{"id":2014,"date":"2025-04-21T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-orbs-come-out-at-night-at-bachelors-grove-cemetery-in-chicago\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:39:09","slug":"the-orbs-come-out-at-night-at-bachelors-grove-cemetery-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-orbs-come-out-at-night-at-bachelors-grove-cemetery-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orbs Come Out at Night at Bachelor\u2019s Grove Cemetery in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re crazy or brave enough to walk through Bachelor\u2019s Grove Cemetery at night,<br>\nyou get the eerie feeling you\u2019re not supposed to be there.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s deep in the forest and the road to it is closed off, and when you cross the threshold into it,<br>\nyou feel like you\u2019re in a strange forbidden world, and the spirits are restless there. <\/p>\n<p>An old farmhouse that\u2019s like a mirage might materialize momentarily before you, and you might see the ghosts of gangland hits that allegedly were dumped in a deep algae-covered pond there.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe you\u2019ll see the lighted orbs that come floating out at night, blue, red, white, orange and all colors and sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Some people think they are spirits, but nobody really knows what they are for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there\u2019s a rational explanation for these orbs that would debunk the paranormal claims, but whatever the case, at least they\u2019re not malevolent and won\u2019t try to possess you &#8212; far as I know. <\/p>\n<p>But if you go there, cross your fingers, just in case they might, to seek some luck and be armed with the holy cross.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re crazy or brave enough to walk through Bachelor\u2019s Grove Cemetery at night, you get the eerie feeling you\u2019re not supposed to be there. It\u2019s deep in the forest and the road to it is closed off, and when you cross the threshold into it, you feel like you\u2019re in a strange forbidden world,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-orbs-come-out-at-night-at-bachelors-grove-cemetery-in-chicago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}