In January of 1926, Ed Rinebold was driving his normal newspaper deliver route in western Illinois when he had a strange feeling. The car at the railroad crossing had just been in an accident. He hadn’t heard or seen anything, but just knew that’s what happened. When he went back, the flaming ruins of the […]
Ed Rinebold drove his delivery truck carefully down the icy roads toward the railroad tracks at Poppy Crossing, about twelve miles from Moline, Illinois. He had driven that route dozens of times as a driver for the Daily Times, a local newspaper. But he wasn’t taking any chances. The last thing that he wanted to
Historians are keepers of the stories of the dead. I suppose it only makes sense that they would cross paths every so often. Although I’ve had a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I’ve rarely sought it out per se. Sure, I’ve been on a lot of haunted walking tours and even played with a Ouija
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Ever find yourself in a situation where your instincts just scream at you from out of nowhere? Most of us have. Your pulse quickens and you can feel your heartbeat faster as your body pumps adrenalin into your blood stream. Time seems to slow to a standstill, crawling past while your brain still, somehow, manages
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Ever find yourself in a situation where your instincts scream at you to run? Most of us have. I know I did when I encountered the abandoned truck.
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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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In 1924, Bernice Zalimas was accused of poisoning her husband in Chicago, Illinois. But did she really, or was she the victim of vicious rumors? Sources Blonde Widow Thinks Zalimas Poisoned Self. Chicago Tribune, 12/03/1924 Widow Questioned. Photo, Bernice Zalimas. Chicago Tribune, 12/03/1924 Zalimas’ Widow Held to Grand Jury as Slayer. Chicago Tribune,
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Bernice Martikonis was young when she first came to America, but old enough to remember at least most of it. The only child of Ignatz and Stella Martikonis, they, along with several thousand others, had decided to immigrate from their native Lithuania to the United States. Lithuania had long been subject to the political and
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Steamboats are an iconic part of the history of the Mississippi River. In the case of the steamboat Lansing, however, that history turned both tragic and terrifying in a split second.
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