Timestamps: 00:00 Intro to the Phantom Lady 00:56 The First Ghost Sighting 1:58 The Phantom Appears at Night 3:19 Witnesses Describe the Ghost 3:47 The Ghost Makes the News 4:25 The Mystery of the Ghost 5:31 The Phantom Lady Legends 6:24 Was the Ghost Real or a Hoax? 8:01 Outro to the Kennedy Hill Ghost
@Markus711677 ай бұрын
Hello. My wife and I lived in that farm house on Kennedy Hill rd. Supposedly the ghost was our land lady’s sister who was killed. She was wearing a dress. We both grew up in that area. We are 57 years old, do the math LOL. So this story was common place. We live in Tennessee now but when we go home to visit I will take pictures of the hill and house for you. That hill is steep and dangerous. Mark
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Interesting. Yeah that would be cool to see. Was it the jeep accident where the girl was said to have hit a telephone pole?
@stanmarr44887 ай бұрын
It's so refreshing to hear someone tell a story in their natural voice and not try to sound like a 'badly-recorded-empty-tin-robot voice'...
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you lol.
@mstinak81736 ай бұрын
Sooo true!
@lenka77766 ай бұрын
No kidding , I even had to turn some videos off altogether
@goodbonezz12896 ай бұрын
I totally agree. Those other voices are AI…I can’t stand them.
@juliettemilne6 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 yup, agree
@MadameM.6 ай бұрын
You are just what KZbin needs - a smart, no-nonsense presenter who can provide interesting information in a real voice - no strange inflections, no unnatural way of speaking, no sensationalism. This was great, and I am definitely subbed!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@6omega27 ай бұрын
Great story, well told. I agree absolutely that no one was attempting to perpetrate a hoax by running around half naked at midnight, in the dead of winter. Anyone who thinks that has obviously never experienced a northern winter night.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you. I agree.
@lissanne97696 ай бұрын
That's for sure, especially if it's windy out. The wind chill is enough to freeze you to death.
@johannaholmgren80886 ай бұрын
I've dashed to my garbage can for a brief moment in bare feet and shorts, in below freezing temps....but I'm extremely close to my back door, and have never gone running through a cornfield.
@Retro_Rich6 ай бұрын
It was a young Wim Hof in drag 😂
@alvaroakatico91886 ай бұрын
I’m not afraid 💀
@newmexicojoe54436 ай бұрын
Pretty awesome. See, I lived south of Rockford at the time, and drove down Kennedy Hill road every day from 1979 to 1981 while working on the Byron nuclear plant. We would often stop at a bar, called "the Barn" in Byron before heading home, making most of the drive later at night. Sometimes we worked long shifts and work pretty late. One guy I worked with seen her on the road, and it shook him up pretty good. I also noticed that the footage in the video isn't just random farm road, but the actual road. Pretty cool after all these years. I am 67 now, but still remember it well. January and Febuary were cold as hell at that time, where wind chills could reach 20 to 40 below zero. Winter of 80-81 we had a huge near record snowstorm and the gal was seen no more.... and yes, some sightings were very late at night... 1 to 2am.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. Do you remember anything specific about his encounter? Did he give a description of her or mention where on the road it happened?
@newmexicojoe54436 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 Yes. He said it was about a mile and a half south of Montague road, in a barren stretch where there is just fields on both sides. He seen a girl, maybe early 20's, walking on the side of the road wearing only a skimpy nightgown. It was late at night (after 11pm) and the temperature was about 20 degrees. He was certain she needed help so he stopped alongside her. He asked her what why she was out there. He got out of his truck to help, and when he got around to the passenger side, she was no longer there. Just completely gone, yet there was no where and no time for her to have run or hidden. Shook him up pretty good.
@laurametheny10086 ай бұрын
My daughter was born in 1979. They told me I might have to go to the hospital on a snowmobile lol. I remember I fell in a snowbank 9mths pregnant. My Mom had just dropped me off and she didn't see me fall. No whales have ever been beached in flakes like I was that night! Idk how I didn't go into labor. My landlord came and helped me up thank God. We lived out in the boonies growing up there. The roads were hardly wide enough for 2 cars. And with blizzards..ugh! Our school bus literally got stuck in between the WALLS of snow because that's how they plowed it. So crazy! Good old nuke plant. Still working. Thank God again. My late sisinlaw worked there for awhile.😀
@mimalemonclock6 ай бұрын
My mother, sister and I traveled along old route 2 between Rockford IL and the Iowa border many times in the late 70’s. It’s about as scary a pitch black road as you could ever hope to ride upon. This story gave me shivers!!!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching. I drove on Route 2 along the river. It's a very dark and winding road.
@laurametheny10086 ай бұрын
Yes! We lived on route 2 for awhile in the 90s. Trying to get out of that driveway in the winter was a damn nightmare!😳 And my fam is from Iowa so we drove it that direction many times as well.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
I can imagine. Lots of traffic on that road.@@laurametheny1008
@MatthewOBrien-ds1xv6 ай бұрын
You were all passing through my old stomping grounds. 😀
@StrangeandSinister12 ай бұрын
Nice. It's a desolate area along that road.
@ChrisAldridge6 ай бұрын
I live in northern Illinois. You couldn't run a prank like that on a freezing night in the snow. You would end up in the hospital with hypothermia, if you could even stand the cold long enough.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
I agree. You'd be frost bit in minutes.
@kenbarkdoll72527 ай бұрын
I'm from Rockford. Illinois and recall the Kennedy Hill Ghost incidents quite well. Many people went out to see the ghost and some of them saw it. The topic made the radio shows and TV news. Quite a stir.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Yes, from what I learned, the ghost was featured in newspaper articles multiple times. A lot of people saw it.
@Chet736 ай бұрын
Is Kennedy Hill near Rockford?
@stoneshire6456 ай бұрын
@@Chet73 a few miles south west of
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
It's a twenty to thirty minute drive.
@vichardman616 ай бұрын
Has anyone ever walked that area for 2 miles to five miles maybe a body is there and was trying to tell someone she was there and wanted her body/ bones to be found before all the bodies parts were gone
@stevieroger74787 ай бұрын
It's a pity there were no dashcams on cars back then. It would have been amazing if someone had been able to capture this apparition clearly on video. 👻
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
For sure. That would be awesome to see a pic of the ghost.
@user-du1mz5zx7s6 ай бұрын
They’re never clearly..😒
@alvaroakatico91886 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1”ghost”
@davidkraft3146 ай бұрын
Where I live (Ontario canada) we get some of the coldest winters around. I can't see someone running around half naked, bare foot, in the middle of winter on a snowy night. They would get severely sick, get frostbite, lose a toe from said frostbite, plus stepping out into the snow barefoot hurts like hell (having done it when my boot got stuck in a snow bank), I can't see someone walking down a road bare foot while suffering from that kind of icy pain.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
I agree. A prank is unlikely, unless there was a warm car hidden nearby.
@davidkraft3145 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 cars in the winter give off a lot of exhaust against the cold. You would notice a powered on car.
@SMtWalkerS7 ай бұрын
So many ghostly ladies on the road stories all over the country, and they are all so interesting. A co-worker swore to me that he and his sister, when kids, saw a lady walking between the road and the river at night as they walked home from a movie theater. The woman was very pale and in a white dress. She was gliding along knee deep in the soil along the river, as that had been ground level a century earlier. The kids ran the other way in fright. He was dead serious about this and was still frightened by the long-ago experience.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Wow, that's creepy! Maybe it was the ghost of someone who drowned there.
@SMtWalkerS7 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 Lots of ghost stories in that old town. I never saw one myself, but I love the stories. This guy had been a chef and a butcher, rough around the edges, but related many great well-told stories.
@christinegruenberg31202 ай бұрын
There is also the story about "Resurrection Mary" in Chicago. You can look that story up. There is also one in the state of Maine.
@williambarr28466 ай бұрын
I believe that any one of the "incidents" that occurred in the general vicinity could be directly related to the unexplained occurrences along this stretch of road-
@trent38726 ай бұрын
There is an area close to where I grew up that was creepy as heck. You would see somebody standing on the side of the road, they would stare as you went by, you'd look in your rear view and they were gone. It was near the river.
@JD-kg3mx6 ай бұрын
Funny thing - I was tasked with jumping into a company pickup truck to drive out to and load up a replacement engine my employer purchased from an affiliated company of Byron Nuclear Generating Station in 1979. I was young, dumb and ambitious so the driving job, taking four days total didn't faze me until I did it. Man, what a boring drive, all flat farming land. Cell or smart phones didn't exist yet, maps were all paper and music was all AM radio on that Chevy truck. Not too far from my destination I stopped into a road diner to grab dinner. People were friendly. I overheard a conversation some locals were having with the waitress that had something to do with truckers stopping to check on someone laying on the road - that turned out to be what they assumed was a mirage or tricks on the eyes. I wish I could say it was on Kennedy Hill Road but I just don't remember. But a ghost was quite an urban legend in Byron, I remember that.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I knew about the story years ago and always thought it was interesting.
@milumav7 ай бұрын
This is such a great channel!!!! The pesentation, content, music, and footage are all fantastic! So many lazy and/or greedy youtubers speak too fast, use stupid background music, show random footage that is not relevant or related to the story, or focus WAY too much on cryptids or aliens, instead of true stories of hauntings/ghosts (which so many more people experience). I hope there's many more of these wonderful bone-chilling true ghost stories to come! Great job!!! 🤜🤛 👻👻👻
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you! I try to use tracks that fit well with the story. More to come! I'm working on a new video now.
@milumav6 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 👍👍👍
@synesthesia.aesthetic2 ай бұрын
I love the personal experiences too, in other videos.
@StrangeandSinister12 ай бұрын
Thank you. I have a few videos with personal stories/thoughts at the end. I'll probably do it again in future videos.
@MarvinHartmann4526 ай бұрын
I don't believe in ghosts because I never saw one in 56 years, but that story is entertaining. You have a good voice to do this. Well done.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@heathernikki57346 ай бұрын
I’ve seen exactly one in 40 years and I didn’t believe in them before then either
@footballlvnlady7 ай бұрын
My ex husband moved into an older home in the late 90’s. Our daughter was in college then and only went there some weekends and holiday breaks. She said she always got a weird feeling when she did laundry in the basement. After my ex moved out my daughter saw the neighbors to that house out for dinner one night. They asked if she knew the history of that house. There was a couple in the 50-60 age group that owned the house. They had a grown daughter who was married and had a young son. The SIL got cancer and died. Their daughter was very distraught and was very depressed. The parents invited their daughter and grandson to move into the house with them. The daughter became more depressed and hung herself in the detached garage. The grandson continued to live there but he became depressed after losing his father and then mother. When the grandson was in his teens he hung himself in the basement of the house. The owners moved out after that. My ex knew the history but never told my daughter.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
That's creepy and sad about the kids. Your daughter never saw a ghost in the basement?
@footballlvnlady7 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 No she didn’t. She just felt strange when doing laundry. She only found out the history when meeting the former neighbor out at a restaurant.
@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc6 ай бұрын
@@footballlvnladyDid your daughter move out when she found out about the history of the house?
@bdpage202318 күн бұрын
That's awful. Reminds me of Dana Plato & her son.
@tattedandgatted7 ай бұрын
I'm from Central IL. These stories are really good and better yet they come from here.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you. 😊
@danieltossounian19626 ай бұрын
Im from California and some of the living people are so freaky they scare the ghosts away ..😂
@heathermanning53686 ай бұрын
Thanks for Sharing! I really can't see this as a hoax, it seems like a residual haunting, with the exception of people seeing different clothing, I wonder if anyone has had recent sightings Hopfully her spirit can finally rest in peace!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Supposedly the sightings ended in the early 1980's.
@anthonyanthonymorones42267 ай бұрын
We live in Kyle Texas Highway 21 allow people calling dead man’s curve but in our family we call it the haunted highway that the years we lived on this highway. We seen some paranormal on Highway 21 even seen a young girl walking on Highway 21 in a white nightgown, high 21 is known as the dangerous highway in the state of Texas mostly caused by fatal wrong way drunk drivers. It’s a great highway but it’s also a dangerous highway too and also a haunted highway. Give me a thumbs up if you let my comment.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Sounds like a creepy highway.
@corbetcrey6 ай бұрын
I loved this dashcam footage... so quite and eerie... like something is lurking in this fields...
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you! I was hoping to capture the ghost on film.
@SewEasyCreations7 ай бұрын
Another great story. I love information you include, well thought out and presented. If only there were more like you who do not try and hype it up. Excellent, thank you.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. I like doing videos on places that intrigue me and have some interesting history behind them.
@eviehammond95097 ай бұрын
Amen to that!!
@laurametheny10086 ай бұрын
You know I forgot about our friend Pat. She was the one who took a dive off the end of Kennedy Hill into the trees over the river but was saved. Pat was always goofy. I lived with her sis when we both worked at Quality. We used to laugh and say it wasprobably Pat on a mission lol. PTL. They lived on Route 2. I don't remember hearing about those shirts. Wish I could have got one.😒👻 Subbed this time😉
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
I'm glad to hear she was saved. The river is so close to the road there. I'm sure many drivers have ended up in the water.
@listensister88086 ай бұрын
Your voice makes me so homesick but in the sweetest of ways. Love your channel ❤️ Igrew up in the Lockport and Joliet area and lived as an adult in Glen Ellyn and Schaumburg. These stories are just glorious.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you! 😊 There's more to come!
@stevevalley27847 ай бұрын
I just came across your YT channel & just watched the Bachelors Grove video & now watching this video. As a new subscriber I'll be looking forward your future videos. Excellent job!
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. 😊
@georgeplace85137 ай бұрын
😊 That was a good story. Never heard of this before. Thank you 😊 for posting it. I can't believe, either, somebody running around, halk naked, in sub artic weather, waiting to try and prank somebody. Not knowing when, or if, somebody would pass by. Add in the fact there wasn't really any place anyone could hide? I don't know 😮. If it was a prank, they should get bonus points for tolerating the cold, then get treatment for hypothermia 😅. Just saying 😅. 1/27/24.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you. Yeah it sounds a little extreme for a prank. Hypothermia is a guarantee.
@laurametheny10086 ай бұрын
Whoa. I was JUST thinking about my ex boyfriend from Byron who committed suicide many years ago. And there is your vid. Jeez thats creepy. I lived and worked in Byron for the years I was with him. My whole fam worked at Quality Metals there for years. Some of us at different times. We lived across from the cemetary. I took my daughter and moved to Rockford after we broke up. Traveled up and down Kennedy Hill hundreds of times over many years as my fam lived off Montague. Never saw the spook tho. Heard plenty. A friend of ours actually DID go off Kennedy at the bottom of that hill across route 2. Into the trees. But SHE didn't die. We had 2 friends who died on route 2 tho. One was just a little girl, playmate of my daughters. I had a wreck on Kennedy Hill myself. Definitely was a scary road to drive on in winter. Thanks for the vid. Boy was that a rush!😳🥶👻
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Yeah the hill on that road is steep. I could see it being very dangerous when icy.
@adriennecruz49646 ай бұрын
I think the settings are real great chanel and video I also love you voice❤
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you! :)@@adriennecruz4964
@Jade_holloway7 ай бұрын
Nice eerie story! Your narration is great too, very natural-sounding.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching 😊
@user-ze9to3ef1f5 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1search: the ghost of uniondale in south africa😰😰😰😰its real and she hikes then disappear out of the car or off the bikes. They say it stopped in 1984 when her then fiance died
@madisonwhitley5396 ай бұрын
There is a road very similar to this one in Colorado a lot of people don't know about, I don't live too far from it. I really enjoyed watching this one, great work and nice job.❤👻
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. That's cool. Does the road involve the ghost of a girl?
@madisonwhitley5396 ай бұрын
@StrangeandSinister1 Not quite sure, I have heard a lot of conflicting stories about Riverdale Road, ghosts, cars breaking down around certain spots, ghost cars, sounds of native american drums beating in the distance, the whole nine yards, so a ghost girl wouldn't surprise me, lots of rumors about that road, I've heard it's haunted as hell, very rarely am I ever down that road at night, so I can't really answer you honestly, I stay away from it during the evening, or at least,I try to.❤️👻
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Wow, it sounds like a creepy road.
@madisonwhitley5396 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 Yes, indeed🤗
@komrad406 ай бұрын
Haunted or not, the road is shockingly beautiful.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
It's a nice area.
@heathernikki57346 ай бұрын
This was actually really creepy 👀
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
It was creepy driving down that road at night.
@juliewessels40456 ай бұрын
We pass this road every time my husband takes me to the doctor in Rockford. I've heard the stories, but I've never been on the Kennedy Hill road.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Maybe one day you can take a drive down the road on your way home and look for the ghost.
@juliewessels40456 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 I'd like to, but we always go during the day.
@ddesafety22782 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing and telling this story. I had always heard the stories about the ghost as a kid and what he tells are the stories I heard. When I got my license in 86, I would drive that road a few times a year just to see if I could see anything. After leaving the area and moving to Iowa I still drive that road when I come back to see family, just to tell the story of the ghost to someone new or just the hope to finally see it years later, but alas I never did. Highway 2 from Kennedy Hill to Oregon, IL is already a beautiful drive, plus you have Chief Blackhawk protecting just outside of Oregon, IL on the opposite side of thr river.
@StrangeandSinister12 ай бұрын
I was looking the whole time hoping I'd see her. It is a beautiful drive along Highway 2. The Blackhawk statue in Oregon is really cool.
@CodingAbroad6 ай бұрын
As many others have said… awesome voice! You’ve made me a subscriber
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@mjrchapin7 ай бұрын
Excellent ghost story!
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@sharronb24766 ай бұрын
This was a really creepy story, one that I had never heard before. I think it was a ghost, can't imagine a real person pulling a prank like that as cold as our winters get up north! 👻 Thanks for sharing yet another awesome, eerie video! 😊❤ I love your channel!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. I totally agree. It seems a little extreme for a prank but who knows.
@robertandersen23187 ай бұрын
It was a ghost and will never go away
@davidcarter10137 ай бұрын
If it was a ghost it will dissipate,eventually.
@davidcarter10137 ай бұрын
The astral shell.
@robertandersen23187 ай бұрын
@@davidcarter1013 I lived in a haunted house, they never left we did
@daren78897 ай бұрын
I know someone who refuses to travel South on ZmD Rt65 past the Antietam Battlefield Sharpsburg MD! Numerous car accudents have iccured in that strtch of Highway! Some people have claimed to see Confederate Ambulances crossing the road 8 dome accidents have occured on that road! ???? Antietam was the single bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War , September 17,1862! 23,000 died in a single day!
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Wow, that's crazy. I've heard stories about Gettysburg and other battle sites being haunted. Thanks for sharing.
@garycondon77196 ай бұрын
I could show you a house where , as a kid , I saw ghosts every single night until we eventually moved when I was 10-ish
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
That sounds very interesting. Did you move out because of the ghosts?
@garycondon77196 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 No , the family was getting too big for the house . I was pretty much the only one who saw and heard these beings , though years later I discovered that my older brother witnessed one strange experience and my oldest sister as well
@fernandoduran20947 ай бұрын
Good creepy story before bedtime 🌙. I just love a good old-fashioned folk tale. Kind of keep you thinking if this ghost 👻 is around today. THANKS 😊
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. It could be. I was looking for it when I filmed there.
@StocktonJustin954 ай бұрын
Just found your channel last night! Living in the south suburbs of Chicago, I love seeing you tackle alot of legends and hauntings in my backyard. Subbed and cant wait for more!
@StrangeandSinister14 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I'll be releasing some new haunted videos soon.
@jackanapes66766 ай бұрын
There is also the legend of Witch Beula who resided close to that area out on Weldon rd just a few miles from Kennedy Hill. Also McCormicks tomb is also located on Montague rd there also.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
The witch sounds really interesting. I'll have to look that up. Thanks for sharing.
@jackanapes66766 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 Unfortunately, the house that was there is no longer standing. The legend says that there were broomsticks used for railings to enter at the front of the house. Locally, there is a lot of mystery and lore around the legend.
@laurametheny10086 ай бұрын
OMG yes! We lived on Weldon most of my childhood. I went to school in Winnebago. We used to drive out there as teens. Also Artesian Well the old end of Weldon that's now paved I think. Our old, old house got torn down after my parents moved to route 2. Weldon itself was almost a driveway lol. Hardly room for 2 cars. So much nostalgia tonight. Half my fam is gone sadly. Wish I could go back.🙏🏼😔
@56cadd6 ай бұрын
Beulah was an elderly woman that was a widow who wanted to be left alone. In the early 70s, my cousins hunting dogs got lost around her place. The next day , we went looking for them and we saw them at her house, she fed them and was taking care of them.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
I'll have to look into Beula and Weldon road. Sounds really interesting.@@laurametheny1008
@emelio79956 ай бұрын
Ghosts that haunts normal living humans is true. I do believe in ghosts. They keep coming back to tell us in different ways about what really caused of their demise when they were still alive.
@buddapudgie84825 ай бұрын
Your comment reminded me of a quote I read once. It goes " A haunting is history waiting to be heard" - Anonymous.
@CurtisGrupe6 ай бұрын
Hello just came across this at 3 o'clock this morning really enjoyed it
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
@brandonfouts40746 ай бұрын
Elvis 🎸🎶 can be heard in his house
@tamarakindle736 ай бұрын
I love your channel!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! 😊
@josephmiller94246 ай бұрын
Has anyone stopped right by the woman rather then having to come back , because she could be part of a team getting travelers to stop then Rob them
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
When I was reading about the guy who saw it at night on the road, he said he took off because he thought it was a trap.
@josephmiller94246 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 because it is a trap attractive woman barely dressed late at night some men may be drinking stops a group comes out guns take vehicle with person , now a missing person and no girl either and it stops why did they do a exorcism
@shaunhourston-wells4586 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching this and your other videos. Good luck with the new channel!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@srinivasaraoyp36406 ай бұрын
Very interesting.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@leanntoepfer775 ай бұрын
I live near Byron, IL and have heard this story my whole life (I'm 46). Ive never seen the ghost, but the house that sits on Route 2 that is part of the Kennedy Hill farms still sits empty. Just drove by it yesterday. It is supposedly haunted. Nothing is out of the question...
@StrangeandSinister15 ай бұрын
Another viewer mentioned that too. That it’s haunted.
@leanntoepfer775 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 most likely. It was rented on and off for years then probably the last 15-20 years it's sat vacant with the gates chained out front.
@rickhunt44876 ай бұрын
Very interesting ❤
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@RM-mm4jr7 ай бұрын
Just found your channel n subscribed. I am now binge watching!! 💖 From Australia
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you for subscribing and watching. I'm glad you're enjoying my videos.
@timothytrainful5 ай бұрын
I live in Byron now and I heard stories about her. I drove up and down Kennedy road quite a few times past few years just hoping to see her.
@StrangeandSinister15 ай бұрын
I was hoping to see it when I filmed for the video.
@john05975 ай бұрын
As you said all the commentator said I don't think it would be a hoax because it was freezing cold weather
@letzvisit16616 ай бұрын
Loved the video and your style of storytelling. I myself am trying to get into just making shorts about ghosts or stories. Definitely keep up the videos these are great and they are stories I’ve never seen or heard of before personally.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. I'll have a new video out today or tomorrow.
@nancyoleksy6 ай бұрын
Love your channel. My friend and I are always looking for places to explore. We go cemetery hopping and have had many crazy things happen. Thanks for these stories.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad you found it interesting. What cemetery have you had an experience at?
@petercole87986 ай бұрын
Read my comment about scary things. In Massachusetts.
@12stanhumphries6 ай бұрын
Just Came Across your Channel and Subscribed to it. Great Job on the Story and Love the Footage of the Road! I love Ruarl America 🇺🇸 It's Beautiful to Look it but it can be Quite Hanting as well when you hear Stories Like This!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you!
@randyhebbebusche364414 күн бұрын
Very interesting, don't care about driving at night so much though. Thanks for a good story and background.
@StrangeandSinister113 күн бұрын
It's a creepy drive at night.
@KSJPW6 ай бұрын
I’m from Rockford and when I was in high school in the 70’s we cruised around those roads looking for the ghost, it originated in the 50’s or 60’s I think. One night, a guy wearing a hood was in the middle of the road, raised an ax and swung at us as we drove past. Probably a prankster, but it was really scary!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
😦 I probably would have called the police.
@jrspiritcommunicator76116 ай бұрын
Keep up the great work 👍
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. 👍
@user-kn8jg6rj9e7 ай бұрын
Enjoyed your video
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
@Brodypuppycrazyadventures6 ай бұрын
I stumbled upon this channel and I'm so glad I did! This channel is awesome! I'm so entertained and freaked out at the same time! Thank you! ❤😊
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@swagbear99656 ай бұрын
Love these local unheard of stories man. Keep up the good work👍🏻
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. I've always thought this story was interesting.
@Veronica.A.6 ай бұрын
Okay, so the apparition was seen by individual drivers at night. They went and told other people about it. Rumor spread like wild fire. Everyone gets intrigued about it and flocks down to see the ghost and suddenly the apparation just stops manifesting itself?! It just doesnt add up. The only thing i think of is that people had nothing better to do in the early 1980's ( when they're wasn't any mobile or smartphones), and so they made this up in order to prank or to create a sensation. This ghost isn't real.
@StrangeandSinister15 ай бұрын
You could be right, who knows.
@jpturner1716 ай бұрын
Wow, agree with your viewers, you narrated this story with a calm, factual voice. Thank you and well done.👏🏽👏🏽 I have subscribed and plan to contribute
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@StarrySpider5 ай бұрын
Just found your channel with my husband last night. We watched the rainbow video on our tv so I figured I’d add you to my account as well! Thank you for not having any AI generated voice, just as everyone else had said. Good luck with the channel!! ❤
@StrangeandSinister15 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you so much! I refuse to watch AI voice channels myself and I'll never do that in my videos. Thank you again! 😊
@StarrySpider5 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 happy to hear that! They drive me insane lol
@duvessa20036 ай бұрын
Nice job! New subscriber here 😉
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you!
@mikeharper40216 ай бұрын
Love your channel, wonderful narration just subscribed 😀
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! And welcome to the channel!
@eviehammond95097 ай бұрын
Love stuff like this!! Your video showed up in my recommended & so glad it did!!❤liked & subscribed & looking forward to future posts, but will watch your other videos til then.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching my videos. I'm glad you enjoy them. I'm working on a new one.
@juliemudd29856 ай бұрын
I love stories like this! New subscriber 🤗 Thank you for sharing!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you!
@georgeplace85137 ай бұрын
😊 P.S. Congratulations 🎉👏 on approaching 200 subscribers 😊. 1/27/24.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@georgeplace85137 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 Your very welcome.
@FieckBrothers7 ай бұрын
Congrats on 200+ subscribers!🥳🎉
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you for the congrats! :)
@georgeplace85137 ай бұрын
Yes. Congratulations 👏👍🎆 on reaching 200 subscribers. Next stop... 300 subscribers. 1/27/24.
@connerscon6 ай бұрын
Brilliant 👏 👏 presentation
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you! 🙂
@melodyfranklin22876 ай бұрын
This is absolutely creepy but yet it's very interesting as well.. thank you for sharing this true story. I love it.. your totally amazing forever love so kindly Melody 💗 aka Mel 💝
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.
@danielchatshorror85397 ай бұрын
Just subscribed. Can’t wait to see more videos
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Awesome! Thank you!
@chendaforest6 ай бұрын
The cynic in me says it was a PR stunt to boost tourism. That said I don't doubt that at least some of the sightings were subjectively real, as in drivers sincerely believed they saw something. We have a similar case in South Africa, check out the Uniondale hitchhiker.
@julieq12916 ай бұрын
My friends and i used to drive that rd lo9king for her all the time. Also, off of Kennedy Hill Rd, (cant remember the name) was witch Bula's house.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Another viewer mentioned Beula on Weldon road, but she was just an elderly woman who lived alone and was sadly labeled a witch. I've heard about this story before. I'll have to learn more about it.
@Maryann-ir6gkАй бұрын
I wouldn't mind visiting Illinois. Thanks for sharing your story. I think its real.
@StrangeandSinister1Ай бұрын
Thank you.
@melzwings6 ай бұрын
I just found your channel and I love it!!! Great videos!!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Glad you like them! Thank you for checking out my videos!
@DebbieSkelly-ib5dv2 ай бұрын
Great video! I am very familiar with the Phantom of Kennedy Hill Road and it was so interesting to watch your video. I really do think it was an elaborate hoax from what I heard several people are certain about who the "phantom" was but no concrete proof so it makes for a great ghost story. Very well done and thank you for sharing!
@StrangeandSinister12 ай бұрын
Thank you! It's a fascinating story for sure. It was creepy driving down that road at night too.
@bettyvarone44205 ай бұрын
A poor wondering soul looking for peace, sometimes they just need prayers, this was most likely a real ghost and finally went home to heaven.
@StrangeandSinister15 ай бұрын
It's possible.
@thepissedoffwhitedude9697 ай бұрын
oh hey another small creator covering neat shit in my home state, I actually never get tired of these, just the fact that I live nowhere near these sites. why do they all gotta be up by chicago, man?
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thanks for checking out my channel.
@bobjones24606 ай бұрын
Just found your channel -keep up the good work!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you 👍 🙂
@petercole87986 ай бұрын
Love the story Brey rd too. Love the background music creepy ghosts scary story. True well ..maybe. now come to Massachusetts and do a story on Freetown state forest and hockomock swamp . Talk about creepy. Then October Mountain feldon pond Pittsfield state forest in the Berkshires very heavily wooded areas in western Massachusetts. October Mountain Bigfoot sightings and Dogman. Lee mass is out near the new york state line about 135 miles west of Boston mass. Many strange things out there. Please do a story on our state of Massachusetts paranormal events..
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you. I might eventually cover some stories in MA. I'll make note of the places you mentioned.
@stoneshire6456 ай бұрын
I’m from Winnebago, Illinois, and my wife and I grew up hearing stories about this ghost. We still travel the route many times a year, though we’ve never seen it. The adjacent property is said to be haunted too, including the main home and the guard houses. How’d you come across this tale? Thanks for the video!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
I've known about this story for a long time. It's always interested me. Guard houses? On Kennedy Hill road?
@stoneshire6456 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 very cool, so glad you made a video on it. I shared it with several friends! Yes, there was a prominent farming family who built a large home way back off Kennedy Hill road (which is called Westfield further north) on their massive, mostly wooded property, and there are at least three white brick guard houses just off Kennedy Hill Rd. and one more on Route 2, where Kennedy Hill dead ends heading east. The guard houses haven’t been occupied for sometime, though someone still lives in the family home, and offers a room for Air B&B. The wife and I have considered staying there for the weekend, but haven’t found the time. If you’re interested, I’ll dig up info on the place.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
If it's the house at Route 2, I drove past it. It sounds interesting. It would be interesting to learn more about it.
@stoneshire6456 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 yep, it’s the white brick house with a gate in front
@cazi13mama677 ай бұрын
Maybe there are more than one lady ghost...the farmer did ruin a cemetary??? Could explain different sightings and descriptions of different lady ghosts. Peace
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
That could be.
@lorizeglin31036 ай бұрын
A theory I heard once. If there is an area that has had goats sighting or some form of communicate with the after life. That creates a vase amount of people over a period of time. That the result after however many years the sightings continues. This helped the after life ghost cross over
@LovieBrown-hy7dq6 ай бұрын
Well told.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@tommyabernathy98806 ай бұрын
I love this channel. Subbed!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard! And thank you! 🙂
@kevincharles19836 ай бұрын
Are You ever going to do longer videos? Subscribed
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Probably, but the videos will vary in length.
@JohnDavies-cn3ro7 ай бұрын
I hadn't heard this story before - Troy Taylor seems to have missed it. It is certainly unusual - as you say, the weather conditions aren't condicive to a prank, but the girl's dress changes don't fit traditional ghost behaviour. Perhaps she took offence at being enshrined on a tee shirt? Enjoy the story, anyway.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Dale Kaczmarek covered it in one of his books, and I've always found the story interesting, but who knows, it could have been a prank. It would be creepy as hell to see that while driving in the middle of nowhere at 1am.
@Dreama887 ай бұрын
That face tho !!! I had to put my hand up to block it and look away. It was funny i had to laugh at myself
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
lol
@Hilaire_Balrog6 ай бұрын
lol I did the same.
@D.JKennedy6 ай бұрын
well thats very unsettling and creepy.
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
It was creepy driving through there at night.
@Digibeatle096 ай бұрын
Mind you - as regards the “hoaxer” theory - and then the reference near this video’s end to “shivers down the spine”, well .. the young female prankster - if such was the case - definitely would have had shivers down her spine !!!
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
lol
@roselauk32116 ай бұрын
In Chicago they had ressuration Mary she use to walk down the road at night looking for help people would pick her up and drop her off out side the cemetery and drive off look in there rear view mirror and she be gone hundreds of people picked her up for years
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Yes, I might do a video on Resurrection Mary. It's one of the oldest Chicago ghost stories around.
@Gubalicious6 ай бұрын
i subbed after seeing the opening shot and hearing a normal voice 😆
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thank you! 👍
@yvonnemiller44065 ай бұрын
Is no one sure no one else could have died in that area or unalived and the body is somewhere in the cornfield
@StrangeandSinister15 ай бұрын
It's possible. The road is really old. There could have been a death and burial somewhere along there that no one knows about.
@pmajudge6 ай бұрын
👻👻👻!! GOOD ONE ! NICE VOICE ! FROM, U.K. (2024).
@StrangeandSinister16 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@georgeplace85137 ай бұрын
😊Wow. Congratulations 👏 on having 751 subscribers🎉. Next stop - 800. 1/30/24.
@StrangeandSinister17 ай бұрын
Thank you. The channel is growing fast.
@georgeplace85137 ай бұрын
@@StrangeandSinister1 Congratulations 🎉 on that, too. 1/30/24.
@njhainsworth43556 ай бұрын
If she is a ghost you have to figure out why shes unclothed and yes they sometimes are sèen in different clothes