A Haunted Kankakee County

Seeing is believing, but when unexplainable figures are caught on camera, the questions only multiply.

In Episode 2 of A Haunted Kankakee County, host Jake LaMore (Kankakee County Historical Society) reunites with Emily Wurl, Chris Wurl, and Steve Reinbold of Kankakee Paranormal Investigations to examine eerie video evidence submitted by a local resident—alongside chilling footage recorded by the team itself.

First up is an anonymous 2025 security camera clip from Kankakee County capturing a dark, two-legged shadow figure striding purposefully through a brightly lit gate area. The team breaks down the video step-by-step to address debunking theories: why the figure’s path under the security gate arm rules out an insect crawling on the lens, how the ambient lighting defies standard shadows, and whether this sighting represents an intelligent haunting or a residual energy loop replaying in time.

The conversation then shifts to the historic grounds of the Kankakee County Museum campus, where the team conducted an investigation inside the historic Dr. Small House. Reviewing their own SLS (Structured Light Sensor) camera footage, the crew analyzes evidence of an entity seated in an upstairs chair that visibly relocates to the bed on command, surrounded by anomalous light orbs. Plus, Emily shares a personal college encounter with a lakeside shadow figure tied to a real-life tragedy, and Chris breaks down how they captured a phantom phone call at an old Momence pub and engineered custom spirit boxes with noise filtration to isolate real spirit communication.

Episode Chapters / Timestamps

• 00:00 – Welcome to Episode 2 & Reviewing Video Evidence

• 01:45 – The 2025 Kankakee Submission: A Shadow Figure on Security Footage

• 03:20 – Debunking the Video: Why It’s Not a Bug on the Camera Lens

• 05:15 – Purposeful Stride: Security Guard Entity or Residual Energy Loop?

• 06:40 – Emily’s Personal Encounter: The Shadow by the Lake

• 09:15 – Investigating the Kankakee County Museum Grounds

• 10:30 – Dr. Small House: SLS Camera Captures an Entity Moving on Command

• 12:50 – Dr. Small’s Rhubarb Basement & Intuitive Feelings on the Stairs

• 14:15 – The Momence Pub: Spirits Dialing Cell Phones & Deathbed Activity

• 16:00 – Paranormal Tech: Custom Filtered Spirit Boxes & FLIR Thermal Imaging

• 18:45 – Preserving Local Lore & How to Submit Your Paranormal Encounters

Connect:

• 🏛️ Kankakee County Historical Society: Visit kankakeecountymuseum.com or follow @KankakeeCountyMuseum on Facebook and Instagram.

• 👻 Kankakee Paranormal Investigations: Find the team on Facebook at www.facebook.com/K3PITeam to message them or request an investigation.

What began as an ordinary rental home on William Street in Kankakee quickly unraveled into years of unexplained, escalating activity.

In the premiere episode of A Haunted Kankakee County, host Jake LaMore from the Kankakee County Historical Society sits down with Emily Wurl, Chris Wurl, and Steve Reinbold of Kankakee Paranormal Investigations to review our first community-submitted haunting.

An anonymous local resident details the strange occurrences inside a local home—beginning with an unfinished dirt basement sealed behind an elevated barn door. Over the family’s eight years in the house, the experiences intensified: a sleep-paralysis shadow figure wearing a hat, footsteps rushing up the basement stairs, knocks and scratches occurring in threes, unexplained water soaking through ceilings, balloons drifting mysteriously into closed bedrooms, and an eerie jar containing two voodoo dolls uncovered during sewer line excavations.

The team unpacks the listener's account from both a historical and investigative perspective. They discuss whether old-house wiring and electromagnetic fields (EMF) play a role, what the rule of three suggests in traditional hauntings, the cultural intent behind binding or protection jars, and how paranormal investigators use equipment like REM-pods, FLIR thermal imaging, and SLS cameras to verify environmental anomalies in the field.

Episode Chapters / Timestamps

• 00:00 – Welcome to A Haunted Kankakee County & Team Introductions

• 02:00 – Preserving Local Lore: Why Resident Submissions Matter

• 04:15 – The William Street Submission: Barn Doors & Dirt Basements

• 06:30 – Shadow Figures, Sleep Paralysis & The Rule of Three

• 09:10 – Disembodied Voices, Taps on Glass & Unexplained Water

• 11:00 – The Balloon That Traveled Upstairs

• 12:45 – Uncovering the Jar: Voodoo Dolls in the Yard

• 15:30 – Debunking vs. Documenting: EMF Spikes, High Ceilings & Wiring

• 18:15 – Curse or Protection? What Binding Jars Actually Mean

• 21:00 – Investigative Tech: SLS Cameras, REM-Pods & Establishing Baselines

• 24:30 – Supporting the Historical Society & Where to Submit Your Stories

Connect:

• 🏛️ Kankakee County Historical Society: Visit kankakeecountymuseum.com or follow @KankakeeCountyMuseum on social media.

• 👻 Kankakee Paranormal Investigations: Find the team on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/K3PITeam to connect or request an investigation.