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Continue reading →: Indiana Folk Beliefs: DeathWelcome to a new series: Indiana Folk Beliefs. For the next five weeks (we are on week 4), I will be sharing a new theme each week. These will be short and sweet posts. You’ll notice some of these folk beliefs expand beyond the Hoosier state. This week’s topic is death. Which superstitions…
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Continue reading →: Indiana Folk Beliefs: Three Witches & the Silver BulletWelcome to a new series: Indiana Folk Beliefs. For the next five weeks, I will be sharing a new theme each week. These will be short and sweet posts. You’ll notice some of these folk beliefs expand beyond the Hoosier state. Last week, I shared a Hoosier folktale about a witch bewitching a…
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Continue reading →: Indiana Folk Beliefs: Witchcraft & ButterWelcome to a new series: Indiana Folk Beliefs. For the next five weeks, I will be sharing a new theme each week. These will be short and sweet posts. You’ll notice some of these folk beliefs expand beyond the Hoosier state. This week we are talking about witchcraft! I actually found A LOT…
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Continue reading →: Indiana Folk Beliefs: The MoonWelcome to a new series: Indiana Folk Beliefs. For the next five weeks, I will be sharing a new theme each week. These will be short and sweet posts. You’ll notice some of these folk beliefs expand beyond the Hoosier state. Sources Busse, Ora S. “Indiana Folk Beliefs, Omens, and…
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Continue reading →: The Black Angel of Iowa: Fact & FictionThis weekend, I am excited to be in conversation with novelist and friend Rebecca McKanna at Second Flight Books in Lafayette, Indiana. Her first novel Don’t Forget the Girl is a thriller about friendship, shame, and victim narratives. The story takes place in Iowa City, Iowa. I highly recommend it.…
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Continue reading →: I Was The Ghost: A Deathbed ConfessionDuring my research for It Was Not a Ghost, I often come across humorous pranksters. They are children or men using contraptions or sheets to scare fellow citizens for a laugh. Unfortunately, some of these stories end in death. In this particular newspaper clipping, a man admits to terrorizing the…
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Continue reading →: The First Wives Ghost ClubSecond wives often find their marriages haunted by the first wife, metaphorically and—in the cases I share today—literally. During a recent newspaper archival session on a Saturday night, I fell down a new rabbit hole: first wives haunting second wives. These first wives cannot rest in peace while their husbands…
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Continue reading →: Free ZinesI love making zines, both digital and print. I have decided to share some of my creations on this site (see link on main menu). I have posted my first digital zine and plan on posting printable zines as well (zines you can print and fold at home). 👻 Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Beyond Sleepy Hollow: Other Headless Horsemen“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving is one of my favorite spooky stories. I grew up attending and still attend a Headless Horseman Festival in my hometown of Fishers, Indiana. My favorite part? A haunted hayride through the woods with a headless horseman chasing us along the way.…
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Continue reading →: #25SpookyStories: A 2022 Christmas Reading ChallengeNothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood. – Jerome K. Jerome, Told After Supper (1891) Christmas is a time for ghost stories.…
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I’m Dr. Watson.
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