Haunted Blue Island Bar Paranormal Investigation SOLD OUT

BLUE ISLAND, IL — Join Graveside Paranormal at “Spirits By The Full Moon” for drinks, food and ghost hunting. Guests will gather at The Forge, 3400 Burr Oak Ave, Blue Island, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, which happens to be Halloween.

Head paranormal investigators Neal Gibbons and Steve Leinweber have rented the storied Blue Island bar for the evening. Only 60 tickets will be sold to the event to allow for safe social distancing. Face masks are required for entry and to be worn when guests aren’t eating or drinking. Yes there will be hand sanitizer. This is a 21 and over event.

The Forge is a bar that has a rich unknown paranormal history dating back over 130 years. There have been eyewitness accounts of shadow people, a man who hung himself in the building, high EMF readings and a woman's voice caught three times on Graveside Paranormal’s audio.

“The first time I went to the Forge, I visited the men’s room and heard a girl saying ‘help me,’” Gibbons said. “My teammate Michelle went to the women’s restroom and heard a female voice say ‘hello.’”

Guests will be able to investigate The Forge with equipment provided by Graveside Paranormal to see if they have any of the same experiences. Personal equipment is welcome. To learn more about The Forge’s check out Gibbons and Leinweber’s YouTube documentary. It will scare the snot out of you.

Children’s voices have been heard in the bar area, and wait staff at the Forge have seen shadows on the wall. In their documentary, the paranormal investigators caught a “presenting ghost” three times when a girl can be heard moaning.

“We caught that on regular audio, not the spirit box,” Gibbons said. “We also got heavy breathing in the men’s washroom and from the area where the guy hung himself.”

The evening will start off with drinks and then guests will be broken out into groups, where they can use Graveside Paranormal’s equipment or their own personal equipment.

The paranormal investigators will be bringing their Anna-hata spirit portal box, which they claim participants at other events have been known to chat with relatives from beyond. The Graveside Paranormal team will attempt to rustle up some spirits on a Scrying, a piece of paranormal equipment through which fog or smoke is projected into it. Guests are invited to photograph any presenting spirits in the fog.

“We’ll give people EVP recorders,” Gibbons said. “We’ll show everything people find that evening on YouTube,”

Tickets are just $35 and includes two beer tickets, food, scary stories, and card readers and mediums (separate cost). Only 60 tickets will be sold for this unique Halloween event. Purchase tickets online through EventBrite.