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Haunted Archer Avenue: Fairmount Hills

Barek Halfhand — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:47:23 +0000

(Scroll down for 10-2011 update)

Haunted Archer Avenue: Fairmount Hills by Barek Halfhand

*From 5-09:

The Archer Avenue gates to Fairmont Hills lie between St James Church and The Willow Brook Ballroom along the farthest, forest draped reaches of that famous stretch of Chicago land roadway. There was no predetermined destination when stumbled [...]

Road Trip 2011 Part 2

Barek Halfhand — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:17:45 +0000

Road Trip 2011 Part 2

by Barek Halfhand

The gargantuan propellers seem surprisingly graceful spinning in the distance as the wind farms of pastoral north central Indiana suddenly dominate the landscape and have come to serve as my symbolic gateway to The South…If I didn’t view this spectacle as fanatically futuristic I [...]

Maple Lake

Barek Halfhand — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:30:15 +0000

Maple Lake By Barek Halfhand

Maple Lake is a man made body of water just off of the famous haunted Archer Avenue back roads …the immediate proximity of St James, The Willow Brook Ballroom, Fairmount and Red Gate Woods to Maple/Bullfrog lakes and the long standing albeit less famous legend associated with [...]

The 65th Anniversary Of The Naperville Train Crash

Barek Halfhand — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:02:09 +0000

The 65th Anniversary Of The Naperville Train Crash By Barek Halfhand

April 25th 2011 at 1:03 pm marked the 65th anniversary of one of the worst railroad accidents in American history leaving 43 dead and 125 injured …I arrived in far west suburban Naperville at 12:35pm…

April 25th 1946 started out as cloudy with [...]

A Downtown Cemetery Update Part 1

Barek Halfhand — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:03:45 +0000

...I stepped aside with a brusque “excuse me” and he passed without comment, eye contact or any break in cadence that would imply acknowledgment, his face fixed in a dour, phlegmatic scowl …

Ghost Theories

Karen Frazier — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:55:39 +0000

by Karen Frazier, Managing Editor Paranormal Underground Magazine

Used under Creative Commons license. Some rights reserved by Casey Fleser.

One can’t help but hear – and develop – theories during the process of paranormal investigation. After all, we are dealing with phenomena that has no obvious or clear explanation; [...]

Road Trip 2011 Part One

Barek Halfhand — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:09:05 +0000

Road Trip 2011 Part One By Barek Halfhand

The first Road Trip of 2011 was focused on mostly new sites with the exception of one location that has has allegedly been the subject of increasing supernatural activity …

While the ongoing coverage of my famous local sites, many of which I am [...]

The St. Paschal Friary Demolition

Barek Halfhand — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:18:03 +0000

The St. Paschal Friary Demolition (Peabody Estate) By Barek Halfhand

The decision to conclude the Peabody Estate installments as one of my recurrent locations ironically coincided with the County F.P.’s announcement that commencement of the St. Paschal Friary demolition had already begun despite the steadfast efforts of historical preservationists and [...]

Holy Sepultre Conclusion, The Miracle Child and more…

Barek Halfhand — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:07:48 +0000

Holy Sepultre is a member of a triumvirate of South Suburban locales that I have covered in the past shared by Bachelor’s Grove and recently Burr Oak …and while the Archer Avenue circuit has to a degree been my raison d’etre, I feel that I need to continue tying up [...]

Paranormal Evidence of the Week – Wait for Us EVP

Karen Frazier — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:55:31 +0000

This week’s evidence of the week comes from our good friends Bert and Jayme Coates at NWPIA. This is Jayme’s favorite EVP from Wellington. She and Bert were there alone and saying their good-byes to the spirits there when they captured this EVP. Wait for ussss

For more of NWPIA’s [...]