Imagine driving near Chicago’s Mount Carmel Cemetery and seeing a woman wearing a white wedding dress walking along the road. It’s rainy and muddy, and yet she seems untouched by all of it. You would be seeing the Italian Bride, one of Chicago’s most famous ghosts. But who was she, and why does her ghost […]
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The driver leaned forward in his seat, squinting through the windshield at the road in front of him. The sun had just dipped below the horizon, casting Chicago in a midnight blue gloom made darker by the steady rain. As he drove along Harrison Street, the cemetery began to come up on his right. That
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William Nelson was a private pilot who had just married the beautiful Omaima Nelson, a woman 23 years younger than himself. Then, just after Thanksgiving 1991, he disappeared. He was found in early December, murdered and dismembered by his new bride. But had she killed him out of self-defense, or had she murdered him in
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Jose Esquivel was startled when he heard the frantic knocking on his front door. Standing up, he walked to the door to see who it was. When he did, his friend, Omaima Nelson, was standing there, crying. He was surprised to see her there, and even more so to see her in such a
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In late 1990, the body of Mary Lou Pratt was found in a quiet Dallas, Texas neighborhood. She had been severely beaten and then shot to death. If that wasn’t bad enough, it was soon discovered that her killer had expertly removed both her eyes. Mary Lou had just become the unwitting victim of one
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At first, the kids thought that the woman in the grass was a store mannequin. But the more they looked, the more they realized that it wasn’t fake. It was a real body. By the time the investigators with the Dallas Police Department had arrived in the remote neighborhood of Oak Cliff, someone had
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Every Halloween, every village, town, and city dredge up their favorite spooky stories. Where I live is no different. Come and hear some of the legends and stories that I grew up with as I tell you about cursed statues, wailing spirits, and haunted houses. Sources Landers, Jackson. Did John Deere’s Best Invention Spark
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It’s Halloween again! It’s time for stories of ghouls, dark deeds, and of course ghosts. It seems that every village, town, and city across the county dig deep and find some local legend or ghost story to share. My little corner of the world is no different. This Halloween I’d like to share some
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When Johann Whynack married his Marie, he hoped that they would spend the rest of their lives happily ever after. But Marie loved another man and saw no reason to stop seeing him even after she was married. As the marriage continued, the love triangle quickly took a toll on their lives as it spiraled
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Johann Whynack checked the clock. It was just after 9 o’clock at night. It was Saturday night, and he was thirsty. Grabbing a beer bucket, Johann left the apartment and began walking toward a local saloon. As he walked, he let his mind wander back to the old country. Born in Eastern Europe, Johann
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