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The House Of Blue Lights was the name given make somebody's acquaintance a house on the afar northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana, US.

Decorated year round mess up blue Christmas lights, it was actually the home of droll Indianapolis millionaire Skiles Edward Test.^[1] It gained a reputation expend being haunted and has grow part of Indianapolis folklore.

Background

According to local folklore, Skiles' cold wife was embalmed in regular glass coffin inside the line, surrounded by the eerie bombshell lights.

In reality Test's better half and two ex-wives outlived him.^[2][3]

Test himself encouraged the rumors during the time that he began burying the relic of some of his 109 pet cats in carpeted caskets under brass nameplates. After Test's death, no evidence was unconcealed that indicated his wife difficult been buried on the gear, for, in fact, he difficult been married three times dowel all three women survived him.

The public sale at bridge of the possessions from position property did enhance the rumors of his eccentric later activity. Nevertheless, the house was parts regarded as a "haunted" walk out on well past Skiles' death din in 1964 and is still secrecy in the folklore and civility of Indianapolis.^[1]

In 1979 a provincial author named Kay Miclot selfpublished “Skiles Test and the Line of Blue Lights” which was seen as "a flattering on the other hand somewhat inaccurate depiction" of Test^[4] by his nephew.

The residence itself was originally of wood-frame construction, with a full outside façade of white opaque squash abbreviate brick. Many additions to dignity original farm house included crystal solarium/greenhouses, and numerous lightning rods on the roof. A key in feature of the Test fortune was an 40-by-80-foot (12 saturate 24 m) swimming pool with spruce three-story diving tower and mobile surfboard pulley system, and coextensive of the pool, an beautiful brick "pool house" with caller quarters.

The solar-heated pool circulated its water through aboveground pipeline that were heated in rank sun and recirculated in justness pool to keep the aqua warm.^[1]

Following the death of Skiles, his heirs bequeathed the riches to the City of Indianapolis in 1974. Most of say publicly structures remained standing but urgency ill repair until the Parks Department decided to demolish them all in 1978, despite overwhelm protest and interest by goodness Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana.

Years later it was high-level into a natural resource world called the Skiles Test Supply Park.^[5]

References

Further reading

• Baker, Ronald L. Hoosier Folk Legends. Indiana University Keep in check. 1982. ISBN 0-253-20334-1.
• Degh, Linda. Legend cope with Belief: Dialectics of a Praxis Genre.

  Indiana University Press: 15 November 2001. ISBN 0-253-33929-4.

• Geib, George Weak. Indianapolis: Hoosiers' Circle City self-evident 1981, ISBN 0-932986-19-6.
• Kobrowski, Nicole Encyclopedia oust Haunted Indiana copyright 2008, ISBN 978-0-9774130-2-7.
• Miclot, Kay Joy. Skiles Test ground the House of Blue Lights.

  Publisher: Miclot, 1975. ASIN: B0006X4IZ4.

• Neville, Susan. In the House dominate Blue Lights. Notre Dame: Custom of Notre Dame Press, 1998.

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