Well i heard that something like that happened but it didnt happen in Wilmington…. I heard i happend in Oglesby, IL in a parking lot of Dollar General.. but it like just happened like a month or two ago!!!

My dad bought this house years after Minnowbucket was murdered. Years ago we put in new carpet. When we tore the old carpet up , there was blood stains all over the plywood on the ground. Also my dad never knew Minnow Bucket,but one day he came home and saw a man and a woman in his bedroom. He described the man and woman to our neighbor. Out neighbor said , the man he described was Minnow bucket. Growing up, during the summers,I always thought it was strange when it would be 90 degrees out and i would feel a very cold rush thru my body. Other times i heard very strange noises thru out the house.

*****!!!

What do u expect from a town full of YELLOW HAMMERS!!!!

i had another minnow bucket sighting the other day. i was walking along the bank of the river with my five young lovers. he said “ey boi, get o’er he-a” i kept walking but my lovers went over there and got raped to death. beware minnow bucket.

James Andrew KNOWLES was January 28th, 1927 in Braidwood, Will County, Illinois. He was the fourth child and only son of James Knowles and Frances Weimer. He had older sisters. When he was about 5, his father hung himself.

As a child in Wilmington, James would skip school to go fishing. He got his nickname when at age 16 joined a poker game to earn enough money to buy a minnow bucket. He played and won every hand and he went and got his minnow bucket. Thereafter, his nickname was “Minnow Bucket.”

He graduated from Wilmington High School. He served in World War II in the Navy on the USS Birmingham in the South Pacific.

James married Laura Rosella SANDERS, daughter of Harry Sanders and Nancy Irene Green, on February 23rd, 1952. They were married by Pastor Robert Gordon of the Grace Methodist Church at 1002 Oakland in Joliet, Illinois.

They had two daughters together.

James worked as a union carpenter.

In 1969, James and Laura lived at Rt. 1, Box 202 A, Wilmington, IL.

In 1971, Laura committed suicide.

James was a fossil collector, master fisherman, mushroom hunter, and turtle collector. He was also an alcoholic and a gambler. He helped in the construction of the Minooka Grade School in Minooka, Grundy County, IL as well as the Bob Evans restaurant in Joliet, Will County, IL. He was a member of the Wilmington Masonic Temple, a card carrying “Hobie Hunter,” and a practical joker.

He was a member of the Bloomington Valley Scottish Rite, the Joliet Carpenters Union, the Wilmington VFW Post, the Wilmington American Legion and was past president of the Joliet Mineralogist Society.

He knew every part of the Kankakee River and lobbied for its preservation. He was the kind of a person who always went out of his way to help somebody and never asked for anything in return.

When there would be a bug or something crawling on him, he’d just push it away — he said God put everything on this earth for a reason. Everyone loved him.

On September 27, 1985, James was found bludgeoned to death in his home in Wilmington. He was buried in 1985 in Oakwood Cemetery, Wilmington, Will County, IL.

Idt this is true. i’ve lived in wilmington on the weekends since i was born. and i’ve walked the river bank at dark….. plus i’ve never heard this story. it totally isnt true unles u have evidence.

duke, thank you for making my day sir.! (:

there was actually a bait shop in wilmington right by the park and the river. it was called the “minnow bucket” it did close about two years ago and was reopened as a pizza resturant about 6 months after. the pizza sucked.