On the night of June 9, 1912, the six members of the Moore family and two house guests were bludgeoned to death in the residence.

[2] Presumably overwhelmed by the work needed to keep the property from being condemned, the Spragues approached local real estate agent, Darwin Linn, about buying it a couple months later.

[3] They removed vinyl siding and undertook the painstaking efforts of restoring and repainting the original exterior wood.

[6] The Linns opened the house to the public for the first time in the late 1990s, offering daytime tours and overnight stays.

Their tours included a colorful narrative of the era, an overview of the murders and the subsequent controversy the town found itself embroiled in.

They found the process almost impossible due to the high number of renters who abandoned it after short periods of time, sometimes just a couple of weeks.

In the 1960s, for example, local lore says a man who was in the kitchen preparing dinner who reportedly saw a flash of light, went into a daze and woke up with the knife stuck in his hand.

[3] On November 7, 2014, a 37 year old guest and amateur paranormal investigator from Rhinelander, Wisconsin was staying at the house when he stabbed himself in the downstairs room where the Stillinger sisters slept at the time of the murders.