Eerie Quad Cities

by Michael McCarty, John Brassard Jr., Jason McLean (Illustrator), The Amazing Kreskin (Introduction)

Overview

Like the mighty Mississippi River that cleaves the Quad Cities, the region's history can trap the unwary in some unexpected eddies. Peer through the fog of the past to catch a glimpse of the Tinsmith Ghost of Rock Island or the river serpent with a price on its head. Get the back story on the Banshee of Brady Street, read the 1869 report on a Bigfoot sighting near East Davenport and run the numbers on local UFO activity. From phantom footsteps in the Renwick Mansion to a mausoleum heist in Chippiannock Cemetery, Michael McCarty and John Brassard Jr. trace a path through the shadowy heritage of the Quad Cities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467147477
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/23/2021
Series:	American Heritage
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael McCarty is the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Frankenstein's Mistress: Tales of Love & Monsters; Dark Cities: Dark Tales; I Kissed a Ghoul; A Little Help from My Fiends; Dark Duets; Liquid Diet & Midnight Snack; Dracula Transformed and Other Bloodthirsty Tales (also with Mark McLaughlin); and Lost Girl of the Lake (with Joe McKinney). He is a five-time Bram Stoker Finalist and in 2008 won the David R. Collins Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center.


John Brassard Jr. has written two books on local history: Scott County Cemeteries, cowritten with his father, John Brassard Sr., and Murder & Mayhem in Scott County, Iowa. His work has appeared in Iowa History Journal, Quad-CityTimes, the North Scott Press and the DeWitt Observer. Mr. Brassard is also the writer, researcher and narrator for the Kitchen Table Historian podcast, which tells tales of true crime, the paranormal and other stories that your grandma didn't want you to hear. His website is http://johnbrassardjr.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by The Amazing Kreskin 9

Preface 13

Acknowledgements 21

Part I Ghosts and Haunted Places

Abandoned and Haunted: Grandview Terrace 25

Fairmount Cemetery 32

The Freemasons of the Quad Cities 39

The Haunted Furniture Store 53

Hauberg Estate and the Ghosts of the Carriage House 58

The Mysterious Fisherman of Credit Island 62

The Tinsmith Ghost of Rock Island 67

Alice French House 72

Renwick Mansion 76

The Haunted History of Phi Kappa Chi 81

Part II Strange Creatures, Strange Happenings and UFO Sightings

Curious Creatures 91

Death Curve: The Legend of Julia Markham 110

Chippiannock Cemetery 116

Premonitions of Doom 123

The Giant of Scott County 130

UFO Sightings 135

Other Eerie Encounters in the Quad Cities and Beyond 139

Afterword Rick Lopez 145

Bibliography 147

About the Authors 155