The story
The House of Blue Lights stood on Skiles Test's wooded estate on the northeast side of Indianapolis — the home of an eccentric, inventive millionaire who strung his grounds and pool with blue lights, kept a private fire engine and a pet cemetery, and thereby seeded one of Indiana's great legends: that the blue glow burned for his dead bride, preserved, tellers swore, in a glass-topped casket within — schoolmates dared each other up the drive for decades, and Test, who died in 1964, spent years bemused by trespassers seeking a bride who never existed; he married three times, and no casket ever stood in the house. The estate was auctioned, the house demolished in 1978, and the grounds became Skiles Test Nature Park, where walkers still report blue glimmers among the trees, a figure by the old pool ruins and cold pockets on the paths — the legend outliving its architecture. Present the House of Blue Lights as Indiana's definitive debunked-yet-deathless tale: real eccentric, invented bride, public park. Visits mean ordinary park hours.