A Return Visit to the Ghosts of Peoria State Hospital with Sylvia Shults
California Haunts Radio
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Sylvia Shults is the author of several books of paranormal nonfiction, including 44 Years in Darkness, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and Ghosts of the Illinois River.
She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don’t have to.
She has spent the last nineteen years working at a public library, slowly smuggling out enough words in her pockets week after week to build a book of her own.
She lives a short, ten-minute motorcycle ride away from the haunted asylum that features in so many of her books. She considers it the highest privilege to share the incredible, compassionate history of the Peoria State Hospital.
After battling an intense, lifelong fear of the dark, Sylvia decided to become a ghost hunter. (What WAS she thinking?) As a paranormal investigator, she has made many media appearances, including a tiny part in the Ghost Hunters episode “Prescription for Fear”, about the Peoria State Hospital.
In "Fractured Souls: More Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital (Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror)" Shults returns to the old hospital where during its operation from 1902 to 1973, mentally ill patients received the best care available for that time period. But once the doors closed forever, reports of paranormal activity began to surface. Do former doctors, nurses and patients haunt the halls of the once proud institution? Does EVP and other paranormal evidence prove the existence of ghosts?
Shults presents compelling evidence in the the pages of the book that just may change the minds of even the biggest skeptics.
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Books
Fractured Souls: More Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital (Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror)
Fractured Spirits
44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love
Tales from the Asylum
Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays
Days of the Dead: A Year of True Ghost Stories
Grave Deeds and Dead Plots
Hunting Demons: A True Story of the Dark Side of the Supernatural
Ghosts of the Illinois River
Gone on Vacation