Weird Around Illinois

Once a year, things get really weird around Countryside, Illinois, when Paranormal Chicago comes to town. Jack Chavez hosts this one day gathering of experts, enthusiasts and vendors who deal with ghosts, cryptids, UFO's, psychic phenomenon and all other things paranormal. Where else would you expect the Weird Around Illinois team to be?

When Steven Spielberg, the creator of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., releases a movie about aliens, The whole world stops and takes notice. But is Spielberg's new film, Disclosure Day, really worth noticing? Is Disclosure Day a prophetic piece about the coming disclosure of all truths relating to aliens? Is it a government prop Spielberg was asked to create to make the real discl...

There was a time when all you needed to go looking for ghosts was maybe a camera and a tape recorder. Now ghost hunting equipment includes EMF Meters, Spirit Boxes, REM Pods and all other manner of devices meant to attract, detect and record ghostly activity. The Weird Around Illinois team talks about what they bring to look for ghosts and compare experiences with their own ghost hunting equipment...

The Weird Around Illinois team goes looking for trolls...Internet trolls. In this episode, the team shares their negative internet posts, rude comments and general hate mail from the last year and a half.

Whenever people talk about bigfoot, skeptics demand "Where is the evidence?" One piece of bigfoot evidence that might silence the skeptics would be actual Sasquatch DNA. Tood bad nobody can seem to find any. The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at why it seems to be so hard to collect and identify DNA evidence from the elusive cryptid known as bigfoot.

The Pentagon has released over 100 files on UFO's or UAP's, but have they really told us anything? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at some of the newly-disclosed UFO reports to determine if we're really any closer to knowing the truth about alien visitation.

Ghostly noises, poltergeists, apparitions, and a mysterious lady in black disappearing into a wall...We can only be talking about one place—the Desoto House in Galena Illinois. The Weird Around Illinois team spends a night in this haunted hotel to see what kind of paranormal phenomenon they can scare up.

Something is exploding through the skies of Illinois and elsewhere with tremendous noise. Are these "Sky Trumpets" aliens, portals, or simply normal aircraft and machine noises? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a listen...

Galena, Illinois is a town with a rich history, both normal and paranormal. Right in the middle of downtown Galena, there's a nice little restaurant called Cucina Bella which apparently has some paranormal history of it's own. The Weird Around Illinois team is on the scene to search for ghosts, spirits, poltergeists and really, really good sausage and peppers.

There is a general feeling that some sort of UFO disclosure is on the horizon. But what does this mean? Will we finally learn the whole truth about UFO's, UAP's and aliens, or will it just be misinformation or nothing useful at all? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at UFO Disclosure and what it may mean.

For years, people have accused the government of covering up bigfoot sightings or actually interfering with attempts to find the giant hairy cryptid. But why would they do this? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at potential reasons for a bigfoot coverup.

In this episode, the Weird Around Illinois team talks about The Lodge of Antioch, and the paranormal activity that happens there!

When it comes to evidence of bigfoot, few examples are more controversial than the Patterson-Gimlin film. By now just about everyone on the planet has seen this iconic short film featuring "Patty", the female bigfoot, looking over her shoulder as she crosses a creek. A new documentary may show proof that this famous footage of the hairy cryptid was, indeed, fake. The Weird Around Illinoi...

As one of the most popular cryptids of the modern age, many people seem to spend a lot of time either looking for or hiding from dogman. But, knowing what we know so a far about this canine cryptid, are there certain circumstances, places or behaviors that actually attract dogman? The Weird Around Illinois team tries to figure out once and for all what attracts dogman.

If you think about the most haunted place you've ever heard of, places like the house from "The Amityville Horror" or "The Conjuring", even those places do not have paranormal activity constantly, 24/7. It begs the question, when ghosts or other paranormal phenomenon aren't actively haunting, where do they go? The Weird Around Illinois team examines this question.

Ghosts, cryptids, UFO's, orbs and hidden tunnels...Just what the heck is going on in Burlington, Wisconsin? The Weird Around Illinois team is on the scene to investigate all of these strange phenomenon, as well as to try to settle the most important question—"Who makes the best cheeseburger in Burlington?"

Something weird has been stalking around East Peoria, Illinois for some time. Whether you call it the Cole Hollow Monster, or Cohomo or simply Bigfoot, East Peoria residents have been reporting sightings of a hairy bipedal cryptid for decades. The Weird Around Illinois team takes a closer look.

When people see ghosts and other paranormal phenomenon, what are they actually seeing? Are these spirits, interdimensional travelers, or something conjured up by our own mind? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at that last possibility, at the psychic and psychokinetic powers of the human mind and how they might create paranormal incidents.

Antioch, Illinois is a town with a rich history, and perhaps a rich paranormal history to go with it. Some ghost tours of Antioch start at the Lodge of Antioch, a restaurant which claims to have a ghost of its own. The Weird Around Illinois team stops in to visit this Antioch eatery to sample the paranormal atmosphere and, more importantly, the food. But is the Lodge, or Antioch itself, actually h...

When people think of places to find Bigfoot, they think of Washington State, Alaska, the Sierra Nevada's...And Peoria, Illinois. That's right, Peoria has been a hotbed of Bigfoot activity lately, so the Weird Around Illinois team is here to share stories about the primate cryptid in Central Illinois.

Wisconsin is best known for beer, cheese and Dogman. We'll leave it to you to rate the beer and cheese, but the Weird Around Illinois team wants to help you out with finding the elusive canine cryptid in the dairy state. We share the top five Dogman sightings in Wisconsin.

Indiana sits right in the middle of some pretty weird states (Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky), so it stands to reason that they would have their own fair share of strange cryptids. The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at the top ten cryptids of Indiana.

As the U.S. government becomes more open about UFO or UAP sightings, it feels like we're moving along a path to full disclosure about the existence of extraterrestrial life. This is a good thing, right? But what if there is a dark ulterior motive, a deeper alien conspiracy that is even worse than the conspiracy to hide evidences of UFO's and extraterrestrial life in the first place? The We...

If you had a cryptid or paranormal sighting, where should you report your sighting? In this video, the Weird Around Illinois team talks about the top places to report your sighting.

All cryptids are reported to have certain special abilities, and Bigfoot is no exception. But what can Bigfoot (or Sasquatch, or the Hairy Man, or the Skunk Ape, etc.) actually do? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a closer look at Bigfoot and what some of Bigfoot's special abilities may be.