Are there any legends or ghost stories associated with Patoka Lake in Indiana?
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http://theshadowlands.net/places/\nI'm not sure if this will help,but Indiana has a huge list, so I'm sure you don't find anything about the lake itself, you could find something about the surrounding areas.
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there was a marina in onalaska that rented those, i used to live right on the side of sandy creek over there. me and stepdad caught some pretty big catfish out of lake livingston, 86 pounder, a 98 pounder, and had one hooked that was bigger than that, but couldnt get him in boat from the trot line. and there used to be an ole' 15 foot female aligator down sandy creek that wouldnt let you fish in a certain place of the creek unless you gave her some raw chicken, she would push your boat away lol.  man i miss that place.
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try the following sites.\n\nmembers.cox.net/folklore/\nwww.indianfolklore.org/publications_journal.htm
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That depends on your definition of "creepy." Can you expand on this?\n\nWell, you might try a few sites like these: \nWeird n' Spooky America: Accounts of Hauntings, Urban Legends, and Other Strange Phenomena \nhttp://zuko.com/weird_n_spooky_america.htm\n\nMysterious Journeys, Weird Travels, Historic Haunts\nhttp://travel.discovery.com/convergence/hauntedtravels/interactives/main.html\n\nHope this helps.
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http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/ghosthuntershome.html\n\nHere is a link to TAPS. The Atlanta Paranormal Society.(As seen on Ghost Hunters on the Scifi channel.)\nHere you can see video and hear audio clips of paranormal activity they've captured while investigating different claims of hauntings.\n\nYES, I BELIEVE!
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For quick information for you check out these links:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_towns\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns\n\nThose a wikipedia articles that are related to what you are talking about (ghost towns part). Wikipedia is generally a good site to find out something upon what you are looking for.
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Check the web for Pow-Wows (yes they are really called that) in your area.  They occur all over the U.S.
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As a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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I like horror stories, so here are some...\n\n***\n\nAbout six or seven years ago, my family lived along Teays Valley Rd. before the big "industrial boom" of Putnam County. Seems like it went from a farming community to a city right before my eyes. Well anyway, We rented land off of a fellow by the name of Jim Umberger. On this land was an extravagant pre-civil war almost Victorian house. It was simply beautiful. Off to the side of this massive antique sat our trailer. Now I was awful young through all of this and kids will have thier fabled ghost stories, but there was something quite odd about this house. Something was down right sour. \n\nThe story had it (and I know nothing of the truth in this) a family was brutally butchered in the house. Back then, there wasa whole lot of nothing for miles around, so no one even found these folks for a good long time. As a youngster, I had the "creeps" about anything just about, but I've never been quite as frightened of a place as I was here. The place had an eerie air to it. To make things even more insane, my stepgrandmother, Evelyn, died of brain cancer there (in our trailer, of course). My other Grandmothers' entire cancer eaten body siezed up and shut down on her, yet she died oficially in a hospital. Strange things went on at this trailer. Pockets of not cool, but cold air in the middle of July, for example. Once in the winter my mother was out on the town. My younger brother and I were watching some TV when there was a knock on the door. There, on the freshly fallen snow, was nothing. No footprints, no tire tracks, nothing. Needless to say I spent the rest of that night with my head buried under the covers. Speaking of doors, once I heard the doorbell ring, seemed innocent enough, but WE DIDN'T HAVE A DOORBELL!! Pictures falling off the wall, creaky floors and long sleepless nights were only minor nuisences we had to deal with everyday. The most disturbing incidences, however, and the most annoying were when the smoke detectors, located in various parts of the trailer, would take turns going off one at a time. \n\nAfter that, they'd go off simultaneously, quite a ruckus. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who felt a presence, then one night, my mother went completely irate screaming "Show yourself, Evelyn! I'm tired of these f*ck*ng games! Show yourself!" We never saw anything. Things continued as they were until we moved. Mr. Umberger sold the land to someone and it became South Brooke, a ritzy subdivision with $500,000+ houses that wouldn't hear of our humble trailer depriciating thier property. However, I believe they'll get theirs, Although they tore the house down for the project, there was a well and a system of underground streams and springs which probably rendered the whole operation illegal. The thing about the springs and wells may not sound important, but in my own personal research I have found negative forces and spirits can channeol themselves through waterways. I'd like to see how South Brooke likes it's neighbors! \n\nI believe I have some pictures of that house somewhere in the mess that is my apartment.\n\n***\n\nThe story I would like to tell is about an apartment building in Spokane, WA. This building is only about seven years old, if y'all are anything like me you expect a haunted house to be all scary and falling down, not clean with nice landscaping. It really started the day after we moved in, my hubby came in from the deck (I am a cigarette nazi - no smoking in ze house!) scared as heck. I have never seen my ex-marine hubby look so scared. He absolutely would not talk about it! hmmmm. \n\nNot two days later my little year and some odd daughter was supposed to be asleep for the night but instead was talking to someone. Of corse, no one was there when I checked, but I swore I could hear an old lady talking to her. I figured it was my dead grandma, she comes to visit now and t
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Hey.  What type of stuff do you want to know?  I live near Ski Wing and know a little bit about it.\n\nYea it is haunted (or so they say) I've only been there once or twice and I never saw anything.  It is really creepy though.  I believe a little boy drowned there a really long time ago & he supposedly haunts the area.  Some of my friends claimed they saw people in ski uniforms in the distance (but that could have been them trying to scare me).  Right before it was closed a few people tried to rob Ski Wing and unfortunately my uncle was working that night.  He was murdered.  They still haven't solved the case.  Every once in a while there is a story on the news or on unsolved mysteries about it but it was so long ago... every has forgotten about it.  If i think of anything else that's worth knowing I'll let add it or you can email me if you want to know anything else. (forness27@yahoo.com)
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I'm not from Maine, but here you go:\n\nhttp://theshadowlands.net/places/maine.htm\n\nI've been to several of the places this site lists in NH, but haven't seen anything - yet. Good luck...\n\nYou may also want to check these out, but the one above is the most comprehensive:\nhttp://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=524\n\nhttp://www.hollowhill.com/me/me.htm\n\nedit: unable to contact you via email. If you do visit, I highly recommend taking the hour or so drive to visit the Gilson Road Cemetery in Nashua, NH. I've been, but not at night as it is heavily policed now.\n\nhttp://www.hollowhill.com/nh/gilson.htm
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http://www.prairieghosts.com/hauntaz.html\n\nCheck it out, a listing of different haunted locations in Arizona. :O\n\nEnjoy,\n\n♥
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http://www.exploreminnesota.com\nShould have a list of them all.  There are also some on Lake Shetek in SWMN or Lake Minnetonka close to the cities.  Just depends on where you are located.  That website should have a lot of them listed.
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I think Loren Coleman is great. I've read his books and I've seen and heard numerous interviews. He has some very neat stories to tell :0) Check out his interview on www.ghostlytalk.com!
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Wow! Shocking dreams, I can understand why you would want to investigate further.\n\nHaving done my fair share of research on the net, I honestly think this type of inquiry is more suited to the local and state Historical Society, newspaper articles (most likely on microfiche) and perhaps trying to identify folks who have lived in the area for a long time.\n\nI'd love to suggest easy online sources, but think this is a job for some good old fashioned sluething.\n\nYou can start here:\n\nColorado Historical Society\nhttp://www.coloradohistory.org/\n\nColorado History Museum\n1300 Broadway\nDenver, Colorado 80203\n303-866-3682\n\nDenver Public Library\nhttp://www.denverlibrary.org/\n\n10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. (on Broadway between 13th & 14th Avenues)\nDenver, Colorado 80204\n720-865-1821\nTDD 720-865-1825\n\nDenver Post\nhttp://www.denverpost.com/\n\nRocky Mountain News\nhttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/
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Both these websites have lists of haunted places in North Carolina....\nhttp://theshadowlands.net/places/northcarolina.htm\nhttp://www.prairieghosts.com/hauntnc.html
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Do I ever!  Got to Bfro.net.  They 'Have TONS of stories, sound recordings, pictures, and clubs.  You can find stories about bigfoot from anywhere in the u.s.a. or canada.  I found a story that happened just a half hour from where I live!!  I HIGHLY suggest going to the website!