Text 2: The second text is about Stepps cemetery. Sandy says “Ok, ah the house we live in is five miles north of Lake Lemon. Its right under the well we’re connected to the State Forest line and our house is under where Stepps Cemetery is. Maybe not right underneath but close and we have always heard legends how
Stepps Cemetery came to be one of them was there was a lady and her husband and daughter lived in this house where Stepps Cemetery is now and when the state came in to build the cemetery where her house was they wanted to tear her house down and she wouldn’t let them. Her and her husband fought it all the way. Somebody came in and set her house on fire. She got out alive and she tried to
get her baby and husband out. Well it burnt her arm off and left her, you know, a hook for an arm. Ok…every since then her house burnt down she quit fighting it because she lost her husband and daughter and they built a cemetery there well one of the grave sites, one is for her husband and one is for her daughter. Well her husband was supposedly reincarnated and aw into a collie dog and there was a tree that was carved out as a chair over her daughters grave and she would set at night and listen to her baby cry and her husband the
dog would set there and howl… supposedly if you there at after midnight you can hear her setting there, you know in her black cape. That’s why they call her the lady in black and she sets there and runs everybody off that steps foot on her property.”
Context: Sandy Greesby has lived in Central Indiana all her life and now lives near Stepps Cemetery. This interview was conducted in the informant’s house and was tape recorded. The informant is female and is 22. Sandy comes from a large family and her highest level of education is high school. She heard most of her stories from her sister who used to tell scary stories to scare her to death. The informant now tells scary stories to try to make everyone believe them.
Source: Lorne Aubin
Legends
2nd/1983
Elise Withered