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Background of the Seven Sisters Okay, my family is from Cloverdale, IN and they were some of the very first settlers. All of the original families, including my own, are of German ancestry and the original German settlers were VERY superstitious. All of them were, and their descendents still are members of the Cloverdale Church of Christ. The Church of Christ is On Main Street in the original part of the village, and it is in the same building it has been in since 1858. Anyway, these seven sisters all lived together and none of them was married. They townspeople thought that they were witches because all of the sisters were radiantly beautiful, but none of them was married. Well, naturally, God fearing Christian people just could not have witches around. They all feared the sisters and no one had seen them for quite awhile because they kept to themselves. The townspeople were deathly afraid of them, and kept as far from them as humanly possible. Well, all of a sudden, one of the sisters took sick. Soon, all seven of them took sick and they all died, one for each day of the week; one on Sunday, one on Monday, one on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, one on Friday, and one on Saturday. Well, not too long after the sisters died, stories began to go around about them, that if you went up to the Cloverdale Cemetery either on a night of a full moon, or at Midnight on Halloween(legends vary) and if you walked around their graves seven times that they would come back and chase you back into the village. Several people, myself included, have tried this, and the freakiest things have happened, like there is a light that just comes up out of nowhere that looks like a ball of fox fire, only the ball gets bigger as it comes toward you and it changes colors. It will follow you from the graveyard into town, right up to were the edge of the original village used to be(Lafayette Street), then it will stop and disappear. Anonymous
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