Weird Around Illinois

If you want to learn more about hearing ghostly voices through a spirit box or EVP recorder, who better to talk to than the folks at Ghostly-Voices.com? The Weird Around Illinois Team talks to the team from Ghostly-Voices about the Estes Method, ghost-hunting gear and all things paranormal.

In the Lincoln Park Neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, there is an area angry spirits and wild beasts roam over graves desecrated by the Great Chicago Fire, just blocks from the site of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. This area is, of course, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and the Weird Around Illinois team is here to tell you about it.

Bigfoot sightings are becoming more and more common in the northern half of Illinois, particularly in the vicinity of Peoria. The Weird Around Illinois team examines a report from a listener with a scary bigfoot encounter in Knox County, Illinois.

When you're looking for an "Expert" in the paranormal field, it's often hard to know what sets someone apart from the rest. How about a PHD in psychology, over 20 years of paranormal investigation and over 100 ghosts, spirits, poltergeists and/or cryptids investigated? That's what the Paranormal Professor, Dr. Joel Ramsey, PHD, brings to this interview with the Weird Around I...

The official introduction starts at 5:09 🙂 - When you're looking for an "Expert" in the paranormal field, it's often hard to know what sets someone apart from the rest. How about a PHD in psychology, over 20 years of paranormal investigation and over 100 ghosts, spirits, poltergeists and/or cryptids investigated? That's what the Paranormal Professor, Dr. Joel Ramsey, PHD, br...

Usually if you hear that there are lions in Indiana, it means Detroit is playing the Colts, but not this time. People are claiming to see real lions, a lioness and her cub, in Indiana not too far from Indianapolis. Are these escaped captive animals, or just a case of mistaken identity? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a closer look.

Something weird is going on in Waukegan, Illinois (again). A bridge is closed for repair. No big deal, right? Except the bridge is within a mile of three different Mothman sightings. Is this another Mothman bridge incident? The Weird Around Illinois team looks into it.

What cryptid is the most dangerous to people? Do you need to fear Bigfoot coming out of the woods at you? Dogman attacking your campsite? Mothman swooping down on your car? The Weird Around Illinois team compares notes on what they believe to be the most dangerous cryptids around Illinois.

Over the last few years, the Weird Around Illinois team has investigated ghosts, UFO's, portals, and all types of cryptids from the universally famous ones like Bigfoot and Dogman to local ones like Goatman and the Piasa Bird. The team discusses their favorite types of investigations.

People tell stories of a violent beast that stalks the wilderness known as "The Land Between the Lakes" in Kentucky and Tennessee. Is this frightening cryptid a Dogman? A Werewolf? A Bigfoot? A figment of someone's imagination? The Weird Around Illinois team visits to try to get the real story.

In this video, the team talks about the killer bigfoot, and where bigfoot has been said to have killed people.

Could there be a correlation between an earthquake and increase in UFO activity? That's what we're wondering and we get weird around Illinois to see what answers we can find! Take a listen to our discussion and leave your opinions in the comments. We'd love to see them! Oh, like and subscribe too 👍

When cryptid hunters are looking for bigfoot, they are often able to find distinctive bigfoot tracks. When these same cryptid hunters look for dogman, they rarely find any such evidence. Is there a logical explanation for this lack of dogman tracks? The Weird Around Illinois team tries to find out.

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.

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.