The Soul Asylum

Alton, Illinois is often called “the most haunted small town in America,” thanks in part to places like the Mineral Springs Hotel! Inside this historic building is The Soul Asylum, a museum filled with paranormal oddities, torture devices, Ouija boards, medical quackery, and restless spirits!

Jacoby's Prints of Darkness

While you're visiting Alton for it's many Halloween festivities, you' can't miss out on Prints of Darkness, Jacoby Art Center's spooky exhibit! This show also features works from Jacoby's new photography program.

Medical Training Models

These might look like props from a horror movie, but they're actually anatomically correct models made to help students, doctors and nurses practice essential skills at the University of Missouri School of Medicine!

Halloween Jokes

Have you every wondered why kids tell jokes while trick or treating in St. Louis? In this masterpiece from HEC's video archives, we explore the mystery of one of the city's most confounding traditions.

Ouija Board Author

In the 1910s a St. Louis housewife named Pearl Curran made literary and paranormal history when she claimed to channel a spirit named "Patience Worth" who used her as a vessel to write bestselling books and poems.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Before it was the #1 movie in America, Killers of the Flower Moon was a bestselling book by David Grann that revealed the horrifying true story of the Osage murders to reader around the world. If you plan to see the hit film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, don't miss this interview with the original books' author first!
Watch Spotlight every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on Channel 11
In this special Halloween episode discover how a STL theater owner's insult pushed Master illusionist Harry Houdini to take his stunts to the next level, a look at St. Louis' lost cemeteries and body snatchers, a man building horror movie worthy body parts for medical training at Mizzou, an artist who uses found objects to create spooky and not so spooky creations, an oddities museum in one of the most haunted cities in America, and the story of a woman and a spirit who authored several books together.
You can see this and more episodes of Spotlight right now at www.hecmedia.org/spotlight.

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