Sam Smith was a desperate man. He couldn’t find a job, and he had a family to feed. Out of desperation he turned to stealing. But when he died suddenly, did his ghost return to watch over his family? Sources Prisoner Struck by Bullet When He Breaks Away. The Rock Island Argus, 11/3/1915 Escaping […]
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Jelena was nervous. Something was wrong. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but she knew there was. She looked around the small house. She kept it up as best as she could, but they were poor and there were a few things that needed fixing. But everything was clean and in it’s place. It
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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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When it was built in 1903, the Claypool Hotel was designed to be the best and brightest of Indianapolis’ hotels. And, for forty years, it was. Then, starting in 1943, a serious of tragic events that included two murders and a fire led to the Claypool’s dramatic destruction in the 1960’s. But does something of
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Bates House had to go. It was beautiful and famous, but it had faded. There were modern amenities that it couldn’t offer, not to mention the fact that it just wasn’t big enough to accommodate the growing number of people that were coming into the city. The owner, Edward Claypool, knew that. When he
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Jim Arpy was a veteran reporter who loved a great story, so when a couple approached him about their haunted house, he was intrigued. But was it truly haunted by a murdered woman’s dying screams? Sources Hampton Township, Illinois. Illinois Genealogy, illinoisgenealogy.org. Wundram, Bill. Excursions Into Supernatural of the Quad Cities. Quad City Times,
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Hampton, Illinois is a quiet river town nestled into the bluffs alongside the Mississippi River. It was probably the last place that Jim Arpy expected to hear about a haunted house. And yet there he was, ready to investigate one. Jim Arpy worked for one of the biggest newspapers in the region, The Times-Democrat. He
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The mansion was a secret hidden in plain sight, overlooking the Mississippi River in Bettendorf, Iowa. Some say that something strange still walks those halls, perhaps from the mansions past of sudden death, madness, and suicide.
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When you wander around the dark by yourself for hours at a time, sooner or later you start to wonder what might be out there in the dark with you. During my senior year at Iowa State University, I worked as a campus security officer. While I was keeping an eye out for people doing
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