William Sapp's typewritten account of bootleg alcohol during Prohibition as collected by Fritz Modesitt. Sapp explains that two boys from Indiana University used formaldehyde from the cadaver lab to make alcohol which they then sold to a bootleg...
Deb Cleveland's typewritten account of a babysitting urban legend as collected by Kathy Bennett regarding a couple who leaves their child for the babysitter to catch their place on time. When they return home from their trip, they discovered their...
Karen Steen's handwritten account of a babysitting urban legend as collected by Bette Graber regarding a couple who leaves their child in its high chair for the babysitter so they can catch their plane. The babysitter believes the couple has taken...
Dead persons; Practical jokes; Mental institutions;
Kathy Graham's typewritten variant of the Cadaver Arm urban legend as collected by Pat Graham. This particular variant features a cadaver's head rather than a cadaver's arm.
Practical jokes; Dead persons; Mentally ill persons;
Susan Roos's typewritten variant of the Cadaver Arm urban legend as collected by Priscilla Craven. In this variant, a woman goes crazy after her friends play a prank on her involving a corpse.
Dead persons; Practical jokes; Mentally ill persons;
Jean Pfeiffer's transcribed variant of the Cadaver Arm urban legend as collected by Barbara Bigham. In this account, a woman going to an all-male medical school goes crazy after the men play a trick on her involving a corpse.
Dead persons; Practical jokes; Mentally ill persons;
Dwight Curts's transcribed variant of the Cadaver Arm urban legend as collected by Thomas L. Foster. In this account, a female medical student goes crazy when her fellow all-male students play a prank on her using a cadaver.
A transcribed variant of the Relative's Cadaver as collected by Erin Pringle from an anonymous informant. In this account, the informant describes a female medical student who fainted upon realizing that the cadaver her class was to work on was her...
Joe Katavich's typewritten account of a place called Dead Man's Hollow in Eugene, Indiana, as collected by himself. Katavich tells the story of a man named Barber who fell off a wagon after drinking too much and died. After his body was discovered...
Joseph P. Wilson's transcribed account of a place called Dead Man's Hollow in Vermillion County, Indiana as collected by Joni L. Wilson. According to his account, the valley was named after a dead man who was found there, half-eaten by animals.
Michael W. Oellig's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by himself. In this account, a young man accompanies a girl home from a dance and allows her to wear his sweater since it is cold out. The next day, he...
One typed page describing how Dead Man's Hollow received its name. The body of George Barber was found in this hollow in the spring of 1874. A group of school boys led by Mr. Fable saw the body. The identification of the body was made by a mark...
