History & local legend
The Indian Tower stands on a hill above Nazareth, beside an old burial ground and a separate memorial. For local novelist Scott Morro, the tower became both a setting for fiction and the scene of something he could not explain. He used it in his 2006 novel The Cross Over and visited the site to take photographs for the book.
Morro later told a reporter that one photograph appeared to show footprints leading from the monument toward the tower. He remembered where his companions had walked and said none of them had crossed that part of the ground. A different photograph showed a narrow white streak between the two landmarks, which he thought resembled a bony finger or arm.
Morro chose the white-streak image for the back of the book jacket. In the 2011 interview, he described the experiences as a turning point in his own belief in the tower’s haunting.
