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Title	Boyfriend's death, Vigo County, Indiana
Alternative Title	A Legend of a Hung Man
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Bob Haines's transcribed variant of The Boyfriend's Death urban legend as collected by James F. Bellot. In this account, two couples become afraid when they hear scraping noises from on top of the car they're in. After taking their dates home, the two boys decide to return and discover they had parked under a tree where a dead man was hanging.
Informant	Haines, Bob
Collector	Bellot, James F.
Date of Original	1968-05-03
Contextual Information	In most variants, it is the boyfriend who is hanged in the tree above the car.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1968
Subject	Parking Sounds Hangings
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-21
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-BoyfriendDeath018

Boyfriend's death, Vigo County, Indiana

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