

October 23, 2025
- Ghost tours are on Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 1
-10/29 - GHOST HUNT at Wide River Winery, LeClaire, Iowa

Gangsters & Ghosts
Downtown Rock Island, Illinois
Meet at: 19th Street and 2nd Avenue (outside El Patron Mexican Restaurant and Bar)
Limited to 20 guests per tour.
Friday - Oct. 24 (7 pm)
Friday - Oct. 31 (7pm)
Tickets are $20 each
Length is approx. 90 minutes
There must be a minimum of 4 people for a tour to run.
Email qchaunts@gmail.com to purc
Gangsters & Ghosts
Downtown Rock Island, Illinois
Meet at: 19th Street and 2nd Avenue (outside El Patron Mexican Restaurant and Bar)
Limited to 20 guests per tour.
Friday - Oct. 24 (7 pm)
Friday - Oct. 31 (7pm)
Tickets are $20 each
Length is approx. 90 minutes
There must be a minimum of 4 people for a tour to run.
Email qchaunts@gmail.com to purchase. Payment links will be posted soon.
GENERAL TOUR INFORMATION
Please note that QC Haunts is a one-person business. If your tour guide doesn't arrive prior to or right at tour time, they haven't forgotten about you and will be there soon! Text 309-781-7083 with questions or to check in.
Scroll down to read our liability waiver.

Special FREE ghost tours during "Back from the Dead"
Limited to 20 guests per tour.
Saturday, Oct. 11
8pm (new time)
SOLD OUT (10/5)
**UPDATED START TIME**
Sunday, Oct. 12
6:15pm
SOLD OUT (10/9)
Tours meet in front of El Patron Restaurant & Bar (at 2nd Avenue and 19th Street)
A weekend of Halloween fun in Downtown Rock Island,
Special FREE ghost tours during "Back from the Dead"
Limited to 20 guests per tour.
Saturday, Oct. 11
8pm (new time)
SOLD OUT (10/5)
**UPDATED START TIME**
Sunday, Oct. 12
6:15pm
SOLD OUT (10/9)
Tours meet in front of El Patron Restaurant & Bar (at 2nd Avenue and 19th Street)
A weekend of Halloween fun in Downtown Rock Island, Illinois. Details to com for the 2025 event.
Scroll down to read our liability waiver.

Soldiers & Spirits, Village of East Davenport, Iowa
Meet at: 2100 East River Drive (outside the green Village Market Place building)
Limited to 15 guests per tour.
Saturday, Oct. 11 (6PM - SOLD OUT)
Saturday - Oct. 18 (7pm - SOLD OUT)
Sunday - Oct. 19 (3pm)
Saturday - Oct. 25 (7pm)
Saturday - Nov. 1 (7pm)
Tickets are $20 each
Length is approx. 90
Soldiers & Spirits, Village of East Davenport, Iowa
Meet at: 2100 East River Drive (outside the green Village Market Place building)
Limited to 15 guests per tour.
Saturday, Oct. 11 (6PM - SOLD OUT)
Saturday - Oct. 18 (7pm - SOLD OUT)
Sunday - Oct. 19 (3pm)
Saturday - Oct. 25 (7pm)
Saturday - Nov. 1 (7pm)
Tickets are $20 each
Length is approx. 90 minutes
There must be a minimum of 4 people for a tour to run.
Email qchaunts@gmail.com to purchase. Payment links will be posted soon.
GENERAL TOUR INFORMATION
Please note that QC Haunts is a one-person business. If your tour guide doesn't arrive prior to or right at tour time, they haven't forgotten about you and will be there soon! Text 309-781-7083 with questions or to check in.
Scroll down to read our liability waiver.

Wednesday, October 29th
6-8pm
106 N. Cody Road, LeClaire, Iowa
Join QC Haunts for another exciting Wide River Winery investigation, this time in their LeClaire, Iowa, location.
The LeClaire Ghost Hunting Experience in Wide River Winery
If you've been to the Wide River Winery tasting room in LeClaire before, you might have felt like someone was watching you. Or perhaps you felt the temperature change around you--and it wasn't the effects of the wine! On Wednesday, October 29th, you can join QC Haunts & History for a paranormal investigation of the historic building at 106 N. Cody Road. We'll have access to the main floor's tasting room, the upstairs AirBnB, and other parts of the property.
You'll get an introduction to the history of the building and of LeClaire. You'll also learn how to use paranormal investigation equipment in order to make contact with those on the other side. If you've ever been curious about ghost investigating and how it works, this event is for you. Plus, you'll receive guidance from S&S Paranormal Investigations and Haunted Maps.
Tickets are $30 each and include one glass of wine and a charcuterie cup. You can also stock up on the area's best wine for your Halloween party!
Ages 21 and up only.

THE EERIE EMPORIUM IS BACK!
Join us for Halloween-spooky fun on Sunday, Oct. 12th, from 12-5pm in Arts Alley in Downtown Rock Island, IL.
Vendors include:
Creative Cauldron Collective - Plattville, Wis.
Daydreamer Art - The Fantasy Art of Carri Williams
New Dawn Press
Sixela (Insta: sixelajewelry)
Art by Sid
"Eerie Iowa" book by Michael McCarty andBruce Walters, and Killpop Art
The Deadlite Wey - (3-D printed items)
Email qchaunts@gmail.com with any questions.
Step into the past with QC Haunts & History Tour. You'll discover that dead folks do tell tales as we explore the streets and haunts of Rock Island and the Village of East Davenport. History will come to life during the time of gangsters and speakeasies when Rock Island, Ill., was vice lord John Looney's town, and prohibition didn't matter. Then head across the river to the Village of East Davenport to "meet" Civil War soldiers and other restless spirits from a bygone time.
QC Haunts & History is the ONLY ghost tour in the Illinois Quad Cities!
Private tours may be scheduled during other times. Email qchaunts@gmail.com or text 309-781-7083 for more information.

Kids like spooky stuff, too! Our kid-friendly ghost tours are a little spooky and a lot of fun. They run 45 minutes and start at 3:00pm in front of the Center for Living Arts theater at 220 - 19th Street in downtown Rock Island, Ill. Tickets are $10 per person.
No tours currently scheduled.
Private tours may be requested anytime.
Email us for details.
Minda Powers-Douglas started QC Haunts & History in 2019. She loves ghost stories and learning about history--she seldom misses a chance to go on ghost tours wherever she travels. She’s also written three books about cemeteries and has spoken about cemetery history and art throughout the Midwest and beyond. Minda has had a interest in ghosts and all things spooky since she was a kid--realizing later in life that her childhood imaginary friend was not so imaginary after all. Since then she’s had many paranormal experiences including a ghost in her old apartment, visits from dead loved ones, and hitchhiking ghosts. She is also a librarian and artist.

Yes! As long as a guide is available, we can schedule your tour. Minimum 4 guests. $20 per person.
Private tours may be scheduled during the day or the evening, pending availability.
Please note that tours are subject to change or cancellation without notice.
If a tour is cancelled by QC Haunts & History, you will receive a full refund.
No refunds otherwise.
Please note that tours are subject to change or cancellation without notice.
No, but by participating in a tour you are agreeing to the liability waiver information below:
WAIVER INFORMATION
By participating in a QC Haunts & History Tour, you acknowledge and assume the risks connected with any activity connected to the walking tours or events. You agree that QC Haunts & History Tours or the cities of Rock Island or Davenport bear no responsibility to any injuries sustained during, before, or after a tour or event. You will also not hold QC Haunts & History Tours or the cities of Rock Island or Davenport liable for any lost, stolen, or damaged property occurring during a tour or event. Thank you.
If no one has purchased tour tickets for that evening's tour by 6pm, that tour will be cancelled. We ask that you purchase your tickets no later than 2 hours before tour time to make sure your tour will take place.
If there is severe weather, a tour may be cancelled. In those cases, guests may use their tickets for another tour date or they may receive a refund.

New Harper Hotel, downtown Rock Island, Ill.

2nd Avenue East from 17th Street. Downtown Rock Island, Ill.

Downtown Rock Island, Illinois. Circa 1920.

Vintage aerial view of Rock Island, Illinois.

Men protesting the 20th Amendment.

Speakeasy bartender

One of gangster John Looney's houses in Rock Island.

1857 map of Rock Island.

Fort Theatre, now the home of Circa '21.

Photo postcard of Rock Island Public Library.

Brew in the Village of East Davenport was the location of a speakeasy in the early 1900s.
309-781-7083 (tex qchaunts@gmail.com QC Haunts & History is the ONLY ghost tour in the Illinois Quad Cities and in Iowa’s Village of East Davenport. © Copyright Minda Powers-Douglas 2019-2025