For people who like
to scare people
- Address:
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9728 NO. CO. Road 500 EAST
Seymour, IN
47274
United States
- Phone:
- 812-522-7620
- Website:
- http://www.thecoffins.info/
- About:
- The coffins will open September 29, 2006 & Saturday September 30, 7:30P.M. to 12:30A.M. & then every Friday & Saturday night in October same time. Tickets are $10.00 no matter what age, but we offer coupons at web site
- History:
- THE LEGEND OF THE COFFINS
WHY ARE THE COFFINS SO HAUNTED? WHY HAVE FOR MANY YEARS SUMMER, WINTER AND FALL PEOPLE OF ALL AGES HAVE DRIVEN THRU THE COFFINS HOPING TO SEE A GHOST OR APPARITION, OR HAVE A SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCE?
THE LEGEND OF THE COFFINS GOES BACK TO THE LATE 1800'S WHEN INSANE ASYLUMS AND POOR FOLK'S HOMES FOUND A BETTER WAY TO BURY THEIR DEAD.. NO MORE HAVING TO PAY $15.00 FOR A BURIAL AND NO MORE HAVING TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR NUMBER OF DEAD AT THESE INSTITUTIONS. THEY STARTING BRINGING THEIR DEAD TO A SCARCELY POPULATED AREA OF INDIANA KNOWN ONLY AS THE BOTTOMS OR FLATS, LATER KNOWN AS THE COFFINS, NOW KNOWN AS BOBTOWN, INDIANA.
MANY TIMES THEY DUG SHALLOW, UNMARKED GRAVES BARELY COVERING THE CHEAP PINE COFFINS. LEGEND HAS IT THAT BECAUSE OF UNHOLY EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED ON THESE POOR SOULS, AND YES, BECAUSE OF CRUELTIES, ABUSE OR PUNISHMENT, MANY WERE SAID TO BE BURIED ALIVE.
IN THE PAST YEARS, WHEN THE SPRING FLOODS WOULD COME, LEGEND HAS IT THAT OLD-TIMERS WOULD SEE CHEAP, DECAYING PINE COFFINS FLOATING DOWN WHITE CREEK.
MANY HAVE CLAIMED TO SEE GHOST OR SPIRITAL ORBS, LIKE THE OLD WOMAN WITH HER HANDS OUT REACHED,CRYING, OR THE LITTLE BOY THAT LIKES TO APPEAR IN THE BACK SEAT OF YOUR CAR AND THEN DISAPPEARS WHEN YOU SLAM ON THE BRAKES.
TRUE STORY: A YOUNG COUPLE STOPPED AT OUR HOUSE ABOUT 6 YEARS AGO,
SCARED AND TREMBLING WITH FEAR, CLAIMING THEY HAD SEEN 3 ANGELS-LIKE SPIRITS ARISING OUT OF THE HEAVY FOG THAT ALWAYS SEEMS TO COVER THE COFFINS AT NIGHT
WE HOPE THE SPIRITS WILL FIND PEACE SOME DAY
I THINK EVERYONE IN THIS AREA KNOWS "OUT HERE THE DEAD HAVE NEVER RESTED IN PEACE"