The Roff Home Blog

Watseka Wonder Roff Home Reopens with Focus on Healing

The Roff Home — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:36:42 +0000

After closing for cleansing in November 2010, the Roff Home reopened on Feb.10, 2011, with a focus on the spiritual and emotional healing that is at the heart of the Watseka Wonder story.

Roff Home and Watseka Wonder to be featured on Travel Channel’s ‘Most Terrifying Places in America’ starting Oct. 1

The Roff Home — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:37:03 +0000

The Travel Channel is helping America usher in October and Halloween with a retelling of the Watseka Wonder story on the program 'The Most Terrifying Places in America.'

Ghost Hunting 101: An udpate on the first night of training sessions

The Roff Home — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:56:33 +0000

We’re all pumped up from the Illiana Paranormal Society’s first night of Ghost Hunting 101 training sessions here at the Roff Home. We had people attend from Illinois, Indiana, and even Texas! And the sessions at 10 pm and midnight were at capacity!

The group started off each two-hour session with an overview of instruments and how they use them [...]

Roff Home + Oct. 1 = Travel Channel’s ‘Most Terrifying Places in America’

The Roff Home — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:36:31 +0000

Back in May 2010, the Travel Channel filmed here at the Roff Home for the third edition of “The Most Terrifying Places in America.” The filming was a hoot.

Today we learned the initial air date for our episode: Oct. 1, 2010.

Now we just need to figure out when to tune in. Unfortunately, the Travel Channel is being tight-lipped about the [...]

Travel Channel’s “Most Terrifying Places in America” at Roff Home

The Roff Home — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:43:04 +0000

UPDATE 09/02/2010: We’ve learned that the episode of ”The Most Terrifying Places in America” featuring the Roff Home will air Sat., Oct. 2. Read more here.

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A production team from the Travel Channel trekked out to Watseka, Ill., in May to film a segment for a fall 2010 edition of its popular series, “The Most Terrifying Places in [...]

Victorian floors in the front parlor: Unraveling the mystery of original use

The Roff Home — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:35:38 +0000

The Victorian floors in the Roff Home have been a mystery, especially the front parlor's baffling combination of plain plank flooring and ornate trim. My restoration of the flooring and my own use of the room helped the mystery be unraveled.

Rest in Peace, Justin

The Roff Home — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:07:26 +0000

Justin Kaiser, a long time friend of the owner of the Roff Home, passed away unexpectedly this weekend, following complications from a surgery that was to improve his life.

Victorian front parlor: period carpet and wallpaper reproductions

The Roff Home — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:36:34 +0000

Great reproductions of period Victorian carpeting and period wallpaper from the Victorian and Arts & Craft eras for a Victorian front parlor.

21st-century Victorian decorating with Christopher Lowell

The Roff Home — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:05:28 +0000

Here's a video clip from Christopher Lowell's Work That Room in which he adds an upbeat, energetic retro feel to a young couple's Victorian home, combining Victorian flourishes with 60s-style mid-century modern.

My Top 13 Rules for Dealing with Blog-Clogging Spam

The Roff Home — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:03:36 +0000

The most frustrating thing about this blog — other than the WordPress blank screen of death — is the spam. Of the 140 messages that have been posted to the Roff Home blog since October, 111 have been spam. Here's a smattering of the best of the worst, and my spam smack-down rules for dealing with them: