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Abingdon
At
Abingdon Middle School, there have been stories of a teacher
who had hung herself because her child fell down the stairs on a tricycle. There
have been reports of hearing screaming and yelling and squealing of the tricycle tires. There have been
sightings of the woman and child together. There has also been blood
stains found on the walls of every room and above the steps and on the steps of
were she hung herself and the child fell down the stairs.
Algonquin
Algonquin cemetery is located on Rt.31 and Cary / Algonquin Rd there are two sides. The side that touches 31 is most active in terms the spirits. On the other side is where a rapist resides and has been bound to his grave spot by a high priestess. When you find his grave, towards the back, there is one spot that if you stand there you will feel his bad energy and you can hear him running back and forth through the woods. A little boy has also been seen by this area watching the rapist and watching you trying to protect you from harm. The only way to be safe is to stay on the trail until you know where they are.
On Square Barn Rd is where you will find 2 kids
that run in front of cars to get away from 3 killers chasing them. There
are 2 boys, and 1 girl.
At Allerton Mansion, there have been reports of a mysterious lady in white. She, according to witnesses and old photos of people that use to go there as guest of Mr. Robert Allerton, is a guest that frequently visited there. She has been seen walking along the pond in the back of the mansion, and in "her" room trying on hats and gloves. She's been heard coming down the stairs and pacing the hall in front of "her" room.
Alsip
Alsip was once a huge brickyard for Chicago, as well as a
planned cemetery. A really large one, supposedly dubbed The City of Chicago
Cemetery. Many of the older houses have pre-dug graves within. Since not all of
Alsip was used as a cemetery, the plan was debunked. However, Alsip has
Illinois' largest cemetery count. There have been cases of ghosts, poltergeist
activity (objects moved around homes), voices, etc. Besides its own graveyards,
Alsip also borders several famous ones such as Holy Sepulcher.
Alton
At Lovejoy Monument Cemetery there is a little girl buried there that died suddenly from a mysterious illness and she loves to walk around the cemetery and plays hide and seek with the gravestones. You can also see the ghost of Elijah P. Lovejoy walking around his monument. If you go into the cemetery at night you will constantly walk into chill spots and it could be 90 degrees out.
At
Lovejoy School
there have been many reports of ghostly walkings, doors opening and
closing, on their own, lights going on and off, and objects being projected
across the floors. It is believed that the school is partially located on Indian
burial grounds. There have also been ghostly sightings and the scent of strong
perfume.
McPike Mansion has been condemned by the city of Alton. It used to be the site of annual Halloween bonfires. The house is extremely creepy looking, the past owners had tried to restore it. There is a long history of unexplained events. Presences felt, perfume smelled, apparitions, and strange electrical phenomena.
Mineral Springs Hotel -
The Lavender-Lady is one about a woman who loved
the lavender smell. She had an affair and her husband found out. He chased her
down some steps and nobody really knows the rest of the story except that he
killed her. There is also a story about the pool area at the basement level. A
woman drowned in the pool and it was because of a man. WARNING: There is
a fee to see the hotel
St. Anthonys Hospital
is a very haunted hospital. There are at
least three ghosts there. One is a small boy on the third floor in the
administration area. The second is said to be on the second floor near the
endoscopes Dept. The third is on the first floor in the sterile processing dept.
This ghost is said to be one of the nuns from the order that is in residence at
the hospital.
Amboy
Franklin
Blacktop is a house that sits kitty-corner from the 4-H Center. It is reported that in the 1800's a man was murdered in his home and
buried 500 feet from the upstairs bathroom window. If you go into the master
bedroom upstairs, (known as the warm room) no matter if it is the middle of
winter the room feels heated. It is also reported that if you are looking into
the lower level of the house from the outside you can see a small light appear
from room to room.
Anna
At Choate Mental Health and
Developmental Center
there have been reports of apparitions of people running. There have been
sightings of being standing in the window as you drive by. A man reported
that as he was walking in the tunnels he felt a hand on his back. It's
been known that the uppers and lowers the cottages are also
EXTREMELY haunted by nurses and prior residents.
On the second floor of the Union County Hospital & Nursing home / hospital there is a little boy who died in the 50's and
he likes to appear there at night. In the nursing home there are many people who were once
residents, and every now and then you catch a glimpse of them.
Antioch
The
good ol'
Antioch Movie
Theatre - This old theatre has been around since the 1940's.
It use to hold plays . There has been
many stories about the theatre. Word has it a girl had hung herself from the
balcony. It's been told that Al Copone had tunnels dug underneath the theatre leading
towards Fox Lake. If those stories are true, or not, employees have reported that flood
lights have come on, out of nowhere, and turned off by themselves. Some
have reported
hearing things after hours like noises, bangs, and people on the stairs. Some
employees report having a sense that there is something else in the room, when
all they are is
AlOnE!
Ashley
A ghost inhabits
the abandoned factory. She is said to
have been killed during a normal day at work. The roof had caved in and covered
the spot where she was supposedly killed. When circled, it is possible to see a
face or silhouette of the woman in a doorway or the window. At night it is also
possible to hear her cries from just before she died.
Ashmore
At
St. Omer cemetery there is a large gravestone with a crystal ball, said to be
that of witch. The date of death on the tombstone is Feb 31, 18??. Many have
tried to take pictures but they never turn out. Sometimes there is strange glow
coming from the tombstone.
Ashmore
The
Ashmore Estates used to be an old insane asylum. Legend has it that the government stopped the funding and all the
employees left the patients, to fend for themselves. With no where to go and the inability
to care for themselves, the patients had all died of starvation and dehydration. Illegal as it
may be, when people venture into the building, strange voices are heard, and
when leaving, people have reported loud banging noises. When looking back
they saw the trunk of their car dented in, and out, as if being pounded upon.
Argyle
The
old church is located at 173 & Beliot Rd. Legend says that witch's were hung
there along time ago. People who have witnessed a lady in black, sitting in the
window by the bell late at night, then disappear. The church painted the window
black recently, but several people have witnessed the "lady".
Arlington Heights
When
it comes to the South Middle
School, other than the fact that it's a Middle
School, it is known to have a gateway to Hell, or something of the like,
in its lower floor. Strange noises have been heard there by several kids, who
want to be daring.
At St.Viator High
School, rumor has it that one night a
janitor was cleaning in the auditorium, while it was dark. While cleaning the
stage he bumped into something...when he looked up he saw a boy hanging from a
rope. People say you can hear strange voices and see odd things.
Aurora
At
the Baymont Inn and
Suites, a former employee and guest heard people
talking in an empty room late at night. No one was registered in room ,and when
the door
was opened, voices stopped and the room was empty. Also, an employee reports a guest
coming downstairs and wanting out of room #208
because he woke up and felt
someone strangling him..
In the lobby, there was an incident with a guest on the phone ,and nearby, we both witnessed a white ball
of light shoot from behind the office, and out into the lobby, then vanished.
The
guest was very disturbed. This happened on St Patrick's day 2001, at approximately
2am.
The Leland Tower,
21 stories and the tallest
building in Aurora, is said to be haunted. Numerous suicides have taken place by
guests jumping from upper floors, into the Fox River. At night bad smells come
from the elevator banks and the elevators seem to moan.
At the
Mount Olive
Cemetery, women in 1950's clothing are seen in the
cemetery standing by a 1958 Lincoln Continental. They seem fade
away.
Barrington
On
Cuba Road, white mysterious orb follows passing cars on the metal
gate of the old cemetery.
There is a disappearing house on Cuba Road. If you go
out on the road during a full moon and turn off your headlights you can see the
house. If you enter the house and stay until the sun comes up you, will disappear
with the house forever.
There is a haunted farm house with a silo. The
legend is a man went crazy because he thought his wife was cheating on him, so
he murdered her and his kids. He then killed himself. There is also a
five-point star located about 20 yards away from where he buried his family. The
star has a dead tree at each point. Apparently you can still hear
noises and see something moving around in the house late at night. Even if it is
80 degrees outside you can feel a bitter uninviting chill. It is located on shoe factory road.
At White
Cemetery, glowing orbs are seen from the road along with a phantom
black car. It can be seen driving from the entrance of the cemetery then
disappearing a few blocks down. Also, when pictures are taken of the cemetery
the pictures do not develop or the camera gets lost.
Bartelso
If you sit
on Old Carlyle
Road, if you sit with your lights off you will see a car coming towards you.
It then goes below a
hill and disappears. It is said to be the ghost of a girl who was raped and
killed. NOTE: There's a road over a field that appears to be coming
straight at you, only it goes down a little hill and then turns left, so the
lights appear to disappear, but really, the car has turned.
Bartlett
On
Munger Rd., word has it if you park your car on the tracks ,and put it
in neutral and put baby powder on the trunk, you will see fingerprints of a boy
who got killed on those very tracks. That is the usual event when someone is
killed on railroad tracks.
At
Sunrise Park , there was a man in his mid 40's. He had a house by
the trees and was right next to a school. People feel weird tingling in there
back. When they turn around it gets very hard to breathe. PLUS THERE HAS BEEN
SCREAMING IN THE WOODS OF THE PARK.
His house had to be destroyed
because of complaints from the parents. So he then got revenge on the children,
by killing one every day from the mid 1800s to now. Then he would leave the
bones in this little area surrounded by wood. That is why Bartlett is so
lightly populated today.
Bartonville
The
Bartonville Insane Asylum
has been
closed for many years. Patients in the Asylum where given cruel treatments such
as water submersion, shock therapy, and many other forms that would be
considered inhumane today. Many people who have ventured into the run-down Asylum,
have heard strange noises and have even seen apparitions. It is a 3-story stone
building on Fiefer Road. Many of the other buildings, used for recreation at the
Asylum, have been renovated, but the main housing facility still stands and looks
the same as it did years ago. There is a grave yard across the street from the
Asylum at the end of the road on the left down a long dirt lane. Many of the
headstones have only numbers on them because they did not know the names of the
patients. Other headstones have names and dates. If you add the dates you will
find that someone died at the Asylum every single day. 
Warning: Police will
arrest anyone trying to get inside the Asylum, or the cemetery.
They say the residents of the Bartonville State
Hospital haunt the grounds and can be seen at various times.
Batavia
At
The Batavia Inn, Bed and Breakfast, there have been reports of visitors feeling a
ghost running it's fingers through their hair and it would get freezing cold until
you could see your breathe. This was sometime in the summer. She yelled out,
"There's a ghost in here and I know it and I'm going to take your
picture!" She took a picture and she reports right where the cold spot was.
It was a large black spot that looked like it had hundreds of screaming
faces in it.
Belleville
The Auditorium of the old Belleville
West campus, now
Lindenwood University campus, is haunted by a former teacher
that died before the production of her play. Props move after practices, she is
no threat.
At
the
Lincoln Theatre there are 7 Ghosts. Three of
them are as follows. One haunts the projection booth. Another haunts the stage in
the main theatre, and lastly, one lurks downstairs in the basement. It is located on
E. Main
street a couple of blocks away from the square. One time a guy told me he was
putting new tile in, in the projection booth, and he went to get something came
back the tile that still needed to be laid, was already done.
The Pasta House
is said to be haunted by a family that was killed
when it was a hotel many years ago. If you are there late enough you can hear a
woman and child scream.
The Ghost Tracks - Possible Urban Legend
- The ghost tracks are the
alleged resting place of a young boy killed by a train on the tracks. It is said
that if you roll over the tracks and stop just after you cross them and put your
car in neutral, the boy will push the car back over the tracks, up a hill, to
save you from his fate. If you put baby powder on your bumper, after he pushes
you, you can see his fingerprints. - September Update: the tracks have since
been removed.
Bishop Township
At
Kings Cemetery, pictures have been taken at night, and
mysterious orbs are seen in the pictures. Silhouettes have been seen jumping out of the
person, though not moving....At least 5 different cameras used and different
kinds of film. It's in the Middle of Nowhere, no houses, just trees.
Bloomington
At
the Blooming Grove
Academy, the old Junior High School, there is some sort of
haunt on the 3rd floor that likes to rattle doors and play music loudly.
It can be
heard only at night. Upon further inspection of the room, that the music has been
heard in, nothing was found to show that there was anyone in there. Could it possibly be the spirit of a basketball player who choked on his own vomit, trying
not to be embarrassed?
The
International House ,of
Illinois Weslyan
University, is a huge mansion-sized house on the Campus
in Bloomington, IL. Since it's first days as a private residence, it has since
been converted into co-ed dormitories. There was an old elevator that used to be
in service and has since been sealed up. Apparently there was a
young man who was stuck in the elevator and died when it fell. People still
claim to hear the squeals of the elevator gears as it falls. There is also
rumored to be the spirit of a young girl who walks around the 3rd floor. She was
supposed to be the niece of the President of the University. She died in the
house and still wanders the halls. The boys who live on the top floor can
sometimes hear the laugh of the little girl.
There's a story of a young boy; at old Federal
Prison, on market, that can be
seen looking out of the attic window. The boy was said to be hatchet to death.
The old Mennonite hospital (now Eureka) -
There is
a room ,at the old
Mennohite hospital
(now Eureka), where on the 3rd floor at the end of the hallway
there is a lady that passed away a very
painful death from cancer. After she passed the call light would always go on
and off, there would be the smell of death in the room, that no matter how hard
they tried it couldn't be removed. There were always strange noises coming out
of the room. That room was never used again.
Buckner
In this cemetery,
Harrison cemetery, there are 2 ghosts. They are supposedly
guarding the cemetery. If you go there late at night, you can see them. However,
some nights they do not show themselves. They are supposedly a man and a woman.
There is also a piano that only plays at exactly 12:00 midnight. The man usually
shows up as an orange glow in a field beside the cemetery. The woman is usually
a whitish glow. She shows up near a group of pine trees in a far corner
of the cemetery. That corner is usually where the piano plays. They must
have a re-occurring date.
Bull Valley
Stickney Mansion
was built in the 1800's. The family
that lived in it all died in the upstairs, the only part of the house with
corners. The reason for the downstairs and outer perimeter not having corners
was for the purpose of ghosts and spirits to have no place to hide. Late at
night, in the dark of the upstairs windows, figures can be seen moving about.
Sounds of steps can also be heard faintly. On the second floor is the door to
nowhere that is up on the house leading to no deck nor any stairway. One of the
stories is that one of the Stickney children hung himself in an upstairs room.
They say anyone is welcome to visit the station. Yet, a vistior to the house
recently was told they'd get back in touch with her to give her more
information. They never did.
Beware:
You may get to go inside and get some
stories, but not much else. - October 2004
Update:
It has now been remodeled into
a police station.
Cambridge
In 1907,
on Death Curve, there was a women and her husband living in a
house in the country. They had seven children. Her husband was a farmer
and she was
a stay at home mom with her kids. One day her husband came down with a very bad
cold. A few weeks after getting the cold, he died. She
however could not take care of her seven children alone, with no income. So one
day she took her kids lined them up in a line in the front yard and decapitated each
one of them. When she realized what she had done she set her house on
fire and shot herself in the head. So at night if you go and sit on the curve
where the house used to be, at the time she killed herself at 10:27 pm, you can
see a women in all white sitting on this post out in front of what used to be
her house. They say the reason she did all of this was because she was
temporarily insane, and when she saw what she did she couldn't take it. Her
and her even children are buried in the Cambridge Roseville Cemetery.
Carpentersville
The Instant Replay Sports Bar ( formerly Big Boy's restaurant ) in Carpentersville on rte 25 and Lake Marion Roads now closed, resold threes times over but the same building is occupied. Five ghosts linger there. No facts on record except for my experiences and its history.
Central City
Late at night,
at Central City
Cemetery, when all is quiet in the
southeastern part of the grave yard there is a statue of a girl playing the
violin which you can heard clearly but faintly on calm nights. She is know
throughout the small town as violin Annie.
Centralia
Centralia cemetery
- Annie ( Harriet
Anne Marshall) was the daughter of a wealthy doctor. She took ill while on a
family trip with her parents. She died of diphtheria. Her mother was so
distraught that she eventually lost her mind. Annie was an accomplished violinist. Her
grieving father had the statue
done as a monument. It was based on a painting of Annie with her violin standing
next to her father at the piano. This painting was at one time owned by an
antique dealer in Centralia. Everyone growing up had head the story of Annie
playing her violin at night. The Marshall family has tried to maintain the
statue but it has been attacked vandals several times. Her violin bow is broken
off.
Foundation Park
Stover's Hill
is a popular place where children go to
sled when it snows. At the bottom of Stover's hill there is a merry-go-round,
witnesses report getting an image of a family in a picture taken there.
Champaign
The
YMCA on Church St. there are cold spots, lights turning off and on by
themselves, feelings of being watched, balls rolling down stairs by themselves,
strange noises, shadows moving. doors on third floor opening and closing by
themselves.
At The University of Illinois,
Champaign/Urbana, the English building, is
supposedly haunted. The story is that it was once a girl's dormitory,
a girl killed herself there. Supposedly her spirit haunts the ladies currently
living there.
Charleston
At
the Eastern Illinois
University, Pemberton Hall, a young
college girl was allegedly brutally murdered, before winter break, by a
psychotic janitor. Clocks turn back in time, voices are heard in the halls and
doors mysteriously lock after the young girls enter. Wet footprints on the floor
or bloody footprints can be seen. The floor where she was killed is closed off but
mysterious music still plays from a piano she once played. The murder
supposedly took place on the fourth floor, which is now boarded up.
Cherry Valley
Possible Urban Legend on Blood point Road. A ghost car will come
out of no where and chase you and run you off the road. Off of blood point Rd. there is Sweeney
Rd. where there is a spot to pull over by a stonewall. Over
the wall is a field with paths that lead to the woods were red floating orbs
have been seen. In the woods is the foundation of church of some kind. No
flashlight will work ,it will turn off one step into the woods. An old farmer
will came running through the woods with a shotgun then once outside the woods,
he disappears. At the end of Sweeney Rd., at the stop sign, it turns in to Pool
Rd. Proceed with caution as a phantom black big rig will come out of no where.
As your on your way out you will be chased by the ghost car, until you leave
it's territory.
Christian
When
you go into the Palmer
- Anderson Cemetery you're
going to see a lot of orbs. On
certain nights there are dark shadows with red eyes. Also, not far from
this cemetery there is also a stone cabin that has figures that appear in it. It
was said that a man, wife and there kids lived in the cabin. One day the man
killed his family then hung himself on the bridge near by.
Cicero
A teacher\director is said to haunt the
Chodl
Auditorium Theater. According to
legend he died of a heart attack the opening night of West Side Story and never
got to see the production. Students have claimed to see and feel a presence in
the theatre especially later at night after long rehearsals . West Side Story
has only been put on once since his death, out of respect.
Morton College is haunted by the spirit of a girl named Emily
who was murdered. Before the school was built, her body was found on the site
after being killed on Laramie Bridge. She has been spotted on the roof at night
by security guards. She is rarely seen by the students. Emily has been heard in
the theater, however, she usually appears during plays that involve violence and
murder.
Inside the Warren Park administration building on the top
floor people have heard (after hours) what sounds like moaning and footsteps and
an actual sighting of a misty apparition.
Clarendon Hills
The
Country House of Clarendon Hills
Address:
241 55th Street Clarendon Hills, IL 60514
630-325-1444
The
Country House of Clarendon Hills can be found twenty miles west of Chicago.
The
Country House is a two story building, a roadhouse restaurant, built in 1922,
the dream of Emil Kobel, who wanted to have a place where the locals could
gather for friendly conversation, a bite to eat and a drink of their favorite
beer, wine or beverage. The second floor was his family's home, while the first
floor became a tavern and a small grocery store, a convenient place to buy basic
food stuffs. Further inspired, Kobel created a picnic area on the land just east
of his roadhouse, a beautiful little park where people could come together and
have a meal on the picnic tables or the gazebos, under the shade of the tall
pine trees, black walnut and oak trees.
In
1957, The Country House was sold to Richard Montanelli when Mr. Kobel retired.
Richard Montanelli, a successful Chicago business man, bought the place for his
mother, so she could have her own business, which worked out well for her, until
her health began to fail. The Country House wasn't kept up to snuff, and became
in need of sprucing up.
In
1974, The Country House was sold once again, bought by local residents, brothers
David and Patrick Regnery, given a quick-fix clean up and kept open to rave
reviews by college students in the summer of '74. In the fall, The Country House
was closed for detailed renovation, which was badly needed, but reopened during
the summer of 1975, with a new menu, but with the same philosophy; "To be a
neighborhood roadhouse where friends can meet for good conversation, a cold
drink and a gratifying meal."
The
Country House is a very successful restaurant and bar, which is located on the
first floor, with the offices and storage area located on the second floor. The
brothers' menu item, the Country Burger, has won acclaim and notoriety for the
restaurant. They have opened up two other restaurants in Lisle and Geneva.
History
of Manifestations:
During
the late '50's, the bartender working at The Country House was having an affair
with pretty blonde woman, in her late twenties, who was a frequent patron of the
roadhouse. One evening, she came into the bar with her small daughter in tow, to
visit with her lover, tending the bar customers. Unfortunately, they got into a
fight, which greatly upset the young woman. She asked the bartender to watch her
child for a little while. When he refused, she left with her child, and
proceeded to kill herself by wrapping her car around a tree near the roadside.
Luckily, her daughter survived!
Manifestations:
The
haunting of The Country House began during the major renovation projects being
accomplished during the Fall of '74, through the Spring of '75, when The Country
House was closed to the public.
A
young, blonde female apparition likes to hang out in the bar, the storeroom, an
upstairs room that was once a bedroom and occasionally plays pranks in the
restaurant area.
1)
The Bar -
A)
In the bar area, when David was having a consultation meeting with a contractor,
six independently operated shutters opened in the same moment, suddenly flooding
the room with light.
B)
The juke box has been known to turn itself on, in the middle of the night. A
workman working on the men's bathroom late one night, heard the juke box turn
on, and he went to the bar area to investigate. He saw a young, blonde woman,
standing by the juke box. He was about to tell her that the bar was closed, when
he noticed that there was nothing but air from the hem of her dress to the
floor!
2)
The Restaurant Area -
A)
Patrons waiting for a table will hear their names called by a woman's voice, but
when they go up to the hostess, it isn't their turn yet!
B)
One hears footsteps walking through the restaurant's dining room, which aren't
accountable to a living person.
3)
Upstairs Area -
A)
Footsteps are heard in the hallway and the rooms.
B)
This blonde has been known to sit on the window sill inside one of the upstairs
room windows, and beckons male customers from the street to come up and join
her, which is rather cheeky behavior, even for an apparition!
Events
experienced throughout the building... Could be her or perhaps she has company,
another unseen resident?
1)
Pounding on the walls.
2)
Blocking the women's room from the living.
3)
Phantom crying babies.
4)
Pots and pans in the kitchen move about like they have a mind of their own.
5)
In various parts and rooms of the building, the smell of fresh flowers permeates
the air.
6)
Footsteps have been heard in various parts of the building that can't be
attributed to a living person.
Psychic
Research:
After
the first incident where the young blonde entity first let the brothers know she
was with them, a well-known Chicago ghosthunter, Richard Crowe and two mediums
were invited to investigate The Country House, by David and Patrick. The mediums
reported that they felt the presence of a young, blonde, very pretty woman, who
was looking for someone she had loved and lost. They also reported that she died
of internal injuries.
Still
Haunted? Yes indeed! As long as this entity behaves herself, she is welcome to
hang around The Country House.
Colchester
Vishnu is an old abandoned township located just west of Colchester.
There are feelings of being watched, viewed shadow like beings in darkened
corners.
Collinsville
Ghost of Indians and strange shadows and balls of
light are seen at
Cahokia Mounds.
The story goes that a German janitor was
locked into the basement of the Old First Baptist Church, and then the building set afire. This occurred during
WWI when tensions were high against German-Americans. The church was rebuilt on
the original basement. Ironically, it is now used as a haunted house during
October. Workers and patrons alike have experienced cold spots, uneasiness,
footsteps, shadow figures, and images of both a hell hound and a hooded figure
walking around. After some investigation it was found that seven spirits inhabit
the building, and one referred to as the demon. This demon is responsible for
hiding objects and grabbing people to the point of leaving bruises. - April 2004
Update:
The Old First Baptist Church burned to the
ground overnight just before Halloween October, 2003. Nothing is left.
The old
Keeblerrd Mansion
used
to stand on the curved Keebler Rd. It had at one time a stage like place in the
basement with leg irons still in the concrete walls where they used to auction
off slaves. At night when you would drive by the house, you could see candles moving from window to window. Rumors about how sometimes slave women
could be seen walking from the house to the old cemetery right down the road
with baskets of clothes on their heads. Strange noises could be heard at
different times, especially at night. A friend visited their as a child with her
father and they witnessed the slave auction area themselves. Several years ago,
the house mysteriously burned down, and the old cemetery now goes unnoticed, but
the old-timers remember it and where the house and cemetery were located.
On a lonely road called
Lebanon
there are a series of concrete tunnels. If you drive out there and park under
any of them and turn out your lights, the spirits will send hellhounds out to
bring back your soul. Legend around here says that if you drive through all of
the gates without driving through one twice, at the stroke of midnight as you
drive through the last gate, you will be plucked out of the night and taken to
hell.
Located on Main Street,
Miner's Theater
is supposedly
haunted by three ghosts. The first two are supposedly brothers, and one killed
the other for ownership of the theater. The murderer was supposedly hostile, and
the actors who frequently act at Miner's always tell the new people to leave the
murderer and his brother alone, and to never call on them. The third is the
spirit of a young woman. She is a mischievous ghost, and harmless. Often, actors
will find make up or costumes missing, only to find them after they looked
everywhere they could possibly be. One time, a young actress was putting on make
up, and couldn't find her mascara, so she went on to put on something else, when
suddenly, the missing mascara rolled off the vanity, and rolled in the opposite
direction the floor slated to.
Colona
There had been shadows in the halls
of the Kauzlarich House and things turn on and off
without being touched.
Crete
In the 1970's, in the Ax-Man's house a man
murdered his wife and children along with two police
officers, with an ax. After killing them he hung them from hooks in the meat
shed in the back of the property. He was then chased through the woods near his
home by the police until he was finally shot and killed near the road. Upon
entering the grounds a strange feeling of being watched is felt, and if you go
around to the back of the house you can still see the blood splattered in the
meat shed. In the house you will find a staircase that leads into the ceiling.
If you go into one of the upstairs bedrooms you will find women's shoes all over
the floor. If you look out the window you will see what looks like a woman
hanging from a rope in the tree. You can also still see the path that the ax man
ran down to try to avoid the police. He is said to still haunt the bridge near
where he died.
Upon driving over the railroad tracks on
Monee
Rd. late at night, one
experiences a body chill and hears a girl scream. Once in a while one can even
see a girl standing on the road side in a white outfit.
Sightings of a woman and child standing together in the
middle of the
Sangamon Rd.
are seen from a distance, but they disappears when you get
closer. Often on rainy nights.
Crystal Lake
At
the Barnes
& Noble bookstore a old woman died and she willed her property to a
church, specifying that the property was to used for a school. Barnes &
Noble (along with a couple other stores) now occupy this property. Employees
have witnessed book carts moving by themselves and have reported items being
moved around. Some claim to have seen the old lady in the back storeroom.
On the upper floor, of the Fountains of Crystal
Lake, there is an apparition
of an old lady that wanders the halls and when you follow her, she leads you
down a dead end hallway and disappears. Also on the upper floor, there is an
area with checkerboards to play checkers on. The checker chips move by
themselves. In the basement, right when you get on the basement floor, you get
the sensation of being watched. If you walk down the long dark hall, you hear
footsteps follow you.
The Lake View Cemetery is said to be haunted by the
spirit of a women who set her self on fire there.
Rumor is that there was a farmer that lived
behind the parking lot, of the McHenry County YMCA, in the woods. He killed his family in a barn. Rumor is
that screams can be heard.
At Mount Thabor Cemetery red, green, and white glowing balls of light have
appeared in photographs taken at this fairly isolated old cemetery. Erie shadows
are also seen fluttering about the cemetery at night amongst a mass of green
mist which sometimes engulfs the graveyard. Motorists passing this cemetery at
night have often seen balls of light floating towards the road.
Palmer was a man who ran an orphanage called the Palmer
House. He beat and
tortured and murdered the kids. You can hear cries from inside the
house. If you put your ear to the door you hear kids scratching at the door. Then
you hear Palmer stomp on the floor or hit the door. Sometimes you see figures in
the basement windows.
Park in Covered Bridge Trails
- There is a stream behind the "Park
in Covered Bridge Trails" that
has some odd activity around it. Strange shadows have been seen there and a ball
of light.
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