages vary between tellings. In 1987 they bought a wooden bunk bed set from a Horicon second-hand store. It cost $100.