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Each week we'll be asking Des Plaines residents a different question, from serious to absurd, and filming their responses.
Des Plaines Patch went with a Halloween theme this week, asking people about who they'd least like to be haunted by and why.  We spoke to Mario Mazzetti, 22, and Jeremy Sonkin, 24, both currently starring in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, about their fear of an American musical-comedy legend. We also spoke to long-time Des Plaines resident Tom Capparelli, who used to own Sims Bowling Alley on Ellinwood Aveneue, about a movie monster who has haunted him since boyhood. Deanna Campbell, 14, a student at Chippewa Middle School, spoke of her fear of a popular urban legend sure to …

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