VOLO - On an unassuming farm in northwest Illinois, down a country road off the main thoroughfare, you will find the largest collection of classic cars in the United States at the Volo Auto Museum. The antiques mall on the other side of the parking lot stretches across an old barn, renovated from the dairy farm structure created in the 1800s by the original owners, the Gale family. 

Everything about the homegrown family business is quaint and familiar in a comforting way. During the daytime, it’s almost hard to imagine that the grounds are haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

“It wasn’t until 2010, when my brother [who runs the antiques mall] and I exchanged stories, that we discovered who was doing the haunting,” Gram said.