Utah State University Student Folklore Genre Collection

Introduction

Please cite this collection in the following manner:

The items in the Student Folklore Genre Collection were collected by USU and BYU students in folklore and anthropology classes as part of course requirements and deposited in the Fife Folklore Archives by the instructor. Duplicates of BYU student items are housed at BYU’s William A. Wilson Folklore Archives. The materials in Group 7: Supernatural Non-Religious Legends cover the period from the early 1960s to the present. The collection was created in 1978 by William A. Wilson and Barbara [Garrett] [Walker] Lloyd.

The Student Folklore Genre Collection: Group 7: Supernatural Non-Religious Legends consists of approximately 1,500 individual items of legends collected by undergraduate students. Most items include informant, context, text (the folklore item), texture (stylistic notation), and collector data. The materials reflect both insider (esoteric) and outsider (exoteric) views of a folk group and may be prejudiced or stereotyped. Click here for collection disclaimer. The collection is part of a larger student genre collection that is separated into ten distinctive categories. The materials do NOT circulate. Major breakdowns include:

Revenants
Unexplainable Phenomena
People Known for Supernatural or Supernormal Power
Games of the Supernatural
Supernatural or Supernormal Characters or Creatures

Box 7

2. Supernatural Non-Religious Legends

2.1. Revenants

2.1.1. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Along Roadway (Folders 1-2)
2.1.2. Revenant or Evidence of Appears On, Around, or Under Bridges (Folder 3)
2.1.3. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Near Body of Water (Folders 4-5)
2.1.4. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Along the Railroad (Folder 6)
2.1.5. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Outdoors (Folders 7-9)
2.1.6. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in House, Mansion, Cabin, Barn, or Farmyard (Folders 10-11)

2.1.6. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in House, Mansion, Cabin, Barn, or Farmyard (Folders 1-3)
2.1.7. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Hotel, Motel, Lodge, Boarding House, Inn, or Brothel (Folder 4)
2.1.8. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in School, University Campus, or Dorm (Folder 5)
2.1.9. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Hospital or Mortuary (Folder 6)
2.1.10. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Public Places (Folder 7)
2.1.11. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Vehicles (Folder 8)
2.1.12. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Religious Building (Folders 9-12)
2.1.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 13)

2.2. Unexplainable Phenomena

2.2.1. Unexplainable Sights

2.2.1.1. Unaccounted Lights Sighted (Folder 1)
2.2.1.2. UFO Sighted or Related Reports Cited (Folder 2)
2.2.1.3. Unusual or Unidentified Objects Sighted (Folder 3)
2.2.1.4. Irregularities Appear in Photographs (Folder 4)

2.2.2. Unexplainable Happenings

2.2.2.1. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Cemetery or Burial Site (Folders 5-11)

2.2.2.2. Supernatural Happenings Occur in House or Yard (Folders 1-3)
2.2.2.3. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Hospital (Folder 4)
2.2.2.4. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Motel, Hotel, Boarding House, Inn, or Apartment House (Folder 5)
2.2.2.5. Supernatural Happenings Occur in School, University Campus, or Dorm (Folder 6)
2.2.2.6. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Canyon, Mountain, or Foothill (Folder 7)
2.2.2.7. Supernatural Happenings Occur Along Roadway (Folder 8)
2.2.2.8. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Grove or Park (Folder 9)
2.2.2.9. Supernatural Happenings Occur In/Near/Around Body of Water (Folder 10)
2.2.2.10. Supernatural Happenings Occur at Campsite or While Camping (Folder 11)
2.2.2.11. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Religious Buildings (Folder 12)
2.2.2.12. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Public Places (Folder 13)
2.2.2.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 14)

2.2.3. ESP, Visions, Voices, Supernatural Powers of the Mind (Folders 15-17)
2.2.4. Harbingers of Death (Folder 18)
2.2.5. Dreams (Folders 19-20)
2.2.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 21)

2.3. People Known for Supernatural or Supernormal Power

2.3.1. Witches, Witchcraft, Voodoo, Magic, or Curses (Folders 1-3)
2.3.2. Water-Witching (Folder 4)
2.3.3. Fortune Tellers, Gypsies, and Seers (Folders 5-6)
2.3.4. Spiritualists and Mediums (Folder 7)
2.3.5. Healers (Folder 8)
2.3.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 9)

2.4. Games of the Supernatural

2.4.1. Ouija Boards

2.4.1.1. Predictions Made by Ouija Board (Folder 10)
2.4.1.2. Powers Verified or Not Verified by Question/Answer or Spelled Out in Response (Folder 11)
2.4.1.3. Powers Verified or Not Verified by Events (Folder 12)
2.4.1.4. Ouija Board Resists Destruction (Folder 13)
2.4.1.5. Appearance/Manifestation of Devil, Spirit, or Being (Folders 14-15)
2.4.1.6. People Possessed or Attacked (Folder 16)
2.4.1.7. People Driven to Attempt Suicide or Murder (Folder 17)
2.4.1.8. Religious Intervention (Folders 18-19)
2.4.1.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 20)

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2.4.2. Up-Table (Folder 1)
2.4.3. Levitation (Folder 2)
2.4.4. Call Forth Spirits or Supernatural Powers (Folder 3)
2.4.5. Cards (Folder 4)
2.4.6. Candles (Folder 5)
2.4.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 6)

2.5. Supernatural or Supernormal Characters or Creatures

2.5.1. Shape-Shifters

2.5.1.1. Werewolves (Folder 7)
2.5.1.2. Skinwalkers (Folder 8)
2.5.1.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 9)

2.5.2. Humans Who Go Wild, Who Become Permanently Non-Human, or Who Are Half Human/Half Animal (Folders 10-12)
2.5.3. Races of Supernatural or Supernormal “Little People” Thought to Exist (Folder 13)
2.5.4. Monsters, Beats, Creatures, or Giants (Folders 14-15)
2.5.5. Water or Swamp Creatures (Folders 16-18)
2.5.0. Miscellaneous (Folder 19)

Register

Box 7

2. Supernatural Non-Religious Legends

2.1. Revenants

2.1.1. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Along Roadway

2.1.1.1 “Vanishing Hitchhiker” (Folder 1)

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2.1.1.2 Driver vanishes. (Folder 2)

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2.1.1.3 In Payson, Utah, female appears in middle of road, is “hit” and leaves blood and scratches on car.

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2.1.1.4 Old woman appears in front of car at place where she was killed long before.

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2.1.1.5 Old lady with black cloak appears at roadside in American Fork Canyon, Utah; later investigation reveals

only a black, bloodstained cloak.

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2.1.1.6 White ghost dog appears and disappears along roadway.

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2.1.1.7 Old sheepherder who was beaten to death searches roadway for his lost body.

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2.1.1.8 Mysterious “man” gives aid at accident site.

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2.1.1.9 Road construction disturbed Indian burial grounds; now Indian spirits jump out at drivers along roadway.

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2.1.1.10 Man who collects Indian artifacts sees Indian encampment beside road that soon afterward disappears.

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2.1.1.11 Ghosts of father and daughter appear in buggy and later in car along highway in New Jersey.

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2.1.1.12 Dead son’s tape mysteriously appears in road on anniversary of his death in the same place.

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2.1.1.13 Ghost hides in barrow pit beside the road frightening drivers.

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2.1.1.14 Ghost of Montello Road warns drivers of cows on highway with headlights.

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2.1.1.15 “Man” in roadway flags car and then disappears.

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2.1.1.16 “Man” with skeleton face sighted on road.

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2.1.1.17 Woman in white haunts canyon where she was killed.

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2.1.1.18 Truck driver haunts place where he was killed searching for murderer.

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2.1.1.19 Indian girl can be seen trying to cross road where she was killed.

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2.1.1.20 Children seen on roadside and then disappear.

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2.1.2. Revenant or Evidence of Appears On, Around, or Under Bridge

2.1.2.1 Young female killed on prom night haunts area where she died. (Folder 3)

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2.1.2.2 School girl killed leaning from window on school bus now haunts bridge where accident occurs.

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2.1.2.3 Woman killed in car wreck haunts bridge at midnight.

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2.1.2.4 Snake-bite victim haunts bridge where she died.

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2.1.2.5 On wedding night, bride’s dress catches fire; she now haunts bridge where she died.

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2.1.2.6 Headless man living under bridge attacks anyone found on the bridge during certain nights of the year.

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2.1.2.7 Man without face seen hitchhiking at bridge in southeastern Idaho.

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2.1.2.8 Dead mother “sings” for her dead daughter on suspension bridge.

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2.1.2.9 Ghost haunts bridge and river where he drowned.

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2.1.2.10 Revenant appears at Corinne Bridge, Utah.

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2.1.2.11 Ghost of mother and father search for lost child near bridge in Benson, Utah.

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2.1.2.12 Ghost of dead girl haunts bridge known locally as “Screaming Bridge.”

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2.1.2.13 Screams of two dead lovers can be heard when crossing a particular bridge in Bolivia.

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2.1.2.14 Ghost of dead boy appears to his friend at a bridge where he drowned.

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2.1.2.15 Ghost appears as warning at the Grinder up Big Cottonwood Canyon.

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2.1.2.16 Ghost of man seen at night by the bridge where he died in Bear River, Utah.

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2.1.3. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Near Body of Water

2.1.3.1 La Llorona (Spanish tradition) - weeping female Revenant searches waterways for her lost child. (Folder 4)

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2.1.3.2 “White Lady” of Spring Canyon, Utah, searches waterway for lost child.

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2.1.3.3 Female revenant returns to river bank searching for dead child.

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2.1.3.4 Revenant haunts a swamp and causes death for those who see him.

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2.1.3.5 Indian babies drowned by their mothers can be heard wailing from water on Fort Hall Indian

Reservation in southeast Idaho. (Water Babies)

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2.1.3.6 Swamp in Indian reservation haunted by spirits of children who died during the small pox epidemic.

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2.1.3.7 Ghost of shipwreck victim appears on ship and directs captain to life raft and survivors.

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2.1.3.8 Dead children haunt Redmond Lake in Redmond, Utah.

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2.1.3.9 Ghost of man who drowned appears at dam.

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2.1.3.10 Female ghost walks water pipeline in Star Valley, Wyoming.

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2.1.3.11 Ghost of Indian Princess haunts Hyrum Dam near Hyrum. (Folder 5)

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2.1.3.12 Ghost of hanged man appears in lake near where the hanging took place.

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2.1.3.13 Swamp in the South is haunted by ghost of dead young woman who was killed by her boyfriend.

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2.1.3.14 Ghost of drowned girl (Alice) haunts lake near Cokeville, Wyoming.

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2.1.3.15 Ghost of drowned cow heard struggling to get free from quicksand surrounding lake where it died.

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2.1.3.16 Voices of dead construction workers heard on Kankakee River by the spillway where they died.

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2.1.3.17 Headless snowmobiler can be seen through patches in ice on the Kankakee River in winter.

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2.1.3.18 Sounds of dead truck driver trying to crawl out of creek can be heard in Santaquin Canyon, Utah.

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2.1.3.19 Ghost of woman who was wife of sea captain waits in Salem Harbor, Massachusetts, for ships on stormy nights.

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2.1.3.20 Ghost of dead G.I. wanders near Bradley Lake, Colorado, and will attack girls if they are alone.

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2.1.3.21 Ghost of dead farmer haunts pond where he drowned.

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2.1.3.22 Ghost of dead mother walks river in Moroni, Utah, mourning the loss of her dead child.

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2.1.3.23 Blackbeard’s ghost walks Virginia beaches whenever there is a full moon.

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2.1.3.24 Ghost of old man Heppler, a polygamist, haunts pond area near where he lived.

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2.1.3.25 Ghost of Whiterock Lake.

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2.1.3.26 Ghost of Bob warns boaters of treacherous areas.

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2.1.3.27 Lady of the River, Lehigh, Utah.

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2.1.4. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Along the Railroad

2.1.4.1 Man killed in Rupert, Idaho, walks along railroad. (Folder 6)

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2.1.4.2 Man killed in North Carolina; now his lantern light is seen along the tracks.

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2.1.4.3 Man killed in train wreck looks for his lost body.

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2.1.4.4 Revenant with lantern warns conductor of damaged track.

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2.1.4.5 Female revenant walks railroad crying and looking for her lost child.

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2.1.4.6 Brakeman who died at railroad crossing can still be seen swinging his lights.

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2.1.4.7 Ghost of Chinese man (Charlie Ping) run over by train searches for his head.

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2.1.4.8 Ghosts of men who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad seen in Promontory, Utah, area.

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2.1.4.9 Ghost of dead trainman still swings his light.

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2.1.4.10 Female revenant walks railroad looking for her baby’s lost head.

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2.1.4.11 Ghost of hanged slave walks along railroad tracks in Virginia.

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2.1.4.12 Ghost pushes car on railroad tracks

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2.1.5. Revenant or Evidence of Appears Outdoors

2.1.5.1 Scouts in storm encounter woodsman ghost who helps with their fire. (Folder 7)

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2.1.5.2 Ghost of dead wood chopper can be heard chopping wood and bringing fresh firewood into camp.

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2.1.5.3 U.S. scout in Switzerland encounters and spends night with revenant.

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2.1.5.4 Disfigured man (revenant) haunts mountains and kills ancestors of those who persecuted him in life.

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2.1.5.5 Old miner who was killed haunts mountain cave area and supposedly claims revenge.

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2.1.5.6 Revenant haunts pineapple pickers.

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2.1.5.7 Ghost of “old man of the mountains” chases people.

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2.1.5.8 Ghost of woman guards mine where her son was killed.

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2.1.5.9 Headless woman walks sand dunes carrying her head.

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2.1.5.10 Ghost of girl killed by Indians walks pipeline.

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2.1.5.11 Ghost of man can be heard repeating screams made when he fell from cliff to his death.

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2.1.5.12 Ghost of dead reappears on old battlefield.

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2.1.5.13 Ghost of Preston, Idaho, bank robber searching for his amputated leg.

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2.1.5.14 Ghost of Indian brave haunts area.

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2.1.5.15 Ghost of dead Indian haunts Beef Canyon near Logan, Utah.

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2.1.5.16 Ghost of dead Indian haunts canyon above Smithfield, Utah. (Folder 8)

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2.1.5.17 Ghost of founder haunts 4-H Camp Downer, Vermont.

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2.1.5.18 Black woman sees headless black man walking on land she was sharecropping with her husband.

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2.1.5.19 Ghost of family cat appears at separate times to children in the family.

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2.1.5.20 Ghost of Indian Chief Wakishah searches for his head.

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2.1.5.21 Ghost of Indian Chief Wakco rides skyline calling for his dead braves.

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2.1.5.22 Ghost of dead miner can be heard in mine.

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2.1.5.23 Ghost of suicide victim chases children out of field.

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2.1.5.24 Black logger haunts Black’s Fork in Uintah Mountains.

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2.1.5.25 Ghost of decapitated male, Buzzy Lamb, searches for lost head in Santaquin Canyon.

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2.1.5.26 Ghost of dead hunter can be heard chipping wood in the forest above Camp Bartlett in southern Idaho.

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2.1.5.27 Ghost haunts gravel pit near Providence Canyon, Utah.

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2.1.5.28 Ghost of woman who killed her children wanders hills crying for her children and dripping blood.

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2.1.5.29 Decapitated butcher or his head appears near area where he died in Preston, Idaho.

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2.1.5.30 Ghost of British hunter haunts canyon in Wyoming.

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2.1.5.31 “Wolf spirit” of Indian brave haunts land in Pennsylvania and kills cows.

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2.1.5.32 Ghost of woman killed in airplane crash wanders in mountains near a summer camp.

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2.1.5.33 Ghost haunts Two Mile Canyon near Malad, Idaho.

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2.1.5.34 Ghosts haunt lost gold mine.

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2.1.5.35 Ghost guards buried treasure.

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2.1.5.36 Ghost of bank robbers haunt area where stolen gold is hidden near Hardware Ranch.

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2.1.5.37 Ghost of property owner posted “No Trespassing” signs now haunts his property.

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2.1.5.38 Ghost of man whose arms and legs were cut off wanders field where he was murdered.

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2.1.5.39 Ghost of dead Indian maiden haunts Bear Canyon.

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2.1.5.40 Ghost of trapper searches Ogden Valley with a red lantern calling for his wife who was killed

in an accident. (Folder 9)

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2.1.5.41 Ghost of one-eyed Seminole Indian chief haunts Camp Euchee near De Funiak, Florida.

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2.1.5.42 Ghost of father of stranded pioneer family haunts Sierra Nevada mountains.

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2.1.5.43 Ghost of Indian maiden can be heard crying near cliff where she leaped to her death after her lover died.

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2.1.5.44 Ghost of Indian lovers can be heard talking near Camp Piuta in Uintah Mountains, Utah.

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2.1.5.45 Ghost of bank robber haunts area where stolen money was buried in the Uintah Mountains.

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2.1.5.46 Ghost thought to haunt Smithfield Canyon, Utah.

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2.1.5.47 Ghost of woman searches for her husband and son in Spring Canyon, Utah.

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2.1.5.48 Ghost of a woman warns other women to stay clear of the mine where she was killed.

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2.1.5.49 Ghost of Old Man Hyrum still searches for missing son.

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2.1.5.50 Glowing man seen in Payson, Utah.

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2.1.5.51 Ghost of man killed by cougar haunts town doing good deeds.

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2.1.5.52 Hatchet Harry haunts Settlement Canyon, Tooele, Utah.

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2.1.5.53 Man struck by lightning is seen searching for missing horse.

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2.1.5.54 Woman who killed herself can be seen on roof of power plant in Star Valley, Wyoming.

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2.1.5.55 Man who dies from an axe wound returns for axe; Sweden.

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2.1.5.56 Girl was grabbed by something and drowned; she can be seen in the hole where she died.

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2.1.5.57 Hin and Sinilau eloped and were chased; they disappeared and are said to still haunt the area.

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2.1.5.58 Old man of the Wellsvilles never found his hungry dogs and searches for them still.

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2.1.5.59 Man kills horse and horse returns to kill man for revenge.

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2.1.6. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in House, Mansion, Cabin, Barn, or Farmyard

2.1.6.1 Mink Creek Ghost - revenant haunts house in Mink Creek, Idaho. (Folder 10)

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2.1.6.2 “Samoan White Lady” attacks baby and kills it. (Folder 11)

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2.1.6.3 Female revenant dressed black slaps child.

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2.1.6.4 Girl in family awakens to find revenant sitting at end of bed.

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2.1.6.5 Lady in white stands at foot of bed and smiles.

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2.1.6.6 Girl revenant walks across pillows and gets in bed with two girls.

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2.1.6.7 Indian revenant found watching over crib; appears throughout child’s life.

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2.1.6.8 Strange vibrations or footsteps felt in house where skeleton found; stop when skeleton removed.

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2.1.6.9 Footsteps heard in house where skeleton found.

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2.1.6.10 House haunted until two skeletons removed from attic and buried.

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2.1.6.11 Revenant points to wall where gold is later discovered.

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2.1.6.12 Black hired hand falsely accused of murder later returns to haunt ruins of homestead.

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2.1.6.13 Executed murderer returns to haunt place where murder occurred.

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2.1.6.14 Ghost of father of murdered family haunts cabin where murders occurred.

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2.1.6.15 Farmstead where slaves were brutally murdered is haunted by ghosts.

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2.1.6.16 Ghost of dead boy haunts room where he committed suicide.

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2.1.6.17 Ghost rocks rocking chair.

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2.1.6.18 Home where one brother killed another brother is haunted.

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2.1.6.19 Table setting and meals change in abandoned house where family tragically died.

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2.1.6.20 Ghost of grandmother appears to granddaughter at time of grandmother’s death.

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2.1.6.21 Ghost sighted standing by well and beside woman hanging out clothes. (Folder 1)

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2.1.6.22 Revenant sighted in rocking chair and passing through a closed bedroom window.

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2.1.6.23 Dead mother appears to husband to give advice on child rearing.

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2.1.6.24 Ghost appears in abandoned house and rocks in rocking chair.

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2.1.6.25 Female who committed suicide returns to haunt her former boyfriend and his wife plus their descendants.

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2.1.6.26 McCune Mansion in Salt Lake City, Utah, is haunted.

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2.1.6.27 Ghost of Max Summerfield haunts his home on Halloween.

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2.1.6.28 In Thailand, military husband returns home to find ghost of pregnant wife haunting his house.

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2.1.6.29 Ghost of Indian family haunts family home; “Injun Joe.”

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2.1.6.30 Ghost of polygamous wife haunts older home in Richmond, Utah.

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2.1.6.31 Female ghost haunts house in Logan, Utah.

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2.1.6.32 Ghost of dead skier haunts old cabins in Brighton, Utah.

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2.1.6.33 Grandmother’s ghost chases man around bedroom.

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2.1.6.34 Moaning and groaning heard in attic of old farmhouse.

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2.1.6.35 House haunted where family was killed.

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2.1.6.36 House haunted where woman found dead of heart attack and her dog decapitated.

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2.1.6.37 House haunted where all family members were murdered by a son in the family.

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2.1.6.38 Ghost of man haunts house and yard of his home and kills anyone trying to run away.

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2.1.6.39 Ghost of woman haunts her old home in Bear Lake.

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2.1.6.40 House where man hanged himself is haunted by his ghost; shadow of his body hanging from rope can be seen.

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2.1.6.41 Abandoned cabin haunted by ghost of violin maker who lived there. (Folder 2)

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2.1.6.42 Barn in Ashton, Idaho, haunted by ghost of man who hanged himself there.

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2.1.6.43 Ghost of young man appears in house; family sells home to be rid of him.

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2.1.6.44 Ghosts reenact murder that took place in the house much earlier.

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2.1.6.45 Ghost of suicide victim haunts cabin near where he killed himself.

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2.1.6.46 Ghost of man haunts house where he died; no grass grows on his grave behind the house.

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2.1.6.47 Ghost of farmer who hanged himself in tree haunts house near tree.

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2.1.6.48 Ghost of man who first owned a home in Circleville, Ohio, haunts the house.

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2.1.6.49 Ghost of “Indian Joe” haunts cabin.

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2.1.6.50 House haunted by ghost of woman who was murdered there.

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2.1.6.51 Ghost of bereaved mother haunts cabin near Heart Lake in Uintah Mountains.

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2.1.6.52 Ghost of man haunts home in which he died in Big Horn, Wyoming.

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2.1.6.53 Ghost of woman haunts house in which she died in Yakima, Washington.

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2.1.6.54 Ghost haunts house near Trolley Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, that was refuge house

for immigrants coming to America.

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2.1.6.55 Young man passes vacant house and sees ghost of girl who used to live there, prior to knowing the girl was dead.

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2.1.6.56 Ghosts and buried gold found in yards of houses built in area where old inn used to be.

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2.1.6.57 Footsteps heard in house where Indian skeleton stored; when skeleton moved to cave, Indian appears.

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2.1.6.58 “Crawford’s Mansion” on the outskirts of Spring City, Utah, thought to be haunted.

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2.1.6.59 Ghost of suicide victim haunts large vacant house in Tooele, Utah.

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2.1.6.60 Assorted ghosts haunt house of informant’s parents.

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2.1.6.61 Basement of rental house haunted. (Folder 3)

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2.1.6.62 House haunted by ghost of girl who died falling down the stairs.

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2.1.6.63 Ghost of dead son haunts family home where he died in auto accident in front yard.

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2.1.6.64 Ghost of grandmother appears to take sick baby to the other side.

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2.1.6.65 Ghost of grandmother returns after family neglects burial wishes.

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2.1.6.66 Ghost of mother returns to comfort children.

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2.1.6.67 House in Sri Lanka haunted by putrid smell.

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2.1.6.68 Woman haunts cabin where her husband killed her.

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2.1.6.69 Ghost haunts house looking for new torso.

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2.1.6.70 Ghost dressed in white with red eyes beckons to thrill seekers.

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2.1.6.71 Ghost of Mrs. McQueen who killed her family still haunts their house in Preston, Idaho.

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2.1.6.72 Home in Pennsylvania haunted by an Indian, a servant, and a little girl.

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2.1.6.73 House haunted by woman who left her inheritance to her cat.

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2.1.6.74 “Mae,” a friend from a previous life, comes to a friend’s aid.

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2.1.7. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Hotel, Motel, Lodge, Boarding House, Inn, or Brothel

2.1.7.1 Old hotel converted to dormitory haunted by hotel owner’s wife. (Folder 4)

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2.1.7.2 Brothel haunted by ghosts of “ladies” who were killed by Indians.

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2.1.7.3 Ghost of suicide victim haunts room at inn.

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2.1.7.4 Ghost of old man haunts room in rooming house.

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2.1.7.5 Zanavoo Lodge in Logan, Canyon, Utah, is haunted.

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2.1.7.6 Ghost of dead girl haunts girls’ summer camp lodge.

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2.1.7.7 Ghost of woman haunts room where she had her fingers cut off and was killed.

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2.1.7.8 Ghost of child can be heard crying for its mother in room of old hotel.

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2.1.8. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in School, University Campus, or Dorm

2.1.8.1 Female ghost sighted in Church College of Hawaii dorms. (Folder 5)

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2.1.8.2 Voices of school children buried in coal-mining accident heard coming from school.

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2.1.8.3 Ghost sighted where new school being built on Navajo reservation.

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2.1.8.4 Revenant thought to haunt Founder’s Hall at Whittier College in California.

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2.1.8.5 College little theater haunted by director’s ghost.

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2.1.8.6 Ghost of P.E. teacher appears in school gymnasium.

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2.1.8.7 Ghosts of Ute Indian children haunt old school boarding house.

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2.1.8.8 Ghost of suicide victim haunts Alpha Chi sorority house on USU campus.

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2.1.8.9 Ghost haunts fraternity house on USU campus.

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2.1.8.10 Ghost of dead organist plays on USU’s campus on graduation night.

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2.1.8.11 Ghost of dead college student plays piano and haunts school auditorium.

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2.1.8.12 Ghost of dead custodian appears in Bonneville Junior High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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2.1.8.13 Ghost of student haunts 4th floor of military school.

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2.1.8.14 Ghost haunts Box Elder High School.

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2.1.8.15 Ghost of grandmother saves granddaughter’s school from bombing.

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2.1.8.16 Ghost haunts Uinta High School.

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2.1.9. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Hospital or Mortuary

2.1.9.1 Revenant causes chains and footsteps to be heard late at night in what used to be hospital

in Park City, Utah. (Folder 6)

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2.1.9.2 Building behind State Mental Hospital in Provo, Utah, haunted by ghosts of mistreated mentally ill.

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2.1.9.3 Ghost of man whose body is being worked on by mortician watches the procedure.

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2.1.9.4 Ghosts haunt old mental hospital.

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2.1.10. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Public Places

2.1.10.1 Dance partner vanishes. (Folder 7)

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2.1.10.2 Lyric Theater ghost accounts.

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2.1.10.3 Ghost appears in men’s clothing store in Leven’s.

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2.1.10.4 Ghost causes disruption in Smith’s grocery store in Brigham City, Utah.

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2.1.10.5 Ghost of murdered woman appears in courtroom during murder trial.

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2.1.10.6 Ghost of employee killed in accident haunts Trojan Powder plant where accident occurred.

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2.1.10.7 Ghost thought to reside at Sherwood Hills.

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2.1.10.8 Ghosts haunt Springville, Utah, Art Museum.

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2.1.10.9 Ghosts haunt Toys ‘R’ Us store in California.

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2.1.10.10 Leroy, the theatre ghost of Spanish Fork

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2.1.11. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Vehicle

2.1.11.1 Ghost of stagecoach driver haunts the coach and keeps people away from it. (Folder 8)

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2.1.11.2 Menacing ghost voices heard from inside hearse.

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2.1.12. Revenant or Evidence of Appears in Religious Building

2.1.12.1 St. Anne’s Retreat (Folders 9-11)

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2.1.12.2 Ghost of dead Mormon bishop haunts church house where he died. (Folder 12)

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2.1.12.3 Ghost of dead man haunts priory where he was buried alive in a wall.

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2.1.12.4 Suzie Sourblood

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2.1.0. Miscellaneous

2.1.0.1 Indian maiden ghost chases wagon on a mountain path and later disappears. (Folder 13)

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2.1.0.2 Ghost haunts site where Devil worship services were held.

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2.1.0.3 Female suicide victim haunts abandoned mining town.

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2.1.0.4 Revenant helps school football team win their game.

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2.1.0.5 Ghost of dead person seeks golden arm/leg after it is stolen from his/her grave.

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2.1.0.6 Ghost of man haunts old electric plant where he died.

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2.1.0.7 Ghost of Indian allegedly makes footsteps in house where his bones were stored, when bones

taken to cave, Indian appears in full dress.

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2.1.0.8 In Brazil, ghost of Saci steals from rich and gives to poor.

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2.1.0.9 “Woman” appears in pioneer dress asking for water but vanishes before receiving it.

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2.1.0.10 Screams of boy and chuckle from old hateful man can be heard on wind in area near Norfolk, Virginia.

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2.2. Unexplainable Phenomena

2.2.1. Unexplainable Sights

2.2.1.1. Unaccounted for Lights Sighted

2.2.1.1.1 Blue “life like” light appears at night near deserted airport. (Folder 1)

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2.2.1.1.2 “Spook light” appears in night in Missouri.

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2.2.1.1.3 Lights appear at base of Brown Mountain in North Carolina.

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2.2.1.1.4 Phantom train light appears near Wilmington, North Carolina.

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2.2.1.1.5 Swamp gas lights appear.

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2.2.1.1.6 Ball of fire comes from sky and swoops by informant’s head.

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2.2.1.1.7 Pulpit in Mormon church house near Rexburg, Idaho, where Mormon bishop’s wife hanged herself.

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2.2.1.1.8 “West Hills Light” blinds driver of car and occupants drown in Wanship Dam, Utah.

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2.2.1.1.9 Red light follows boy from where he paused to view a train wreck to his house.

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2.2.1.1.10 Blue mist light floating above abandoned shack.

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2.2.1.1.11 Light seen on Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake.

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2.2.1.1.12 Brigham Gardiner approached by shining horse and glowing faceless rider.

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2.2.1.1.13 Lamp flickers on and off for months after mother’s death; continues until father remarries.

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2.2.1.2. UFO Sighted or Related Reports Cited

2.2.1.2.1 Air Force planes disappear after sighting and following UFO. (Folder 2)

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2.2.1.2.2 Cigar-shaped, green-tinted object sighted near Los Gatos, California.

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2.2.1.2.3 Report from Howe, Idaho, of oblong object flying, landing, and burning marks on the ground.

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2.2.1.2.4 Informant and others tell of seeing man who claimed to be from outer space.

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2.2.1.2.5 Mine worker views landing of UFO and talks with spacemen.

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2.2.1.2.6 Strange light sighted near Delta, Colorado, thought to be UFO.

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2.2.1.2.7 Couple driving on deserted New Hampshire road taken into UFO; later reveal experience under hypnosis.

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2.2.1.2.8 Boy near Blackfoot, Idaho, sights UFO.

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2.2.1.2.9 UFO sighted by couple driving home at night.

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2.2.1.2.10 UFO follows two men at night who are hauling a horse in the desert between New Mexico and Arizona.

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2.2.1.2.11 UFO sighted by female sitting outdoors around campfire.

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2.2.1.2.12 UFO sighted by hunters in Park Valley.

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2.2.1.2.13 Bright flashing light sighted hovering near hillside then flew away.

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2.2.1.3. Unusual or Unidentified Object Sighted

2.2.1.3.1 “Something white” rises from creek, moves across road, floats up hillside. (Folder 3)

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2.2.1.3.2 “Something white” sighted standing by tree.

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2.2.1.3.3 “Light figure” appears to girls in darkened room.

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2.2.1.3.4 “Something white and misty” would ride on the trunk of the car.

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2.2.1.3.5 Light can be seen on a roadside at night in Joplin, Missouri.

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2.2.1.4. Irregularities Appear in Photograph

2.2.1.4.1 Dead person appears in photograph taken at his/her own gravesite. (Folder 4)

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2.2.1.4.2 Dead person appears in photograph taken at relative’s gravesite.

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2.2.1.4.3 Grandmother and infant sister appear, after they have died, in photograph taken at father’s gravesite.

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2.2.1.4.4 Volcano “princess” appears in photograph of volcano.

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2.2.1.4.5 Skeletons appear in photos taken in an apartment.

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2.2.1.4.6 Skull appears in photograph of girl taken right before her death.

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2.2.1.4.7 Man dressed in black mysteriously appears in photo of a suicide victim.

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2.2.1.4.8 Dead appears in photo taken at mortuary.

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2.2.1.4.9 Photograph of person falls and breaks at time of his/her death.

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2.2.1.4.10 Jesus appears in photo taken at grave site.

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2.2.2. Unexplainable Happenings

2.2.2.1. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Cemetery or Burial Site

2.2.2.1.1 Strange phenomena surround Weeping Woman Statue in cemetery. (Folders 5-6)

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2.2.2.1.2 Strange phenomena surround Emo’s Grave in Salt Lake City, Utah, cemetery. (Folder 7)

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2.2.2.1.3 Strange phenomena surround Andrew Carpenter’s grave in Johnson City, New York. (Folder 8)

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2.2.2.1.4 Strange phenomena surround Reggie Child’s grave in Utah cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.5 Strange phenomena surround “Mrs. Grant’s” tomb in Idaho Falls, Idaho, cemetery. (Folder 9)

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2.2.2.1.6 Dead woman returns to life when grave robbers disturb her grave.

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2.2.2.1.7 People lost and strange happenings occur on “Sacred Grounds” near Alpine, Utah.

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2.2.2.1.8 Hotel built on burial site eventually collapses.

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2.2.2.1.9 Man becomes sick after desecrating Hawaiian burial site.

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2.2.2.1.10 Two women see apparitions in Bountiful City cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.11 Legends surrounding “Bloody Mary” gravesite in American Fork cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.12 Wooden cross in cemetery turns red if people who should not be there go in.

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2.2.2.1.13 Strange occurrences at young man’s grave site literally scare another to death.

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2.2.2.1.14 Strange occurrences happen near cemetery in Sandy, Utah.

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2.2.2.1.15 Waiting pioneer woman appears in Paragonah, Utah, cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.16 Knocking on a specific tombstone in Idaho Falls produces a knock in reply.

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2.2.2.1.17 Condemned man who professes his innocence says that grass will not grow over

his grave for 30 years, and it does not.

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2.2.2.1.18 Mountain seen from Paragonah, Utah, cemetery lights up and moves toward investigators.

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2.2.2.1.19 Ghost haunts area near his lone burial site in northern New Mexico.

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2.2.2.1.20 In Ogden Cemetery, if one drives around a statue of a soldier, supernatural

events may occur. (Folder 10)

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2.2.2.1.21 Flower picked from grave in Indian graveyard mysteriously vanishes overnight.

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2.2.2.1.22 During a full moon, strange sounds come from a shed where an eccentric man was buried.

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2.2.2.1.23 Image of dead girl on tombstone cries real tears from her lost boyfriend.

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2.2.2.1.24 Headless ghost appears to couple in cemetery; later they are decapitated in car accident.

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2.2.2.1.25 Gravestone in Kaysville Cemetery glows green.

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2.2.2.1.26 Dead woman rises from grave on hearing her name called.

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2.2.2.1.27 When shaking a certain bush in Basin Cemetery near Oakley, Idaho, one can hear chains rattling.

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2.2.2.1.28 Gravestone periodically glows.

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2.2.2.1.29 The ghost of Alfred Packer roams Littleton Cemetery, Colorado, where he heats

flesh of other dead bodies and turns over gravestones.

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2.2.2.1.30 Supernatural events surround grave site of “Warloo,” a warlock buried in Bountiful Cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.31 Tombstone marked “Hatch” in the Heber Cemetery will respond to question on

anniversary of Mr. Hatch’s death.

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2.2.2.1.32 Statue of mother holding baby in Spanish Fork Cemetery will cry.

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2.2.2.1.33 Dead mother calls out for her children in Torrey Cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.34 Intoxicated man who enters cemetery at night is mysteriously killed.

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2.2.2.1.35 In Logan, Utah, cemetery there is a glass dome covering ashes of cremated man

from which a flicker of light can be seen at midnight.

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2.2.2.1.36 Image of boot appears on sheriff’s tombstone despite attempts to remove it. (Folder 11)

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2.2.2.1.37 Photograph of boy on tombstone in Pleasant Grove, Utah, will follow onlooker with its eyes.

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2.2.2.1.38 House in Sierra Mountains in Nevada built over Indian burial grounds is haunted by Indians.

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2.2.2.1.39 Statue of woman in Pleasant Grove, Utah, cemetery will weep.

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2.2.2.1.40 Woman’s tombstone in Almo, Idaho, cemetery glows in the dark and is haunted by ghost of her husband.

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2.2.2.1.41 Gravestone glows in Garland, Utah, cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.42 “Evil spirit” temporarily possesses anyone who enters Smithfield cemetery and

circles and then lies upon a specific grave.

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2.2.2.1.43 Gravesite of mother, father, and child on Riverbend Road in Blackfoot, Idaho, haunted by ghost of mother.

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2.2.2.1.44 The Kaysville Cross in Kaysville, Utah.

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2.2.2.1.45 Woman’s pickled head can be seen in a jar at her gravesite.

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2.2.2.1.46 The dead returned to kill trespassers on their burial ground.

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2.2.2.1.47 Gravestone of a woman cries when you call her name.

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2.2.2.1.48 Arm can be seen sticking out of grave where man was buried alive.

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2.2.2.1.49 Tombstone glows in the St. Charles cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.50 A glass that will move without aid is placed on a certain grave marker in the Logan cemetery.

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2.2.2.1.51 John Thompson’s grave will answer a question regarding his death.

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2.2.2.1.52 A homesteader built his home on ground that wailed, later he found the graves of many children.

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2.2.2.1.53 Strange things happen in a new house that is later found to be built on an old burial ground.

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2.2.2.2. Supernatural Happenings Occur in House or Yard

2.2.2.2.1 House plant saves family by entangling its leaves in car keys. (Folder 1)

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2.2.2.2.2 Whenever it rains, red stain appears in grass at spot where woman was murdered in front yard.

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2.2.2.2.3 No wind blows near house in Rexburg, Idaho, where man killed his wife and himself.

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2.2.2.2.4 Man attacked by wild animal after his wife dies, later finds wife’s body with animal’s ear between her teeth.

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2.2.2.2.5 House doorknob turns and jiggles apparently by itself.

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2.2.2.2.6 China Doll terrorized and kills family.

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2.2.2.2.7 Woman’s head falls off when Velvet Choker she wears is removed.

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2.2.2.2.8 Pool table mysteriously used.

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2.2.2.2.9 Strange noises and movement of furniture in home where man died.

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2.2.2.2.10 Strange happenings in house that had been subject to boundary dispute.

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2.2.2.2.11 House never finished being built is “building itself.” (Folder 2)

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2.2.2.2.12 House where shadows move and where accidents happen thought to be cursed.

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2.2.2.2.13 Strange happenings, lights, and noises come from cabin after builder moves to new home.

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2.2.2.2.14 Strange knocking sounds and various disturbances occur in house built over former slave quarters.

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2.2.2.2.15 Rock thrown in window of house flies back out, chair rocks by itself.

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2.2.2.2.16 Room in house where rocking chair rocks by itself and walking noises heard.

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2.2.2.2.17 Mysterious thumping on stairs and door opens in spite of restraint.

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2.2.2.2.18 Two fellows stopping at a house for water meet a strange couple; later

the same day, house is found abandoned and water pump is dry and rusty.

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2.2.2.2.19 Shadow of hanged man can be seen in house where event occurred.

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2.2.2.2.20 Figures in green light reenact an axing at abandoned shack.

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2.2.2.2.21 Cracking sound and green light come from abandoned house where boy hanged himself.

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2.2.2.2.22 Bizarre events take place to three boys who stay overnight in house where man

killed his family and committed suicide.

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2.2.2.2.23 When anyone touches black china cat, he or she dies shortly afterward.

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2.2.2.2.24 Detached human hand axes parents to death, children survive.

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2.2.2.2.25 House has unexplainable eerie feeling in one room.

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2.2.2.2.26 Boys inexplicably disappear after entering abandoned house.

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2.2.2.2.27 Names that appear in the windows of a haunted house mean death to the one named.

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2.2.2.2.28 While boys were out neighbors heard unusual pounding throughout their apartment.

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2.2.2.2.29 Boy pointed to a rainbow and his fingers stopped growing and fell off.

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2.2.2.2.30 Water turns on seemingly by itself and holes appear in random places in the floor.

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2.2.2.2.31 Unusual occurrences happen in the kitchen. (Folder 3)

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2.2.2.2.32 Wife kills her husband for his golden arm but he returns to get it and kills her.

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2.2.2.2.33 Unusual things happen in home; the neighbors will not speak about the previous owners.

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2.2.2.2.34 Strange sounds are heard from abandoned castle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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2.2.2.2.35 After father kills family and himself, strange things begin occurring in the home.

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2.2.2.2.36 Cougar kills bride and returns the next night and is mysteriously killed by the bride’s corpse.

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2.2.2.2.37 Man that lives under boy’s bed kills other boys, but the boy turns up dead one day.

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2.2.2.2.38 Man begins to shrink in green lit room and tries to call for help.

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2.2.2.2.39 Boy disappears while looking for his cat near haunted mansion.

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2.2.2.2.40 Man returns home from work to find that his family has disappeared without a trace.

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2.2.2.3. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Hospital

2.2.2.3.1 Bloody footprints mysteriously appear in hospital hallway; wrapped dead

body found mysteriously unwrapped. (Folder 4)

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2.2.2.4. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Motel, Hotel, Boarding House, Inn, or Apartment House

2.2.2.4.1 Three days after woman is beheaded in motel; her head is seen floating in hallway. (Folder 5)

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2.2.2.4.2 Young Japanese woman’s mental health affected by scroll found hanging in her new apartment.

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2.2.2.5. Supernatural Happenings Occur in School, University Campus, or Dorm

2.2.2.5.1 Series of accounts regarding strange occurrences at Church College of Hawaii. (Folder 6)

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2.2.2.5.2 Strange events occur in school dorm room.

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2.2.2.5.3 Image of girl who hanged herself keeps appearing on dorm room door.

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2.2.2.5.4 Woman’s face would mysteriously appear in bathroom mirror of elementary school.

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2.2.2.6. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Canyon, Mountain, or Foothills

2.2.2.6.1 Old woman with supernatural powers appears and disappears in Logan Canyon, Utah. (Folder 7)

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2.2.2.6.2 Lady in white appears in Logan Canyon, Utah.

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2.2.2.6.3 Supernatural Indian music lures anyone sleeping in area away from the area miners and campers.

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2.2.2.6.4 Man taking shelter in a cave finds a large city inside a cave; later, trying to return, the cave

cannot be found again.

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2.2.2.6.5 Man in airplane crash wanders mountains with plane propeller stuck through his body.

He is known as “Prop Man.”

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2.2.2.6.6 “Devil Rock” shakes when youth tries to climb it against warnings not to.

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2.2.2.6.7 Supernatural events occur in the Absoroka Mountain Range in Wyoming.

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2.2.2.6.8 Unknown supernatural helps save man from certain death.

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2.2.2.6.9 Woman investigating the occult had a supernatural experience at Strawberry Reservoir.

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2.2.2.6.10 King of the World once lived in Moab, Utah.

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2.2.2.6.11 Lady in white in Freedom, Wyoming.

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2.2.2.7. Supernatural Happenings Occur Along Roadway

2.2.2.7.1 Couple in car are followed by strange light that eventually controls their car and

leads them into desert where they vanish. (Folder 8)

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2.2.2.7.2 If a stop sign is run at an intersection in Buhl, Idaho, a red light will appear in a house

on the corner indicating that running the stop sign a second time could mean death.

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2.2.2.7.3 Man driving coal truck stops at railroad crossing because of “phantom” Cadillac and avoids being hit by train.

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2.2.2.7.4 Gravity Hill in Salt Lake City, Utah, pulls cars up a downhill slope.

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2.2.2.7.5 In Japan, man driving car with his arm out of window mysteriously is slashed by Japanese “reaper.”

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2.2.2.7.6 Dancing girl appears and then disappears on roadway between Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls.

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2.2.2.7.7 “Phantom” horse and wagon pass people walking to town on a country road.

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2.2.2.7.8 Men in Spain sleep in car along roadside and wake up in Argentina.

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2.2.2.7.9 Man’s father and grandfather were killed at different times in same spot on road;

man had unusual experience there as well.

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2.2.2.7.10 Airplane touches down and chases car along the road.

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2.2.2.7.11 An unknown man gives advice to an accident victim then disappears.

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2.2.2.8. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Grove or Park

2.2.2.8.1 Memory Grove legends. (Folder 9)

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2.2.2.9. Supernatural Happenings Occur In/Near/Around Body of Water

2.2.2.9.1 Planes and boats disappear in Bermuda Triangle. (Folder 10)

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2.2.2.9.2 Brazos River, Texas, has area where many people mysteriously drown.

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2.2.2.9.3 Woman with long flowing hair rises out of Crater Lake, Oregon.

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2.2.2.10. Supernatural Happenings Occur at Campsite or While Camping

2.2.2.10.1 Girl missing on camp-out appears at campfire with worm-eaten face,

calling for help. (Folder 11)

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2.2.2.10.2 Strange occurrences take place while men camp on Moose Lake in Canada.

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2.2.2.10.3 Horrifying events occur while men camp on Lake Windimere.

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2.2.2.10.4 DeWitt Campground legends.

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2.2.2.10.5 Red-eyed, hairy monster appears at campsite in Providence Canyon, Utah.

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2.2.2.10.6 An unknown white and massive creature attacks men while camping in Idaho.

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2.2.2.10.7 Floating man appears in air to two boys camping near Twin Bridges on

the Snake River; one boy’s hair immediately turns white.

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2.2.2.10.8 Two scouts mysteriously disappear while winter camping.

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2.2.2.10.9 Scouts found dead after being frightened by the legend of miner with blue lantern.

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2.2.2.10.10 “Purple Bishop” terrorizes camping area, attacking youth.

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2.2.2.11. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Religious Building

2.2.2.11.1 LDS chapel near Rexburg, Idaho, is site of strange occurrences. (Folder 12)

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2.2.2.12. Supernatural Happenings Occur in Public Places

2.2.2.12.1 Uncalled for “fireman” finds small blaze and extinguished it in Lyric Theater. (Folder 13)

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2.2.2.12.2 Boy molested and beaten in rest stop bathroom; parents saw no one go in or come out.

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2.2.2.12.3 Unknown man asks for money, gets it, then disappears.

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2.2.2.0. Miscellaneous

2.2.2.0.1 Woman goes to bed with black hair the day her brother dies and awakens

next morning with white hair. (Folder 14)

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2.2.2.0.2 Girl dies on strangulation prior to her marriage.

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2.2.2.0.3 Man in Army jailed for deranged behavior; later mysteriously killed in locked cell with teeth marks on neck.

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2.2.2.0.4 Bright “needles” appearing on man’s fingertips lead him and his son away from dangerous ravine.

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2.2.2.0.5 Hand of dead girl resists being buried and reappears at various times.

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2.2.2.0.6 Mysterious occurrences surround “Devil Tree” outside Roosevelt, Utah.

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2.2.2.0.7 Mysterious footprints in snow allow a young girl to avoid ruining her only pair of shoes.

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2.2.2.0.8 Farmer mysteriously disappears from his field.

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2.2.2.0.9 Medical student turns old and his hair turns white after taking skeleton from

graveyard and being visited by spirit of dead.

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2.2.2.0.10 Mysterious voice speaks out when an attempt is made to remove hidden treasure from cave.

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2.2.2.0.11 Mysterious events surround Kay’s Cross near Kaysville, Utah.

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2.2.2.0.12 Candle left on hood of car at Third Dam up Logan Canyon will be mysteriously lit by some unseen force.

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2.2.3. ESP, Visions, Voices, Supernatural Powers of the Mind

2.2.3.1 Man has premonitions of an auto accident of death of his infant daughter. (Folder 15)

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2.2.3.2 Boy on date avoids auto accident through premonition warning to stop the car.

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2.2.3.3 While away from home, children have sensory premonition of fire occurring in their home.

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2.2.3.4 Whenever girl hears certain song, she gets a phone call or letter from her boyfriend.

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2.2.3.5 Wife, feeling uneasy about her husband’s being gone, abruptly screams for him to turn around,

he hears the cry, which saves his life in spite of the distance.

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2.2.3.6 Group in Smithfield Canyon thought to be able to physically move through time with powers of the mind.

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2.2.3.7 One twin feels pain while other twin has operation.

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2.2.3.8 Man herding sheep to winter range knows his brother has died without being told.

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2.2.3.9 Man has feeling that his family needed him, which they did.

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2.2.3.10 Woman has premonition of her brother’s death.

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2.2.3.11 Woman has vision telling of her brother’s death.

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2.2.3.12 Teacher has premonition of pupil’s brother’s death.

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2.2.3.13 Daughter has premonition that saves father from highway accident.

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2.2.3.14 Man has premonition which saves him from highway accident.

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2.2.3.15 Brother working in field has premonition of little sister’s death.

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2.2.3.16 Children have premonition of father’s death.

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2.2.3.17 Woman has premonition of her son’s impending death.

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2.2.3.18 Father has premonition of his son’s impending death.

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2.2.3.19 Three members of extended family have premonitions of boy’s dying.

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2.2.3.20 Elderly man who has premonition of his own death bids friends and family goodbye.

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2.2.3.21 Woman knows of nephew’s death in World War II prior to receiving official notice. (Folder 16)

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2.2.3.22 Grandmother has premonition of family reuniting at funerals.

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2.2.3.23 Man has premonition that he should not board a plane which later crashes.

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2.2.3.24 Husband’s premonition about post-partum wife saves her from dying.

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2.2.3.25 Truck driver’s premonition to slow down saves him from accident at washed-out bridge.

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2.2.3.26 Premonition to move car saves it from being smashed by tree.

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2.2.3.27 While traveling in town, mother has premonition of accident at home.

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2.2.3.28 Captain of ship has premonition about the distress of a second ship and sails to help it.

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2.2.3.29 Doctor, acting on strong feeling, operates on woman and finds malignant tumor which

would have killed her if gone uninfected.

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2.2.3.30 Neighbor encourages young woman to travel with one sister rather than another and in doing so, saves her life.

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2.2.3.31 Mysterious “voice” saves man from being killed by lightning.

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2.2.3.32 Mysterious voice saves driver from accident at washed out bridge.

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2.2.3.33 By heeding voice not to buy a car tire, man saves family from certain death when car steering breaks.

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2.2.3.34 Mysterious voice saves man from rock slide.

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2.2.3.35 Mysterious voice saves man and his family from flood by urging him to camp on ridge.

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2.2.3.36 Mysterious voice saves man from Indian massacre.

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2.2.3.37 Mysterious voice helps protect man from being seriously injured by buckshot.

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2.2.3.38 Mysterious voice warns woman driving car of on-coming car.

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2.2.3.39 Mysterious voice warns driver of wreck ahead.

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2.2.3.40 Mysterious voice saves World War II flyer and his crew. (Folder 17)

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2.2.3.41 Mysterious voice warns driver of danger ahead on the road.

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2.2.3.42 Blind man has “sense” of intruder in home.

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2.2.3.43 Young geologist hears voice calling him “home” prior to his accidental death.

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2.2.3.44 Grandfather hears voice of retarded grandson at the time of grandson’s death.

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2.2.3.45 Sisters share ESP regarding a son following deaths of grandmother and uncle.

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2.2.3.46 Peter Maughan had premonition to retrieve gun to scare off his attackers before they struck.

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2.2.4. Harbingers of Death

2.2.4.1 “White figure” seen traveling to and stopping at house where following

day lady of house dies. (Folder 18)

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2.2.4.2 “Spirit” sighted by mother and sister of woman at exact time of woman’s death.

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2.2.4.3 Child relates her preferred burial conditions to mother prior to child’s unexpected death.

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2.2.4.4 “Woman in black” seen approaching house where following day dead person is discovered.

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2.2.4.5 “White dog” appears prior to unexpected and violent death of Navajo woman.

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2.2.4.6 China cabinet rattles when someone dies whom owner of cabinet knows.

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2.2.4.7 Coal miners hear man slip, scream, and fall to his death prior to the event.

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2.2.4.8 Bird in cuckoo clock cuckoos only when family member dies.

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2.2.4.9 Knock on window occurs when someone dies in woman’s family.

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2.2.4.10 Clock makes swishing sound when woman’s mother dies.

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2.2.4.11 If you see a gray man, you will be safe but someone in your family will die.

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2.2.4.12 Banshee arrives three nights in a row to foretell of woman’s death.

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2.2.4.13 Those that saw an Indian on the side of the road all died near the same time.

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2.2.4.14 Man brings a box and promises a million dollars if someone will open it and press the button. The catch is that a person they do not know will die.

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2.2.5. Dreams

2.2.5.1 Sick woman dreams of her dead grandmother who gives a remedy for her sickness. (Folder 19)

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2.2.5.2 Dead neighbor girl comes to farmer in a dream and warns him to check his sheep.

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2.2.5.3 Mother dreams that newly buried son is actually alive and he is saved.

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2.2.5.4 Man has premonition dream of drowning death of his buddy.

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2.2.5.5 Because of a dream, man locates hidden grave of his ancestor.

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2.2.5.6 Man has a dream premonition that his brother dies and another brother informs him.

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2.2.5.7 Student dreams of violin teacher’s death.

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2.2.5.8 Man dreams of location of one of his lost cows.

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2.2.5.9 Mother dreams of her son’s catching on fire.

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2.2.5.10 Daughter dreams of her father falling while hiking.

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2.2.5.11 Grandmother dreams of grandchild being dragged by a horse.

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2.2.5.12 Mother dreams her son was in danger at the same time his plane is shot down in World War II.

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2.2.5.13 Man is saved by dream in which his brother tells him to move.

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2.2.5.14 Man dreams of his own death prior to its occurring.

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2.2.5.15 Woman dreams of her own death prior to its occurring.

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2.2.5.16 Woman dreams of fire that kills her father-in-law and destroys a home.

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2.2.5.17 Man dreams of his uncle’s death.

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2.2.5.18 Man having an operation dreams of his friend’s accidental death.

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2.2.5.19 Man dreams of the murder of his brother and as a result recovers his body and accuses his murderers.

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2.2.5.20 Daughter’s dream saves her father from dying.

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2.2.5.21 Woman dreams of her youngest brother’s death. (Folder 20)

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2.2.5.22 College girl dreams of her friends being killed in a car/train accident.

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2.2.5.23 Dream mine legend.

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2.2.5.24 Dream helps man become reunited with his family from whom he had become separated as a youth.

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2.2.5.25 Father of family dreams of family home before they move into it.

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2.2.5.26 Hungry man dreams of location of deer with broken leg.

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2.2.5.27 Woman’s dream foretells baby daughter’s death.

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2.2.5.28 Girl’s dream prefaces grandmother’s death.

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2.2.5.29 Dream predicts end of relationship between young woman and man.

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2.2.5.30 Mother converses with voices in dream regarding the life and death of her sons.

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2.2.5.31 Woman dreams of the child she adopts.

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2.2.5.32 Man dreams of three times in one night to tell his sons he loves them.

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2.2.5.33 Dreams can bring death.

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2.2.0. Miscellaneous

2.2.0.1 Cursed crystal bell, when rung, causes one person who is alive to die and

one person who is dead to become alive. (Folder 21)

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Box 11

2.3. People Known for Supernatural or Supernormal Power

2.3.1. Witches, Witchcraft, Voodoo, Magic, or Curses

2.3.1.1 Witch scratches windows of parked cars. (Folder 1)

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2.3.1.2 Witch hitchhikes in the form of a beautiful girl.

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2.3.1.3 Witch places then removes curse on chili.

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2.3.1.4 Indian boy practices witchcraft against farmer.

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2.3.1.5 Informant tells of witch who lived in her neighborhood.

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2.3.1.6 Informant tells of meeting a witch.

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2.3.1.7 Young girl practices witchcraft, puts spell on friend.

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2.3.1.8 Witch doctors in Brazil place various curses on people.

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2.3.1.9 Baby made sick by witch.

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2.3.1.10 Informant tells of warlock in Sweden.

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2.3.1.11 Woman in small town thought to be a witch.

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2.3.1.12 Witch would cast spells that would make people sick.

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2.3.1.13 Instructor thought to be a witch.

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2.3.1.14 Witch in spirit form reveals herself to a family on whom she has sworn vengeance.

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2.3.1.15 Witch Hecate (Folder 2)

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2.3.1.16 Witchcraft ritual gives increased power to those participating. (Folder 3)

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2.3.1.17 Group of Native Americans practice Indian ritual that influences their friend’s behavior.

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2.3.1.18 Witches thought to congregate near Green River, Wyoming.

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2.3.1.19 Woman makes voodoo doll of her boss and appears to have success affecting him.

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2.3.1.20 “The Cat Woman” transforms people into cats.

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2.3.1.21 “Swamp Witch” thought to exist in Florida Everglades.

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2.3.1.22 Curse put on people who hurt a tree where hanging took place.

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2.3.1.23 Unusual events attributed to witch occur in couple’s house.

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2.3.1.24 High school girl who claims to be a witch puts a spell on a classmate.

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2.3.1.25 Objectionable mill worker has the power to hex fellow mill workers.

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2.3.1.26 Indians use black magic to avenge their families and land.

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2.3.1.27 Witch lives across from elementary school.

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2.3.2. Water-Witches

2.3.2.1 How to water-witch. (Folder 4)

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2.3.2.2 Water-witch corrects water problem.

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2.3.2.3 Water-witch finds water for Brigham Young.

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2.3.2.4 Water-witch finds water where geologists could not.

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2.3.2.5 General information regarding water-witching and one specific water-witch.

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2.3.2.6 Mineral witch witches for tin in England.

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2.3.2.7 Enemies in Vietnam witched for with brazing rods.

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2.3.2.8 Grandson tells of grandfather’s water-witching.

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2.3.2.9 Mormon church high councilman with water-witching power locates water for church farm.

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2.3.3. Fortune Tellers, Gypsies, and Seers

2.3.3.1 Fortune teller foresees the drowning death of a man. (Folder 5)

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2.3.3.2 Fortune teller foresees a young woman’s joining a religion and meeting her future husband.

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2.3.3.3 Fortune teller makes three predictions about a young girl’s life.

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2.3.3.4 Fortune teller makes predictions that prove true.

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2.3.3.5 Man who studies the stars predicts future for two Mormon missionaries.

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2.3.3.6 Palm reader tells of past and comments on the ability to read palms.

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2.3.3.7 Informant’s grandmother would tell fortunes through cards.

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2.3.3.8 Salt Lake City considered by some fortune tellers to have protective dome over city warding off magic and evil.

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2.3.3.9 Fortune teller predicts who young woman will marry and teaches her how to read fortunes from cards.

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2.3.3.10 Woman reading tea leaves predicts future.

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2.3.3.11 Fortune teller predicts long trip, money, and bad news.

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2.3.3.12 Man told where to find silver.

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2.3.3.13 Man predicts another’s death as well as his own.

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2.3.3.14 Girl has power to see future both with and without peep-stone.

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2.3.3.15 Woman using peep-stones finds missing child. (Folder 6)

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2.3.3.16 Woman locates lost horses and lost sheep through use of peep-stone.

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2.3.3.17 Gypsies leave curses on Cache Valley, Utah.

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2.3.3.18 “Peepstone” Lady confirms suspicion about who stole a pig.

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2.3.3.19 Man predicts the construction of Flaming Gorge Dam.

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2.3.3.20 Gypsy foresees young woman marrying man who owns a lot of land.

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2.3.4. Spiritualists and Mediums

2.3.4.1 Mormon missionaries in Indiana attend séance where spirits appear. (Folder 7)

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2.3.4.2 Woman rejects spiritualist experience.

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2.3.4.3 Mormon missionaries in Ontario, Canada, attend séance.

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2.3.4.4 Presence of Mormon missionaries prohibits having séance.

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2.3.4.5 Mormon missionaries attend “Holy Ghost Rally” in southern California.

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2.3.4.6 Mormon missionaries attend spiritualist meeting in Santa Barbara, California.

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2.3.4.7 Mormon missionaries in Brazil observe spiritualist meeting.

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2.3.4.8 During a séance, man sees dead son who committed suicide.

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2.3.5. Healers

2.3.5.1 Man with special power stops girl from bleeding after an operation. (Folder 8)

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2.3.5.2 Sleeping cap passed down in family said to aid healing through healing power of original owner.

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2.3.5.3 Indian medicine man sucks evil spirit from woman in pain.

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2.3.5.4 The healing quilt.

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2.3.0. Miscellaneous

2.3.0.1 Woman solves problem and gains information through supernatural dream power. (Folder 9)

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2.3.0.2 Seventh son of seventh son has mystical or unusual powers.

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2.3.0.3 Bishop travels faster than speed of light.

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2.3.0.4 “Pied Piper” legend.

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2.4. Games of the Supernatural

2.4.1. Ouija Boards

2.4.1.1. Predictions Made by Ouija Board

2.4.1.1.1 Ouija predicts death. (Folder 10)

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2.4.1.1.2 Ouija predicts suicide.

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2.4.1.1.3 Ouija predicts location of dead body.

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2.4.1.1.4 Ouija predicts building will burn.

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2.4.1.1.5 Ouija predicts divorce.

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2.4.1.1.6 Ouija predicts marriage.

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2.4.1.1.7 Ouija predicts gender of unborn child.

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2.4.1.1.8 Ouija predicts family will rent house.

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2.4.1.1.9 Ouija predicts boys will be in accident; later, boys driving in car “transported” to path of oncoming diesel truck.

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2.4.1.1.10 Ouija falsely predicts family will find gold.

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2.4.1.2. Powers Verified or Not Verified by Question/Answer or Spelled Out in Response

2.4.1.2.1 Ouija answers questions regarding its power. (Folder 11)

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2.4.1.2.2 Ouija questioned about spirits.

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2.4.1.2.3 Ouija verifies death.

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2.4.1.2.4 Ouija correctly quotes scripture.

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2.4.1.2.5 Ouija reveals murder.

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2.4.1.2.6 Ouija reveals child not safe in bed.

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2.4.1.3. Powers Verified or Not Verified by Events

2.4.1.3.1 Concerned Mormon missionaries appear at house where girls play with Ouija. (Folder 12)

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2.4.1.3.2 Ouija makes lights go out.

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2.4.1.3.3 Ouija makes glass hit wall.

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2.4.1.3.4 Cross-shaped light appears on hillside.

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2.4.1.3.5 Hand and foot prints appear.

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2.4.1.3.6 Ouija rises in air in cemetery.

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2.4.1.3.7 Ouija makes lamps and tables tip over.

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2.4.1.3.8 Ouija gives warning to be careful.

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2.4.1.3.9 Ouija’s message later given meaning in cemetery.

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2.4.1.3.10 Ouija makes teenager drive off road.

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2.4.1.3.11 Shrunken head glows.

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2.4.1.3.12 Rocking chair rocks.

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2.4.1.3.13 Various incidents verify power of Ouija.

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2.4.1.3.14 Ouija makes table rise.

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2.4.1.3.15 Cat, walking outside past window, mysteriously picked up and thrown at window

where people inside are playing with Ouija board.

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2.4.1.3.16 Teenagers play with Ouija and put an evil spirit in cat.

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2.4.1.3.17 Upon request, beads on canopy move and big wind blows through window.

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2.4.1.3.18 Three teenaged boys negotiate trade with Ouija board, exchanging their souls for stardom on football team.

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2.4.1.3.19 Satan appears to BYU girls who ask the Ouija about him.

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2.4.1.4. Ouija Board Resists Destruction

2.4.1.4.1 After thrown in garbage, Ouija board later appears. (Folder 13)

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2.4.1.4.2 Ouija resists burning and/or breaking.

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2.4.1.5. Appearance/Manifestation of Devil, Spirit, or Being

2.4.1.5.1 Man appears to boys and contracts for souls. (Folder 14)

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2.4.1.5.2 Teenagers ask Devil to appear; man appears.

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2.4.1.5.3 Ouija responds that it is Lucifer.

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2.4.1.5.4 Ouija responds that it is Devil; boy injured.

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2.4.1.5.5 People become over-powered by spirit of Ouija.

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2.4.1.5.6 Satan wants to talk using Ouija.

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2.4.1.5.7 Boys see transparent man.

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2.4.1.5.8 Image of Devil/evil appears in window.

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2.4.1.5.9 Faces and hands appear at car window.

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2.4.1.5.10 Devil appears in form of smoke.

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2.4.1.5.11 Spirit of Ouija appears.

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2.4.1.5.12 Spirit appears and encourages suicide.

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2.4.1.5.13 Black dog appears.

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2.4.1.5.14 Red blob appears.

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2.4.1.5.15 Spirit appears as shadow. (Folder 15)

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2.4.1.5.16 Images of man and faces appear.

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2.4.1.5.17 Spirits visit female student.

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2.4.1.5.18 Man in business suit appears.

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2.4.1.5.19 Spirits bother man at night.

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2.4.1.5.20 Teenagers ask Cain to appear; black man appears.

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2.4.1.5.21 Black man appears.

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2.4.1.5.22 Ugly man dressed in black appears at window.

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2.4.1.6. People Possessed or Attacked

2.4.1.6.1 Female slammed against wall. (Folder 16)

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2.4.1.6.2 Table pins person against wall or door.

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2.4.1.6.3 Female thrown around room.

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2.4.1.6.4 Male physically battered.

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2.4.1.6.5 Females chased around room.

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2.5.1.6.6 Female floats through air.

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2.5.1.6.7 Knife suspended over female’s head.

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2.5.1.6.8 Male lies on floor frothing at mouth.

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2.4.1.7. People Driven to Attempt Suicide or Murder

2.4.1.7.1 Eight of ten people commit suicide. (Folder 17)

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2.4.1.7.2 Female spirit tries to coax male into suicide.

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2.4.1.7.3 Female attempts suicide.

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2.4.1.7.4 Female kills husband.

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2.4.1.7.5 Spirit entices boy to commit suicide.

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2.4.1.8. Religious Intervention

2.4.1.8.1 Ouija stops working at midnight when Sunday is next day. (Folder 18)

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2.4.1.8.2 Ouija unable to work in presence of Mormon priesthood.

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2.4.1.8.3 Religious books ward off evil.

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2.4.1.8.4 Mormon bishops’ blessing rids of evil or negative power.

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2.4.1.8.5 Evil commanded to leave by people using Ouija.

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2.4.1.8.6 Mormon missionaries rid couple of Ouija board caused mental illness. (Folder 19)

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2.4.1.8.7 Mormon elders bring male out of trance.

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2.4.1.8.8 Mormon seminary teacher administers to female student.

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2.4.1.8.9 Ouija inhibited by power of God.

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2.4.1.8.10 Ouija in inhibited by picture of religious figure on wall.

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2.4.1.8.11 Bad spirits and mist surround car because girl played with Ouija board;

boys with Mormon priesthood exorcize spirits.

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2.1.4.0. Miscellaneous

2.1.4.0.1 Mormon woman takes Ouija board to MIA meeting. (Folder 20)

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2.1.4.0.2 Female prefers Ouija to religion.

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2.1.4.0.3 Ouija board creates cigarette smoke odor in closet.

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2.1.4.0.4 Female feels evil in room.

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2.1.4.0.5 Voice in Ouija calls for help.

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2.1.4.0.6 Japanese version of Ouija board drives teenaged girl into mental illness.

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Box 12

2.4.2. Up-Table

2.4.2.1 Three girls play “Rise Table Rise” with positive results. (Folder 1)

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2.4.2.2 Girls trying to raise a table conjure an “evil spirit.”

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2.4.2.3 Teenaged boys raise marble table.

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2.4.2.4 Boys raise table twice.

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2.4.2.5 Table predicts woman will not bear children.

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2.4.2.6 Boys raising tables in church house are cornered by tables.

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2.4.2.7 Female plays up-table until she sees feet.

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2.4.2.8 Table predicts woman’s death.

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2.4.2.9 Table falsely predicts girl’s death date.

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2.4.2.10 Male communicates with dead grandfather through raised table.

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2.4.2.11 Table smashes boy against wall.

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2.4.2.12 How to play up-table with positive results.

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2.4.3. Levitation

2.4.3.1 Girls at camp levitate campmate. (Folder 2)

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2.4.3.2 Power raises girl sitting in chair.

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2.4.3.3 “Light as a feather, stiff as a board.”

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2.4.4. Call Forth Spirits or Supernatural Powers

2.4.4.1 “Spirit” enters a bed while girls are playing with supernatural. (Folder 3)

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2.4.4.2 People try to call forth spirits from the dead.

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2.4.4.3 College students perform a “mock” séance.

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2.4.4.4 Girls at party call forth a spirit and a handsome man appears.

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2.4.4.5 College girls call forth spirits and have bad experience.

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2.4.4.6 Teenagers try to conjure up Dracula from “Dracula’s Grave” near Ashton, Idaho.

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2.4.4.7 Boys lay across grave and chant, “Satan, come and get me,” for an unusual experience.

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2.4.4.8 Calling Forth Bloody Mary

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2.4.4.9 Conjuring up “Candyman.”

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2.4.5. Cards

2.4.5.1 Tarot cards make predictions. (Folder 4)

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2.4.6. Candles

2.4.6.1 People ask candle for answers to questions. (Folder 5)

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2.4.6.2 Teenagers request spirit to blow out candle.

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2.4.6.3 Candle used in supernatural play relights itself; after being removed from apartment, it mysteriously returns.

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2.4.0. Miscellaneous

2.4.0.1 Events prove power of Kreskin’s ESP game to young woman playing with it. (Folder 6)

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2.5. Supernatural or Supernormal Characters or Creatures

2.5.1. Shape-Shifters

2.5.1.1. Werewolves

2.5.1.1.1 Werewolf discovered, killed, and buried in cemetery. (Folder 7)

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2.5.1.1.2 Werewolf frequents girls’ camp.

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2.5.1.1.3 Werewolf said to exist in canyon.

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2.5.1.1.4 Female unknowingly dates werewolf.

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2.5.1.1.5 Man in neighborhood thought to change into cat.

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2.5.1.2. Skinwalkers

2.5.1.2.1 Navajo Skinwalker chases girl in car, attacks man on horse. (Folder 8)

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2.5.1.2.2 Navajo brothers see Skinwalkers alongside road.

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2.5.1.2.3 How to destroy a Skinwalker.

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2.5.1.2.4 Medicine men on reservation become Skinwalkers.

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2.5.1.2.5 Skinwalkers tracked and killed by townsmen.

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2.5.1.2.6 Skinwalker kills all the children in one family while parents are away.

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2.5.1.2.7 “Silver Wolf” turns out to be an old Navajo woman.

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2.5.1.2.8 Skinwalkers thought to live in mountains near Blanding, Utah, near “Devil’s Heartbeat.”

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2.5.1.2.9 Person sighted beside road thought to be skinwalker.

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2.5.1.2.10 Skinwalkers thought to exist.

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2.5.1.2.11 Navajo Indians dressed like wolves frighten and harm other Navajos.

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2.5.1.2.12 Indian dresses in wolf skins and has evil powers.

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2.5.1.2.13 Half man/half wolf creature reaches for Navajo girl.

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2.5.1.0. Miscellaneous

2.5.1.0.1 Two Indians in back of truck turn into coyotes. (Folder 9)

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2.5.1.0.2 Ute Indian becomes white wolf with human head that chases cars in isolated areas.

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2.5.1.0.3 Grandmother thought to change into cat.

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2.5.1.0.4 People whose spirits become dogs while they sleep, Nahaul, thought to exist.

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2.5.2. Humans Who Go Wild, Who Become Permanently Non-Human, or Who are Half Human/Half Animal

2.5.2.1 Hunter turns into hairy wild man. (Folder 10)

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2.5.2.2 BYU Cougar Man attacks and kills BYU students.

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2.5.2.3 Annie Bangs - blond-headed child reared by wolves.

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2.5.2.4 Hyrum miner is disfigured in mine disaster and becomes wild. (Folder 11)

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2.5.2.5 Smokey Joe - man goes insane in mountains. (Folder 12)

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2.5.2.6 Myra Hess - vampire thought to exist on California beach.

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2.5.2.7 The Jersey Devil legend.

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2.5.2.8 “Bloody Mary” of Payson Canyon, Utah - miner’s wife goes insane.

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2.5.2.9 Woodcutter goes crazy after his son is killed by bear in canyon above Hyde Park, Utah.

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2.5.2.10 Miner’s wife goes insane after husband is killed in mine.

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2.5.2.11 Woman burned in fire becomes half woman/half donkey.

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2.5.2.12 Country doctor who makes house call lured by green mist in which he shrinks to misshapen form.

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2.5.2.13 “Deer Woman” - half deer/half woman thought to exist.

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2.5.2.14 “Lizardman” of White Pine Lake in Logan Canyon, Utah, thought to exist.

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2.5.2.15 Ivan, the boy who ran with the wolves.

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2.5.3. Races of Supernatural or Supernormal “Little People” Thought to Exist

2.5.3.1 Leprechauns thought to exist. (Folder 13)

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2.5.3.2 Menehunes thought to exist.

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2.5.3.3 Dwarves thought to exist.

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2.5.3.4 Race of 4-foot high Indians thought to exist in Utah desert.

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2.5.3.5 Race of 18-inch high pygmies thought to have existed.

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2.5.3.6 Cheenans thought to exist.

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2.5.3.7 Race of 28-inch pygmies thought to exist in South Carolina.

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2.5.3.8 Hobbits thought to exist in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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2.5.4. Monsters, Beasts, Creatures, or Giants

2.5.4.1 Bigfoot thought to exist. (Folder 14)

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2.5.4.2 Thirty-foot giant thought to exist. (Folder 15)

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2.5.4.3 City of the Rocks giant thought to exist.

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2.5.4.4 Half man/half sheep creature thought to exist.

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2.5.4.5 Bladen County beast thought to exist.

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2.5.4.6 Payson Canyon monster thought to exist.

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2.5.4.7 Rebobs thought to exist in Napa Valley, California.

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2.5.4.8 Creature which is half plant/half animal eats humans but looks like a plant.

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2.5.4.9 Hairy, 12-foot Wasatch Monster thought to live in North Canyon, Utah.

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2.5.4.10 “Banshee” of Devil’s Corral near Twin Falls, Idaho, attacks people.

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2.5.4.11 Large hairy creature called Beaushauga roams vicinity near Mill Creeks Gorge, Ohio.

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2.5.4.12 Monster from abandoned slaughter house kills one boy and chases another.

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2.5.4.13 Creature thought to exist in Dry Canyon near Logan, Utah.

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2.5.4.14 Foul-smelling monster enters home and chases family member who is alone in house.

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2.5.4.15 Invisible monster known as Hobecat attacks sheep and men.

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2.5.4.16 Japanese monsters thought to exist.

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2.5.4.17 Young woman goes insane after encounter with creature with gigantic green eye sighted behind ear.

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2.5.4.18 La Diablesse is a devil-woman creature who lures drunken men to disaster and horror.

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2.5.4.19 “Nishi” roams the villages of Indians luring beautiful girls to their deaths.

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2.5.4.20 “Woat,” half coyote/half wolf, only has three legs and lives around Lake Powell.

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2.5.5. Water or Swamp Creatures

2.5.5.1 Bear Lake Monster thought to exist. (Folder 16)

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2.5.5.2 Hairy swamp creature in Florida thought to exist. (Folder 17)

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2.5.5.3 Big, black monster in creek in Fountain Green, Utah, thought to exist.

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2.5.5.4 Sea monster off Washington coast thought to exist.

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2.5.5.5 Boggy Creek monster thought to exist.

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2.5.5.6 Green, slimy monster in irrigation ditch thought to exist.

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2.5.5.7 “Water Babies” thought to live along banks of rivers and creeks and make crying sounds.

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2.5.5.8 Black, hairy monster sighted in Moon Lake, Duchesne County, Utah.

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2.5.5.9 Monster thought to exist in Lake DeSmet, Wyoming.

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2.5.5.10 Swamp creature thought to exist in Australia.

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2.5.5.11 Creature thought to exist in Spirit Lake, Washington.

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2.5.5.12 Monster thought to exist in Lake Kussharo.

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2.5.5.13 Moss-covered creature thought to exist in Bear River.

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2.5.5.14 Monster thought to exist in Pyramid Lake, Nevada.

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2.5.5.15 Monster thought to exist in bottom of Utah Lake. (Folder 18)

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2.5.5.16 Monster thought to exist in Fish Lake.

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2.5.5.17 Monster thought to exist in lake in abandoned strip mine.

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2.5.5.18 Three hundred pound bloodsucker lives in canoe pond at Camp Downer, Vermont.

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2.5.5.19 Two monsters live in Wallowa Lake, Oregon.

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2.5.5.20 Red Fish Lake in Idaho has a monster.

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2.5.5.21 The Hocka Man is a monster who steals children into the irrigation ditches.

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2.5.5.22 There is a lake in Idaho that houses a 12-foot leach.

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2.5.5.23 There are giant fish in Bear Lake.

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2.5.5.24 The pink-eyes Wawser evolved out of the Bear River and eats kids.

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2.5.0. Miscellaneous

2.5.0.1 Black boy bitten by rattlesnake takes on powers of snake; is identified by

having blue gums. (Folder 19)

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