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DINNER KNIVES
THE REASON THAT THE DINNER KNIFE IS ROUNDED AT THE TIP
IS THAT WHEN COLUMBUS WAS COMING TO AMERICA, HE HAD THE SHARP TIP
OF HIS CREW'S KNIVES CUT OFF BECAUSE BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF THE MU
James Callow comment: MUTINY ? MUTINEERS ?
Where learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal Food Drink -- Service Table furnishing and decoration Implement to handle food |
Date learned: 11-16-1968
DEATH CAR
IN 1963 A MAN DIED IN A CAR AND WAS NOT FOUND FOR A NUMBER
OF WEEKS. AFTER THEY FOUND HIM THE CAR HAD A HORRIBLE SMELL
WHICH THEY COULD NOT GET RID OF. THE CAR WAS A CORVETTE
WHICH SELLS FOR USUALLY OVER $4000, WAS ON SALE FOR $300.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-02-1968
KNOCK, KNOCK
A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO A GIRL WAS KILLED BY A CAR ON AN EAST SIDE
STREET. WHEN THE CAR WAS RUNNING OVER HER, SHE WAS KNOCKING ON
THE CAR TO LET THE DRIVER KNOW THAT SHE WAS THERE. SHE WAS KILLED
ANYWAY. NOW WHEN A CAR DRIVES DOWN THE STREET THERE IS THE
SAME KNOCKING ON THE CAR THAT HAPPENED WHEN THE GIRL WAS KILLED
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): KNOCK - KNOCK STREET
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-01-1968
HAUNTED HOUSE
THERE IS A HAUNTED HOUSE ON JEFFERSON AND CADIEUX.
MANY OF HIS FRIENDS HAVE GONE INSIDE AND SEEN STRANGE SIGHTS,
BUT HE HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GET UP ENOUGH
NERVE TO GO IN.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT HAS SEEN THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE
AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE TOLD HIM ABOUT IT.
THIS HOUSE IS STILL THERE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): FEAR TEST
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 05-12-1965
LEGEND
AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY THERE IS A TOWER CALLED BEAUMONT
IN WHICH THERE ARE TWO STEEPLES, EVERY TIME A VIRGIN
IS GRADUATED FROM THIS SCHOOL, ONE OF THE TWO STEEPLES
ARE KNOCKED DOWN TO HONOR HER. THESE TWO STEEPLES HAVE BEEN
THERE SINCE 1865.
Submitter comment: FROM ROOM MATE.
Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S SPELLING CORRECTED BY KEYPUNCHER.
Where learned: DORM ; MICHIGAN STATE
James Callow Keyword(s): ANTIFEMINISM ; PESSIMISM ; SATIRE ; VIRGINITY
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-01-1967
MARINE HISTORIC EVENT
THE RED STRIPE ON THE DRESS BLUES OF NCO'S DATES BACK TO THE BATTLE
OF MONTEZUMA WHEN MOST OF THE OFFICERS AND NCO'S WERE KILLED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 03-08-1972
HAUNTED HOUSE
IN SARNIA CANADA THERE WAS A HAUNTED HOUSE. A WOMAN DIED MYSTERIOUSL
AND THERE HAVE BEEN WEIRD NOISES SINCE THEN.
Data entry tech comment: THE KEYPUNCHER HAS CORRECTED THE COLLECTOR'S SPELLING
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-12-1968
HAUNTED ROOM
I WAS TIEING MY SHOES IN THE ROOM WHERE MY MOTHER DIED WHEN ALL OF
A SUDDEN THE MIRROR BROKE ALL TO PIECES.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS THIS REALLY DID HAPPEN
Data entry tech comment: THE KEYPUNCHER HAS CORRECTED THE COLLECTOR'S SPELLING
Where learned: DETROIT, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
LEGEND
THERE IS A STREET ON DETROIT'S EAST SIDE, NEAR THE VICINITY
OF CONNORS AND GRATIOT THAT IS KNOWN AS " KNOCK- KNOCK " STREET.
ONE NIGHT, AS A YOUNG COUPLE SAT TALKING IN A CAR, A GROUP OF
CHILDREN PLAYED BALL. THE BALL ROLLED BENEATH THE CAR AND
ONE OF THE CHILDREN CRAWLED UNDER THE CAR TO RETRIEVE IT.
UNAWARE OF THIS, THE DRIVER BEGAN TO DRIVE AWAY, AND AS HE DID
SO DRAGGED THE CHILD FOR SEVERAL YARDS. TO THIS DAY THE THUMP-THUMP
OF HIS BODY CAN BE HEARD WHEN TRAVELING ON THIS STREET.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT REMEMBERS THIS AS BEING TOLD TO HIM AS A TRUE
STORY BY OTHERS WHO HAVE TRAVELED THIS STREET AND HEARD THE
NOISES.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 04-12-1965
TRAVELING VIGIL LIGHT OF MT. OLIVET CEMETRY.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO ONE OF THE GRAVES OF MT. OLIVET CEMETRY
WAS DUG UP AND THE BODY MOVED TO ANOTHER SPOT IN THE CEMETRY.
THE MOTHER OF THE DEAD PERSON LOOKED AND LOOKED FOR THE GRAVE
OF HER BELOVED BUT COULD NEVER FIND IT. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE
VIGIL LIGHT WHICH THE MOTHER KEPT BURNING ON THE GRAVE NOW
ROAMS THE CEMETRY SEARCHING FOR THE GRAVE OF THE BODY THAT
WAS MOVED. MANY PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO
SEE THE LIGHT MOVING ABOUT THE CEMETRY. ONE NIGHT WHEN AT A
GIRL FRIEND'S HOUSE THE INFORMANT WAS ASKED IF SHE WANTED TO GO TO
THE CEMETRY WITH A GROUP OF GIRLS TO LOOK FOR THE LIGHT. THE GIRL
FRIEND LIVED RIGHT NEXT TO THE CEMETRY AND KNEW THE SCHEDULE OF
THE WATCHMEN WHO WORKED IN THE CEMETRY. THE GIRLS CLIMBED THE FENCE
AND AFTER THEY HAD GONE A SHORT WAY INTO THE CEMETRY, THEY SAW THE
VIGIL LIGHT NOT MANY FEET IN FRONT OF THEM, MOVING ABOUT. THEY
RAN BACK TO THE HOUSE IN FEAR.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT WAS SURPRISED THAT MY BROTHER AND I WHO LIVE IN
THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE TRAVELING
VIGIL LIGHT OF MT. OLIVET CEMETERY.
Data entry tech comment: THE WORD CEMETRY IS AS SPELLED BY THE COLLECTOR.
Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT, ASSUMED ; 1928 TYLER ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 03-31-1967
CAR ACCIDENT
AFTER I, THE COLLECTOR, MENTIONED THE STORY THAT YOU CAN HEAR A
THUMPING SOUND WHENEVER YOU RIDE DOWN THE STREET ON THE EAST
SIDE OF DETROIT WHERE A GIRL WAS KILLED BY A CAR, THE FOLLOWING WAS
TOLD: THE SOUND OF THE THUMPING IS HER KNOCKING ON THE CAR
FOR THE PEOPLE TO STOP AS SHE WAS DRAGGED SO FAR ON THE AXLE OF
THE CAR.
Submitter comment:
SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER WHERE SHE HEARD THIS, BUT IT WAS PART OF THE
STORY AS I FIRST MENTIONED IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19792 STOUT
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 05-10-1965
GHOSTS
WHILE MY AUNT AND UNCLE WERE LIVING IN ITALY, THEY LIVED IN A
HOUSE THAT MY UNCLE HAD INHERITED. THE HOUSE WAS BUILT IN THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. EVERYONE CLAIMED THAT THE HOUSE WAS HAUNTED
AND THE ORIGINAL OWNER ( WHO WAS MY UNCLE'S GREAT AUNT ) WAS SEEN
LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW OF THE HOUSE. ONE NIGHT MY AUNT WAS ALONE
IN THE HOUSE AND HEARD STRANGE NOISES WHICH CAME FROM THE CHAPEL.
THE NOISE WAS AS IF SOMEONE WAS WALKING AROUND. TO THIS DAY
MY AUNT STILL DOESN'T KNOW WHO OR WHAT MADE THE STRANGE NOISES.
Submitter comment: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-23-1967
SUPERSTITION
STORY OCCURRED IN DRAYTON PLAINS MICHIGAN IN 1901. THERE WAS AN
OLD INN WHICH HAD BEEN EMPTY FOR YEARS AND SAID THE REASON WAS THAT
THE COMMUNITY ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT IT WAS HAUNTED. THE COMMUNITY
HISTORY HAS IT THAT A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE ON THEIR HONEYMOON USED
IT AND A WEEK LATER THEY WERE DISCOVERED IN BED WITH THEIR THROATS
CUT.
Submitter comment:
MR. LAWRENCE LEARNED IT IN 1901 BECAUSE HE LIVED ACROSS THE
STREET FROM THE INN.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 12-25-1963 ; 00-00-1901
THE HOUSE ON MENDOTA
EVERY MORNING ABOUT TEN O'CLOCK FOOTSTEPS WOULD COME DOWN THE
STAIRS AND WALK OVER TO THE BUFFET. THEN WE WOULDN'T HEAR THEM
ANY MORE. WE NEVER SAW ANYONE BUT THEY DIDN'T MISS A DAY. IN THIS
SAME HOUSE I COULD STAND AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS AND NO MATTER
HOW HARD I WOULD THROW WHATEVER I THREW WOULD ONLY GO ONE STEP
AND THEN FALL ON THE STEP AS THOUGH SOMEONE WAS CATCHING THE
THINGS.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT LIVED IN THIS HOUSE IN DETROIT IN 1942.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
Keyword(s): GHOST ; HAUNTED HOUSE.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 05-12-1965 ; 00-00-1942
IN THE TOWN THAT MY PARENTS CAME FROM IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, THE
CHURCH WAS HAUNTED AND PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT NO ONE COULD GO IN THERE
AFTER SUNSET. IF YOU WERE PASSING BY IN THE EVENING, YOU COULD
HEAR ALL SORTS OF STRANGE NOISES AND MOANINGS, EVEN SCREAMS.
ONE WOMAN SAID THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE THE STORIES AND THAT SHE
MEANT TO GO IN THERE ONE EVENING AND SEE FOR HERSELF. SHE DID
GO IN THERE AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. THE NEXT
MORNING ALL OF HER CLOTHING WAS FOUND ON THE FLOOR OF THE CHURCH.
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND ; TOLD IN
Keyword(s): GHOST ; HAUNTED CHURCH
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 09-10-1972
KNOCK-KNOCK STREET
THIS KNOCK-KNOCK STREET IS FOUND ON WEST PARKWAY, NEAR ANN ARBOR
TRAIL. IT IS BELIEVED A YOUNG COUPLE ON A DATE GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT
AND THE YOUNG GIRL WAS PUSHED OUT BY HER DATE. HER COAT GOT CAUGHT
AND SHE WAS DRAGGED, AND KNOCKED PERSISTENTLY TO BE LET IN. AND NOW
WHEN TRAVELING ON THIS STREET, THE GIRL'S KNOCKING IS STILL HEARD.
Data entry tech comment:
I HAVE TWO KNOCK-KNOCK STREET STORIES IN THIS PACK, BUT THE STORIES
HAVE DIFFERENT PLOTS AND LOCALES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 20022 VAUGHN
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-22-1971
CAR ACCIDENT
ONCE THERE WAS A CAR ACCIDENT AT J:00 A.M. NEAR CHERRY HILL AND
DENTON ON THE WEST SIDE. THERE WERE TWO PEOPLE KILLED BY A BRIDGE
AS A RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT. THEIR GHOSTS CAN BE HEARD BY THAT
BRIDGE AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
Data entry tech comment:
IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT GHOSTS ALWAYS COME BACK TO THE SCENES
OF THEIR DEATHS AND TO REMAIN THERE FOR ETERNITY.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): DENTON ROAD.
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
NOT GIVEN
THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS INSANE AND KILLED HIS WIFE AND AFTER HE
KILLED HER HE WAS FULL OF REMORSE. HE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE WAS
THE MURDERER AND IT IS SAID THAT HE TAKES HIS LANTERN IN THE
EVENING, AND GOES TO LOOK FOR HER BODY. IF YOU DRIVE OVER THAT
BRIDGE ON THE FAR EAST SIDE AND STOP, YOU ARE ABLE TO SEE THE
LIGHT COME AND GO UNDER THE BRIDGE AND AS IT GOES UNDER THE
BRIDGE, IT SHAKES IT. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MAN DOING IT.
Submitter comment:
JEAN AND I HAVE BOTH GONE TO THIS PLACE BUT DO NOT RECALL THE NAME
OF THE STREET AND ALL OF THE MYSTERIOUS THINGS DO HAPPEN BUT
THE EXPLANATION IS THAT IT IS THE SWAMP GAS AND WHEN IT SETTLES
UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE IS WHAT CAUSES IT TO TREMBLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS ; TOLD AT HER HOME
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-06-1971
A SPIRITED HOUSE
THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO ME IN ALL SINCERITY IN PENNSYLVANIA;
INFORMANT'S GIRLFRIEND'S AUNT'S HUSBAND, WAS PROMOTED AND AS PART
OF THE DEAL, ACQUIRED A BEAUTIFUL PRESTIGE MANSION BELIEVED
TO HAVE BEEN DESIGNED BY FRANK LOYD WRIGHT. IT JUST SO HAPPENED
THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE BEFORE LOST THEIR FATHER BY SUICIDE. HE
SHOT HIS BRAINS OUT IN THE BATHROOM, BLOOD ON THE WALL WAS THERE
TO STAY. HAVING IT PAINTED AND THEN WALLPAPERED STILL DIDN'T
CONCEAL HIS BLOOD. THIS GIRL'S AUNT WOULD GO TO BED AT NIGHT AND THE
TEA KETTLE WOULD GO ON, CHAINS WERE HEARD RATTLING, DOORS NEVER
CLOSED. ONE NIGHT THEY WERE ALL IN BED TOGETHER FRIGHTENED TO DEATH
WHEN SUDDENLY A BLAST OF COLD AIR CAME FROM THE OPENED DOOR.
THE NEXT MORNING THEY WENT TO TALK TO A PRIEST, WHO ASKED IF THE
MAN THAT KILLED HIMSELF WANTED TO KILL HIS WIFE. FINDING OUT THIS
TO BE THE CASE, THE PRIEST CONFIRMED THAT THE SPIRIT WAS OUT TO KILL
HIS WIFE. THE PRIEST WARNED THIS WOMAN NOT TO HAVE ANY CONTACT
AT ALL WITH THIS SPIRIT. THEY MOVED OUT. THE NEW OWNERS LIVED IN
THAT HOUSE FOR TWO MONTHS AND THEN IT BURNT TO THE GROUND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 20022 VAUGHN
Keyword(s): MURDEROUS GHOST
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-22-1971
WHY HE SOLD HIS HOUSE.
EVERY DAY ABOUT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON THE DOORKNOB TURNED ON
THE FRONT DOOR AND MY WIFE AND I COULD HEAR SOMEONE COME IN.
WE WOULD RUSH TO THE SPOT, BUT THERE WOULD NEVER BE ANYONE THERE.
A LITTLE WHILE LATER EVERY DAY WE WOULD HEAR THE WORST COMMOTION
IN THE BASEMENT- LIKE TWO MEN GRUNTING, HITTING, AND BANGING
FURNITURE AROUND DOWN THERE. THEN WE WOULD HEAR THE SOUND OF
SOMEONE DUMPING COAL IN THE DRIVEWAY, BUT THERE WAS NEVER ANY COAL
THERE OR ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE COULD FIND.
A FEW TIMES WE CALLED THE POLICE FROM THE PALMER PARK STATION TO
COME OVER AND HEAR THE NOISE. THEY HEARD IT TOO BUT COULD NOT
FIND OUT WHO WAS MAKING IT. WE MOVED.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT TOLD ME THIS STORY IN 1955 WHILE HE WAS FILLING
MY TEETH. HE SAID THE HOUSE WAS ON SAN JUAN, TWO BLOCKS OFF OF SIX
MILE ( IN DETROIT ) .
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): HAUNTED HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1955