The Spirits of Rock Island Roadhouse, Part Two | Grave Talk CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
In Rock Island, Illinois, a former YMCA building now operating as the Rock Island Roadhouse carries more than a century of layered history. Once a center for recreation, education, and community life, the structure offered comfort and routine to generations who passed through its halls.
Over time, unsettling reports began to surface. Staff and visitors describe shadow figures darting between rooms, unexplained footsteps echoing in the stairwell, and activity concentrated in former classrooms and storage areas. EVP sessions have captured disturbing sounds — including what some interpret as distant screams — adding to the building’s growing reputation as one of the region’s most active locations.
Insights from Kandi Slater connect the documented past of the property with the experiences reported today. What once served as a gathering place for the living now carries signs that something may still linger within its walls.
The Rock Island Roadhouse stands as a reminder that buildings don’t simply forget their purpose — and sometimes, neither do the people who once filled them.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the haunted Rock Island Roadhouse with Candy Slater. |
| 0:11.6 | Now, another place I wanted to ask you about was in room 431. |
| 0:18.5 | And I was reading that there's a spirit associated with that room that physically |
| 0:24.2 | assaults people. He, for example, one of the people that he assaulted was, there was a |
| 0:33.7 | gentleman who came to an event there. And it's okay to be a skeptic. I mean, I myself in the |
| 0:40.3 | beginning was a skeptic. But this person came in. Oh, this is, this is bullshit. I'm sorry. |
| 0:48.4 | No, that's okay. It was getting very disrespectful, like took a plunger that was down in the basement and acted like it was a |
| 0:58.7 | part of a male anatomy and going I'm going to do this and that to the spirits I'm going to do this |
| 1:04.5 | and that and you know mocking them making fun of them and we got to free roam time and this person was up on the fourth floor. |
| 1:14.4 | And all of a sudden he comes down crying and went outside and refused to go back in the |
| 1:19.8 | building and we're like, what is wrong? He says, well, I was up on four and all of a sudden I just |
| 1:24.7 | got put, you know, outside of that room, I got pushed up against the |
| 1:28.1 | wall and I saw my whole life flash before my eyes. I won't go back in there. And to this day, |
| 1:34.4 | he has not come back and will not set foot in the building. Well, and I think right there is a good |
| 1:40.8 | lesson for everyone listening. Like being a skeptic is one thing, |
| 1:45.3 | but taunting it and making fun of it. |
| 1:48.8 | And that's just so disrespectful. |
| 1:53.5 | Exactly. |
| 1:54.8 | And everybody says that. |
| 1:56.4 | You know, people who have experience like you, |
| 1:59.9 | your husband will all say, don't ever do that. |
| 2:04.0 | Don't be taunting it. And then I think there are some people who watch the wrong people on |
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