July 28, 1932: The Latin-Chanting Ghost of Joliet
As word spread of a ghost that chanted songs in Latin at midnight in the graveyard of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, crowds of hundreds of people started gathering to hear the phantom crooner. Each night the voice was said to emanate from a different grave.
As word spread of a ghost that chanted songs in Latin at midnight in the graveyard of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, crowds of hundreds of people started gathering to hear the phantom crooner. Each night the voice was said to emanate from a different grave.
Where's Scooby-Doo when you need him?
But on this day in 1932, prison officials finally located the
source of the singing. It was an inmate, William Chrysler, who had
night-watch duty at the prison's quarry pumphouse behind the cemetery.
His voice carried into the graveyard and seemed to "haunt" it. He was
actually singing in Lithuanian, not Latin.
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