Weird Around Illinois

Minnesota is famous for many things...Lakes, scenic views, malls, sports teams...But what really matters to the Weird Around Illinois team is their ghosts and bigfoots. Join the team as they search Winona, Rochester and surrounding areas for signs of Sasquatch, dogman, hauntings and other paranormal phenomenon.

The Weird Around Illinois Team searches for cryptids and ghosts in Western Wisconsin on a journey that takes them over rivers, into woods, up mountains and into a dark and mysterious haunted pizza place.

Join the Weird Around Illinois team in this captivating episode as we delve into the mysterious world of Native American cryptids. Uncover the legends and folklore surrounding creatures like the Rougarou, Skinwalker, and Wendigo, as we explore their chilling tales passed down through generations. Discover the cultural significance of these legendary beings and their profound impact on Native Ameri...

Whether you call then UFO's, UAP's or just plain old flying saucers, strange things seem to be appearing in the skies with much greater frequency these days. The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at unidentified flying objects over and around Lake Michigan.

With sightings of ghosts, cryptids and UFO's all over the Barrington area and specifically Cuba Road, Cuba Marsh seems like a great place to look for something unusual. The Weird Around Illinois team takes a hike through the marsh to do just that.

Bigfoot, dogman, mothman, aliens and...the government? Why do black helicopters and dark SUV's seem to always be around these cryptids and the people who follow them? Is there some sort of government conspiracy taking place here? The Weird Around Illinois Team takes a closer look.

The Weird Around Illinois team returns to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, this time exploring a hiking trail on the outskirts of town as well as the famous Bray Road. Are they literally walking in the footsteps of the famous Beast of Bray Road, the Wisconsin Werewolf, the Dogman of Elkhorn? Some evidence suggests that they may be...

Why do people sometimes see lights in the sky when bigfoot appears? Is Dogman arriving via transporter? Does Mothman arrive in a UFO with gray aliens coming along for the ride? The Weird Around Illinois Team looks into the connection between aliens and cryptids.

In this episode of the podcast, the Weird Around Illinois team talks about a dogman encounter in McHenry from 2006. The team discusses their experience after searching for it in the exact spot it was sighted.

Bigfoot, mothman, dogman...Now you see them, now you don't. Where are all these cryptids coming from? Where are they disappearing to? The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at the possibility that these creatures might be using portals to travel between dimensions and other inter-dimensional possibilities.

In this episode, the Weird Around Illinois team talks about their experience at The Country House in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. For many years, people have claimed to see and hear strange things happening, from the sound of footsteps, to actually seeing the ghost of a woman throughout the restaurant.

In this podcast episode, we talk to one of our subscribers, Marie, about encounters that she's had with ghosts and shadow creatures.

Some areas just seem to attract the paranormal, and the Holy Hill region in Wisconsin is one of them. With ghosts, dogman, bearwolf, bigfoot and goatman to name a few of the things sighted around this holy site, this is the sort of area that requires a preview planning episode before the Weird Around Illinois team checks it out for themselves.

One of our Weird Around Illinois subscribers tells a Winter Story about an encounter with a UFO in McHenry County.

Gather around the campfire and listen to some true stories of weird and paranormal encounters in and around Illinois. In this new "Winter Stories" feature, the Weird Around Illinois team shares some personal encounters and brings in guests to tell their tales of cryptids, ghosts and UFOs.

Waukegan is a city that just seems like a natural fit for mothman, so the Weird Around Illinois team was not terribly surprised to learn that he's been seen in multiple locations in that northeastern Illinois city. Let the search for the famous red-eyed, winged cryptid begin!

From "In Search of" to "Expedition Bigfoot", television shows have been taking us along on their hunt for cryptids for decades. Now, with so many shows to choose from, there is truly something for everyone who wants to learn about anything from Dogman to Sasquatch to the Loch Ness Monster. The Weird Around Illinois team takes a look at some of the most popular cryptid shows (and a few personal fav...

Flying saucers, alien abductions, little green men, UFO crashes...Is  there any truth to the reports of extraterrestrials visiting earth, or  are these UFO sightings just made-up stories and mass hysteria? Are we  alone in this great big universe, or are our neighbors closer than we  think? The Weird Around Illinois team talks about UFOs, aliens, and what  might be going on in the skies over Illin...

If you're driving down the road and you see a house suddenly appear, or  get pulled over by a ghost police car, or suddenly find a cigar-chomping  ghost mobster in your back seat, the odds are that you're probably in Barrington Illinois. That's exactly where the Weird Around Illinois team was, investigating haunted roads, cemeteries, ponds and more.

Mothman has been sighted over 100 times in the Chicagoland area, and sometimes he's not alone. Mothman, aliens, dogman—these have been sighted in towns around O'Hare Airport like Rosemont, Elk Grove Village and Bensenville...Just what the heck is going on in the Northwest Suburbs? The Weird Around Illinois team investigates.

The Weird Around Illinois team shares their thoughts on community comments from previous dogman podcasts and videos.

There's nothing quite so creepy as an empty playground, and Emmerich  Park in Buffalo Grove seems to be empty of everything except perhaps the  ghosts that are supposed to haunt it. The Weird Around Illinois team  makes multiple visits to this site to try to find what may be lurking in  this quiet, hidden park and the equally-haunted Buffalo Creek that runs beside it. - The blo...

Mothman is being sighted all over the Chicagoland area, so the Weird  Around Illinois team is out in the field, literally and figuratively, trying to find the truth behind a cluster of sightings of the cryptid in Lakewood Forest Preserve in the Northwest Suburbs.

Over the river and through the woods, the Weird Around Illinois team  makes a special Thanksgiving trip to Bloods Point Road. This area just  south of Belvidere, Illinois clearly bears the marks of past tragedy and  perhaps a little evidence of current haunting. Whether it's the witch  Beulah or the ghosts of children who lost their lives in a bus accident,  there just mig...

The Weird Around Illinois Team goes to the epicenter of dogman activity –  Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in search of the Beast of Bray Road. Walking in the footsteps of Linda Godfrey and countless monster hunters, the team checks out Bray road and the surrounding area for any evidence of the Wisconsin werewolf or dogman known as the Beast of Bray Road.