Last time on True Fear, I talked about how I pretty much almost died on the subway.
If you haven’t seen that one, I will take pity on you, and leave you a link so you can
go check that out.
And as I mentioned in the last one, I live in LA now but I’m a Chicago guy and I love
my Cubs.
For those of you who don’t know, Harry Caray was one of the most legendary Cubs TV broadcasters
in the 80s and 90s to the point where he’s become an icon, in fact the stadium now has
video boards upon which they frequently have Harry lead the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley.
For some reason, pretty much all Chicago sports legends have their own steakhouse.
You’ve got Walter Payton’s Roundhouse, Ditka’s Restaurant, Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse
and of course, Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse, which is where today’s story begins.
Shall we dig right in?
Sorry for that pun.
So the year was 2012 and I had just graduated from High School.
It was August, so that summer was winding down, and some of us were on the way to college
in the next couple of weeks, so we wanted to get together for one last dinner, and we
had never really been anywhere nice before so we thought it would be cool to hit up the
legendary Harry Caray’s.
At the front of the restaurant, there is this bust of the man himself and on the wall you
see all the pictures of celebrities who have been to the restaurant posing with the bust.
We decide to get a group photo around it.
So that was it.
We take the photo, get out of there, and go home.
… OK, but there’s more.
At some point the photo gets uploaded onto Facebook, right?
Eight days later, one of the guys… we’ll just call him Sheik, leaves the following
comment:
“hey Roman, is that your hand on my left shoulder?
cuz it looks like translucent”
To which he replied:
“I honestly don't know if that's my hand haha”
Sheik replies: “doesnt it look alittle strange tho?
its like transparent”
Then I notice an interesting detail.
“There's a ring on it... it isn't any of us…”
We’re all 18 at this point and none of us are married.
Plus just look at us, clearly none of us are married, OK I’m done.
Done.
Then Roman brings up that it could be like a class ring but his hand is straight down
by his side.
And you can clearly tell by the angle of where he is that you would see his wrist if it was
him.
The next comment reads: “If I had to guess, it kind of looks like Mr. Boathouse’s...
Or the floating hand from the Adam's family”.
Well, first of all dude, it’s called The Adams Family, not Adam’s Family.
Second of all, the possibility of it being Mr. Boathouse’s hand is probably the most
likely explanation at this point, but I honestly don’t believe that it’s him based on distance
and the angle of his hand.
Even if he was able to reach that far, his hand would be more pointed to the left hand
side of the photo.
Plus, something comes up later to prove that it wasn’t him.
I’ll get back to that.
This guy thinks that it’s Bailor’s hand, but that doesn’t make sense, so I say, “Bailor’s
hands are on Roman's left shoulder and Mr Boathouse’'s right shoulder.
It can't be Bailor.”
So his next suggestion just reiterates the possibility that it’s Mr. Boathouse’s
hand.
That’s when Sheik reveals how he first noticed the mysterious hand.
He writes this: “its not, hes the one who noticed and questioned the hand on my shoulder”
So basically that’s not any of our hands.
My hands both seem to be in my pockets, and besides, it’s only my left hand that is
concealed.
That’s a right hand on Sheik’s shoulder.
ADDITIONAL “EVIDENCE”
So I came up with the theory that the ghost of Harry Caray wanted to get in on our photo.
This was 2012 it was the worst Cubs season in over 40 years.
They lost over 100 games that year, so it makes sense that Harry’s ghost would be
especially restless.
It’s also been said that in Game 7 of the World Series in 2016, when the Cubs gave up
the lead and lost their momentum going into extra innings, that the spirits of Harry Caray,
Ernie Banks and Ron Santo came together to cause the rain delay that gave the team time
to recuperate and come out swinging with everything on the line in the 10th.
If you found this story entertaining, and you’d be willing to go ahead and drop me
a like on this video, that would be much appreciated.
Be sure to leave your own theory, down in the comments.
For the next True Fear, I’ll probably do that follow up video on The Hobo King.
Let me know if you guys still want to see that.
I’ve been talking to some different people who have their own stories about creepy stuff
going down in that apartment complex and they said that they’d be willing to come on the
show and talk about it so be sure to subscribe to CZsWorld for new horrors every week,
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Aaand yeah.
I’ll see you in the next one.
Assuming, we both survive.