Train Wreck at Oakland Cemetery
By Bruce Cline, director of the Little Egypt Ghost Society Photo: This grave is the one belonging to the train engineer, John Chapman, who was killed in the wreck and still haunts the cemetery to this...
View ArticleThe Corpse Gas Encounter
By Bruce Cline, director of the Little Egypt Ghost Society There is an old mausoleum in Oakland Cemetery in Carbondale that appears to be illuminated from the inside when viewed from Oakland Street at...
View ArticlePhotos from the Rose Hotel Book Signing
This past Saturday, a crowd lined up outside the historic Rose Hotel in Elizabethtown to get their hands on the brand new book, History, Mystery, and Hauntings of Southern Illinois by Bruce and Lisa...
View ArticleTop 10 Creepiest Cemeteries in the Midwest
At Mysterious Heartland, we spend a lot of time crawling around the ruins of some of the most notorious and spooky places in the Heartland. Cemeteries in particular seem to attract a bevy of ghostly...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Terrifying Places in the Midwest
There are a few places where men fear to tread, places so scary locals have labeled them with names like “Hotel Hell,” “Hell Bridge,” and “Satan’s Tunnel.” Witches, demons, and shadowy entities are...
View ArticleIowa’s Top 10 Most Haunted Places
The heart of the Corn Belt, Iowa is bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River to the west. It has the odd distinction of being both the safest state in the U.S. and the...
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