Story/Question: Hey, my friend just sent me a link to your site and it had a whole bunch of stories regarding Rainbow and Cuba Rd.
First off about Cuba Rd, my friends and I have driven up and down that road and didn’t really feel anything one way or the other. One weird thing we encountered was an extemely small, extremely dense patch of fog, and once we drove through it my friend’s iPod shut off and made the radio cut to static.
We were under the impression that Cuba somehow connected to Rainbow Rd. so that’s why we were driving along it. We searched for Rainbow Rd. for another half hour or so, then I said “screw it let’s go someplace else” and not even 20 seconds after I said that, the intersection sign for Rainbow Rd. popped up. That was the first indication that something weird was happening.
We drove around on the road for a while since none of us had ever been there before, and we came across a bend in the road a couple of times. The second time we decided to see what was down there. We went just last week (Sunday June 19) and the gate was torn down. We went down the winding road and it stopped in a little roundabout so we decided to park the car and get out for a while. The area is nothing more than dirt and bulldozers right now, in fact believers in this area who knew we went down there were shocked and appalled that we had the courage to do something like that.
It was our main goal in this trip to test the orb theory and we did that by taking my friend’s digital camera and taking random photographs. I was really excited to take pictures of this land since it’s supposedly one of the most haunted areas in Illinois. Since I was with a couple of people I didn’t really feel all that scared. My friend Mike, however, was a different story. He drove there and nearly the second we stepped on the land he started to freak. He reported feelings of extreme sorrow and panic, as I was fumbling with the camera he eventually took it and took pictures and was then like “we have to go now, lets go please, come on we’re leaving please we have to go. this doesn’t feel right, something’s wrong. we have to leave.” We thought he was just being stupid but we left anyway. As soon as we were in the car driving up the road he felt completely fine.
This was one of the pictures we took in the torn up area at the end of the road, as you can see there are numerous visible orbs that seem to be coming towards the camera. This was also the area, keep in mind, where my friend was experiencing all these horrible feelings.
This past week, Mike’s life has been extremely tough. His friend from school was just in a tragic accident that left him for all intents and purposes brain dead. Also he’s been through trying incidents that have caused him panic, such as a major change in job scenery, two speeding tickets, and being forced to go against his morals. As we were at dinner friday night he got a shocked look on his face as he told me this revelation: Every single bad feeling and event he’s experienced in the past week is something that he felt on Rainbow Rd.
What we are both trying to figure out (now that we’re firm believers in ghosts, we didn’t really believe in paranormal activity before this night) is why this is happening. Did the feelings he get serve as a warning? Were they just simply warning him of troubles ahead? Or was it a punishment? He transported us to their land, we disturbed them by walking around and taking pictures. Therefore, they let him know what he was going to experience as a result.
We’ve contemplated driving back there and offering an apology to the spirits there, and weirdly enough as we were talking about that this past Friday Mike got a phone call like 2 seconds after the conversation was done and received promising news about his friend from school.
I don’t know what to make of all this. I’m wondering what you think. Thanks for your time.
Response from Scott Markus: I’m far too far removed from all of this to offer any specific insights. Naturally, it’s a 90% certainty that these are coincidences. However, that leaves 10%. I have friends who have had quite similar experiences in having negative energies attached to them after visiting haunted sites. However, from what I’ve seen, this attached spirits manifest themselves with typical poltergeist-like activity (moving objects, phantom voices, general disturbances). However they have also manifested as psychic imprints which is something your friend experienced on the spot. What it has not manifested as are negative events involving other people (such as the friend having the accident). I am fairly certain that your friend just hit a streak of poor luck. However, it certainly won’t to any harm to return to the site and offer an apology (it could give him the desired manufactured positive of a placebo effect). The only KNOWN death to happen on the land was that of a young boy, so I highly doubt he would be the source of this malevolent force your friend is fearing. However, he may have picked up on the emotion of the last moments of this boy’s life, who was crushed to death in a freak, tragic accident.
