The world of the unexplained will be revealed to NIU students when “the Midwest’s only professional ghost hunter” comes to campus Monday.

Richard T. Crowe will appear in the Holmes Student Center’s Sandburg Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. He will present his lecture “True Ghost Stories of Chicagoland” along with a slide show.

Crowe has appeared on popular television and radio talk shows in the United States, Yorkshire and Japan, said Sandra Hurth, a resident adviser in Grant Towers.

The Campus Activities Board, the Residence Hall Association and the Grant North Hall Council are all sponsoring the event, Hurth said.

Chicago’s most familiar supernatural events, such as the South Side hitchiker ghost, as well as actual ghosts caught on film, will be discussed, she said.

“It’s legends, folklore and history with a twist,” she said. “We expect a big turnout because he got one when he was here several years ago,” she said.

A freelance writer, Crowe won the Chicago Cultural Center’s most popular lecturer of the year award in 1986 for his public tours of supernatural places in Chicago, she said.