Indiana

Anderson

Mounds State Park

Prehistoric people believed this site was to sacred for human habitation. Instead, they created eleven mysterious earthworks and held rituals
and public ceremonies here. The people treated the land with great respect and never visited the site unless they were in large groups. The 9
foot high, 384 foot diameter Great Circle Mound is the central feature, although there were other mounds in various geometric shapes, such as
figure eights and rectangles. Young men were sacrificed here and their bodies laid at the entrance to the Circle Mound. It was believed that the
innocent victims would be resurrected and reborn into another, better world. Many of the features of this two-thousand-year-old site have eroded
away, but the ground remains sacred. Some people have reported encountering blue gowned dwarves in the park and nearby along the White
River at Noblesville. According to Delaware Indian legend, they are the Puk-wud-ies, a tribe of little people that still inhabit the forests.

Evansville

Reynolds House

The ghost of a lonely nineteen year old boy attached himself to a family who lived in his old house. He became such a part of their family that
he even moved with them to a new residence. Warren and Glady's Reynolds believe the friendly spirit of Oscar, a boy who died in 1922, has
lived with them since 1942, when they first moved into the house. They discovered his spirit during a violent thunderstorm when an unseen
presence ran up the stairs and shut all the windows on the second floor. The Reynolds' twelve year old daughter also felt his presence on the
stairway. Later, the boy's shadowy figure was seen in the bedroom where he had died of unknown causes. When the Reynold's family moved
out in 1965, Oscar accompanied them to their new home. They still hear his soft footsteps and watch Oscar's cane bottomed rocker moved
slowly back and forth with nobody sitting in it.

Greencastle

Depauw University

The buildings on this picturesque campus are free of ghosts, but the books are haunted. The ghost of James Whitecomb, governor of Indian
from 1843 to 1848, protects a collection of rare books he donated to the university library over 150 years ago. He left instructions in his will that
the Whitcomb Collection should never leave the library building, and it became accepted the anyone who dared to removed part of the
collection could be assured a visit of his ghost. One student, who took a copy of The Poems of Ossian to his room, found himself awakened
by Whitcomb's figure standing at the foot of his bed. The specter pointed its finger at the terrified student and chanted "Ossian! Ossian! Who
stole the Ossian!?" After the figure faded, the student stayed awake all night and returned the book to the library first thing the next morning.
The collection was later moved into a new building, and rumors of the ghost continue, although now it is virtually impossible for anyone to take
any of the Whitcomb Collection out the building. The books are kept in the non-circulating Special Collection Division.

Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York:
Penguin Book, 1994.