In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents, Mike Mulligan and Gordon W. Brittingham during the years of 1970 to 1972, former Salisbury University students and tprofessors: Martha Blank, Anne Blank and Julia Taylor, collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about a young person who is frightened to death by a coat mysterious standing up on the floor. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.

Materials within the Folklife Collection are for research use only – names of students and the interviewed subject(s) may not be published without the explicit permission of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University.