S19 Ep47: Prairie State Paranormal: Tales from Illinois (Sn. 19 Ep. 47)
Monsters Among Us
Derek Hayes | Audioboom Studios
4.8 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Season 19 Episode 47 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Join me and follow the podcast conspiracy theories, where we explore what's really going on behind the official narrative. |
| 0:09.0 | Like, what if the Loch Ness monster isn't a monster at all, but an elephant? |
| 0:13.0 | What do the richest 1% know that we don't? Why are they building all those bunkers? |
| 0:19.0 | And really, what the heck is going on with the Denver airport? |
| 0:22.6 | Join me every week to see just how high up this goes on the Spotify podcast, Conspiracy Theory. |
| 0:29.8 | Listen on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | It does it, does it? Very, perfect. We're going to be. We're going to see. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to be. |
| 0:40.3 | We're going to be. I'm The Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us. |
| 1:30.3 | I am your guide, Derek Hayes. |
| 1:33.3 | It's great to have you with us all here this evening as we wind down season 19 and gear up for not only season 20, but the spooky season as well. |
| 1:47.0 | And depending on who you talk to, that season might already be upon us. |
| 1:53.0 | Now I'm tickled paying that you're here with us this evening, because they have a fun little |
| 1:57.5 | collection assembled for you here tonight. All calls from a specific place, |
| 2:03.5 | the home of our 16th president, home to Wayne and Garth, and creatures like the Piasaw |
| 2:11.4 | Bird, the infield horror of the Murphy's Borough Mud Monster, and many more creepy characters. |
| 2:20.3 | It's home to ghosts like Resurrection Mary, or the Lady in White at Batchelor's Grove Cemetery, |
| 2:28.0 | or the victims of the infamous serial killer in Madman, H. H. Holmes. |
| 2:38.3 | And it's home to infamous UFO encounters, like the St. Clair Triangle with the mass sightings at O'Hare National Airport. You're about to learn tonight |
| 2:46.2 | that the land of Lincoln is a spooky place. And here to kick us off on our all-Illinois episode is Mitch, out of Illinois, of all places. |
| 3:03.3 | Hey, Derek, this is Mitch from Illinois. |
| 3:06.9 | So this story, it happened, I want to say, when I was up about fourth grade. |
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