Who am I?

How does a house become haunted? Does tragedy contain some dynamic energy that becomes trapped in the location? Even ghosts wonder about these questions, you know. Merbrink just wasn't able to hold onto the energy of tragedy and needed to share it with others. If you'll take a ghost's view of things, immense emotion has the power to take on a physical form.

During the 1920s many people saw the ghost of Merbrink. They recognized me as Miss Phebe, Chloe's old nanny. Merbrink had been built by my rich employer William H. Bruning in 1905 for his bride Nelle Cooper and then left empty suddenly when tragedy befell them again. They didn't marry (don't blame me for that - I scolded them about it) although they remained lovers. In fact, Nelle lived right up the hill in Winona Lake helping her mother Mary care for some world famous Swiss Terrace Inn. William visited every two weeks on his way from Evansville, Indiana to Brooklyn NY.

But none of those details tell you about the juicy part - Nelle and William's illegitimate daughter Chloe Ellen Cooper. This is where the immense emotions get hairy. The story of this child is told in the novel The Lost Chloe. For details, visit http://www.thelostchloe.com/