Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about moonshiners in Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, a man from Shelburn used to run moonshine. Once when he was in Indianapolis, Indiana, his car broke down so he put on overalls and...
Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about moonshiners in Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, there was a house by Dawson's pond where a man made moonshine. He stored it in jugs tied to ropes in the pond. When he brought jugs...
Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about moonshiners in Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, there was an area known as Camp Thirsty where people went to drink during prohibition. One election a judge and a church were...
Shawn Strahle's transcribed interview of Dorthy Eslinger about moonshiners in Dugger, Indiana. According to Eslinger, her father made moonshine in the family's basement and her brother helped.
Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about moonshiners in Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, he lived across the street from a bootlegger. You could tell when the man was making a batch because eh would burn tires to cover...
Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about an outlaw legend from Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, there was once a preacher in town who would preach in Indiana one Sunday and in Illinois the next week. It turns out that he...
Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about an outlaw legend from Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, there was a man who would get drunk and shoot his guns. One night he got too drunk and started shooting everywhere; he even...
Jim Thompson's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Sara Russell. In this account, two men see a woman walking along a road at night and ask if she would like a ride. She accepts, and the men take her home...
Jean Harrison collected a legend from Susan Franklin pertaining to a miscellaneous iron gate out in the county where Devil worshippers supposedly worship.
