Tag: ghost
member name: Nick Howes
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July 17, 2009 08:12 AM EDT --
At the risk of offending Gatherites with a story listed on another site, I want to call your attention to something I'm rather pleased with and which will be of great interest to some people because of . . .
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June 28, 2008 10:17 AM EDT --
On Saturday, June 21st, I won a 19th century used coffin at the Haunted America Conference held at the Lincoln Theter in Decatur.
Yes, a used coffin.
When my girlfriend and I checked in Friday, . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:53 AM EDT --
Name a movie, TV, or literary ghost or witch. One name per entry. I'll start with
The Canterville Ghost
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October 04, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
The house where the 1949 exorcism that inspired the William Peter Blatty book and the hit movie is still standing in St Louis...and something remains behind.
It was SRO at Riverboat Molly's History . . .
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July 11, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
A woman who anticipated someday becoming a bride but died young, a peanut vendor still plying his trade in Jackie Robinson Stadium, the friendly phantom dog named Brownie, the ghost on Memorial Bridge, . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
Southern Illinois has a tradition of ghost stories with mysterious lights seen on the fields of the ancient Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, a crossing at Renchler Road between Marissa and Belleville . . .
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October 28, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
Dead and the Dread Filled to Dunham House, Doris "Dusty" Smith
The Dunam House episode, filmed for Discovery Channel's "A Haunting," was a milepost for Dusty Smith's . . .
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June 28, 2009 08:40 AM EDT --
For many years now, ghost tours of Daytona Beach, Florida, have been helping to fund restoration of 11 neglected local cemeteries.
11 Cemeteries Being Helped
One of the better-known cemeteries . . .
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November 11, 2009 12:43 PM EST --
ODD THOMAS, Dean Koontz, Bantam Books, 446pp, paperback
Odd Thomas is a fry cook, a gentle soul with a challenging talent, one so challenging it drives him to seek simplicity in his life. That challenge . . .
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July 10, 2008 02:23 PM EDT --
In this fourth entertaining novel in this series, Odd Thomas leaves the monastery where he sought emotional peace so he could deal with the effects of his disturbing psychic talent. But instead . . .
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November 16, 2008 08:44 AM EST --
Troy Taylor is not only a prolific writer of ghost stories but a master of niche marketing. Among other things, the Decatur, Illinois man leads speedily sold-out ghost tours, appears on television, sends . . .
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February 20, 2009 11:13 AM EST --
OUT PAST THE CAMPFIRE LIGHT: Hauntings, Horrors, and Unsolved Mysteries of the Great Outdoors, Troy Taylor, 275pp, illustrated, indexed, Whitechapel Press, $18.95
Troy Taylor tackles a broader . . .
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March 25, 2008 09:03 AM EDT --
For such a small town with just 4,000 people, Chester, Illinois has a lot of ghost stories. The ghosts haunt a restaurant, a roadside, and the local library, among other places. There's even a ghost . . .
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August 18, 2009 11:45 AM EDT --
Southern Illinois is a genuinely haunted place. Even a daytrip out of St Louis, Louisville, or even Nashville, will get you to one or two sites that are accessible to the public that you can check out. . . .
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March 25, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
GHOSTHUNTING ILLINOIS. John B. Kachuba. Kachuba tells about touring haunted sites in Illinois including at least one account I'd never come across before, the alleged haunting of the . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
A popular destination for walking ghost tours in Alton, Illinois, are the ruins of the Alton Penitentiary. The ruins aren't much but Len Adams and other tour guides of Alton Hauntings Tours will fill . . .
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April 01, 2008 09:12 AM EDT --
Heritage Days in Okawville, Illinois, is an annual smalltown special event an easy drive east from St Louis that includes a unique museum tour. This year, the event is set for June 7th and 8th, 2008. . . .
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March 13, 2008 06:36 PM EDT --
Alton is a home to antique shops, ghosts which include that of one of the local antique dealers, the ruins of a prison for Confederate soldiers, stops on the Underground Railroad, the Piasa Bird, and . . .
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June 27, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
I was at Haunted America last week in Decatur, so I'm going to theme this simple game around naming a fictional ghost. You can even list a real one if you want. Plenty of fictional ghosts . . .
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March 03, 2008 12:44 PM EST --
A visit to Lebanon, Illinois (pop 1814), will expose you to a charming small-town downtown business district along St Louis Street with a solid row of shops ranging from Fezziwig's to The Sweeter . . .
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