Bob Robinson collected a story from Informant III in regards to Jones Hall at Indiana State University. It involves a girl who was supposedly pushed down the stairs and now haunts the building. This story also involves an elevator that randomly...
Practical jokes; Dead persons; Mentally ill persons;
Susan Roos's typewritten variant of the Cadaver Arm urban legend as collected by Priscilla Craven. In this variant, a woman goes crazy after her friends play a prank on her involving a corpse.
Janis Biddle's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Mary Susan Wood. In this account, a woman is hit by a car while hitchhiking and dies. People now claim that during certain times of the year, the same woman...
Matt Robinson's transcribed interview of Sean MaHoney's account of a pregnancy folk belief involving predicting the sex of an unborn child using the pencil test in Vigo County,Indiana.
Jonathan Anderson collected a story from informant Kathy Kintner regarding a possible ghost in Erickson Hall. This also involves the face of Satan appearing through some paint in one of the rooms. This occurred in Vigo County, Indiana.
This is Dale D. Bringham's typewritten account of a Blue Hole in Vigo County, Indiana, near Terre Haute. This legend involves some construction workers in the 1940s who left their ladder and tools in a well that they were digging. When they...
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
