References in Popular Culture
- Brucker, R. and Murray, R. Trapped! the Story of Floyd Collins, University Press of Kentucky, 1983. ISBN 0-8131-0153-0
- Black Stone Cherry Ghost of Floyd Collins, from the album "Folklore and Superstition", 2008.
- In the 1951 movie Ace in the Hole, Kirk Douglas's character mentions Floyd Collins as an example of a human interest story that swept the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Louisville reporter that covered it. Douglas's character said Floyd Collins survived 18 days before dying.
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