Cindy Morgan's transcribed interview of Marge Skalba's account of a supernatural legend involving a man in Lake County, Indiana, who lost his wife and stopped believing in religion. When a black cat appeared and started haunting him he started to...
This is Tricia Booten's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by herself. In this variant, a woman stops for some gas when the attendant asks her to come inside the store. Once she is inside, the attendant...
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This is Bonnie Bales's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Marge Skalba. In this variant, a woman is buying some gas when the station attendant informs her that he must call the police because her money...
This is Don Englert's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Tom Mygrants. In this variant, a woman is frightened when a truck driver begins to follow her while she is driving home. Once she reaches her...
This is a transcribed account of John D. Clouse as recorded by Richard Todd Baker about a fishing trip which turned into an encounter with a large and hairy monster. Two men were out fishing in a small motorboat and noticed that the boat went in a...
Letter to Eugene V. Debs, 1/8/1920. Writes that she first heard Eugene V. Debs speak on his "Red Special" tour at his stop in Glenwood Springs, Colorado when she was sixteen. Says that she met him afterwards and that Eugene V. Debs took the time to...
Annabelle Thompson's transcribed variant of The Bloody Man Using the Washer urban legend as collected by Mary E. Crawford. In this account, a woman calls the police when she hears her washer turn on. When the police arrive, they discover a colored...
Pam Ferguson's transcribed variant of the Bloody Mary urban legend as collected by Lee Robinson. In this account, Ferguson describes the life, crimes, and death of Bloody Mary and goes on to offer the ritual that enables one to see Mary in a mirror.
This is a typewritten account of the legend of the Vigo County Blue Hole as told by Sandra Livingston. The legend tells of how a school bus full of students slid into the Blue Hole after slipping on an ice patch. There is also a second legend about...
This is Robert Warrick's typewritten account of a Blue Hole in Warren County named "Cates Pond". According to legend, the lake has no bottom because of a Native American Sacrificial Ritual.
