• An interview with Kathi Kresol, author of the new book Haunted Rockford, Illinois. To be released by The History Press on October 2, 2017. In this clip, Kathi talks about how she became interested in ghost stories and the origin of her literary efforts. http://www.hauntedrockford.com/

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  • An interview with Kathi Kresol, author of the new book Haunted Rockford, Illinois. To be released by The History Press on October 2, 2017. In this clip, Kathi talks about why she started the Haunted Rockford Tours and some of her favorite stories from the Forest City. http://www.hauntedrockford.com/

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  • Stephen W. Miles was a violinist with pretensions of greatness. Bit by bit, he purchased over a thousand acres of bottom land in Monroe County and made a small fortune. Eventually, he commissioned a mausoleum to be built on a bluff in Eagle Cliff Cemetery, where he could see his land “for miles and miles.”…

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  • Cuba Road’s White Cemetery and Phantom Vehicles

    Many believe this unassuming cemetery in wealthy suburban Barrington, Illinois is one of the most haunted in the state, but has interest in this location gone too far? Cuba Road sits nestled between the towns of Lake Zurich and Barrington, Illinois in Lake County, northwest of Chicago. The main portion of the road runs between…

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  • Barrington’s Mysterious Cuba Road

    I grew up in the northwest Chicago suburbs. Des Plaines to be exact. Home of the famous Choo Choo Restaurant, the first franchised McDonald’s, and the stomping grounds of John Wayne Gacy. When my friends and I wanted a scare, we usually trekked out to Cuba Road, a lonely avenue north of the Chicago suburbs,…

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