Color portrait photograph of Deanna Williams. Deanna Williams was the daughter of Reece Williams, the first male yell leader at Glenn High School, 1930-32.
Charles Baldwin's transcribed interview of an anonymous 76 year-old male. This account states that Sheets wanted to be buried with a phone and a bottle of whiskey. The phone was to call in case he woke up, and the whiskey was so he could have a...
Cindy Kennedy is both the collector and the informant in this legend about a ghost living on the sixth floor of Erickson Hall. In this legend, a very protective male janitor passed away and still haunts the floor. One can smell his cigar smoke at...
Steven Kyle Evans is both the collector and the Informant in this story about the ghost of Jones Hall. In this story, a male was intoxicated and tried to surf the elevators and he got caught between the elevator beams and died. This happened on the...
Scott Cooper's typewritten variant of the Cadaver Arm urban legend as collected by Audrey Cooper. In this account, a girl goes crazy after her male friends use a cadaver's arm to play a prank on her.
People; Women; Women's clothing; Men; Men's clothing; Dirt roads; Electric railroads; Clapboard siding; Electric line;
Black and white photograph of interurban stop 21 in Seelyville Indiana. There is an electric rail car in the center of the image. There are people boarding the train, both male and female. The road is dirt. There are buildings on either side of the...
A transcribed variant of The Boyfriend's Death urban legend as collected by Joyce Guilbeault from an anonymous male informant. In this account, a girl discovers that her boyfriend's throat has been slit when he fails to return from getting help...
A transcribed variant of The Boyfriend's Death urban legend as collected by Darlene Beckman from an anonymous male. In this account, a girlfriend discovers that her boyfriend has been hanged above their car after he fails to return from...
Legends; People; People associated with health & safety; Physicians; Medical offices; Medical offices; Health care; Medical personnel; Folk cures; Folk medicine;
Charles Baldwin's transcribed interview of an anonymous 76 year-old man about Doc Cox. According to this source, Doc Cox was mostly Indian and lived south of Sullivan, Indiana. He was an herb doctor and he never graduated from high school. The...
Legends; People; People associated with health & safety; Physicians; Medical offices; Medical offices; Health care; Medical personnel; Folk cures; Folk medicine;
John Mark Harper's transcribed interview of an anonymous 60 year-old male about Doc Wheat. According to this source, Doc Wheat lived in Coxville, Indiana, and he was an actual doctor. He hada medical degree from Indiana University Medical School....
International Association of Railway Terminal Employees; Strikes;
Letter to Eugene V. Debs on International Association of Railway Terminal Employees letterhead, 5/2/18. Says that he is writing to ask Eugene V. Debs what he thinks about their organization. Tells Eugene V. Debs that the International Association...
Indiana State University; Students; Universities & colleges;
Annual Sycamore Tricycle Derby at Indiana State Universiy, in Terre Haute, Indiana. A male student on a red tricycle. Crowd of students behind the fence watching the race. The first Trike Race was held on October 11, 1963 and is an annual...
Darlene Beckman collected a legend from an anonymous male regarding the happenings at the house of blue lights located in the Northeast part of Indianapolis.
Tammy Kuchinskas collected a personal experience narrative from Cheryl Kuchinskas pertaining to a young male cancer patient who died but his spirit still remained in the room he was in.
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Suzann Messmer from an anonymous male informant. In this account, a couple picks up a hitchhiker but are uncomfortable at the fact that he does not speak to them. As...
Kristina St. John collected a legend from an anonymous male pertaining to a hill West of Mooresville in which a vehicle will roll backwards up the hill when in neutral.
Black and white photograph of R.H. Modesitt's Grocery in Seelyville Indiana. The picture was taken around 1885 and shows multiple male individuals in front of the store. The individuals range in age from young to old, and are all wearing hats. The...
