“The fascination with the spirit world seems to intrigue many individuals. I’ve always held an interest since I was a child, though many would believe children are making these stories up in their mind. There have been far too many coincidences with children and their so-called invisible friends. Yet, these strange sightings, strange smells, strange lights, and unusual events seem to keep happening throughout time. Could these events be explained in some way? …Researchers and investigators have been asking these questions for decades.”
- Jim Graczyk, Field Guide to Illinois Hauntings
Could these events be explained in some way?
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A lifelong interest in the Other Side
April 12, 2013 By 1 Comment
“My paranormal life, with all its awe and impossibility, began with my earliest memory of all: waking up in my little bed sometime after midnight to the sound of ghostly footsteps on the stairs. The phenomenon was one that occurred every single night in the house on Bell Avenue, on Chicago’s Northwest Side, from the day my mother and father bought it until the time I began high school some fourteen years later, but it was one to which I would never grow accustomed. In fact, I know now that it was the fear of that nightly visitor that led me to a lifelong interest in the Other Side.”
- Ursula Bielski, Chicago Haunts 3
I don’t believe in ghosts…
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I don’t believe in ghosts… or, perhaps I should say, I don’t think I do. Heck, I’ve seen a lot of things in my twenty-seven years in the news business, the violence of man and nature, but never something that could not be explained… And yet, who hasn’t been in a room where something felt not quite right or heard or seen something that could not be explained… an eerie light or a shuddering cold.”
-Bill Moller, Voices from the Chicago Grave
Friends and family members describe ghostly encounters in hushed tones
February 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Perhaps some of us have heard friends and family members describe ghostly encounters in hushed tones. Although some completely doubt their existence, others remain convinced that spirits of the past still walk among us. The believers maintain that ghosts assist us in times of need, seek vengeance when they have been wronged, and tend to unfinished issues… Along the charming towns of its historic Fox Valley are mysteries that we may never know or fully comprehend, are sights that, as Zosia Mucha says, ‘defy reality.’”
- Donna Latham, Ghosts of the Fox River Valley
I have come to appreciate the beauty of old graveyards…
January 11, 2013 By 1 Comment
“In my explorations, I have come to appreciate the beauty of old graveyards. Older cemeteries have much more interesting monuments than modern cemeteries, which tend to be vast expanses of nearly identical flat granite markers. This uniformity came about shortly after World War I. Before then, the monuments were as varied as the individuals they commemorated.”
-Matt Hucke, Graveyards of Chicago
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