‘Haunted Iowa’ presented Sunday evening at Nashua welcome center

Press Staff Report

Chad Lewis has traveled the Midwest and beyond for more than two decades, looking for scary stuff.

It has resulted in more than 20 books on ghosts, hauntings and the supernatural, and numerous speaking engagements and appearances on television shows discussing his work and the topic.

Lewis will be at the Gateway to Northeast Iowa Welcome Center in Nashua at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, to present “Iowa’s Most Haunted Locations – The Scariest Places in Iowa.”

This presentation promises to take the audience on a ghostly journey to some of the places in the state that have earned a reputation as the most haunted. It will cover the entire state, from wandering ghosts in the North Woods, to a haunted bed and breakfast in Dubuque.

Lewis says that no place in Iowa is without its own tales of hauntings, from phantom creatures prowling the trees to graveyard apparitions located in your own backyard.

His books include “The Iowa Road Guide to Haunted Locations” as well as similar titles for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, South Dakota, Florida and Illinois; “The Wisconsin Road Guide to Mysterious Creatures,” “The Most Gruesome Hauntings of the Midwest” and many more.

Lewis bills himself as author, researcher and lecturer on topics of the strange and unusual. He holds a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin Stout, and has trekked across the world in search of unique and bizarre stories and history.

His adventures have included tracking vampires in Transylvania, chasing the chupacabras in Puerto Rico, searching for the elusive monster in Loch Ness and pursuing ghosts in Ireland’s castles. He has scoured the earth in search of the paranormal, and the more bizarre the legend the more likely Lewis has investigated it, he said.