{"id":5761,"date":"2014-10-30T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2020-06-22T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:00:58","slug":"still-doing-his-rounds-the-haunting-of-723-main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2014\/10\/30\/still-doing-his-rounds-the-haunting-of-723-main-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Doing His Rounds: The Haunting of 723 Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us tonight at 7pm at the Fairmount Street Branch Library for a spooky talk from Terry Fisk, author of The Iowa Road Guide to Haunted Locations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Unexplained\"<\/a>Mr. Fisk’s book includes two entries for Davenport.  One is on the “Banshee of Brady Street”, an urban legend which we debunked in a previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there’s another Davenport haunting that our research can’t dismiss so easily.<\/p>\n

 In May of 1972, another occult writer, Brad Steiger,<\/a> visited Palmer College’s Pi Kappa Chi fraternity house at 723 Main Street in Davenport*.  With him was Irene Hughes, a well-known medium from Chicago.<\/p>\n

They were there to investigate reports that the residents had heard footsteps, typing sounds, and other unexplained phenomena.<\/p>\n

After a few minutes talking with the residents, the medium mentioned that she saw a spirit that looked like a doctor wearing surgical clothes.<\/p>\n

According to our research, the property on which the home sits was once owned by St. Luke’s Hospital and it is located near their first hospital building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The residence itself had been the home of Dr. William A. Stoecks who had been associated with the firm of Hageboeck, Stoecks, Maxwell, Kornder & Boss.<\/p>\n

Dr. Stoecks died on October 18, 1961 at Mercy Hospital in Davenport and is buried at Oakdale Cemetery.<\/p>\n

But if Ms. Hughes is to be believed, he was still doing his rounds at least a decade later.<\/p>\n

*Update: In June 2020, 723 Main Street was torn down along with other homes on the block. Pi Kappa Chi fraternity still exists and moved to a new location in Davenport.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/h3>\n

Arpy, Jim. “Haunted House.” Times-Democrat<\/em> 11 April 1972.<\/p>\n

Davis, Shirley. “Ghosts In Davenport? Maybe.” Times-Democrat<\/em> 14 May 1972: p. 6D.<\/p>\n

“Saturday Rites Set For Doctor.” Davenport Morning Democrat<\/em> 19 October 1961: p. 12.<\/p>\n

Steiger, Brad. “Psychic Safaris.” Times-Democrat<\/em> 10 December 1972: p. 6 FOCUS.<\/p>\n

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