Supernatural Writing Contest: Renee in Chicago
Here’s entry number four in our Why Supernatural Should Come to My Town story contest, and it comes from Renee in Chicago. Check it out, along with the other five entries, then cast your vote for your favorite!
I would like to submit a couple cult favorites from my area. I live in the Chicago area.
First - we have Cuba Road in the small upscale town of Barrington, IL. Cuba is built up now with nice homes but when I was growing up, it was a great place to drive out to. It was a small secluded street with lots of trees. The rumor is that a bus full of school children were killed in a car accident and if you leave your car in nuetral the kids will come and push your car. They leave hand prints all over your car as proof. As many times as we went out there…I never did see the hand prints….but its a great story!!
There are also several other stories involving Cuba Road and the White Cemetary that is located there. Stories along the lines of people seeing different types of ghosts like women and Chicago gangsters.
The city of Chicago has a ton of haunted areas that Sam and Dean could also investigate. We had the Eastland boat disaster in 1915 where several hundred (it was 835 including 22 entire families) people from Western Electric were scheduled to take an employee ride down the Chicago River. As the people boarded, they all went to the same side to wave to the people on the dock and the Eastland flipped over killing most everyone. The water was not very deep, but they had no way to get out from under the boat.
The rumor is that the bodies were taken to several places around the city. One being what is now a dance club called Excalibur. There is a ghost of a little girl who employees have seen and women have reported their jewlery was removed while they were in the bathroom stall to be found on the sink counter when they go to wash their hands.
The other place - not a rumor, this is true - they were taken is what is now Oprah’s Harpo Studios. There are several stories of Oprah’s employee’s seeing ghosts but Oprah will not talk about it to leave them in peace.
People walking by the spot where the Eastland capsized have reported hearing screams.
We also had the Valentine’s Day masacre in Chicago. This is well documented so I won’t go into the details.
Thanks,
Renee
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