Holly K. Cassity's transcribed interview of Michael Mason's account of the local legend involving the tomb stone of a witch that is buried in 100 Steps Cemetery that when you light a match near her tombstone it will not go out in Clay County,...
Fraternities & sororities; Indiana State University; Student organizations; Students
Active members of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. First row, from left to right: C. Walter, S. Cline, M. Wilson, M. Jordan, A. Wuchner, B. Demske, S. McCarthy, M. Faris, L. Morgan, and M. Schuessler. Second row from left to right: P. Towe, G....
Fraternities & sororities; Indiana State University; Student organizations; Students;
Pledges of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. First row, from left to right: L. Wollsey, S. Cline, D. Byrne, J. Kendall, B. Petro, and E. Brackmeyer. Second row, from left to right: A. Snyder and J. Hoadley. Third row, from left to right: S....
Fraternities & sororities; Indiana State University; Student organizations; Students;
Pledges of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. First row, from left to right: L. Wollsey, S. Cline, D. Byrne, J. Kendall, B. Petro, and E. Brackmeyer. Second row, from left to right: A. Snyder and J. Hoadley. Third row, from left to right: S....
Fraternities & sororities; Indiana State College; Indiana State University; Student organizations; Students;
Officers of the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority: Mary Lou Douglass (treasurer), Mary Cay Roach (secretary), Karin Shoemaker Light (vice president), Vicki Flick (membership director), Meg Johnson (corresponding secretary).
This is Patricia Hopewell's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Heather Hopewell. In this variant, a girl is driving home at night when a semi-truck begins to follow her and flash its light. After...
Socialism; Poetry; Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926;
Letter to Eugene V. Debs, 4/14/1921. Writes that the purpose of socialism is to "convert the Frankenstein, into the Angel of Light." Mentions that he used to be a mine doctor. Includes a hand-written untitled poem.
Books; Publications; Democratic Party (U.S.); Appeal to Reason; National Rip-Saw; Socialism -- United States -- Newspapers;
Letter to Eugene V. Debs on Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma letterhead, 1/5/1916. Says that George Allen England's pending lawsuit will prevent him from publishing her book. Tells Eugene V. Debs that if Putnam Company or Ida Tarbell were to...
Jean Whitcomb's transcribed interview of Wayne Hart's account of a supernatural encounter involving buses headed to the Automatic Energy Plant in Idaho. THe buses would be stopped everytime and a light would whirl on top of them causing the buses...
Melanie L. Kramer's transcribed interview of Clint Coleman's account of a supernatural encounter with an UFO with a bright light that followed him and made no sound in Knox County, Indiana.
Jerry Reyling's transcribed interview of Pauline Siebe's account of a supernatural encounter with a UFO that appears behind her car in a white light and causes the motor of her car to die and as soon as it leaves, the car starts right back up in...
This transcribed account by Debra Auterson as recorded by herself is about her experience with seeing a Bigfoot-like creature while out with her friends at a pond. One of her friends threw a log in a pond and then shined a light across the pond,...
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 Warren Dixon's typewritten account of a Blue Hole in Orange County near Orleans Indiana. Should a couple visit the hole at night a white light will appear and approach until a noise is made.
This is Jim Terrel's typewritten account of the legend behind a gravestone in Lawrence County Indiana, near Bedford. According to legend, a man killed his wife with a chain, and now the image of a chain has wrapped around the tombstone, and glows...
This is a John Holmes' typewritten account of a legend about a gravestone near Orleans Indiana in Orange County. According to legend, the gravestone has a chain that grows out of the gravestone. There is also a light at night that crosses the chain...
This is Danny Ritter's typewritten account of the legend of the Bonds Chapel tombstone collected by Jay Ritter. According to legend, there is a chain on the side of a tombstone that can be seen by the light of a full moon.
Joyce Light's transcribed variant of The Boyfriend's Death urban legend as collected by Janice Kirby. In this account, a girl discovers that her boyfriend has been hanged above their car after he fails to return from getting more gasoline.
