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SIGNS OF GHOSTS
IF YOU SEE LIGHTS MOVING ABOUT AND THEY DISAPPEAR WHEN YOU
APPROACH, IT WAS A GHOST.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS ; SIGN ; SPIRIT ; SUPERSTITION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 09-25-1969
SIGNS OF GHOSTS
LIGHTS MOVING IN GRAVEYARDS ARE GHOSTS FOR SURE.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; GRAVEYARD ; MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS ; SPIRIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 09-25-1969
THE INFORMANT WAS DRIVING NEAR A RAILROAD TRESTLE WHEN SHE
SAW SOME LIGHTS, SO SHE DROVE ONTO A FIELD WHERE THE GHOST
GOT INTO THE BACK SEAT OF HER CAR ALONG WITH HER SISTER.
THE GHOST WAS A GIRL WITH NO HEAD. STORY HAS IT THAT SHE
WAS HIT BY THE TRAIN AND IS STILL LOOKING FOR HER HEAD.
SHE HAS A BAD HABIT OF GETTING INTO CARS THAT ARE PASSING
BY. AS FAR AS I KNOW, THIS IS STILL GOING ON.
Submitter comment:
Svrcek, Lia: 20 years old. Student: English. Donora, Penn. Lia had this happen to her as she was driving home one night, She told me this before I left to go to Canada.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; DONORA
James Callow Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 08-00-1973
JACK O'LANTERN
THE SOUL OF SOMEONE CONDEMNED TO WANDER FOR HAVING MOVED
OR ALSO FOR HAVING DISREGARDED A BOUNDARY MARK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT JUST REMEMBERS HEARING THIS LEGEND, MANY
YEARS AGO.
Where learned: DETROIT ; COULD NOT REMEMBER WHERE OR WHEN LEARNED
Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-30-1970
JACK O'LANTERN
THE SOUL OF SOMEONE CONDEMNED TO WANDER FOR HAVING MOVED
OR ALSO FOR HAVING DISREGARDED A BOUNDARY MARK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT JUST REMEMBERS HEARING THIS LEGEND, MANY
YEARS AGO.
Where learned: DETROIT ; COULD NOT REMEMBER WHERE OR WHEN LEARNED
Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-30-1970