Category Archives: Halloween

Living Dead Bring Kenosha Alive

An excerpt of this column originally appeared as a special to the Kenosha News, Sunday Mornings With Basil Willis, October 16, 2011

Almost four years ago I wrote a column about moving to Kenosha, and while the piece wasn’t entirely flattering, I did try to accentuate the positive. I moved here for love and since then have settled in, despite my constructive bullet points.

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I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost

This guy greeted us at the door and offered candy.

This column originally appeared as a special to the Kenosha News, Sunday Mornings With Basil Willis, November, 14, 2010.

When the email came in I knew right away Beth would want to go. It was addressed to a group of friends, and below the “Are you guys in?” message was a link to a Wisconsin paranormal research group website. We were being invited to spend the night of October 30 in a haunted mansion in Janesville, learning about the tools and methodologies used by professional ghost hunters, and then spending the rest of the night and the morning hunting for ghosts on our own.

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