South Bend Legends, Mysteries and Ghost Stories

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South Bend Legends, Mysteries and Ghost Stories

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

Legends & Mysteries

§ 70South Bend Folklore: The Stories the City 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…12 entry pages § 72Strange but True: Odd Facts From South Bend HistoryEvery city accumulates a drawer of facts that sound invented. This section is South Bend's drawer, opened and checked. Each entry below is a genuine oddity of the record — a boat that graded a street by being dragged…24 entry pages § 53South Bend Historical Mysteries: The Questions the Record Leaves OpenEvery city's record has places where it stops, and an honest history prints the stopping places at the same size as the certainties. This section gathers South Bend's: the questions that have a documentary spine — a…7 entry pages § 73Haunted South Bend: The Ghost Lore, at Its AddressesSouth Bend's ghost lore is younger in print than its buildings. No nineteenth-century newspaper haunting from this city has been located in the record reached for this section: the tradition enters print on a college…10 entry pages § 74UFO Sightings in South Bend: The Documented RecordSouth Bend's documented UFO record is a small record, and this section prints it at its true size. It rests on the official and press record only: the Air Force's own case indexes for the Project Blue Book era, swept…15 entry pages § 71Famous South Bend Stories and What the Record ShowsEvery city keeps a stock of sentences it says about itself: the firsts, the largests, the onlys, the shares of the world. This section is South Bend's stock, gathered in one place and tested. Some of these claims were…15 entry pages

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Source: South Bend Legends, Mysteries and Ghost Stories, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/topics/legends-mysteries/

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