Dec 07 2024 62 mins
What exactly led to a woman being locked in an utica crib for 44 years while in an mental asylum? Alone and in the dark, she scratched her eyes out and pulled out her teeth. By the time she was moved to another facility, the woman could no longer stand or walk on her own.
Author Sylvia Shults will be here to discuss what led up to this atrocity and what happened in the years the woman was in the crib and what happened after she was rescued by a doctor.
According to Amazon, Shults has been writing for years, and recently made the switch from fiction to nonfiction.
Following a lifetime spent in the pursuit of the weird and the strange, she now shares that passion with her readers. Her fiction (both horror and romance) is still floating around out there, but these days she concentrates on living a childhood dream -- telling true ghost stories.
Her second nonfiction book, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, was featured on an episode of the SyFy Channel's hit show Ghost Hunters. It is the first book to examine the famously haunted asylum from both a historical and a supernatural perspective, and it was nominated for an award from the Illinois State Historical Society.
In her spare time, Shults gets more material for her books by going on paranormal investigations. She wanders around cemeteries and sits in haunted morgues so you don't have to.
She is much in demand as a speaker, and has made many media appearances in addition to the spot on Ghost Hunters.
Website
www.sylviashults.wordpress.com, for episodes of her paranormal podcast, Lights Out.
Books
Gone on Vacation
44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love
Fractured Spirits