Titanic exhibit at famous Chicago-area museum almost ‘sunk’

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Recent thunderstorms - or perhaps a few ghosts - might be responsible for some strange developments at a northwest suburban museum.

Jim Wojdyla, the Marketing Director for the Volo Museum, said the museum is known almost as much for its possible paranormal activity as it is for its classic cars.

“And it's kind of part of the thing. The Grams family that owns the property, they've lived on this property, so they're just kind of used to it. Even, Brian Grams, one of the owners, kind of jokes, like, ‘I don't know life without having weird hauntings going on. Like, they're so used to it. Like, yeah, you might be used to it, but this is pretty freaky, man.”

Security footage of the incident shows some movement and then flooding around the 1912 Renault French concept car.

Only two of those vehicles were ever produced. The other one was on the Titanic and it now sits at the bottom of the ocean.

The car was located in the museum’s Titanic exhibit. Staff are still trying to figure out how the exhibit flooded.

“We're getting engineers. We have a crew on staff, a maintenance crew, that's checking everything out and, you know, they're general contractors and, you know, previous jobs, they were… all different kinds of stuff,” Wojdyla said.

“So they're experienced in this. So we're having them examine the building and they haven't found anything yet. It's pretty crazy.”

The mysterious flooding forced Volo to close the Titanic exhibit, but it's due to reopen on Thursday.

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