Haunted Aurora by Diane A. Ladley

Author:Diane A. Ladley [Ladley, Diane A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI), Travel, Special Interest, Haunted & Unexplained, Body; Mind & Spirit, Supernatural (Incl. Ghosts)
ISBN: 9781614234128
Google: gEh_DQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-10-01T00:37:17+00:00

Constructing the finishing touches on the Leland Tower Hotel in 1926. Courtesy Aurora Historical Society.

The Sky Room was a second home to Bluebird Records, a Chicago-based blues and jazz label subsidiary of RCA Victor Records that boasted a monopoly on the finest blues artists in Chicago. In 1937 and ’38, it held recording sessions after hours up at the top of the tower for such blues musicians as Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red. The most legendary blues artist to play there was John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who made his first recording of his famous “Good Morning, School Girl” on the Sky Room stage in May 1937. Sonny Boy did vocals and his blazing blues harmonica, with Big Joe Williams and Robert Lee McCoy (aka Robert Nighthawk) on guitars. The song, also called “Good Morning Little School Girl,” became a classic blues standard that has since been covered countless times by such artists as Eric Clapton and the Yardbirds, the Grateful Dead, Motörhead, Widespread Panic, Rod Stewart and Huey Lewis and the News, among many others.

Now called the Fox Island Apartments, other paranormal phenomena said to occur at the former Leland Tower Hotel includes a disturbing moaning sound coming from the elevator shaft and horrible smells of something rotting rising from the river—presumably a different rotting smell than what would normally be found at any river. A few of the current residents say that they’ve seen the ghosts; one man even claimed to have seen “a ghoulish skeleton walking around.” Lights are said to flicker, and radios turn off and on for no earthly reason. One resident claims to sense a very intense aura in the early morning hours, as well as mysterious orbs and gateways in her apartment. However, still more residents say that they haven’t noticed a single paranormal thing in all the time they’ve lived there and love the stunning views and its prime central location in the lively heart of downtown Aurora.

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