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I’ve lived in Alton my whole life. Their is definitely some sort of presence here

On of the best presentation of Alton Illinois. I've been researching Alton as a place to retire after working 50 years. A place to have a simple life. Thank you for this podcast it gives so much more information that others don't post. Joel

ALTON Ill.. Is my hometown Grew up there,,, Please BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU. IT'S VERY MUCH HAUNTED... LOVE MY CITY & THE PEOPLE IN IT... DON'T BELIEVE ME TAKE A TOUR IN ALL OCTOBER.... VERY HISTORICAL...

My folks are from there. My mom went to Alton hs. in the middle 1940's. From Bethalto(?) Dad from e. Alton.

I attended school in that museum. Fond memories

In grade school we took a field trip to see the Piazza painting.I was fascinated.

A wonderful video, thank you very much. I would like to make a correction and add a few things. There are other 'piasa bird' legends, the most prominent in China where it was called "Peng-ju" and said to have been carnivorous, had a near human face with the beard of a tiger, scaled body the size of a colt, sharp talons and a serpentine tail. It lived along the Yellow River, and was said to have killed in much the same way as the Piasa. The story concludes with its demise in a manner nearly identical to that of the Piasa. The painting is also in error as the scaled body is supposed to be green. My mom's dad's family was instrumental in donating the ground for the Confederate Cemetery (all family were on the winning side). Robert Wdlow's chair is at Franklin Masonic temple where he was a member. You also did not travel W 7th St. (steepest bricked st. in the world), nor our other hometown boy jazz great Miles Davis. But again, thank you, excellent work.

Alton is very unique. It was once a great place. I lived on Liberty St and our congressman lived a few doors down. The Haskell house should have been included in this. Alton, however, now is not the same

We had a block from the old prison in our back yard.

Very nice presentation!

I am from alton grew up in the house on central and Blair heard all the ghosts stories been on the tours was friends with the kid that had bull the mummy in his closet never had any kind of paranormal experience except to say I did once smell perfume in the mineral springs hotel while waiting to get my haircut

Fast Eddies!

ive lived here all my life

Alton was originally much larger than Chicago, and I'ver heard that Alton had street lights before Chicago.

Our shop is across the street from that prison!

Dave's Pancakes once was in Alton...best pancakes ever!!

Interesting!!!!

One night years ago I flew to St Louis from Cali arrived abt midnight & got a cab to Alton hotel. At about 2 am i was walking to my room when 3 persons vacated the bar and joined my walk! The one young lady nearly hit me with a swinging Purse for no reason? She was a good looker, but a rather mean cowgirl? Maybe her cowboy took his other dance partner that night? What would Samuel Clemons have done?Glad she wasn't packing heat! Hello Cowgirl in the sand..! 🎯

It's amazing that someone could forget about the Confederate Monuments in Chicago's Oakwood Cemetery

Is that historical confederate monument still there today?

The pyasaw(sp) interestingly looks like Yhwh(yaweh).

When was this filmed?

Hi Shane did you mean the town or the girl was creepy I love Alton just kidding

Y'all do know people laugh at the fact Alton has a demand bird as their mascot

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Damn this is old

WTF the giant wore a m@sons ring??

My home town is haunted

i dated a girl from alton very creepy

Sad to say Alton relived it's history of overpopulation of prisoners. No More

The "bird" is actually a dragon. The Chinese painted them when they circumnavigated the globe 100 of years before Christopher Columbus there are eight of these birds in existence around the globe.. the Chinese painted them on internal riverways for luck

Piasa bird was better at normans landing