Skiles Test Nature Park (House of Blue Lights)

This site was the home of Skiles Test, a wealthy Indianapolis businessman who, after his wife's unexpected death, had her placed in a glass coffin surrounded by blue lights in a large bay window — her favorite color, and his way of keeping her close. Test himself simply loved blue and kept Christmas lights up on his house and around his pool year-round, which is the more mundane real reason the property became known as the House of Blue Lights. He donated land to the Lawrence Township School Board, which built an elementary school named for him, and after his death his family gave the rest of the estate to the City of Indianapolis; the house was demolished in the 1980s and the grounds are now Skiles Test Nature Park. Some tellings embellish the story further, claiming his wife's glass coffin sat inside a tower rather than a bay window, or that the property is haunted by a young bride — but by the family's own account there's no truth to any of that either. People say the blue glow can still be seen at night where the house once stood.