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URBAN LEGENDS
ON THE WASATCH FRONT

Jane Hilman

Utah State University
Fife Folklore Archives
Logan, Utah

English 3710
Professor McNeill
Spring 2010

Sample Table of Contents

Table of Contents
	Page
PRelease Forms	i
Cover Essay	ii
Autobiographical Sketch	iii
List of Informants	ix

Item No.	Informant	Title	Page
1	Jones	Emo's Grave	1
2	Clover	Gravity Hill	3
3	Jones	House Built on Indian Burial Site	4
4	Land	Weeping Woman Statue	5
5	Clover	Weeping Woman Statue	6
6	Jones	Weeping Woman Statue	7
7	Land	Bloody Mary	9
8	Jones	Bloody Mary	12
9	Adams	Hook Man	15
10	Clover	White Lady of Memory Grove	17
11	Clover	White Lady of Memory Grove	18
12	Adams	White Lady of Memory Grove	20
13	Jones	White Lady of Memory Grove	21
14	Clover	The Black Choker	23
15	Adams	Kentucky Fried Rat	26
16	Jones	Snakes in the Sewer	27

Sample Autobiographical Sketch

Autobiographical Sketch

My name is Jane Hilman. I am twenty-five years old and a junior at Utah State University. I was born in West Virginia, but grew up in Denver, Colorado. I have six sisters and no brothers. My dad works for the local PBS station and my mother is a stay-at-home mom. My parents love the outdoors and my family and I all love to ski, camp, and backpack. My family is Baptist. My sisters and I love to tell scary stories. It is not uncommon for us to stay up late when we return home for holidays, rehearsing for each other the "weird" stories that we have heard. It must have started when we were little girls in West Virginia. My granddaddy Jones, my mother's father, knew hundreds of stories about ghosts and local legends. When we moved from West Virginia (when I was eight), my mother started to tell us many of her father's stories. She would always tell us "stories from home" when it was snowy outside and we couldn't get to school. My dad also got in on the action by telling "strange" stories about his army days. It became a family tradition to "tell stories" on no-school days or when camping or traveling. When I graduated from high school, I decided to come to Utah to work and ski. I moved to Salt Lake City and worked as a secretary for an architectural firm. I also joined the local back country club. On one of the first campouts I attended with the group I heard (and told) some pretty scary stories. When I moved to Logan, Utah, to study Fisheries and Wildlife Management at USU I continued to camp and ski with my friends from the Salt Lake area. When I decided I would collect urban legends for my folklore class I decided to use the stories that my friends had told me on our skiing and camping trips.