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    Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State
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    Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State
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    Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State

    By Troy Taylor

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    Illinois's mysterious and often violent history has made the state a haven for restless spirits.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStackpole Books
    Release dateMay 5, 2008
    ISBN9780811740661
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    Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State
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    Troy Taylor

    Troy Taylor is an occultist, supernatural historian and the author of seventy-five books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplained in America. He is also the founder of the American Ghost Society and the owner of the Illinois and American Hauntings Tour companies. Taylor shares a birthday with one of his favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, but instead of living in New York and Paris like Fitzgerald, Taylor grew up in Illinois. Raised on the prairies of the state, he developed an interest in "things that go bump in the night"? at an early age. As a young man, he channeled that interest into developing ghost tours and writing about haunts in Chicago and Central Illinois. Troy and his wife, Haven, currently reside in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood.

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      Is a so so book of various haunted houses or ghosts in the state of Illinois. One of the longest sections in the book is devoted to Chicago and he goes into lots of history for Resurrection Mary and who she might be from up there. Many of the stories are more of a history lesson as opposed to a ghost story, or local urban legend. There's one with a haunted pub. An elderly neighbor used to complain about the noise from the bar next door. After her death her house becomes part of the bar. And she continues to make her displeasure with the noise level known. There's a small part about Lincoln but is never really a ghost story is more a history lesson about his time in IL. A haunted mansion in SW Illinois in which the man who had the house built actually had a reverse underground railroad. He would capture escaped slaves and sell them back to southerners as well as capturing and selling free black men. Or the head of a women's finishing school who never did leave her beloved school.