Weird Indiana - Mark Marimen, James A. Willis and Troy Taylor
When we moved back to Indiana after nearly forty years, reacquainting ourselves with our surroundings ranked pretty high on our to-do list. In fact, it was right below recycling about a ton of moving boxes. We’re not the kind of people who are content with typical tourist sites –like museums, amusement parks or state parks: we tend to be more attracted to the kind of places that show up in the “Weird U.S.” series. So once we’d finished our move to Indianapolis, we picked up a copy of Weird Indiana; written by our fellow Hoosier Mark Marimen and a neighbor to the east, James Willis (Ohio), and one from the west, Troy Taylor (Illinois). Weird Indiana is available either as a trade paperback or an eBook. On its 250-plus pages you’ll find details of more than a hundred Indiana legends (“The House of Blue Lights” in northern Indianapolis), roadside oddities (giant “muffler men” in Indy and Yorktown), and – naturally – haunts, like the Stepp Cemetery near Bloomington. The “haunt” section is to be expected, since all three authors have written their own books about the haunted places of the Midwest and beyond.
