This year the intrepid traveler embarked on his early July jaunt south in the wee hours of the morning…the expressway traffic was light yet still spotted with cars and trucks as are all of the highways that skirt the Chicago periphery…despite the absence of congestion and aggravated commuters this early on, the alleviation of urban
The Site Of National Headlines: Burr Oak Cemetery The Burr Oak Cemetery has been the subject of national headlines on more than one occasion in the last few years … The most recent news story involved allegations of cemetery employees disinterring bodies to sell plots in the already capacity exceeded graveyard and reselling them surreptitiously
An Old VA Hospital My recent expedition to the old Manteno State Hospital complex has piqued an interest I have had in facilities like this that began with the encounter working in the basement of a Joliet Illinois penitentiary annex building of few years back that housed sex offenders and culminated in my coverage of
by Karen Frazier, Managing Editor Paranormal Underground Magazine This week’s evidence is kind of a smorgasbord. Many of you know that I have pretty heavily investigated the site of the Wellington avalanche in Washington State. I wrote about it in my recently released book, Avalanche of Spirits: The Ghosts of Wellington. We spent Saturday evening
The Manteno State Asylum by Barek Halfhand It has been close to a decade since I have been to Manteno Illinois, and while growth and development has since peppered the predominately rural landscape with prefab-ish subdivisions along the straights of Rt 57 just north of the Manteno exit, the small town, Main Street charm beside
by Karen Frazier, Managing Editor Paranormal Underground Magazine This week’s paranormal evidence of the week is a personal paranormal experience that I relate in my book, Avalanche of Spirits: The Ghosts of Wellington. It is the one thing that my uber science-geek husband, Jim, has been unable to explain away and is, perhaps, the one
Mount Carmel Update: Al Capone-The Italian Bride The Italian Bride Mt. Carmel’s primary point of interest has generally been the grave of Chicago’s seminal Mobster: Al Capone, but that is just a 3rd of a triumvirate of accompanying legends… a distinction shared by “The Italian Bride” and “The Revolving Tombstone” aside from an
I have always considered Queen Of Heaven one of my personal favorite sites out of the circuit of famous haunted locations that remain supernaturally active within my immediate proximity …and while repeat visits to these sites may seem redundant or at times even moribund to some, I feel that making one visit to a location
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