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Hancock
At
Warsaw Peyton's Place, a man supposedly went crazy on his family and killed
them all with a pitch fork. If you walk back into the woods into their private
cemetery, a young man's voice will call at you to run and leave. Also, a black
'62 mustang will chase you when you leave and then vanishes from your rearview
mirror.
Near Hartsburg in a small wooded area is where
cultists used to practice in the
Old Red Barn.
The barn has been burned down, but
lights and apparitions can be seen, as well as strange noises can be heard.
Havana
At Lawfard Theater
cold spots have been felt
behind the curtains before opening night performances.
It is said that this is the presence of past actors
coming back to watch a play one more time.
15 years ago a young man was playing basketball, at the
Old Park district Gym,
when he was locked in while using the bathroom. He was locked in for over
24 hours and could not reach anyone to let him out and he died. It has been said
that at 12 o'clock at night at the gym the ghost of the man that died comes back
to haunt the old gym. People have seen him at night; he will get a ball and
shoot around at the basketball hoops. When the lights go on he will disappear.
You can even hear him screaming for HELP sometimes.
Highland
Reports of an apparition
at the
Family Inn Restaurant
have been seen of the Lady that
used to own the house. Lights turn on and off and strange noises have been
heard.
People have claimed to hear strange
noises, at the
House of Plenty
Restaurant, and they've seen a weird light coming
from the basement.
Highland Park
Many years ago, at the
Highland Park High School, a small boy was
crossing the street directly across the street and was hit by a truck.
He died instantly. Just a few years ago, there was a janitor walking around the
school on Halloween night and noticed a small boy standing across the street.
The janitor went outside and saw a giant freight truck coming toward the boy.
The little boy walked into the street and the janitor ran after him telling
him to stop. Just as the janitor jumped at the little boy to get him out of the
way, he disappeared.
Hillside
Our
Lady of Angels School
in
Chicago
caught on fire 12/1/1958 and claimed 83 children and 3 Nuns in one day. By the
way they did rebuild a new school over the burned out school, but no activity
has been reported there. However the cemetery they are buried in, Queen of
Heaven Cemetery, has had some interesting reports. About 6 years ago a man
started having visions at Queen of Heaven every day except Tuesdays. He said the
Blessed Mother was talking to him. (His quote) "Also a tree there started to take
shape of either Jesus or Mary's face". It grew a huge crowd. The man died a year or
so ago and so did the tree. People claim to see bright lights during the day at
Queen of Heaven and have visions.
Hoffman Estates
Located off of Golf
Road is
Algrims Funeral
Home. Many are said
to have seen mysterious lights seen in the area at night. Close neighbors of
the area claim to this day that they see a black horse enter the parking lot and
disappear at random.
The
Abandoned House
on
Shoe Factory
Rd. isn't much of a
haunting, but if you go West on Shoe Factory Road past Rohrsson Ave., there will
be an abandoned barn on your right side. Directly after the barn, on your left
side there will be a "No Passing Zone" sign, even closer, after the
sign; there is a white, stone house. I have heard from a resident nearby, that
it was an old schoolhouse. I went in with some friends and there are many odd
things written on the walls, such as: "Die", "XIV", and a
picture of a large eye that is bleeding, with a diamond at the end of the trail
of blood.
Joliet
The
Frank Shaver Allen house
haunting was well-documented in the local press in the
late 1970's after a team of psychics and a Joliet newspaper woman investigated
it. The family then living there cooperated in the investigation after having
experienced very dramatic paranormal events for over a decade. The house was
built for wealthy Frank Shaver Allen in the latter half of the 19th century. He
is believed to be one of the lingering spirits there. Also, reported is an
elderly woman, believed to be someone who died from a terminal illness in the
house; a former nanny and her charge, a young boy; and other spirits not
identified. Many, many sightings of spirits and other strange events have
occurred at the residence and have been witnessed by occupants, visitors, the
psychics and reporters and others such as gas meter readers, etc. A boy who lived
there experienced repeated visits from the ghostly nanny and boy who repeatedly
invited him to join the ghost boy forever as his playmate. Unexplained, illusory
fires have been seen there. A renovation of the house inspired a
wave of supernatural occurrences. The usual door slamming, odors,
shadow-figures, unexplained voices and screams abound.
Johnston City
There's a legend that says if you go up to
Hook's
Tomb, in Arrowhead Cemetery
,and run around it clockwise 3 times then knock on the door 3
times you will smell roses.
Kankakee
It has been said that there is a
train track
in the city of Kankakee where a bus full of children were hit by a
train. Now, when you pass over the train tracks at night, you can hear children
laughing. A few have even been brave enough to stop their cars on the tracks and
turn the car off, then they hear the sounds of a train coming, and their car
will slowly move from the tracks as though someone were pushing it to safety.
Some who have tried this have sworn that there were small handprints on their
cars afterward.
Kaskaskia
An Indian cursed
Kaskaskia
in 1735 right before he was
murdered, FOR LOVE! It is said that his ghost will forever haunt Kaskaskia for
the wrong that was done to him. His spirit has been seen by numerous people.
Kewanee
An old lady died, at the
Amityville House, of a very painful disease
shortly before a man hung himself at the same residence. Even though the house
has been burned down, at certain nights you can hear the blood curdling screams of
the old lady, and see the rope from which the man hung himself. The deaths are
true and even documented.
La Grange Park
The
Park Jr. High School
used to be a nunnery in the 1950's.
It was rumored that a nun killed herself in one of the upper floors in the
building. Now she haunts the room (room number cannot be found). Students find
erasers missing, they feel chills around the room, and heard voices in the absence of
the teacher.
La Salle
The Kalkaska Hotel
has had many hauntings . A girl supposedly committed suicide off of the
top floor (six stories) back in the twenties or so. However, it is said that she
was pushed by her boyfriend during a fight. You can hear the clicks of her heels
throughout the day and night. Also, coins are thrown in the lobby from time to
time. The worker's elevator opens by itself and takes the employees to floors
that they didn't push the buttons to. (Especially the basement-which is very
creepy). The hotel is now not in operation.
In the early 1920's there was a prohibition and this
is where
Al Capone
stopped in, at the
LaSalle Inn,
routinely on his way to Iowa and further west. It has
been reported that his and other ghosts haunt this hotel in the basement. Late
at night you can hear them playing cards and getting drunk.
Lacon
Old Salem
cemetery
is the oldest cemetery in the area. It
has many stories of hauntings and strange happenings. There is said to be a
grave of a young girl who died in a fire, and that it is impossible to light a
match anywhere near her grave. Also there have been a lot of locals mention of
car problems when leaving the cemetery.
Lake Forest
In the far back corner of the
St. Mary's Cemetery, by
the creek and next to a fence, is a grave with the name Dameon on it. Sometimes
at night, if you go by it you can see a boy sitting on it staring at you. As you
get closer, he disappears.
Barat College is going to be 100 years old and there have so many ghost sightings there that you could write a whole book
about it. Apparitions that have been seen include 3 children (2 girls and 1
boy), Nuns (not sure how many, but the school used to be Catholic and the Nuns
used to live on campus) ,a groundskeeper and various others. A large majority of
students have seen or heard unexplainable phenomena
The infamous
Schweppe Mansion
was unoccupied for 50 years after the owner
committed suicide, while mourning the death of his wife, Laura Schweppe. The
ghost of the family's servant haunts the mansion's hallways and corridors, while
the ghosts of the owners haunt the bedrooms. One of the windows of the master
bedroom that never needed to be cleaned, while all the others collect dust over
the years.
Lebanon
McKendree College - On the main campus, one of the original buildings,
of Mckendree College, is the chapel. It is said at the turn of the century that a distraught student
entered the bell tower and hung himself. At times his ghost can be heard walking
the upper floors late at night.
Carnegie, in McKendree College
have three ghosts that are believed to inhabit this
building. People have been grabbed. It will sometimes turn on the television on
the first floor and even change channels. One other one is mean and fills the
place with foreboding and the other is just scared.
There is something in the McKendree
College
chapel. A night
security guard at the college in the early and mid 1980's, relayed plenty of
stories of how he would hear organ or piano music being played in the sanctuary,
which is on the second floor. By the time he would get there to check it out, the
music had faded away. He would also hear sounds as if someone were running down
the center of the sanctuary floor. This was odd since there is no middle aisle.
Lemont
The
Old Quarry Jr. High School
is believed to be curse by souls that where
buried there.
St. James Sag Cemetery ,also known as "Monk's
Castle," is an
old cemetery where monks, a phantom carriage, and Lady in White have been seen.
Libertyville
Click here for the story of The Gate, located in Libertyville
Lincoln
The oldest dorm on the Lincoln
College
campus there is a
ghost that likes to pull pranks. It shuts doors and turns on TV's on when no one is
in the room. It unplugged one girls computer speakers and plugged them back in
the wrong hole. This ghost has not tried to hurt anyone it just likes to play
pranks.
University Hall
at Lincoln College
is the oldest building on
campus and several people have had weird experiences there. There are reports of foot
steps, and things being knocked over or they just disappear. A face will sometimes
appear in the bell tower. At night if you look in the windows you can see white
shadows in the second through forth floor windows. Some people are very sensitive
to things and said that they felt something watching them.
Lisle
Benet Academy
used to be St. Joseph's Orphanage. The two halls, Benet
and Joseph, made up this orphanage. Many teachers believe that this place is
haunted. There are many claims to orphan sightings. Also, on 4th floor of Joseph
hall there have been sightings of a nun who watches over the grounds. By the
way, this floor is used as a closet to put all the old theater props and has
many statues in it. Some have claimed that the statues move. The tunnels are
said to be under Benet hall and that they lead to St. Procopius Abbey across the
intersection.
There have been sightings of a little boy, at Benedictine
University,
running around campus in a blue t-shirt and a pair of shorts no matter what
the weather, then just disappears. I n one of the dorm buildings there is a
heavy presence. They actually closed that dorm down . Then there is Benidictine
Hall. Some of the janitors will not even go up to the 4th floor to clean it.
A priest is supposed to haunt that floor. There are also underground tunnels
under the campus that are also haunted. I have felt and seen these presences
personally. All accept the underground tunnels.
There is a little room up
there with a chair, a small window and there is supposedly white writings all
over the walls. Also in Ben Hall there have been reportings of people talking
late at night in the Art wing, but when explored, no one is there. Another thing
to note is the banging on the walls and the sitting of a monk that will appear
out of nowhere and then turn and walk into the wall and is gone.
And now the Benedictine University
Cemetery;
a few years ago kids would party out
in the cemetery. One night they decided to take a Ouija board to
contact any spirits, just for the fun of it. One of the boys involved with the
board began convulsing and screaming different languages. Public safety was
called to the scene, but were unable to control the boy. Shortly following, the
monks from the Abbey across the street showed up and declared the boy possessed.
The boy was taken to the fifth floor in Benedictine Hall (which is no longer accessible
to students) and an exorcism was performed.
The basement of Jaeger
Hall of Benedictine University
is also
said to be haunted with children as well as some of the second floor rooms.
There have been instances when people's stereos will turn on in the middle of
the night.
Benedictine University,
Neuzil Hall - Another story is of all three
dorms and sightings of children there. In Neuzil Hall, someone took a picture of
the empty hallway. When the pictures were developed a little boy and a little
girl were standing at the end of the hall staring at the camera.
At Benedictine University - Ondrak Hall,
there have been reportings of
televisions turning up and down in volume as well as very eerie chills passing
through rooms. There is a specific room that is closed off now, no one lives in
there anymore because of all the eerie things that have occurred.
Lockport
When driving down
Bruce Road, on certain nights, some have seen a man's torso float
towards you on the right hand side of the road, before you reach the 
sign
at the intersection. The image is said only to last a few seconds, and then fade
away.
A ghost of a little girl can be seen in the
Canal
St. Junkyard.
In the auditorium of the
Lockport High School Central
Campus, cold spots can be felt on the stage. During certain performances people
have reported sitting down in the auditorium next to a silent figure and the
figure vanishes by the end of the performance.
The
Runyon Park
, used to be called Leigon park, and it was a swimming
hole. There is also a cemetery of the first settler farmstead Runyons' family.
You can hear people talking in the forest in the broad daylight, and it is not
voices you would hear in every day tone. If you climb a hill, you will see where
the old flag pole was, plus the old well. Some of the trails are treacherous so
wear hiking shoes. It has since been renovated, and the old buildings torn down.
it is very creepy at night, to the point that you can still hear the
"witch" calling for her followers. Sometimes you hear a language you
cannot even describe. If you must go, go in a group.
Loves Park
is a rest stop at 173 & Mitchell Rd where visitors have heard little
kids laughing while no one was around. Reports of cars not starting, and shaking
while still hearing the children.
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