Van Gurley collected a legend from Phyllis Modessit pertaining to the the man that resides in the barn house and the reasoning for why he built the house.
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
Angela Hustedt collected a legend from Dotti Moore pertaining to the Pell family in Brazil, Indiana in which the father killed his family and then hung himself. These events occurred in Brazil, Indiana.
Kenneth Allen's transcribed interview of James Watts about an outlaw story from Terre Haute, Indiana. According to Watts, there were some boys who were throwing a dog into a fire and when the dog caught fire it ran under the barn. The barn caught...
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
This is Alan Herbert Fordeck and Mickel Alan Fordeck's typewritten variant of the legend of Spook Light Hill in Noble County near Kendallville, collected by Sally McCammon. According to legend, a man let a salesman into his home and killed him. Now...
LeAnne Daniels's transcribed interview of an anonymous 59 year-old woman about Jesse James. According to this source, Jesse James and his gang used to hide in her grandfather's barn.
Lee Chestnut's transcribed interview of Jeff Nonte about his experience with an Ouija Board. According to Nonte, he and a group of friends used an Ouija Board on Halloween and got some strange answers. They suddenly heard a strange noise and when...
Ann Dirker's transcribed interview of Edward Dirker about and outlaw legend from Clinton, Indiana. According to Dirker, two boys were fighting with knives and one got cut open. The two boys ran to the barn and put axle grease and tape over the...
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.