Weird Around Illinois

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.

A haunted cemetery protected by hellhounds, a cursed bridge, a road patrolled by ghost cars...The Weird Around Illinois team prepares to go to one of the most haunted roadways in America for their first ever ghost investigation. The team discusses the history of Bloods Point Road and what ghostly apparitions they may find there as they prepare for their upcoming expedition. 

You tell our team that there’s a mothman in Hickory Hills, Illinois, and  we’re curious. Tell us it’s next to a Taco Bell, and we’re all in! Our team goes to the southwest suburbs to investigate a sighting of the mothman and ponders why it seems to be popping up all over Chicagoland these days. Enjoy this third installment of the “Weird Around Illinois” podcast!

This was our FIRST bigfoot search! We searched for bigfoot in Perry County, Ohio, and we couldn't help but think about the show "Mountain Monsters" while we were there. We managed to find some pretty convincing evidence of bigfoot during the travel, which will be featured in a future video on our YouTube channel. We hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast!

In this first episode, we talk about our search for dogman (a werewolf) in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. We uploaded a video of our search on YouTube , but we wanted to further explain our search on our podcast, and describe anything unusual that we may have found.