Indiana State University Homecoming ; Homecomings; Floats (Parades); Parades & processions;
View of a float being pulled by a small tractor going east on Wabash, just past 9th Street. The float is covered with straw, and appears to refer to the headless horseman myth.
This is Jerry Floyd's typewritten variant of the legend of Spook Light Hill in Clay County near Brazil Indiana, collected by Tracie Spencer. According to legend, a train conductor found blood splattered on the side of a box car after passing near...
This is Jason Hiddle's typewritten variant of the legend of Spook Light Hill in Clay County near Brazil Indiana, collected by Amy J. Shewmaker. According to legend, one can hear a woman screaming at night near Spook Light Hill. If one follows the...
Decapitations; Light; Brazil (Ind.); Prostitution;
Mike Savini collected a legend from JAck Michael pertaining to the headless spirit of Spook Light Hill, and another legend pertaining to a house behind Dairy Queen in Brazil, Indiana where the spirit of a prostitute resides.
Jesse Moore's transcribed interview of Brooke Hessing's account about a school bus full of children that were killed after being hit by a train. It is said that if you go the railroad tracks and turn everything off, the children from the wreck will...
Jean Whitcomb collected a legend from Ken Kesey pertaining to a man that had his head cut off by a furnace and he is now back in spirit in search of his head.
Barbara Bigham's transcribed interview of Alice Nicholson's account of a headless woman who can be seen walking in white around the location of where her body was found many years ago in Morgan County, Indiana.