'Weeping Lady Of Archer Woods' Appears On Ghost Tour Photo

WILLOW SPRINGS, IL — A guest on the Graveside Paranormal ghost tour last Saturday grabbed a photo of the gate of Archer Woods Cemetery at 81st Street and Kean Avenue. Neal Gibbons and Steve Leinweber, proprietors of the ghost tour company treat all their tours as active ghost investigations. Guests of their tours often find faces, orbs and other unexplainable phenomona in their digital photos and video, be it day or night.

Gibbons and Leinweber regularly set guests loose in haunted locations equipped with ghost hunting equipment and encourage them to take photos and video, and communicate with the other side vua aba hatta boxes.

A woman on the Oct. 16 tour, Kathy, took a photo of the gate of Archer Woods Cemetery and the next day, saw a misty face peering around the stone pillar. Schultz sent the photo to Gibbons the next day,

“That’s the first time we caught anything there,” Gibbons said. “I thought, ‘man, this looks pretty good. I changed the exposure to make sure no one was messing with me.”

According to local lore, a female apparition hangs out near the cemetery entrance, crying for a lost love or a lost child.

“People have heard the lady weeping as they exist the gates of the cemetery or see mist,” Gibbons said.

Although not as famous as that other lady hitchiker — Resurrection Mary — Gibbons said there is a Resurrection Cemetery connection to the Weeping Lady of Archer Woods (sometimes referred to as the “Wailing Woman of Archer Woods Cemetery).

“There is a story of two black horses pullling an 1880s coach with a glowing, child-sized casket that leves Ressurection and goes down Archer Avenue to Kean, circles around Archer Woods, and then heads down to St. James Cemetery,” he said.

If you’re looking for a few ghostly chills and thrills this Halloween, you can still catch a ride on Graveside Paranormal’s All Hallow’s Eve Tour, which starts at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 30. The tour is about four hours long and meets up at Brick Tavern, 6030 W. 111th St., Chicago Ridge. Guests are asked to show up at 7 p.m. so you can get checked in. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased on EventBrite. The ghostly coach bus visits some of the most haunted location sin the southwest suburbs and equips guests with equipment (or bring you own) to discover the unknown.