The House of Blue Lights

Indiana · United States · School

Indianapolis believed for decades that a man kept his young wife in a glass coffin in his tower, lit in blue. The house is gone and so is most of the.

The House of Blue Lights stood on Fall Creek Road in Indianapolis, and the legend attached to it was one of the most widely believed in Indiana. The first owner's young wife had died. He could not face burying her, so he had a glass coffin built and placed it in the tower of the house, where he visited her every night. The tower was lit in soft blue, said to have been her favourite colour.

Passers by reported blue lights flickering on the grounds and in the tower window, and generations of local teenagers drove out to see them.

A correction published in June 2008 sets out what is actually known. The site is now Skiles Test Park. The house was abandoned and demolished in the 1980s. The glass coffin has never been documented, and the blue lights, which really were there, were an eccentricity of the owner rather than a shrine.

The park is open and the foundations of the estate are still visible. It is one of the clearest cases in the Midwest of a real oddity acquiring a story that outgrew it.

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Where is The House of Blue Lights located?

The House of Blue Lights is in Indiana, United States.