The Strangest Things Happening In Indiana Right Now - 25 Unhinged Indiana Facts

Did you know that every emergency exit door in the United States — in every school, hospital, theater, and sports arena — carries a device invented in Indianapolis in 1908, by a hardware store manager who almost died in a Chicago fire five years earlier, and whose name nobody knows? Or that 400 feet beneath a dairy farm in Bedford, Indiana, there is a river — a fully navigable, boat-accessible underground river stretching 3 miles through 21 miles of mapped passages — the longest navigable underground river in the United States, discovered accidentally when a thunderstorm opened the ground in 1940, and open for boat tours right now? Or that in the summer of 1965, a sixteen-year-old girl named Sylvia Likens was left in the care of a woman on East New York Street in Indianapolis, and that three months later, police found her body covered in more than 150 documented wounds, and that the woman responsible served 20 years and was paroled, and that the house is still standing, and that the question nobody in Indiana has ever fully answered is not what happened inside that house, but why, for three months, nobody rang the bell?