100 Steps Cemetery, Clay County, Indiana
| Description: |
This is a typewritten account of the legend of the 100 Steps Cemetery as told by Patricia Oliver Hopewell. According to Hopewell there are 100 steps leading upwards to the graveyard, but there are not 100 steps leading back down the hill. Every time that you try to count the stairs you lose seven years of your life. |
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| Origin: | 1996-10-26 |
| Source: |
http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/folklore/id/707 |
| Collection: |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives |
| Subjects: |
Cemeteries Stairways Supernatural Folklore |
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