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Richard T. Crowe, Chicago’s original “ghost hunter”, left a lasting legacy that ensured Chicago’s haunted history will continue to intrigue and inspire for years to come. On a frosty fall evening in 1991, when I was in 4th grade, my dad took me and a friend to see Richard T. Crowe speak at Oakton Community
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Madison Hunter is a recently graduated Broadcasting student at Lake Land College in Mattoon, Illinois, and for her senior project she created a short independent documentary on Ashmore Estates. Ashmore Estates, as my longtime readers know, is the most well-known dark tourism destination in east-central Illinois. I’ve been researching and writing about it for over
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The following is an excerpt from my book Tales of Coles County, a collection of history, folklore, and true crime from one of the most interesting counties in Illinois. Order it in paperback or Kindle today. At approximately 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, June 29, 1999, a friend of 23-year-old Amy Denise Warner became concerned that
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Otherwise known as “the old stone house,” the remnants of this Greene County, Illinois manor were, at one time, part of a mansion built in 1848 by a stockman named Azariah Sweetin. Though nothing but a shell today, a grand ballroom once occupied the third floor, a ballroom that was the scene of murder. During
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The following is an excerpt from my book Tales of Coles County, a collection of history, folklore, and true crime from one of the most interesting counties in Illinois. Order it in paperback or Kindle today. At around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 23, 1977, 29-year-old Andy Lee Lanman was last seen leaving the house
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