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THE DEATH CAR

WHEN I WAS IN HIGHSCHOOL I REMEMBER A RUMOR GOING AROUND SCHOOL ABOUT
A 1963 CORVETTE THAT WAS FOR SALE FOR THE RIDICULOUS PRICE
OF $200.00. THE REASON IT WAS SO CHEAP WAS THAT SOMEONE HAD DIED IN
IT AND IT WAS SO LONG BEFORE THEY FOUND HIM THAT THE CAR SMELLED
VERY BADLY. THE CAR HAD BEEN FUMIGATED, RE-UPHOLSTERED AND AIRED OUT
THOROUGHLY, BUT THE CAR STILL STUNK TOO BADLY TO DRIVE.

Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S SPELLING HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY KEYPUNCHER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): CAR SELLING

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 00-00-1964

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LEGEND

ON THE EAST SIDE OF DETROIT ON STRASBURG STREET NEAR SEVEN MILE AND
HOOVER, A GIRL WAS HIT BY A CAR. HER DRESS GOT CAUGHT IN THE DOOR
AND SHE WAS DRAGGED ALONG. SHE KEPT KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THE CAR
BUT NO ONE HEARD HER. NOW, EVERYTIME THAT YOU DRIVE DOWN STRASBURG
STREET YOU HEAR A KNOCKING ON YOUR CAR DOOR.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): AUTO ACCIDENT ; KNOCK-KNOCK STREET

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 03-15-1968

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KNOCK- KNOCK STREET

THERE IS A STORY THAT ONE DAY ON A STREET IN DETROIT, A LITTLE GIRL
WAS HIT BY A SPEEDING DRIVER. THE LITTLE GIRL DID NOT DIE IMMEDIATELY
BUT WAS HANGING ON THE BUMPER, KNOCKING ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR TRYING
TO GET THE DRIVER'S ATTENTION. NOW, THE LEGEND GOES, WHENEVER A
PERSON DRIVES DOWN THE STREET, IT IS SAID ONE CAN HEAR THE LITTLE
GIRL KNOCKING ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR WARNING PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN.

Where learned: SCHOOL

Keyword(s): AUTO ACCIDENT ; KNOCK-KNOCK STREET

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 03-00-1967

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LEGEND

WHEN WALKING DOWN SACRED HEART SQUARE ON U OF DETROIT'S CAMPUS LATE
AT NIGHT, ONE CAN SEE THE ARMS OF THE STATUE AT ONE END OF THE SQUARE
MOVE UP AND DOWN AND THE HEAD MOVE BACK AND FORTH, AS IF IT
DISAPPROVES OF THE HAPPENINGS ON CAMPUS.

Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR

Keyword(s): IMAGE NIGHT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 12-06-1967

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DEER DRAGGING A BOAT

ONE TIME I WAS UP IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN IN A ROWBOAT IN A RIVER. I
HAD A LASSO WITH ME, AND I SAW A DEER ON THE SHORE. SO I DECIDED TO
LASSO THE DEER. THE LASSO WAS TIED TO THE BOAT, AND I GOT THE DEER,
ALL RIGHT, BUT THE DEER BEGAN TO RUN, PULLING THE BOAT WITH HIM. I
FELL OUT OF THE BOAT, AND WHEN I FINALLY GOT MYSELF OUT OF THE WATER,
I COULDN'T FIND THE BOAT.
A LITTLE OVER A YEAR LATER, WHEN I WAS UP THERE HUNTING AGAIN, I
SAW A DEER WITH A ROWBOAT TIED TO HIM. SO I FIGURED IT WAS THE SAME
DEER.

Submitter comment: TOLD TO HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY CLASS AT U OF D HIGH.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL

Keyword(s): WILD ANIMAL

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale

Date learned: 00001968 FALL

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DANIEL BOONE LEGEND

ONE DAY DAN'L BOONE WAS GOING THROUGH THE FOREST AND HE CAME UPON A
HUGE LION. DAN'L'S GUN WOULDN'T WORK AND THAT LION WAS COMING RIGHT
FOR HIM. DAN'L THROWED DOWN HIS GUN AND WAITED. AND WHEN THAT
MOUNTAIN LION JUMPED AT HIM, DAN'L PUSHED HIS FIST DOWN INTO THE
LION'S MOUTH, PUSHED IT RIGHT DOWN TO THAT LION'S TAIL AND GRABBED
HOLD AND PULLED THAT LION INSIDE OUT.

Submitter comment: TOLD TO THE INFORMANT BY HIS UNCLE ALEX, WHO HUNTED IN PENNSYLVANIA
AND NORTHERN MICHIGAN, BUT LIVED IN DETROIT.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale

Date learned: 03-10-1970

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UNCLE SAM

AROUND MY HOMETOWN OF MILFORD WE BELIEVE
THAT UNCLE SAM CAME FROM THE MILFORD
AREA (MASON, N.H.). HE LIVED HERE BEFORE GOING
INTO THE MEAT PROCESSING BUSINESS IN UPPER
STATE NEW YORK WHERE DURING THE REVOLUTION, HE
PROCESSED PORK FOR WASHINGTON'S ARMY. ON
THE CASKS OF PORK HE WOULD STAMP U.S.
AND FROM THIS UNCLE SAM WAS DERIVED.

Submitter comment: I LEARNED THIS FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE IN MY AREA, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER
WHO EXACTLY THEY WERE.

Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero

Date learned: 11-05-1967

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EINSTEIN AND THE RAIN LEGEND

EINSTEIN WAS THE GREATEST SCIENTIST THAT EVER LIVED,
BUT HE DID NOT HAVE THE HORSE SENSE TO COME IN OUT OF THE
RAIN. HE WAS THE GREATEST MATHEMATICIAN EVER, BUT FLUNKED
ARITHMETIC IN GRADE SCHOOL.

Data entry tech comment: SPELLING CORRECTED BY THE KEY PUNCHER

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BATTLE CREEK

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero

Date learned: 00-00-1963

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KING KAHMAI MAI

IN HAWAII, ON THE ISLAND OF PAUI, THERE IS AN UPSIDE DOWN WATERFALL,
AND THIS IS CAUSED BY THE TRADEWINDS, WHICH PUSH THE FALLING WATERS
UPWARD. THE LEGEND BEHIND THIS DEALS WITH KING KAHMAI MAI, WHO WAS
KING OF THE ISLAND MANY YEARS AGO. IT IS SAID THAT HE DROVE ALL THE
PAGANS OFF THE ISLAND, AND THOSE THAT DID NOT LEAVE WERE SACRIFICED
TO THE GODS BY BEING PUSHED OFF THIS WATERFALL. WHEN ALL OF THE
PAGANS HAD LEFT THE ISLAND, THE KING VOWED THAT NO OTHER MAN WOULD
BE ABLE TO DIE BY JUMPING OFF THIS WATERFALL. UP TO THIS DAY THERE
HAS BEEN NOBODY KILLED FROM JUMPING OFF THE WATERFALL BECAUSE OF THE
STRONG TRADEWINDS, AND THEY SAY THAT THE TRADEWIND IS ACTUALLY
KING KAHMAI MAI FULFILLING HIS PROMISE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; A&P FOOD STORE

Keyword(s): DEAD KING RETURNS AS WIND TO PREVENT SUICIDE FROM WATERFALL.

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water

Date learned: 04-03-1970

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TALE

THERE ONCE WAS A LADY WHOSE HEAD WAS CUT OFF WHEN THE
DOORS OF AN ELEVATOR AT HUDSON'S (DOWNTOWN) CLOSED ON HER.

Submitter comment: THIS TOOK PLACE IN THE 1940'S
INFORMANT WAS TOLD STORY BY HER SISTER

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): BEHEADING IN ELEVATOR

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 12-01-1967

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RELIGIOUS BELIEF

"ON EVERY TRINITY SUNDAY THERE IS A STORM. IT SIGNIFIES
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO SPREADS THE FAITH AND
HOPE UPON US."

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT

Subject headings: Favorites
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Pentecost
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

Date learned: 03-22-1970

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SUNDAY VISITOR (KEYPUNCHER,S TITLE)

JOANNE HAD JUST BEEN TO CHURCH, WHEN SHE ARRIVED HOME TO MAKE A
PHONE CALL. UPON PICKING UP THE RECEIVER, SHE HEARD THIS WEIRD NOISE.
SHE THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS ANOTHER PHONE WAS OFF THE HOOK.
SHE WENT THROUGH HER MOTHER,S ROOM, HER ROOM, BUT BOTH PHONES WERE
INTACT. WHEN SHE WENT INTO THE DEN, SHE SAW A STRANGE MAN DRESSED
IN BLACK SITTING DOWN AND TAPPING A PENCIL AGAINST THE RECEIVER OF
THE PHONE. JOANNE GOT SCARED AND WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND FOUND A LITTLE
BOTTLE OF HOLY WATER AND PROCEEDED BACK INTO THE DEN.
HOWEVER, THE MAN HAD DISAPPEARED. NEXT, JOANNE CALLED HER AUNT AND
UNCLE UP TO COME OVER TO THE HOUSE AS HER FAMILY WAS GONE AT THE
TIME. THE AUNT AND UNCLE CAME OVER ALONG WITH A BOXER DOG; WHEN
THEY WENT TO ENTER THE DEN, THE DOG REFUSED TO ENTER THE ROOM FOR
SOME UNKNOWN REASON.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HOLDEN HALL

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Supernatural Being

Date learned: 09-00-1967

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STORY ABOUT THE DEVIL,S DANCING IN THE WOODS

IT WAS HARVEST TIME AND ALL THE YOUNG FOLK WERE THRASHING THE GRAINS
THAT HAD JUST BEEN HARVESTED.
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT ABOUT 11 O,CLOCK WHILE THEY WERE THRASHING THE GRAIN
THEY HEARD MUSIC COMING FROM THE RAFTERS, THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW
SOME DEVILS DANCING UP IN THE LOFT. THESE DEVILS WERE ALL BLACK AND
ALL THEIR CLOTHING WERE BLACK. THEY DANCED ON ONE LEG AND ONLY HAD
ONE EYE AND ONE NOSTRIL. THE MUSIC WAS PLAYED ON A SMALL ACCORDION
AND FIDDLE.
THE YOUTHS WERE TYPICALLY BRAVE AND BOISTERIOUS AND DECIDED TO TAKE
THE INSTRUMENTS AWAY. THE DEVILS LEFT AT THE FIRST COCKS CROW
(ONE O,CLOCK) WITH A WHISTLE AND A BANG. SO THE NEXT NIGHT THE
YOUTHS , AS THE DEVILS WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE AT THE COCK,S CROW,
KNOCKED ONE INSTRUMENT OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE DEVILS.
BUT WHEN THEY REACHED THE INSTRUMENT IT WAS JUST A LARGE CHARRED
PIECE OF WOOD. THE NEXT NIGHT THE DEVILS CAME BACK AND BEGGED
CKRYVEL, KRYVEL GIVE US BACK OUR FIDDLE" BUT THE YOUTHS DID NOT
RETURN IT. THE TWO YOUTHS WHO HAD TAKEN IT HAD TO PREPARE THE
STOVE FOR DRYING OUT THE GRAINS BEFORE THE THRASHING. THEY THREW THE
CHARRED WOOD INTO THE STOVE BUT IT WOULDN,T BURN. SO THEY WENT TO
BED AND THE NEXT MORNING THE TWO WERE FOUND STRANGLED.

Submitter comment: THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO MY GRANDMOTHER BT HER GRANDMOTHER WHEN SHE WAS
A CHILD. THE TIME IS APPROXIMATELY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WHEN THE
STORY WAS TOLD. THE STORY TOOK PLACE AROUND 1850.
SHE TOLD MY GRANDMOTHER THAT SHE ACTUALLY SAW THESE DEVILS.

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): DO NOT TAKE THINGS THAT DO NOT BELONG TO YOU -PAYMENT CAN BE COSTLY ; THEFT FORM DEVIL

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon

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KENTUCKY BEAR

THERE WAS A MOTHER AND FATHER IN KENTUCKY WHOSE THREE-YEAR-OLD
DAUGHTER CAME UP MISSING ONE DAY. SHE WAS SEARCHED FOR FOR FOUR DAYS
AND NOT FOUND. ON THE FOURTH DAY A MAN CAME TO HER HOUSE AND TOLD HER
PARENTS THAT HE WOULD SHOW THEM WHERE THEIR DAUGHTER WAS IF THEY
WOULD GIVE HIM A MEAL. THEY FED HIM AND AFTERWARD HE LED THEM INTO
THE WOODS. THE GIRL WAS FOUND NEAR A LOG WHERE A BEAR WAS BRINGING
HER FOOD. THE GIRL SAID THAT THE BEAR HAD BEEN TAKING CARE OF HER AND
FEEDING HER. NOT KNOWING ANY BETTER THE GIRL THOUGHT THE BEAR WAS A
DOG.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;

Keyword(s): DAUGHTER ; MISTAKEN IDENITY (BEAR THOUGHT TO BE A DOG) ; TO GIVE IS TO RECEIVE--STRANGER GIVEN MEAL FOR SHOWING PLACE OF LOST

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being

Date learned: 11-20-1968

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THE HATCHET MAN

TWO GIRLS WENT TO THE BEACH FOR THE SUMMER WHERE THEY RENTED A
COTTAGE. PEOPLE AROUND THE AREA WARNED THEM ABOUT THE HATCHET MAN
WHO COMES OUT ON THE BEACH EACH SUMMER AND HAS ALREADY KILLED THREE
PEOPLE THIS SEASON. THE GIRLS FIGURED THEY WOULD BE ALRIGHT IF THEY
LOCKED THE DOORS EACH NIGHT. ONE NIGHT ONE OF THE GIRLS HAD A DATE
AND SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO MEET THE GUY ON THE BEACH. TO BE SAFE, THEY
DECIDED TO WORK OUT A SIGNAL SO THAT THE GIRL LEFT INSIDE THE HOUSE
WOULD KNOW WHEN TO OPEN THE DOOR. LATER ON IN THE EVENING THE
GIRL HEARD SOME NOISES AT ONE OF THE WINDOWS. THEN THE NOISE WENT
AWAY. BUT AFTER A FEW MINTUES SHE HEARD THE NOISE AGAIN, THIS TIME
AT THE FRONT DOOR. SHE HEARD SOMETHING SCRATCHING AT THE DOOR AND
IT KEPT GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER. SHE SCREAMED AND TOLD IT TO GO
AWAY. THE SCRATCHING SLOWLY FADED AWAY. AFTER A WHILE THE GIRL FELL
ASLEEP. WHEN SHE AWOKE THE NEXT MORNING SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND FOUND
DEEP SCRATCH MARKS IN IT, BLOOD ON THE PORCH AND HER GIRLDFRIEND,S
PURSE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS ; COLLECTORS HOME

Keyword(s): INATTENTION TO WARNINGS-SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT ; MURDER OF GIRL

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being

Date learned: 11-18-1970

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JOHN C. WOBBLESQUAW

THIS WAS THE COLDEST WINTER MICHIGAN EVER KNEW, LONG BEFORE THEY
RECORDED TEMPERATURES. JOHN C. LIVED ON A RESERVATION WITH HIS FAMILY
AND FRIENDS. IT WAS SUCH A HARD WINTER THAT THEY RAN OUT OF FOOD AND
WERE IN PRETTY ROUGH SHAPE. SEEING THAT JOHN C. WAS THE STRONGEST,
THEY SENT HIM OUT TO GO HUNTING. THEY HAD SENT OTHERS OUT BEFORE,
BUT THEY DIDN,T GET ANYTHING.
JOHN C. WENT OUT AND HE WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE WOODS AND HE HAD A
FEELING THAT SOMEONE WAS FOLLOWING HIM. HE TURNED AROUND, AND THERE
WAS THIS BIG BLACK BEAR. SO THAT SCARED HIM, SINCE HE NEVER FACED
ONE BEFORE. WELL, HE WAS OUT OF AMMUNITION SINCE HE MISSED OTHER
ANIMALS, SO HE RAN AND RAN UNTIL SWEAT CAME ON HIS FOREHEAD, AND
IT WAS SO COLD THAT IT FROZE RIGHT THERE. HE GOT AN IDEA.
SO HE TOOK THE POWDER OUT OF HIS HORN AND PUT IT IN HIS GUN.
AND HE TOOK A FEW BEADS OF FROZEN PERSPIRATION OFF HIS FOREHEAD AND
PUT THEM IN TOO. THEN HE TURNED AROUND, SHOT THE BEAR, AND HIS
PEOPLE LIVED THROUGH THE WINTER.

Where learned: MARYGROVE COLLEGE ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): AMERICAN INDIAN ; FROZEN BEADS OF SWEAT USED FOR AMMUNITION

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale

Date learned: 00001968 FALL

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BY THIS TIME JOHN C. HAD AQUIRED QUITE A BIT OF FAME. SO HE WENT TO
ENGLAND TO VISIT HIS FRIEND WHO LIVED IN A CASTLE. SO HE TOOK THE
BOAT OVER AND GOT A HORSE WHEN HE GOT THERE, AND HE RODE OVER TO THIS
FELLOW,S CASTLE. THE LAST DAY OF THE JOURNEY WAS A LONG ONE AND HIS
HORSE WAS TIRED WHEN THEY GOT TO THE CASTLE.
SO WHEN HE GOT TO THE CASTLE, THE FIRST THING HE WAS GOING TO DO WAS
GET HIS HORSE A DRINK OF WATER.
HE GOT TO THE CASTLE AND WENT THROUGH THE GATE THERE, AND HE HEARD
SOMETHING CLANK BEHIND HIM. AND HE DIDN,T PAY ANY ATTENTION, BUT
JUST TOOK HIS HORSE TO THE FOUNTAIN. WHILE HIS HORSE WAS DRINKING,
HE KEPT HEARING THIS WATER RUNNING, AND HE TURNED AROUND AND THE BACK
OF HIS HORSE HAD BEEN CUT OFF. THE GATE HAD CUT OFF THE BACK END OF
HIS HORSE. HE COULDN,T LET HIS HORSE GO ON LIKE THAT, SO HE RIPPED
A VINE DOWN OFF THE WALL OF THE CASTLE AND HE SEWED THE FRONT END
OF HIS HORSE TO THE BACK END. HE STAYED AT HIS FRIEND,S CASTLE FOR
ABOUT FOUR MONTHS. BY THAT TIME HIS HORSE HAD HEALED. THE VINE
THOUGH GREW FROM THE STICHES UP AND OVER THE HORSE, FROM THAT TIME ON
HE ALWAYS RODE IN THE SHADE.

Where learned: MARYGROVE COLLEGE ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale

Date learned: 00001968 FALL

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THE HEADLESS MOTORCYCLIST

ON A CERTAIN COUNTRY ROAD JUST OUTSIDE OF FREMONT, OHIO THERE IS
A SMALL BRIDGE. IT IS SAID THAT IF YOU GO THERE AT NIGHT AND BLINK
YOUR LIGHTS THREE TIMES AND THEN HONK YOUR HORN THREE TIMES, YOU WILL
SEE A SINGLE LIGHT COMING FROM BEHIND YOU AND YOU WILL HEAR THE SOUND
OF A MOTORCYCLE. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE GHOST OF A MAN WHO WAS
BEHEADED BY A WIRE STRETCHED ACROSS THE BRIDGE WHILE HE WAS RIDING
HIS MOTORCYCLE ONE NIGHT.

Where learned: OHIO ; FREMONT

Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS LIGHT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter

Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR

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THE BELLE ISLE GHOST

IF YOU ARE EVER IN THE MOOD TO FIND A GHOST YOU CAN TRY OUT THE
LEGEND OF THE BELLE ISLE GHOST. JUST GO TO BELLE ISLE AT NIGHT AND
TAKE THE ROAD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE GROVE OF TREES ON BELLE ISLE.
FOLLOW THE ROAD UNTIL YOU COME TO A PART IN THE ROAD WITH WOODEN
POSTS ON BOTH SIDES. STOP THERE AND TURN YOUR CAR LIGHTS OFF FOR A
FEW SECONDS AND THEN TURN THEM ON AGAIN. A SLIM WOMAN IN A FLOWING
WHITE GOWN WILL APPEAR. YOU'LL WONDER WHAT IS SO SCAREY ABOUT HER
FOR SHE LOOKS PRETTY GOOD UNTIL SHE GETS UP TO YOUR WINDOW AND YOU
GET A GOOD LOOK AT HER FACE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MOST
FRIGHTENING FACE TO LOOK UPON.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Mount Clemens

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter

Date learned: 00-00-1960

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THE LADY IN WHITE

ON BELLE ISLE THERE IS A TYPICAL LOVERS LANE WHERE A LADY DRESSED
IN WHITE SNEAKS UP ON PARKED CARS AND BREAKS THE HEADLIGHTS OR THE
BACK WINDSHIELD WITH A HATCHET. ACCORDING TO REPORTS THE LADY
DOES THIS BECAUSE OF HER DAUGHTER WHO WAS PARKED THERE ONE NIGHT
WITH A BOY AND THE NEXT MORNING SHE WAS FOUND FLOATING IN THE RIVER.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Keyword(s): VANDALISM

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter

Date learned: 11-20-1968

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