Spirits of Illinois, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
Chicago may be one of America’s busiest cities, but beneath the constant motion lies a long history of ghost stories, hauntings, and unexplained encounters. In this episode of The Grave Talks, we explore some of the Windy City’s most chilling paranormal legends, from eerie activity tied to the Museum of Science and Industry to the enduring mystery of Bachelors Grove Cemetery, one of the most infamous haunted cemeteries in the country.
We also look at the bigger question of why Chicago seems so paranormally active. Could its swamps, waterways, and violent past have left something behind? Then we head south to Springfield, Illinois, where the spirit of Abraham Lincoln is said to linger long after death, along with other strange stories tied to his hometown.
From haunted city streets to presidential legends, this episode takes a closer look at the ghostly side of Illinois history.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our interview about Haunted Chicago. Thank you for supporting the program and keeping us on the air. |
| 0:08.0 | Another place that I personally, I haven't been to in years, but as a child loved to go and visit. |
| 0:16.0 | And I was unaware of the ghosts here, but I'd love to hear your findings, the Museum of Science |
| 0:21.9 | and Industry. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:23.5 | That was strange because I was not expecting that. |
| 0:27.2 | I had heard a rumor about, well, one thing I heard was that supposedly, and I guess this |
| 0:33.6 | is true, when William Jennings Bryant, you know, the great orator and everything else, |
| 0:37.9 | and I'm sorry, it was Clarence Darrow, the famous lawyer and everything else. Apparently, |
| 0:43.1 | when he died, he was cremated and he had his ashes distributed in the pond that is right |
| 0:49.9 | outside the museum. And I guess that's a true story. And so people say, well, they see the ghost of Clarence Darrell there in the museum, which is kind of interesting. So I heard that. And I thought, well, maybe I'll just follow up on that and see what's going on. But as I went to the museum, I was just talking to the various docents that are working there. I got some other stories. |
| 1:16.6 | And one of them was about, there's a train there from the 1930s called the Zephyr. |
| 1:22.0 | And it's one of these, you know, silver streamliners that we had in the 30s that are such beautiful trains, cross-country trains. |
| 1:24.7 | And so they have one there. |
| 1:25.9 | They had the Zephyr there. |
| 1:28.9 | And it has, you can take a tour, there. They had the Zephyr there. And it has, |
| 1:33.0 | you can take a tour, you can walk through the Zephyr, and you can see the furnishings and the various cars and all that. And then there's a car in the rear, which is sort of like, I guess like |
| 1:39.6 | an observation card, it has like a lot of windows around to the rear or the side. So you can |
| 1:43.8 | sit back there and you can watch the countryside as you're passing through. |
| 1:47.6 | And they have these an animatronic figures so I can see in Disneyland, you know, a mother and a father and children. |
| 1:54.9 | And there's kind of a cheesy voice over, you know, a lot of the family talking like, hey, dad, look out the window. Are those cows? Yes, son, those are cows, you know, about the family talking like, hey, dad, look out the window, are those cows? |
| 2:02.6 | Yes, son, those are cows, you know? |
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