Local Haunts: How a Fire Station Ghost Became a TV Star

To get in the spirit of Halloween this week, I'm taking a look at some of the spooky legends surrounding local haunts around Frankfort. Have any suggestions of ghost-infested locales I should investigate? Leave them in the comments suggestion. Tomorrow: Frankfort's scary cemeteries.

The haunted: The village's most famous haunted site is 's Fire Station No. 3 along South LaGrange Road. How famous? Well, it was featured on an episode of Paranormal Cops on A&E last year (you can still watch the segment--Dead Man Walking--online. Firefighters have reported seeing a shadowy, blue figure moving through the hallways and engine bays of the fire station and traning center.

The supernatural reason: The spirit of Erwin Yunker, the man who owned a farm implement business on the site, apparently still haunts the station. Yunker died of a heart attack in 1996, and the investigators from Paranormal Cops ruled that the station had possible paranormal activity. The TV crew wasn't able to capture any video evidence, but some of its members heard singing, and the medium of the group was able to contact two spirits. In an unexplained twist, some of the crew even became sick to their stomachs during the investigation.

The logical reason: While investigators couldn't determine what caused all the strange sightings at the station, these spooky happenings seem to have stopped since the TV show aired, said Assistant Fire Chief Bob Wilson.

"They must have exorcised all the demons from the fire house because nothing new has happened," he said, adding that the only thing firefighters have reported hearing are coyotes yipping out in the fields.

"I think they're more afraid of the coyotes than the ghosts."

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