Weird Illinois: Your Travel Guide to Illinois' Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Taylor, Troy

ISBN 10: 1402788258 / ISBN 13: 9781402788253

Published by Union Square & Co., 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weird Illinois: Your Travel Guide to Illinois' Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402788258
• ISBN 13: 9781402788253
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

If it's weird and it's in Illinois, it's in Weird Illinois. With notepad and camera in hand, Troy Taylor, a Prairie State sleuth in pursuit of the eccentric and the uncanny, has followed the trail down main roads, back roads, and all roads in between. Whether it's a man-eating Piasa Bird, an abandoned insane asylum, or the haunted tomb of a certain famous Abe, Troy has chronicled the story and presents it here for you in this new paperback edition of the popular guide. .

About the Author

Troy Taylor has written nearly three dozen books about ghosts and haunting in Illinois and across the US, including Haunted Illinois, Haunted Chicago, and others. He is co-author of Weird Virginia and editor of Ghosts of the Prairie magazine. In addition, he has given hundreds of interviews for radio and television broadcasts about the supernatural and has appeared in a number of documentary films and television shows. Troy also hosts ghost tours in Decatur, Alton, and Chicago.