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The Pfeiffer House was built in 1905 as the Fort Wayne home of the Pfeiffer family and later became a restaurant. It enters the ghost record through a visit: Wanda Lou Willis came to the house in the course of collecting for her books and took its stories from Clark Valentine. The two incidents Fort Wayne Magazine carried out of that visit are small, domestic and oddly specific. A musical note was heard to sound with no one near the piano. A salt shaker moved of its own accord from the centre of a dining table and fell to the floor. No figure was seen, no name proposed; the house's haunting, in the telling Willis collected, is a matter of objects behaving badly in a dining room.
The directories have since supplied the ghost the original telling lacked. HauntedPlaces.org's entry for the house states that it "is said to be haunted by Fred Pfeiffer, who grew up in the house," that Fred Pfeiffer left for an assisted-living centre in 1989 and died in 1994, "only to return to his beloved home." The two versions are printed here side by side because their difference is the lesson: the collected telling (Willis, via Valentine) has incidents without an agent; the directory telling has an agent without incidents. Neither confirms the other, and no newspaper account of either has been located.
Sources: Fort Wayne Magazine, "Haunting tales" (October 2015), reporting Wanda Lou Willis's visit and Clark Valentine's accounts; HauntedPlaces.org, Indiana listings, "The Pfeiffer House" (house built 1905; Fred Pfeiffer tradition).