The O’Hare Airport UFO, 2006: A Disc Over Gate C17 and a Hole in the Clouds

Aerial view of Chicago O'Hare International Airport from above, showing the runways and terminals — the airport where the November 2006 sighting took place, not the object itself

About 6 min readOn a grey afternoon in November 2006, a dozen United Airlines employees watched a silent metallic disc hover over Gate C17 at Chicago O’Hare — then shoot straight up, punching a clean hole through the cloud deck. The FAA called it weather. The witnesses never agreed.

Bachelors Grove Cemetery: The Madonna, the Phantom House, and Chicago’s Most Haunted Acre

The overgrown entrance trail to Bachelors Grove Cemetery in Midlothian, Illinois, in 2008

About 4 min readHidden in the woods southwest of Chicago, a one-acre cemetery closed to burials in 1965 has produced more than a hundred reported encounters — a translucent woman photographed in 1991, a farmhouse that appears and vanishes, and a pond said to hide mob victims.

Resurrection Mary, Chicago’s Vanishing Hitchhiker

The main gate of Resurrection Cemetery on Archer Avenue in Justice, Illinois

About 5 min readSince the 1930s, drivers on Chicago’s Archer Avenue have reported picking up a young woman in a white dress who vanishes at the gates of Resurrection Cemetery. The sightings are consistent, the witnesses credible — and no one has ever explained who she is, or why she keeps appearing.