This article originally appeared on The Chicago Tribune.
Kristy Hansen adjusted her special flashlight and set it on top of the long-abandoned cot inside the old Lake County Jail in Crown Point.
As legend goes, that rusty, empty cot was once used by none other than John Dillinger, who now has a museum featuring his life and death just a few blocks away in the old county courthouse.
As midnight approached, Dillinger’s old jail cell was quiet as a cemetery except for a handful of disruptive guests, including me.
“Can you let us know you’re here?” Hansen asked the empty air as we stared at that flashlight. “Can you turn it on?”
Hansen is by far the most polite ghost hunter I’ve ever watched, as if she was asking her sickly grandmother to turn on a bedroom light. Instead, she asked the ghost of John Dillinger — or any other ghost in that monstrous old building — for a sign from the other world. It could be from a ghostly jail guard, a long-deceased inmate or anyone else whose spirit was still incarcerated at that spot.
“Are you here with us?” Hansen asked again.
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