Ghost stories seem to fill people's desire to be scared, he said. Although he wasn't scared, he said, the stories brought a level of excitement for kids in the middle of the country. Once in high school, classmates would ask Wiermanski to take them to Munger Road. He would. Although most of the visitors were good kids looking for adventure, some posed problems for the authorities, Read said.
For example, he said, kids kept stealing the road signs as souvenirs and would trespass on residents' property. A run-down house near the train tracks was especially popular, Read said, describing it as a "classic spook house.
Many had been told that if they sat on the railroad tracks they would hear a train coming, but it would never come. Read would explain there was another set of tracks about a half mile west. Many of the farmhouses and barns have been torn down, subdivisions have been built and Forest Preserve Drive has been installed, he said. The unexplainable Of the several Munger Road residents contacted for this story, Tranchida was the only one who had experienced unexplainable acts.
It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod, heavy-hearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky. He had never felt so lonely and dismal save the day the Illinois tollway hiked rates. All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard earlier now came crowding upon his recollection. Just at this moment, in the dark shadows under the trees on the edge of Cuba Road, Ichabod beheld something misshapen, black and towering.
It stirred not, but seemed like some gigantic monster ready to spring. Slamming his foot on the gas pedal, Ichabod drove as if the hounds of hell were at his heels. It was not until he beheld the twinkling lights of the nearest strip mall that his heart stopped pounding. Ever been on a stretch of road that creeped you out? We have. Here's our unofficial and totally irrational list of haunted roads.
Read it if you dare The main attraction is White Memorial Cemetery, which is said to generate jaywalking ghost couples, phantom cows, spectral cars and floating orbs of light. Want proof? One reporter writes, "We passed the cemetery there many times this summer Or is it haunted by Al Capone-era gangster ghosts? Reports are conflicting, but the truth is out there. The year-old woman mysteriously killed herself in , likely by stepping in front of a horse and carriage, Naperville ghost hunter Kevin Frantz thinks.
The tortured spirit freaks out drivers by walking in front of cars, "reliving the last 20 seconds of her life," said Frantz, whose website is napervilleghost. Mary was hit by a car in the s while leaving a dance. Either version makes this stretch of road through Poplar Creek Forest Preserve one to drive at your own peril, according to the website trueillinoishaunts.
Either a a headmaster b nun or c escaped convict killed students at the former school decades ago and put their heads on the spikes of the Nick Smith told the St. Charles Patch last year that the movie is more a thriller than a ghost story. He told the Patch that he always appreciated the simplistic ghost stories told around a campfire. But a media watchdog group says African American applicants continue to face discrimination.
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