THE HAUNTED BATTLEFIELDS OF AMERICA!

GHOSTS & GUNS
OF WAR

AMERICAN ODDITIES MUSEUM
7:00 PM | Alton, Illinois
$48 Per Person
Next Available Date: APRIL 11, 2026

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Join author Troy Taylor for another night of our “An Evening with…” series of events! This eerie night will include a catered dinner at the American Oddities Museum. After dinner, author Troy Taylor will be presenting “Ghosts & Guns of War,” a journey back in time to explore America's military mysteries, strange happenings, unsolved mysteries, and the spirits that linger on the battlefields of our past.

Join us at the American Oddities Museum in Alton, Illinois for another great event!

- Doors open at 6:00 PM / Dinner starts at 7:00 PM

- Events held at the American Oddities Museum, Located at 301 Piasa Street in Alton, Illinois

- Buffet Dinner, includes two meats, two vegetables, pasta, salad, bread, and drinks

- Private Event in the American Oddities Museum, which will open at 6:00 Pm for browsing by guests before dinner

- American Hauntings Bookstore located in the Museum so books will be available for purchase and can be autographed by Troy Taylor

GHOSTS & GUNS OF WAR
PRESENTED BY TROY TAYLOR

Ask anyone with an interest in ghosts where to find America’s most haunted places, and they are sure to point you to the battlefields, forts, and former prison camps that dot the historic landscape of our country. At places like the Alamo, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Little Bighorn, terrified soldiers fought and died in the midst of blood, smoke, and fire.

Is it any wonder that such places become haunted?

Without a doubt, the horrific deaths, as well as the valiant deeds of soldiers on the fields of battle, have created the hauntings that linger at such places today. History tells us the locations of troops, the number of dead and wounded, the quirks of generals, and how one side maneuvered against the other, but what about the spirits that are left behind by the violence, death, and atrocities of such places?

On this chilling night, Troy Taylor reveals the history and hauntings of America’s wars, conflicts, and battlefields — true accounts that go behind folklore and campfire stories to tell the real-life stories of the battlefields, forts, prison camps, and burial grounds of our bloody past. Interwoven with the supernatural and the macabre, these dark tales will bring to life the battles of the past and those who still linger behind.

  • THE HISTORY AND HAUNTINGS OF GETTYSBURG

  • THE BLOOD-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD AT ANTIETAM

  • THE ALTON PENITENTIARY AND OTHER PRISON CAMPS

  • HAUNTINGS OF THE FRONTIER FORTS

  • THE HAUNTED ALAMO

  • CHICKAMAUGA’S “RIVER OF DEATH”

  • GHOSTS OF LITTLE BIGHORN

  • AND MORE!

Don’t miss this special night of American History and the Hauntings it Left Behind!