House of blue lights

Description: This is Dave Strabers typewritten variant of the legend of The House of Blue Lights in Marion County near Indianapolis, collected by Frank Haas. According to legend, a man lives in a house with a glass coffin that has his dead wife in it. She was killed by a robber. The house is surrounded by blue lights, and he sometimes places blue roses around her coffin.
Origin: 1964
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/folklore/id/1427
Collection: Indiana State University Folklore Archives
Subjects: Houses
Light
Coffins
Light fixtures
Folklore

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