Blue hole, Lawrence County, Indiana
Rating |
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Title |
Blue hole, Lawrence County, Indiana |
Alternative Title |
Ghost of blue hole |
Genre |
Local legend |
Description |
This is Roy Turner's typewritten account of the story of the Lawrence County Blue Hole near Mitchell Indiana. At a picnic Alice Coopers was raped and pushed by a group of boys into the Blue Hole, a local limestone quarry, where she drowned. Alice's ghost haunts the area and may be seen on the cliff or floating in the water. |
Informant |
Turner, Roy |
Collector |
Shaw, Donald J. |
Date of Original |
1982-10-28 |
Repository |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 |
Coverage |
United States -- Indiana -- Lawrence County -- Mitchell -- 1982 |
Subject |
Water Lakes Supernatural Ghosts Limestone quarrying |
WV3 Subject |
Folklore |
Type |
text |
Material Type |
Interviews |
Date Digital |
2010-11-12 |
Technical Metadata |
image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan |
Copyright |
Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection. |
Item ID |
isuf-Blue Hole020 |
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