Fort Wayne Legends, Mysteries and Ghost Stories

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Fort Wayne Legends, Mysteries and Ghost Stories

Folklore, oddities, ghost stories, sightings and famous stories set beside the record.

The Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) grave marker, Fort Wayne, 2017. Charles W. Chapman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file

Johnny Appleseed and Fort Wayne FolkloreFolklore: Johnny Appleseed and the Stories Fort Wayne TellsFolklore, in this section of the record, is handled the way an archive handles a letter: what is told, who told it, and when it was first written down come first, and the checkable record stands beside the telling in…§ 87Strange but True: Odd Facts From Fort Wayne HistoryWeird Facts · the strange-but-documented recordEvery city accumulates a drawer of facts that sound invented. This section is Fort Wayne's drawer, opened and checked. Each entry below is a genuine oddity of the record — a locomotive that worked under another engine's…20 entry pages § 88Fort Wayne Historical Mysteries: Lost Forts, Lost Graves and Open QuestionsMysteries · The Open Questions of the RecordMost of this history is a record of things that can be proven. This section is the opposite shelf: the questions the record itself leaves open. A mystery, as the word is used here, is not a rumor. It is a documented…8 entry pages

Haunted Fort Wayne: A Century of Ghost Stories in PrintHaunted Places — A Century of Ghost Stories in Print14 entry pages § 90UFO Sightings in Fort Wayne: From the 1890s Airships to Project Blue Book16 entry pages

Famous Fort Wayne Stories and What the Record ShowsSixteen famous Fort Wayne stories, each checked against the earliest record that survives.16 entry pages

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Source: Fort Wayne Legends, Mysteries and Ghost Stories, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/legends-mysteries/

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