The legend is passed down from visitor to visitor, and the legend I will be telling will be the one I was told on my first visit to the house.
"The Heimberger House was built in the early 1800's, before slavery was abolished, which was in 1865 with the Emancipation Proclamation. The house was owned by a family who unfortunately owned slaves, slaves that they treated horribly. The slaves tended to the crops, two large cornfields that still yield huge stalks of corn today, in front of, and next to the house. For years, the family mistreated the people forced to serve them, until one day, the family vanished. They had grown tired of their people telling them that having the slaves was wrong, and the way they treated them was inhumane. They picked up all of their belongings, save a piano, and the stove, and left. But before they left, the father found the eldest slave, a man, in the field taking care of the corn. After finding him, he shot and killed him. The father ran inside where he found another person he called his slave, coming up the basement stairs to see what the noise was. He shot her in her tracks, leaving her to die on the stairs, alone. And last, he killed the mother of the girl he killed on the stairs. He found her standing in the dining room, looking out the window. Legend says she didn't turn to look her killer in the eye, she knew what was going to happen, and did not want the last thing she saw to be the man that had kidnapped her, ruined her life, and killed her family. Instead, she gazed out the window at the peaceful scene of grass and a beautiful sunset. Those were the last things she saw. It is said that the family that were once slaves, stayed in the house, and can still be seen taking care of the corn that rises every year, walking through the home, and playing the piano that has managed to have been tipped over some years ago. There are now other houses built near it, but at a safe distance. In the photos of this website, you'll see that no other houses are too close to this house. People are wary, and do no want to disturb the people resting their souls."
