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A letter from a former camper at St. Francis Camp

Filed Under: 1. Legends & Lore, 4. Cuba Road, Illinois, Rainbow Road, The Gate, Libertyville, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — 4 Comments
November 3, 2009

Question: Hi Scott, Today I was thinking about my childhood and reminiscing on the 4 years I went to St. Francis Camp for Boys (1965-68). I decided to go on the web and see what info I could get and ran into your site. Very interesting!! I had no idea about the “Gate” legend(s) previously. I do remember it very well from both my camp days and occasionally driving past it.(There used to be a ‘St. Francis Camp for Boys’ Sign above it.) I know I have pictures of the camp & gate from my camp days..Finding them is another story! I have always wondered what the final fate of the camp was..I drove by once in the 80′s and noticed the water tower was gone, the gate was closed and everything was overgrown. I have a good memory and believe I could identify most of the buildings just by their foundations, (including the elusive chapel). There were 4 camper cabins named for St. Francis locations in Italy: Greccio (ages 7-8), Siena (9-10), Padua (11-12), Assisi (13-14), a large mess hall, auditorium, arts & crafts building, admissions building, Camp office, staff quarters, chapel, pump house, pool building, canteen building, and several storage buildings. Each cabin held I believe 60 campers. If you or anyone have any questions about the camp/gate, I would be glad to assist. Unfortunately, even though I was there 4 years, I never heard of or experienced anything strange.

Coincidentally, I am a lifelong resident of Lake Zurich and am less than 2 miles from Cuba/Rainbow Rds. I did the Haunted House and White Cemetery and Rainbow Rd. House things as a teenager in the 70′s. Unfortunately I did not experience anything paranormal at any of them..(Abnormal?..Yes!) ( I do have some interesting info about the Cuba Rd. house.) I have also been down Cuba and past the cemetery hundreds of times at night and have never seen anything odd,,,Just unlucky I guess. One last thing, poster Sammy Marsala was looking for a ‘creepy’ large old building behind barbed wire he saw once on Halloween on his way to Cuba Rd. I’m confident he is talking about the old Jewel Tea headquarters in Barrington off Northwest Highway on Lake Zurich Rd. 1 mi. S. of Cuba. It has been leveled and now is a nice park. Keep up the Good Work Scott! –Jerry Cullum

Response from Slim Pictures: I’m so excited to hear from someone who attended the camp! I’d be very interested in walking through the grounds with you this summer or spring. If you find any pictures you’re willing to share, please do keep me posted!

Also, thanks for the additional Lake Zurich information & I am quite curious what information you might have regarding the house formerly at 92 Rainbow Road.

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New photos and tales about Cuba Road

Filed Under: 4. Cuba Road, Cuba Road, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
January 12, 2008

Comment: I found this site on accident when watching videos made on Cuba rd. One of the movies had this address in it. Anyways, my story is about White Cemetery on Cuba. To anyone who’s never been there and wants the scoop, here’s my story: We went there during summer ’07 (I think it was around August). We all live in Chicago and Cuba Rd is about 20-30 min away.

Now to the point. After taking a left turn to Cuba Rd from the main street, everyone got scared. I mean we heard all the stories and stuff so we started freaking out right after I got on the road. So we were driving and driving. We have saw the cemetery all the way down past the busy street and we kept going down this small road and turned around. We were at the cemetery for about 30 min and nothing happened. We took a lot of pictures – nothing special besides orbs. We went home kinda disappointed.

The next day I told my two friends about the place and that I’d been there. They got so excited and were begging me to take them. So, we went and they were as excited about were cheap cigarettes at the gas station. Driving on Cuba, I was expecting nothing but….we found about five pentagrams on the road and about three 666′s marked on the ground. It didn’t look like spray paint, but like someone burned it in the road. I’m guessing that some kids were messing around and thats their job. After you pass the cemetery there’s a stop sign and house on left, so we turned and got out of the car to find one more pentagram on the stop sign. My buddy was standing next to it and I was taking pictures of him. He started walking and he said, “man I fell like something is pulling me back.” I kept taking pictures. What came out on the picture was my friend – he came out with no head and you can see one extra leg coming out of his body and a pair of hands grabbing him from behind. We got so scared.

I went again two days after the last trip with my girlfriend and bunch of friends. Of course, we took pictures and got a bunch of orbs. I think we found the invisible house or something like that. They say you can’t see it but you take a pic and it shows up. So, originally there’s nothing on the pic. It’s all black but my buddy used photoshop and made it brighter. Now you can see the small house two windows and bushes. Thats how they describe it. We know that area really good since we scooped it so many times. There’s no such thing as that house. I think thats the house that disappears or some thing like that.

A car was following us and disappeared when we were going down the hill. It just showed up and I said, “Guys look – that’s the ghost car.” So everyone watched and car just disappeared. Can’t really explain it. It sounds stupid, but thats what happened. We kept going down the hill past the busy street and again saw more pentagrams on the ground. I stopped the car when this garbage container was laying on the middle of the road too scary to get out and move it and i didn’t want to push it wit the car.

Anyways that container looked like someone bit it – like half of it was missing and it looked like someone hadn’t moved the thing out of the middle of the road since forever. So everyone got scared again, so I turned around and started speeding down road.

I’m not including the pictures now. My friend has them, so I need to meet up and get the memory card. I don’t know when it’s gonna happen but the picture is really interesting. It’s nothing like orbs or fog. I’ll send them as soon as I get them.

Response from Scott Markus: I can’t wait to see the pictures. Be sure to also send me the original picture of the house. I’d love to see if I can see it on my own without any filtering. I do have questions for you, but I’m going to wait and see the pictures from you first before getting into it.

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A ghostly reputation dating back to the ’70s if not earlier

Filed Under: 4. Cuba Road, Cuba Road, Illinois, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
October 2, 2007

Story: Hi Scott, I had a conversation with a co-worker today and the subject of Cuba Road came up. I was surprised at the continued interest. Needless to say, I was during some surfing tonight and found your web site. Cuba Road has quite the legend as my sister who attended high school in the 1970′s visited Cuba Road, and I visited while in high school in the early 1980s. I did have an interesting experience with the old car while I was there on one occasion.

I was in my car with several friends – as we approached the cemetery we saw a late model black car off the side of the road, on the side of the cemetery. It looked like it had run off the road and into the cemetery fence. There was no one in or around the car. We drove ahead about 500 feet to make a u-turn and come back. This took only a few seconds. The car was gone and the once damaged fence was fine. At the time it totally freaked us out. We did return several other times, and each time had something unique happen. Once we came upon a barn totally engulfed in flames – burning – we waited for fire trucks, but none ever came. We left again freaked out.

When I was in high school there was talk of a monastery (not an asylum) being somewhere on Cuba Road. We never did find it. I now have a 16-year old son who says that Halloween is supposed to be a big time out on Cuba Road (of course I will be a responsible parent and not allow him to go on Halloween – another night will be better – less chance of getting into trouble!) I think for anyone growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, visiting Cuba Road is a rite of passage. I’m 42 now and may even take a ride out there with my son to look around again.
Sincerely, Kristie Brettman

Response from Scott Markus: Fantastic story about the crashed black car! If I was writing my book now it definitely would’ve ended up making it in! I do love your eMail and thank you for it! I do also love how you and your son are able to bond a bit over a shared high school experience (a haunted location)!

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Archeology and Ghost Research

Filed Under: 1. Legends & Lore, 14. Northside & Beyond, 4. Cuba Road, 7. South & West Side Cemeteries, Illinois, Rainbow Road, Robinson Woods, Stickney House, The Gate, Libertyville, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
December 14, 2006

Questions: I emailed you several times last year about your book and you were very kind to send it quickly to me. I now use that as my bible of haunted locations.
All summer long I have been doing extensive archaeological work up and down the Des Plaines area and have found many sites at Robinson. I have the precise location of the Boettcher house (with many artifacts) and two locations for both of Robinson’s daughter’s houses. I have even met people who knew the Boettcher’s personally. This not only helps with the archaeology of the area but helps with the ghost hunting as well. I am hoping that next week brings promising pictures.

I have several questions this year regarding several of the locations. How far along are they with the development of the Rainbow Road house site? I saw the pictures on your site and I am guessing that people should be living in their new houses by now. What a shame! It was a favorite hunting ground for me.
Has anyone ever caught any apparitions at the White’s Cemetery location?
Will you be updating your site with updated stories?
Does anyone live in the Stickney mansion? Who could we contact to do an investigation? Have you or anyone that you know ever been inside and recorded or photographed anything? I have looked on the internet and can find nothing but the same story over and over.
My last question is about The Unexplained World website and their cable show. Is it still being aired? I live in Chicago and cannot find it anywhere on my Comcast.
Thank you for your time and help and keep up the good work on your end! Thanks –Dan Melone

Response from Slim Pictures: Dan, long time no talk.  I finally photographed some old, somewhat hard-to-find foundations of “the Gate,” in Libertyville, IL. I would love to see the foundations you’ve found at Robinson Woods. I’ve visited the location a lot over the past few months. While I can’t say that I’ve specifically made it a mission to seek out the foundations, I did think that I’d stumble across it eventually, but haven’t yet. If you want to meet up and explore the area soon, let me know.
To answer your other questions:
* Check out a pretty up-to-date video about the House on Rainbow Road here:

Though the house is gone and new houses are currently going up in the area, I still think it’s a fairly interesting site for ghost research – the actual location where the house was, isn’t being built upon (at least not yet).
* As for apparitions at White Cemetery – there are many orbs and mists on film, but I’ve never heard of any full figure apparitions on film (some pictures have been submitted to me claiming to be of figures, but nothing really solid. I also haven’t heard of any interesting video being shot there).
* After a long time away, I’ve finally been updating my site with stories submitted from readers. I’ve also made a few small videos with fellow author Mary Czerwinski. I plan to use the web site to further update the book.
* Bull Valley uses the Stickney House. No one lives in it. You won’t get a chance to officially do an investigation. The best chance you’ll have to do anything with permission is by posing as a regular passer-by who has heard the story and would like to look around (very casual). If there happens to be an officer there alone, they may open up a bit, however, they’re not actually allowed to. I’ve been in the front reception room/office. I don’t know anyone who’s made it further than that. Let me know if you make any progress.
* To the best of my knowledge, “The Unexplained World” is still on the air, though I cannot get it either. I’ve even been a guest on the show once, but don’t think I ever saw the episode. Fortunately, they have posted a few videos on YouTube (www.youtube.com/profile?user=MagickTv).

Please feel free to send any pictures you’d like to share with the world and I’ll post them on the site with credit going to you.

I hope to hear back from you soon, but good luck with everything. Also, the compliment that you use my book as your “bible of haunted locations” means the world to me. Thanks a ton!

Dan comes back with an old aerial shot of “The Gate”: The Gate is located in the bottom left corner. You will have to zoom in however it will become distorted.
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Looking for a scare and a monastery

Filed Under: 4. Cuba Road, Illinois, Rainbow Road, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
October 12, 2006

Story: Just found your site and spend a couple hours reading it. I grew up Near the area and live and work right next to Lake Zurich. I remember going to Cuba Road and the surrounding area when I was in High school as something to do on Halloween. This is around 1990 so it has been quite a while.

The story was that there was some type of asylum or monastery with a cemetery on Cuba near Rainbow Rd so a group of us (20 or so) headed there from Arlington Heights to drink in the cemetery or whatever we could find. We found the cemetery and checked it out but took off when it sounded like there was someone watching us going from just outside the back fence. We figured that we were all just freaked out and didn’t think much of it but the girls in the group weren’t big fans of the cemetery so we wandered around until we found an old deserted road. We headed headed down there and found a couple of old foundations maybe 500 feet from where we parked the cars. The buildings were leveled with a pond and a barn near it. We were all freaked out but what was really weird was that there were reminisces of things you would find in a house still scattered around I don’t remember it there were any signs of the place being burnt but I was uneasy about where I was. I always just wrote that off as the night and the legend, I am second guess that now. Anyway, the cops showed up not long after we got there and we ditched the beer and headed out to our cars. They were stern but cool as they checked us out and told us to take off.

What we were looking for was a good scare and we found it. We probably didn’t find the house that your research covers but reading about the area all these years kind of freaks me out. I’m going to go down Rainbow Road on my way home. It really isn’t out of the way at all. We’ll just see how that goes. Regards, Jeff Rosinski

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Growing Up Near Cuba Road

Filed Under: 4. Cuba Road, 5. Haunted Homes, Cuba Road, Illinois, Rainbow Road, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
October 11, 2006

Story: Hello Scott, this is actually the first time I have stumbled upon your page. I am from Lake Zurich. Lived there all my life ’til I went away to school. My parents still live there. I currently live in Kalamazoo and if you ever get a chance you should really look into it cause it is an amazing place to search for what some call ghosts. I like to think of them as spirits but I suppose that is the same thing. Anyway to the point. My family is from the area and I can tell you that the house with the gates on Rainbow Road is a house owned by Capone. He used it for business meetings and as a hide out. If you go into the town center in LZ you can actually look up articles from the very start of LZ and find deeds for common knowledge. I also happened to know some people who lived in LZ when it first became a town and when i was little i would sit and listen for hours to the stories of the area. It is believed that there were many people killed at this estate. I remember when I was in high school i wanted to check the place out. Not so much as a way to see ghosts but as a way to see a part of history since i love the story of Capone. I went with two friends and on the road when we got to the house i slowed down. I did not think it was too great since all i could see was the gate. I did not dare go in because for one i knew that the cops had this place heavily guarded mostly cause the town has a lot of teen vandals probably due to lack of things to do at night, and two if i got caught my dad would have killed me for being there when I was supposed to be at a friends house. As we were pulling away a car came from around a corner with no lights on and got on my tail. It then turned on its lights and flashed them on and off until we got to RT 22. It was a old car looked like it was from the 20′s and it disappeared as soon as we hit the main road. I remember being really scared. Some friends think it is just people in the area trying to scare the ghost seekers but they were not there. They did not see it.

I live a mile away from Cuba Road, and I have friends that live by White Cemetery. It has always been really creepy to go past there at night. In the day I have not really experienced anything. My favorite story is of the girl that hung herself on a tree there. That she appears in the road. Oh and the spot where you can get hand prints on your car. I have yet to do that. I actually work with a woman who heard of Cuba Road and she was so excited to hear that I lived near it.

I actually believe that my parents house is haunted. My stepmom died in there and not in a glamorous way. No not murdered but some strange things have happened there. But I suppose it could just be my imagination. If you ever want to hear about that or how before she died I knew exactly how it would happen in a dream I had, I would love to share it. But I thought I would share my knowledge of Rainbow Road. It is too bad they are turning it into a development now. Thanks for your time. –Elizabeth

Response from Scott Markus: Elizabeth, I have to say, the most fascinating part of your eMail revolves around your dream and your stepmother. Please do pass it along to us. I’m sure many of us would like to hear more. This whole area is full of lore and it really is remarkable how many stories come out of Cuba Road. I will have to point out that one of the stories you heard about is from a vary famous urban legend (you wrote, “My favorite story is of the girl that hung herself on a tree…and the spot where you can get hand prints on your car”). The legend I’ve always heard takes place in Texas, though, according to Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com, the actual event took place in Utah in 1938. Rather than reinvent the wheel, check out the real story (no ghosts after all) at: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/handprint.asp

Elizabeth Writes back: I would love to share what happened in my dream. When I was 10 I went away to a summer camp. My mother died on a Wednesday before I was to come home on Saturday. The day she died, I was mad at her because all the kids there were getting care packages and I had not gotten one yet. Of course I was being stupid and it came that day.

I talked to her on the phone, thanked her and thought nothing of it. That night I had a dream of her dieing. I dreamt that she collapsed in the bathroom and my sister was there screaming. I woke up screaming. The counselor had to come in and check on me. I went home with a girl who was my best friend at the time. I knew something was wrong when my dad dropped her off at her house and left her mom with a note that told her not to read it before we left. We drove the two blocks to my house and my dad was very quiet. We got to the driveway and all my relatives were over. My first reaction was my dad surprised me with a party, but he had me go around to the back yard to talk to me.

He told me that my mother died. I knew it was coming. My dad told me part of the story and I knew it was not right. It was only when I was older that I was told the truth of what happened. I told my dad that I knew because I dreamt. it.

A year after my stepmother died I was sleeping in my room when I suddenly heard my mother’s radio go off. It was blasting. I knocked on my sister’s door and asked if she had turned it on. She had not, so we went and took a look at it. Not only was it not turned on but it didn’t have batteries in it either. We tried pressing buttons to shut it off but we could not do it. As we thought about what to do, it just shut off.

I tried to go back to sleep and my sister went back to her room. I finally fell back to sleep. Then I woke up freezing. I saw a white figure leave the room and walk down the hall. By this time I got so scared that I start to cry and I woke up my dad. Nothing happened at the house for quite a while after that night. My dad has since remarried and my new mother is convinced that the house has spirits. I do not live with them anymore but I do spend all the holidays there and this thanksgiving the weirdest thing happened.

We were all sitting down to eat dinner when a music box my mom has in the kitchen went off. We all went dead silent and looked at each other. My mom then said looks like one of the spirits is with us now.

My mom’s death was the first one that I had a dream about but I have had other dreams that have come true. It got to a point where I had to take sleeping pills so I could go to sleep and not dream about someone dieing or getting seriously injured. I was so scared that someone else would be in my dreams. I am much better about it now, but I have been dealing with it for years. It is weird, I don’t know how to explain it and most my friends think it is freaky. But some think it is my gift or perhaps my curse.

I like to hope that one day it will help someone not get hurt or die and I also like to think that my mothers are with me. I think it is all fascinating. I love what you do and I hope you keep it up.

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Playing with the ghost car

Filed Under: 4. Cuba Road, Cuba Road, Illinois, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
March 31, 2006

Story: My friend and I were going to White Cemetery on Cuba Road. Our goal was to find these apparitions, and entities. We wanted to bring our ouija board into the cemetery and play it in there (sounds a little insane, right?). We got confused on where the cemetery was, and then passed by it, noticing that it was a small cemetery to our right. Furthermore, we passed it three times trying to find parking, not knowing that we had to park on the grass on the side of the road. So, as we were heading further East past the cemetery, we noticed a hill. As we were driving up this hill we saw a light. Approximately five seconds later the light disappeared. We were thinking to ourselves “Oh boy, the phantom car (In a sarcastic tone).” Seconds later, we saw the light again in clear view at least 200 feet away. About three seconds later the light went away again. Then approximately two seconds later a car with its lights turned on drove past us. I am not sure what the road was where Cuba Road ended going east (I believe it’s Route 53), but we turned around and went back towards Cuba Road heading west. As we still could not find parking we noticed that a random car showed up at least 200 feet away with its lights on. We turned into a “No Outlet” driveway and planned to go back to the cemetery to find another place to park. Then, all of a sudden, this car from 200 feet away suddenly follows us into the “No outlet” driveway and goes in the same direction as we are by making a left, again heading east on Cuba Road. Then we start to get a little rattled, because even when we were a matter of inches away from the car in the “No Outlet” driveway, we couldn’t even get a clear view of the car itself! Or the driver! When we hit traffic on Cuba Road, the car seems to have ridiculously disappeared. So we were driving, couldn’t find parking again, the traffic clears up, and all of a sudden, the car is behind us again – the same one. (we knew this because the only thing we could catch on the car was its light style). We started to get worried now. So then, we continue to drive east, the car is still following us. All of a sudden, the car turns off its lights for 10 seconds. We don’t see the car anymore. 10 Seconds later, the car turns on its lights. (Our hearts are pounding, and we still can’t even get a view of the car!!!) Another few seconds go by, the car’s lights turn out again. And then once again, turns on its lights again. The worst part was, when we were speeding off into route 53 to get the heck out of Cuba Road, that car stopped right at Cuba Road and turned around, we looked back, it disappeared… We even drove back on to Cuba Road just to get back home, no sign of the car… Thank you for hearing our story… We will inform you on anything else happening with that road. –Sam and Jeff.

Response from Scott Markus: It’s been a while now, so I’m guessing you haven’t gone back or experienced anything new. Going East, you’re probably talking about 59, not route 53. Very interesting story. I’ve heard many similar, but none this persistent. My first bit of advice is to look for a logical possibility. In this case, I’d ask a friend or two if someone may have been messing around with you (hence the turning on and off of the headlights). if you’re going to do some ghost research, I always feel it’s better to do so in the daylight hours. 1) You wouldn’t be breaking any laws regarding trespassing, but also 2) whatever you may end up seeing, it would be the real deal. Your eyes will be playing fewer tricks on you in the light of day.

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House(s) on Rainbow Road

Filed Under: 15. More Illinois, 4. Cuba Road, Barrington, Illinois, Rainbow Road, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
December 15, 2005

Question: Hey, I was surfing the web and I came across the whole Rainbow Road hauntings. My father and I have driven down there and spotted an entrance blocked by a gate leading to nothing…at least from what I can see. Do you know what is exactly behind that gate. Also, I heard that big glass house has a story behind it. I am interested in your book, where can I buy it? Thank you for your time — Aly Pecka

Response from Slim Pictures: Aly – Yes, by finding that area blocked off by a gate, you did find the place known as the House on Rainbow Road. There are plenty of pictures on this site to see what’s beyond the gate you found. My book contains links to hundreds of pictures as well as video clips of haunted sites, including the Rainbow Road location. I have heard recently that a numberer of the buildings back there have since been bulldozed in order to construct new homes on the land, but I have not been able to stop by and verify that. What was back there was a three story abandoned mansion that, by many accounts, was incredibly haunted. You can purchase the book at this web site, at Amazon.com and throughout Borders and Barnes & Nobles bookstores throughout Northern Illinois.

As for the ‘big glass house’ you speak of, I admit I have no information about it, but I hope that someone speaks up with anything they may have heard.

Response from w00t!! (a fellow reader): I have been there once before last year – about July, maybe August. I saw what looks like more of a barn, and silo, of which also had a doghouse next to it. Laying next to those buildings I saw a foundation for something. it seemed to me to be a foundation for a greenhouse of some sort. I say greenhouse because in the foundation there was broken pots for plants, remains of soil in crevases, nails that looked to have been burned and rusted, and a lot of glass. Now this isn’t for certain, but I think the glass house Aly speaks of was a greenhouse at one time or another, as for the story behind it….I know nothing of a story behind it. I’d love to hear something about that myself.

I would like to add that when me and my friends went there we decided to look around the backside of the barn and there was a 6 maybe 7 ft tall sliding door (no longer able to slide…the poles and brackets that it had been on rusted together making it impossible to open. The door led into the basement of the barn. When we approached the door written on it was “do not open,” “dead bodies inside” scattered across it, my friend who’s built like the hulk decided to pull on the handled a couple times till he managed to break the back door off, looking inside of it layed, rolled-up carpets, which were the most prominant items noticeable in there along with other junk, we decided against venturing in because the barn was dilapidated and that was just freaky knowing that it was a a mafia house at one time. Also when we looked in the ground-level area there was some phone line in there and other misc. junk like a lawn mower and stuff….maybe people dumped stuff there. Also as for the third level of the barn which, I would not go onto any further than the stairs, if you looked up there you could see with just the tiniest bit of sunlight beaming in that there was a single sewing machine upstairs.

I heard there was an asylum on the property (which I’m lead to believe is a lie) but, in search of that, we went through the thick forest behind the barn…a path which branches off into 2 directions will lead you to the forest. There wasn’t much to see…there’s a small creek, some phone lines and markers for whatever. We went all the way through that forest till we hit some upscale houses. There was no asylum to be found.

On our trip, as mentioned previously by other people we did see a camera box hidden in the tree with wires yanked out of it and smashed up pretty dang good to the right of the gates. Also I didn’t see a thing written in the road as one person had stated seeing “Dr. Tibol” in it. The road was pretty badly beaten up so, who knows, maybe it’s there but I highly doubt it. I was watching the driveway pretty closely because of it being so badly ripped up, I was on bike…if I didn’t I would’ve been eating asphalt. Biking is a pretty good way of getting in and out real fast if we needed, if you can, I’d recommend that to people if they wanted to look around for themselves.

Side note: January 15th, 2005 after seeing the a bad movie “White Noise,” we decided to go and see the graveyard on Cuba Road so we went down Rainbow Road and drove past where the gates stood when I went to the house in July. The gates aren’t standing any longer and the tree that had the camera in it was cut down. I’m not sure about this part but I could’ve sworn seeing a bull dozer sitting next to where the tree stump was where the camera had been hiden in the tree. None of my friends I was with had knowledge of the house on Rainbow Road so they didn’t want to stop to check it out…they didn’t believe that there was anything there from that deceivingly long driveway..they were also scared and it was freezing .

We went to the cemetery on Cuba Road…It was quite boring actually…the driver and my other friend didn’t wanna go so me and a fourth person went in, jumped the fence to avoid having the huge light pole turn on next to the gates. Then we got a little too close to the pole after just looking around so it went off and we took off before the cops came….looked for orbs but no such luck :(

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Mist pictures at White Cemetery

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December 2, 2005

PhotobucketThese pictures were submitted by a visiter to the site. You can right-click and open them in a new window to see them in full size.  I personally find mist photos to be much more interesting than orb photos, however, not being there myself, I cannot vouch for these images not being the result of cigarette smoke or visible breath on a cold day.  Regardless, enjoy! As with all pictures on this site, click on the images to open larger versions of them.
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Strange Pictures from White Cemetery

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October 28, 2005

PhotobucketStory: (click on images to view larger scale versions) My friend and I went to White Cemetary on Cuba Road. It was about 67 degress out and the wind was calm. I took some pics with my digital camera and found some surprising images. The first pic has and image of a girl looking from behind a headstone. The second pic looks to be a small boy kneeling. We took some other pics and found a lot of “orbs”. We went there twice and as we were leaving the second time we drove slowly past the cemetery with the radio off. Out of no where my head unit flipped open and the volume turned up three clicks. Neither of us had the remote because it was sitting in the cup holder of my car. The really weird thing was you need to press two buttons on the remote to open the head unit and turn up the volume. We tested to see if there was any way that the buttons could have been pressed. We couldn’t find anything. — Sean

PhotobucketResponse from Scott Markus: First off, I definately do see what you are looking at in the picture where you think you see a girl. The one with a child is a little sketchy in my opinion. In both instances, however, its impossible to say anything definitively. With the light being so dark and the locations of the possible apparitions being so far away from the camera, it could be anything. There could be further distant object catching just enough light to make a tiny imprint on the film. Plus, in cases like this where you are really looking for an anomaly, our eyes will start to find patterns in vague objects that create something organic to us – kind of like how it’s easy to find faces in wood grain.

The pictures that make the biggest impression on me are pictures that come with a story. If someone had a bad feeling in a particular place, felt a cold spot, heard a sound, etc. In addition, pictures that are taken in the daytime that have strange images or lights on them are definitely worth looking at deeper (though now you have to look out for glares from reflections and light sources). No matter what, there’s always going to be at least two ways to explain a picture. Good work and keep looking!

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