Chicago river at night, from Michigan Avenue bridge by Brett Gustafson, via wikamedia commons.
Terrifying events will conspire on the Chicago River this week, and it’s not just the launching of the latest search for Asian carp.
Starting today, the company Living Social is taking customers on haunted kayaking tours.
During the night, paddlers will make their way along the Chicago River, pausing to hear tales of “ghost, haunting, and other river — borne horrors,” according to the event brief.
Living Social’s website warns, “there may be some actual scream-inducing moments along the way.”
While kayakers listen to frightening river tales, scientists will search for a potentially alarming truth.
They’re looking for Asian carp, also starting today and continuing through Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
The search was organized after carp DNA was found along the Chicago River and the North Shore Channel. Commercial fishers will pursue Asian carp along both waterways.
Here’s hoping that any creatures haunting the Great Lakes waterways are fictional.
I have had legal sterilized grass carp in a clear spring fed pond behind my house for 15 years and have watched them grab weeds role ripping them out and swim away with them. In 2011 while vacationing at Kring Point State park in the 1000 Island located in NY I witnessed the same thing for a week happening in the old swimming area, although it appeared to be only one fish and may even have been a sterilized released fish, it sure made me wonder why our government is taking chances moving slowly to address the problem with experimental electronic barriers to protect these pristine waters, that along with the Great Lakes should be considered national treasures.