Aaron Mahnke

Many people did connect it with polygamy since it was standing on the co-op's farm.

Before this new story had come out, the most popular theory about its construction had been that a polygamist had murdered his seven wives and buried them underneath the cross and then hanged himself there.

Another version of the story claims that the polygamist entombed his favorite wife's heart into the cross itself.

And there are more urban legends about Case Cross than you could shake a stick at.

Some people believe that it was erected by Satanists.

Others said that it was built by witches who sacrificed animals at the foot of the cross.

Still others claim that it was haunted, or that it glowed under a full moon.

And we may never know the truth.

Case Cross has been put through an odd game of urban legend telephone, and its history keeps coming out on the other side all twisted up.

The best guess we have now is that it was a sort of brainchild between Krishna Vetna and Eldon Kingston.

And even then, we can't be sure.

But there is one thing we can be sure of.

They found no evidence of a human heart, or human remains of any kind, anywhere in the rubble.

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