Ghostly Games: Jeopardy Edition! 12/10

December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to “Ghostly Games”: Jeopardy! Each month throughout 2012, we will feature  three categories that will test your knowledge of the strange and unusual in Illinois, or of the paranormal generally. Play along at home and remember to phrase your answers in the form of a question! Answers will be shown at the bottom of next month’s categories.

Paranormal People
  • 100 – This man recorded several strange events at Peoria State Hospital while he was administrator there.
  • 200 – As webmistress of Ghosttraveller.com, this self-described fan of “white trash art” has catalogued hundreds of haunted places in Illinois.
  • 300 – The headless horseman of LaKey Creek may be the ghost of this man, who was murdered in 1819.
Famous Ghosts
  • 100 – In her afterlife, this persistent librarian has followed her books all over the campus of Illinois State University.
  • 200 – The ghost of this famous gangster still lingers in the alley near the theater where he was shot.
  • 300 – The statue of this adolescent girl serenades visitors to one Centralia cemetery.
Haunted Roads
  • 100 – Cutting through Pratts Wayne Woods, this road is known for its abandoned homes, vanishing cars, and a haunted railroad crossing.
  • 200 – This road in downtown Sterling is haunted by the ghost of a woman searching for her missing child.
  • 300 – A witch was said to live along this rural road southwest of Rockford.
Answers to last month’s categories:

Haunted Places: What is Manteno State Hospital, What is Fremd High School, What is Fox Run
Movies & Film:  What is Child’s Play, What is Candy Man, What is Poltergeist III
Creepy Quotes: Who is Arthur Conan Doyle, Who is Carl Sagan, Who is Confucius

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Ghostly Games: Jeopardy Edition! 11/12

November 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to “Ghostly Games”: Jeopardy! Each month throughout 2012, we will feature  three categories that will test your knowledge of the strange and unusual in Illinois, or of the paranormal generally. Play along at home and remember to phrase your answers in the form of a question! Answers will be shown at the bottom of next month’s categories.

Haunted Places
  • 100 – Foreboding tunnels connect all the buildings on the campus of this former state mental hospital.
  • 200 – The pool of this southwest suburban high school is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a girl who drowned there.
  • 300 – This subdivision was built over the former site of the Illinois State Training School for Girls, next to a cemetery fraught with its ghosts.
Movies & Film
  • 100 – This 1988 horror film gave children nightmares for its portrayal of a killer doll that terrorizes an Illinois family.
  • 200 – This 1992 horror film was equally terrifying for its glimpse inside the Cabrini–Green housing project in Chicago.
  • 300 – Chicago is home to a school for gifted children with emotional problems in this sequel to a popular film about a ‘noisy’ spirit.
Creepy Quotes
  • 100 – In the memoirs of a famous detective, this British author wrote, “Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
  • 200 – This American astronomer and astrophysicist once remarked, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
  • 300 – This Chinese sage once pondered, “While you do not know life, how can you know about death?”
Answers to last month’s categories:

Mysterious Creatures: What is the Cole Hollow Road Monster, What are Thunderbirds, What is the Enfield Horror
Haunted Roads:  What is Cuba Road, What is Dug Hill Road, What is “Help Me” Road
Paranormal People: Who is Jerry Palus, Who is Aurelia, Who is James Shelby Downard

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Ghostly Games: Jeopardy Edition! 10/8

October 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to “Ghostly Games”: Jeopardy! Each month throughout 2012, we will feature  three categories that will test your knowledge of the strange and unusual in Illinois, or of the paranormal generally. Play along at home and remember to phrase your answers in the form of a question! Answers will be shown at the bottom of next month’s categories.

Mysterious Creatures
  • 100 – This three-toed, hairy beast was encountered along a road south of Peoria in the summer of 1972.
  • 200 – These winged-creatures of American-Indian mythology have been spotted in the skies over Illinois for centuries.
  • 300 – With its tiny arms, three legs, and pink eyes, this creature terrorized one small southern Illinois town in the spring of 1973.
Haunted Roads
  • 100 – While creepy in its own right, this road is home to a cemetery famous for its hovering balls of light.
  • 200 – A spectral wagon and the ghost of a provost marshal are said to haunt this southern Illinois road.
  • 300 – Spring Valley is home to this road, where a tragic accident resulted in a message written in blood.
Paranormal People
  • 100 – This southwest suburban man was one of the first to claim that he picked up Resurrection Mary along Archer Avenue.
  • 200 – This short-tempered woman frustrates her fellow paranormal investigators in the fictional adventures of “The Fallen.”
  • 300 – Under the pen-name “Jim Brandon,” this man launched Bachelor’s Grove to national fame in his 1978 book Weird America.
Answers to last month’s categories:

Haunted Places: What is Anderson Cemetery, What is the Rialto Theatre, What is St. Bede Academy
Infamous Crimes:  Who is John Wayne Gacy, Who is Richard Speck, Who is Julia Markham
Urban Legends: What is “The Hook,” What is “The Roommate’s Death,” What is “Alligators in the Sewers”

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Ghostly Games: Jeopardy Edition! 9/10

September 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to “Ghostly Games”: Jeopardy! Each month throughout 2012, we will feature  three categories that will test your knowledge of the strange and unusual in Illinois, or of the paranormal generally. Play along at home and remember to phrase your answers in the form of a question! Answers will be shown at the bottom of next month’s categories.

Haunted Places
  • 100 – Controversy surrounds this creepy central Illinois cemetery dubbed “Graveyard X.”
  • 200 – This magnificent movie theater in Joliet is said to be haunted by two lovers who tumbled to their deaths from the balcony.
  • 300 – “Brother Otto” haunts the third floor of this Catholic prep school in Peru, Illinois.
Infamous Crimes
  • 100 – “Pogo the Clown” was the stage name of this notorious suburban serial killer.
  • 200 – This pock-marked madman murdered eight nursing students on the south side of Chicago in 1966.
  • 300 – This woman murdered her seven children with an axe on a farm outside the small town of Cambridge, Illinois.
Urban Legends
  • 100 – In the 1960s, Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery was the setting for this frightening urban legend involving a one-handed convict.
  • 200 – The legend of Mary Hawkins at Eastern Illinois University was largely inspired by this popular campus tale.
  • 300 – In the summer of 2010, this reptilian legend was confirmed two separate times by surprised pedestrians along the Chicago River.
Answers to last month’s categories:

Tragic Disasters: Who is the O’Learys, What is The Fire that Will Not Die, Who is Fern Riley
Haunted Roads:  What is Blood’s Point Road, What is Cole Hollow Road, What is Kennedy Hill Road
Creepy Quotes: Who is James Randi, Who is Edgar Allen Poe, Who is Robert Frost

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Ghostly Games: Jeopardy Edition! 8/13

August 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to “Ghostly Games”: Jeopardy! Each month throughout 2012, we will feature  three categories that will test your knowledge of the strange and unusual in Illinois, or of the paranormal generally. Play along at home and remember to phrase your answers in the form of a question! Answers will be shown at the bottom of next month’s categories.

Tragic Disasters
  • 100 – This family was blamed for starting the 1871 fire that devastated nearly one third of the City of Chicago.
  • 200 – Michele McBride wrote this 1979 book commemorating the 1958 Our Lady of Angels school fire.
  • 300 – This 22-year-old nurse refused to abandon newborns at St. Anthony’s Hospital, sacrificing her own life, during a 1949 fire that killed between 74 and 77 people.
Haunted Roads
  • 100 – Anchored by a cemetery by the same name, this northern Illinois road is famous for its variety of legends and lore.
  • 200 – This road south of Peoria lent its name to a mysterious creature spotted there in the 1970s.
  • 300 – A “scantily clad” phantom was seen along this road outside of Byron, Illinois in the winter of 1980/81.
Creepy Quotes
  • 100 – This skeptic famously wagered against the paranormal, saying, “I don’t expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.”
  • 200 – This morbid American poet and author famously wrote, “All that we see is but a dream within a dream.”
  • 300 – This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet once wrote, “I dwell in a lonely house I know, that vanished many a summer ago.”
Answers to last month’s categories:

Paranormal People: Who is Richard Crowe, Who is Mrs. Andrew Gray, Who is Martin Riccardo
Haunted Places:  What is Ashmore Estates, What is Hickory Hill, What is the Tonic Room
Movies & Film: What is Halloween, What is Stir of Echoes, What is The Relic

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