SOURCES
SOURCES
Every source behind the map, the stories and the registry — the ones we used, the ones we checked and set aside, and the leads not yet read, each with the reason. Where a work is under copyright you see only the passage we relied on and a link to the rest; public-domain books open in full in the Reading Room.
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USEDacc. no. THC 0032'
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USEDArtist House Key West, 'History'
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USEDAtlas Obscura
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USEDBlue Sky Boys, Bluebird B-7755 (1937)
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USEDBraxton Democrat, Sept 1952
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USEDBritish Museum collection record EA 22542, registration 1889,0731.1
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USEDDock Boggs, Brunswick 132 (1927)
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USEDFrank Proffitt / Frank Warner recording (1938)
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USEDFrederick papers, Nov–Dec 1932
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USEDGrafton Sentinel, June 1964
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USEDGray Barker, 'The Monster and the Saucer', Fate, Jan 1953
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USEDGrayson & Whitter, Victor 1929
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USEDGreenbrier Independent, 1897 trial coverage
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USEDHagerstown Mail, 1909
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USEDHagerty UK
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USEDHagerty UK ('a week before the fatal crash')
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USEDHagerty UK ('from 1957 to 1959, it went on a gruesome tour')
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USEDHeron-Allen's letter, held with the stone at the Natural History Museum (as quoted by National Geographic)
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USEDHistoric Royal Palaces, the Crown Jewels
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USEDInput, 2021
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USEDInput, 2021 (eBay sale Feb 2004, $280)
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USEDInput, 2021 (eBay sale June 2003, $140)
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USEDJoe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer, Nov/Dec 2000
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USEDKentucky Historical Society, 'New Details About the Cursed Chest'
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USEDKey West Art & Historical Society, 'Robert the Doll'
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USEDKey West Art & Historical Society, 'Robert the Doll' ('In 1994 she donated Robert to the Fort East Martello Museum')
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USEDKey West Art & Historical Society, 'Robert the Doll' (house bought 1974; moved six years later)
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USEDMildred Darby, writing as 'Andrew Merry', essays in The Occult Review, 1908–1909, describing her own experiences at Leap Castle
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USEDMilwaukee Sentinel coverage (James B. Nelson), 1988
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USEDMotor Sport Magazine
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USEDMotor Sport Magazine (Raskin: the wreck was bought by Eschrich, not Barris as Barris claimed)
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USEDMuseum of Appalachia, Norris TN — death-crown collection
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USEDNational Geographic
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USEDNational Geographic ('In 1944 Heron-Allen's daughter donated the gem and letter')
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USEDNCpedia, 'Silver, Frances Stewart'
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USEDQuesnel & District Museum, 'Mandy' ('Mandy came to live with us in 1991')
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USEDRegion Riverina
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USEDRoud Folk Song Index no. 15
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USEDRoud Folk Song Index no. 263
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USEDRoyal Holloway art collections highlight page: 'Purchased by Thomas Holloway, 1881
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USEDShah Shuja seen wearing it as a bracelet at Peshawar, 1808 (Elphinstone)
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USEDSmithsonian, 'History of the Hope Diamond'
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USEDStoneham Studios
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USEDThe Daily Advertiser, 2018
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USEDThe Drive, June 2021
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USEDTreaty of Lahore 1849, Art. III
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USEDversions in Appalachian folktale collections
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USEDWest Virginia Division of Culture and History historical marker
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USEDWikipedia — Wampus cat (and the dialect and newspaper references it cites)
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USEDWTAJ
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