It’s Watching: History, ghosts, and the infamous graveyard behind this middle-grade horror novel inspired by The Ring, a guest post by Lindsay Currie

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It’s Watching: History, ghosts, and the infamous graveyard behind this middle-grade horror novel inspired by The Ring, a guest post by Lindsay Currie

I’ve always loved abandoned places. There’s a feel to them, a vibe you can’t replicate anywhere else. So when I was visiting a Chicagoland school and the librarian shared her childhood of sneaking into an abandoned graveyard in Midlothian, Illinois, called Bachelor’s Grove, I immediately perked up. An abandoned graveyard? Surely this was too good to be true. Cemeteries are one of my biggest sources of inspiration. They contain so much history an…