Talking Ghosts and Christmas Spirits with Author Sylvia Shults

Sylvia Shults is the author of several books of paranormal nonfiction, including 44 Years in Darkness, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and Ghosts of the Illinois River.She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don’t have to.She has spent the last nineteen years working at a public library, slowly smuggling out enough words in her pockets week after week to build a book of her own.She lives a short, ten-minute motorcycle ride away from the haunted asylum that features in so many of her books. She considers it the highest privilege to share the incredible, compassionate history of the Peoria State Hospital.After battling an intense, lifelong fear of the dark, Sylvia decided to become a ghost hunter. (What WAS she thinking?) As a paranormal investigator, she has made many media appearances, including a tiny part in the Ghost Hunters episode “Prescription for Fear”, about the Peoria State Hospital.Websitesylviashults.wordpress.com