Martini Farm
The Martini Farm was the original home of Roberto and Rachel Martini as well as the location of the Teen Massacres of 1995.
Originally an unoccupied chunk of land located past the outskirts of New Prairie. It was bought by Roberto Martini in 1925. A farmhouse and a few sheds were built on the land by Roberto and his wife, Rachel. Farmed and maintained until the two vanished in 1930. Stood abandoned for nearly 25 years. Said by locals to be haunted. Numerous reports and sightings of a figure dressed entirely in black wandering around the farm at dusk.
In 1954, the farm was bought by a city man from Green Bay named Joseph Hartley who wanted to learn farming. He had no prior knowledge of the rumors surrounding the Dark Killer, as the man in black had become known. Despite warnings from the reality company that owned the land, Hartley still proceeded and took up residence on the farm. While moving in, the moving men claimed to hear voices and things flying across the room. Dumping the rest of the stuff in the courtyard, they took off and left the man to finish it himself. The overconfident homeowner ignored the late-night moaning and occasional flashes of faces looking in the windows.
The people of New Prairie couldn’t believe Hartley was staying, and when they saw him, he seemed perfectly normal, as if there was nothing wrong with the farm after all. Though as the months continued on, people saw less and less of him, and they noticed that he seemed to buy odd items when in town. In the summer of 1955, a few teens wrecked their vehicle a short distance from the farm. Their car was found in a ditch, half a mile away, but they themselves vanished until one of them showed up at the police station in 1958, wearing the same outfit he was last seen in before disappearing.
In 1995, the farm was the setting for a teen massacre that Sarah Cole was convicted of doing herself and sent to Rhenderelli Asylum.