Come for the Burger, Stay for the Spectre

For those of you who don't know, there is a restaurant on 55th street in Clarendon Hills called the Country House. They were voted Chicago's Best Burger by the Chicago Tribune in 2005 and even cooler than that, the place is haunted by a women's ghost from the 50's. I have been there before like maybe once, I am going to try and go there this week to see if I could meet and possibly make love to the ghost that hang's out there. The story goes back to 1974, David Regenery was meeting with a contractor after extensive renovations of the building. The two men were talking at the dimly lit bar when six independently operated shutters opened simultaneously sending bright rays of sunlight across the room. The dudes were freaked and adjourned their meeting. Richard Crowe (a ghost-hunter) and two self-professed mediums came in for a consultation the following week, the mediums (psychics) said the felt the presence of a young women looking for something she lost. They described her as blonde (okay), late-twenties (go on), good looking (nice! a hot, blonde, 20 something ghost!). David went on to contact the previous owner. He recalled a young women who showed up one day visibly distraught and asked if she could leave her child there for a short while. When the bartender refused she took her child and sped off down 55th street. About a half mile away she struck a tree in an apparent suicide, the child survived. Since the remodeling there been numerous accounts of unexplained events. They include pounding walls, crying babies that don't exist, pots and pans that move at their own will, strong scents of fresh flowers, and the sound of footsteps in empty rooms. There have only been a handful of actual sightings of the ghost but each description has matched exactly that of the young woman described by the previous owner and the psychics. She has been seen beckoning customers from an upstairs window, playing the jukebox in the middle of the night, blocking the door of the women's restroom, or just walking through the dining room. So, that's about the gist of it, there have been tons of newspaper articles and TV specials about the Country House so it seems pretty legit, I mean Unsolved Mysteries, that's legit, Robert Stack walking out of the fog in his trench coat, you know what I mean right? I say we go to this place and get drunk sometime it would be awesome, It's open until 2 am on Sat. so that's cool. As I said before, I'm gonna try and do some snooping around this week there see if I can't solve this mystery scooby-doo style.