Chicago Sun Times
FRANKFORT, Ill. — Ghostly apparitions, shadowy figures and things that sing or go bump in the night are some of the claims by workers at the Frankfort Fire Protection District’s station.
In fact, some say the station — a former lawn implement shop — is haunted.
Some firefighters said there have been many unexplainable effects and events at the station on La Grange Road in Green Garden Township. But some are more amused than alarmed at Station 3.
The station will be featured on A&E’s new “Paranormal Cops” show, to air at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Lt. Todd Hamm worked at the station a long time. “I used to see things going in and out of the ambulance — shadowy things,” he said.
One night a couple of years ago, a dark-clothed, blackish figure walked right in front of him while he was watching TV alone at night after everyone else had gone to bed, Hamm said. “I was taken aback. I was going to yell, but I didn’t want to wake anyone up,” he said.
There were other “things,” too, that he tried to put out of his mind, such as footsteps upstairs in the attic.
“Yeah, there’s some stuff out there. We just try to co-exist with whatever is going on,” he said.
Sightings by firefighters over the last year or so include a tall blue shadow in the hallway, an angry cowboy and several silhouettes and shadowy figures going by doors or windows and standing over their beds at night.
According to Assistant Fire Chief Bob Wilson, the Will County Ghost Hunters Society was called in several months ago.
Its investigation claimed that the ambulance was haunted and that there is an angry cowboy out there, among other spirits. When A&E called, Wilson initially thought it was a “joke.”
Firefighter Tom Warszalek said he never has witnessed any unusual sights at the station. “I would love to see it,” he said.
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