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Lakey’s Ghost: On folklore and folk horror from the prairie, and how the legend of the headless horseman galloped westward across an ocean and a continent

On Lakey's Ghost from John W. Allen; Legends & Lore of Southern Illinois ... Until recent years it was a …

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A return to Bardstown, Kentucky: Spending the night in a cell at the Jailer’s Inn, a haunted jail in a town known around the world for its ghosts

Old County Jail, The Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast, c. 1819, Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky The only troubling sound I …

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True witch legends from southern Illinois … giving Carmi’s Cato the witch the last laugh on her neighbors, and an insight into folklore and history

Top: Wooden structure in the woods where the legend points to that Cato might have lived. Dating from much later than Cato's time, …

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Top 4 elegantly creepy places to spend the night with ghosts in the midwest

Rockcliffe Mansion, c. 1898-1900, home of the John J. Cruikshank, Jr. family, Hannibal, MO Haunted hotels, bed and breakfasts …

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