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This project takes a closer look at scary stories told as folklore. The analysis discusses the emotional response of scary story telling and how people want to push fear to its limits. Also discusses differences in gender in the story telling. The collector also comments on the entertaining purpose of scary story telling. Stories include "Hacker tale," "the bus," "the exorcist," and others. Thirteen items collected. Collected by Carrie Coplen, Dr. Eliason's ENGL 391 class, Fall 2004.

Scope and Contents note Discusses how a house reflects the identity of the people who live in it and how it preserves history. Describes his family's move to a different house a few blocks away. Explains the process of remodeling as a creative venture. Includes interviews with the author's parents about their decision to move and about several pieces of art displayed in their new home. Includes digital images of art from the home, including paintings, quilts, a rug, and other objects. Created by Taylor Turner while...

Scope and Contents note Dalrymple collects stories about supernatural experiences in the building that houses the KBYU television offices on Brigham Young University campus. He finds that many of these experiences illustrate Utah history or describe BYU culture. Dalrymple explains how these stories reinforce the world view of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He also discusses how these stories provide social control by encouraging employees not to stay at work after hours. He briefly...

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Dudley compiled family traditions practiced by her friends. Included are annual camping trips, cooking baking days, and weekly date nights. The paper was written for Dr. Thursby's English 356 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1999.

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Submitted by BYU student Melanie Kimball for her English 391 course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. Includes moving images of legend tripping. About ghost stories associated with BYU campus.

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Submitted by BYU student Cosenza Hendrickson. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant interviews. About legends on disobedient missionaries. Includes legends such as hot tubbing in the baptismal font, secret organizations, and eloping missionaries.

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Dillman collected instructions for initiative games that are played out of doors. The games are played as a form of team building. Situations are presented to a team in which there is an end goal and limited ways to solve the problem. Included are instructions for the team to play through each challenge and the physical set up of each scenario. Project was created for an English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1977.

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Submitted by BYU student Cynthia Rich for her Fall 1971 English 391 class. About how, despite modern advances in medicine, people still use traditional home remedies that may or may not be scientifically backed. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include cures like hot whiskey and sugar, stuff and starve, an ice-cold sheet, wreath of garlic keeping a cold away, dead cats, and much more.

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Submitted by BYU student Regan Poulsenfor her ENG 391 fall course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. About how folklore is increasingly transmitted online rather than face to face. Includes narratives on the squatting man, bigfoot, haunted test centers, vanishing hitchhikers, and car crashes.