Search Results for "Abingdon, Illinois"
Searching near: Abingdon, Knox County, IL 61410, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 34 haunted location(s)
Abingdon Middle School
There have been stories of a teacher who hung herself because her kid fell down the stairs on a tricycle. They have heard screaming and yelling and squealing of the tricycle tires. There have been...
Knox College
Returning from a study group one night, a beautiful coed was bludgeoned with a brick, and left to die on the steps of her dorm. Some say late in the evening, one can smell the essence of perfume...
Jail Cell
The old Knox County Jawas purchased by Knox College in the 70's, and it is located on the college campus. The front half of the building was renovated and is used for offices and classrooms, but...
Cry Baby Bridge
Believed that the ghosts of the bridge push your car across the bridge.
Sugar Tree Grove Cemetery
This is one of the oldest cemeteries in Warren County. Most of the stones date back to the early 1800's. There is an Indian buried there who was killed by the people trying to settle in the area....
Super 8 Motel
If you spend the night at the haunted motel, you will find lights turning on and off, the heat turning off by itself, and the door to your room will open up by itself, and if thats not bad...
South Henderson Church
A college group from Knox College took a field trip to the cemetery next to South Henderson Church. They took cameras and surveillance equipment and found many weird things. They found millions of...
Western Illinois University
Bayliss Hall - Room 1117 - It has been reported that a girl who once lived in this room still haunts it today. As the story goes a freshman girl was pregnant but didn't want her parents to find...
Macomb Journal Newspaper Offices
formerly old Lamoine Hotel - There are local ghost tours there and one room on the third floor is called the Satan room because people have reported evil shadows, voices and knocks there.
The Valley
Fires and figures in cloaks can be seen and heard chanting.
Alexis Phelps House
In the old days when slaves were being traded, Alexis Phelps kept slaves hidden from traders. It is said that slaves walk around the lower levels and crawlspaces of the house. Alexis Phelps is...
Vishnu Springs
Vishnu is an old abandoned township located just west of Colchester. There are feelings of being watched, viewed shadow like beings in darkened corners. The old hotel is haunted. Pictures taken...
National Guard Armory
Reportedly there are doors that won't stay shut and that slam shut by themselves. People working there late at night have heard sounds of Horses and footsteps when there is no one there. A witness...
Stony Hollow
Urban Legend - It is said that if you go to that bluff and say the ghosts name 3 times she will appear and if she drops a rose you will die the next day. It is said that a boy did it and died the next day.
Old Park district Gym
15 years ago a young man was playing basketball inside 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...
Lawfard Theater
Cold chills 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.
Farmington Road
Parkside Tavern - One of the Shelton Brothers (local gangsters during the 1930's l940's and 50's) was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Parkside Tavern on Farmington Road. it was possibly...
Power Plant
The Havana power plant is built over an Native American burial ground. The workers have reported they have heard gun-shots and war cries of Indians and powerful surges of energy. On worker said he...
Bartonville Insane Asylum / State Hospital
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...
Peoria Players Theatre
"Players" is supposedly haunted by Normie the friendly ghost. He died on stage during a performance a long time ago. This is possible because Players is the third oldest theatre in the country (I...
Bradley University Theatre
An apparition of a man in a brown suit has been seen, companied with the smell of cigar smoke and cologne.
Peoria Central High School
A former principal, Max Mills, who died suddenly of a heart attack, has been seen walking the halls of the school. He was a distinguished man always dressed in a suit, white shirt, and tie. He...
Zeller Mental Hospital
Update: Was closed by the State in 2002 and reopened in 2003 as a Community College. - voices, noises, and apparitions are heard and seen. Unseen cars can be heard driving up and headlights of...
River Station building
The old River Station building was a train station back in its origins. The building was built in the late 1800's and the upper floor has been vacant and unused for many years. The lower level...
California Road/Sheridan Road
There are three California Roads in Pekin. The one which connects Sheridan Road with Broadway Road is haunted. (This is the one you can get to by traveling on Veteran's Parkway and continuing at...
Woodruff High School parking lot
An outdoor swimming pool was once located at the site. Sometime after it was built, some kids climbed the fence for a midnight swim. A teenage boy drowned, almost pulling his girlfriend down with...
Milan Manor Apartment Woods
In 1986 a young boy was ran over and killed by a tractor plow. The farmer who was driving the plow reported seeing another boy. The farmer stated the only description he could give of the second...
Pekin High School
The theatre at Pekin High School is haunted by Sid, who used to be a stage manager. He would sit upon the catwalks and do the lights. He died of a heart attack in the dressing room.
Cole Hollow Road
Cole Hollow Road was the site of "Cohomo" (Cole Hollow Road Monster) in the 60's. There were tons of sightings of this monster back then, but there has not been any sitings since then, but strange...
The Train Bridge
Outside of the town there is an old bridge over train tracks where people where said to have been killed years and years before. People have seen things under the bridge moving. Trees falling at...
South End Park
Certain nights (none in particular) you can here people chanting and fire crackling and sometimes you see this certain owl (the same one every time) and if you spot it, it will stare right back at...
Iowa State Penitentiary
Built in the 1800's. Solitary confinement area: Guards refuse to go to the end of the corridor at night. Inmates have experienced cold spots, heard unexplainable moaning and chains clanking, seen...
haunted hospital
Update: Has been torn down - abandoned about five years ago stuff has been occurring such as stuff flying and such. Many have died in here as it is a hospital with its own church and skywalk....
The Villa
The Villa, back in the early 1900's The Villa was a school for girls, like dormitories. The Villa was a Catholic School. The legend has it that the priests would have intercourse with the nuns,...