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Carl Jones, Local Ghost Investigator

Carl Jones

You may be queuing up some scary movies on Netflix to get into the spirit of Halloween this week. But for some, interests in ghosts lasts all year 'round. Carl Jones started the Prairieland Paranormal Consortiumand teaches classes at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield about the paranormal.
 
He's been interested in other-worldly phenomena from a very young age and recently joined us to talk about some of his scariest experiences, and the group he has created to link-up ghost-hunters in the central Illinois area:

CarlJonesEVPs.mp3
A series of EVPs or "electronic voice phenomena" collected by Jones during investigations. Listen for "dying", "help me", "nice" & "oh yay."

Rachel Otwell of the Illinois Times is a former NPR Illinois reporter.