This is Eva Ellis's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Cheryl Ashworth. In this variant, a woman is frightened when a truck follows her home flashing its headlights and honking its horn. When she pulls...
Buddy Marks's transcribed variant of The Boyfriend's Death urban legend as collected by Douglas Parker. In this account, a girl discovers that her boyfriend has been hanged when he fails to return from getting more gasoline for their car. It is...
Bob Scherer's transcribed variant of The Boyfriend's Death urban legend as collected by Douglas Parker. In this account, a girl discovers that her boyfriend has been murdered when he leaves the car to investigate a strange sound. The ghost of a...
Dan Hamen's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Ayrin Carlson. In this account, a man sees a woman standing alone at the gates of a cemetery and offers to drive her home. He gives her his jacket to keep her...
Thomas Kramer's transcribed interview of Mr. and Mrs. Sargent about Mio Cook. According to the Sargents, Cook rides a horse-drawn wagon and predicts almost everything. Cook also shares his bed with his horse. One night a car hit his wagon and he...
Malissa Johnson's transcribed interview of Meg Cook about Ouija Boards. According to Cook, she used an Ouija Board at a slumber party. The girls there got scared after a little while so they put away the Ouija Board.
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926; Stedman, Seymour; Socialist Party of the United States of America; Elections -- United States; Presidential elections -- United States; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920; Telegrams;
Telegram to Eugene V. Debs, 05/13/1920. Notifies Debs that he has been nominated by the Socialist Party to run for President of the United States in 1920 by a unanimous vote. Also tells Debs that Seymour Stedman will be his running mate.
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926; Stedman, Seymour; Socialist Party of the United States of America; Elections -- United States; Presidential elections -- United States; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920; Telegrams;
Photocopy of telegram to Theodore Debs, 5/13/20. Says that Eugene V. Debs was nominated for President with Seymour Stedman as his running mate. Writes that after the nomination there was more than an hour's worth of applause, "a demonstration...
This is Joy Cook's typewritten account of a legend she knows about the Bonds Chapel Cemetery in Orange County Indiana. According to legend a chain grows on the tombstone in the shape of a cross. Note, even though Orangeville is stated, this is...
This a typewritten account of Joy Cook's variant of the legend of the Bonds Chapel gravestone in Orange County. According to legend, a man who was beat to death with a chain rests there, and a chain grows from his tombstone.
