By Steve Summers and Kevin Haas
Rock River Current
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ROCKFORD — It’s Halloween weekend, so we thought we’d have some fun with some of the spirits in the Stateline.
Steve Summers hosted Samantha Hochmann and Kathi Kresol on This Week in the Stateline to discuss what may be the city’s most haunted location: Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum.
Construction of the Victorian house was completed in 1870, and it is now a museum open for public tours and paranormal investigations.
“We do believe the Tinker family is still hanging around with us,” said Hochmann, executive director of Tinker. “We’ve got lots of different people who have seen them, heard them, even get whiffs of perfume and cigar smoke, so there’s always something interesting going on.”
The paranormal experiences at Tinker can be so vivid that “we’ve had people leave because of the experiences we’ve had,” Kresol said in the interview.
“We don’t create anything,” said Kresol, the author of “Haunted Rockford.” “We don’t have to because the Tinker family always produces.”
Related: Sign up for Rockford’s most haunted tour on Saturday
You can watch a video from inside the cottage here or listen to the full interview below.
This Week in the Stateline airs on 95.3 The Bull, a partner with the Rock River Current.