The Maple Lake Ghost Light

Maple Lake at sunset.

For decades, visitors to Maple Lake in southwest suburban Chicago have reported seeing ghostly lights over the lake. Whether the lights are centered over the lake itself or along the shoreline is unclear, as is the source of the lights: natural phenomena such as bioluminescence or something more supernatural. The latter is lent credence by the lake’s long history of drownings and violence and murder on and near its shores.