Search Results for "Crete, Illinois"
Searching near: Crete, Will County, Illinois, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 142 haunted location(s)
Sangamon Road
Sightings of a woman and child standing together in the middle of the road are seen from a distance, but they disappears when you get closer. Often on rainy nights.
Evergeen Hills Cemetery
Many of the pictures taken there show a little girl in the background.
Monee Road
Upon driving over the railroad tracks 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.
Scherwood Lake Apartments
Many years ago when the apartments were first built, a woman was alone with her son one day near the lake feeding the ducks. The boy threw a temper tantrum as they were getting ready to leave and...
St. Ann School
IN ST. ANN SCHOOL THE HALLS ARE HAUNTED OF A LITTLE BOY DRESSED IN THE SCHOOLS UNIFORMS HE ROAMS THE HALLS ALL NIGHT AND DAY. CHILDREN AND TEACHERS HAVE EXPERICEND THE PRESENCE OF THE LITTLE BOY....
Old Botanical Gardens/Reaper's Realm
People say there are 2 women owners who died there and they haunt the place. You can hear people walking around upstairs if no one is there. There have also been sightings seen in the forest...
Cedarlake
Macarthur woods - Has been removed. This is a private residence, The police will be called for trespassing.
Gavit High School
Every morning at about midnight. It is said to be people walking around the roof and if you shut the windows the night before some of the windows will be open. If you are inside you can hear metal...
Near Columbia School
There was a man who was having a very hard time. He and his wife had recently got a divorce, and he could no longer see his children. He was also fired from his job. The man was really, really...
Old Lake County Jail
An old jail in the town square where John Dillenger made his famous soap gun escape! There are MANY hauntings there. It was used up until the 1960's as a jail and since then you can see spirits,...
Crown Point High School
Reports that at night the lights go on and off in the gym, and the basketball cart moves out from the office, and the balls bounce on the floor, making a tremendous noise, since it has a wood...
Bishop Noll Institute
2nd Floor - On the second floor, in the A-wing you can hear footsteps and people talking with the whole floor being empty. In the lab rooms, chairs would fall off desks without being pushed. There...
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Over the years people claim to have spotted glowing lights, phantom cars, and over 100 ghosts. The Ghost Research Society had seen a young woman dressed in old-fashioned clothes and perched on a...
Black Oak
along an interstate stood an old house that was once a speak easy (bar saloon) and a home for ladies of the night often you could hear a car pull in and hear men entering the basement where they...
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
One of the most haunted cemeteries in America. Over 100 different paranormal phenomena reported including floating orbs, apparitions, and phantom farmhouse.
Lowell
Lake Prairie Cemetery - Mists, orbs of light, and figures of the deceased locals have been seen here. The southern half of the cemetery has the oldest grave markers, and that is where the most...
Indiana Bridge
There is a mansion a little bit further down the road that 3 people were apparently murdered and thrown off the bridge. Take I-65 to the Lowell exit and take a right on Clay Street. Reports of...
Bachelors Woods
you walk in to the woods in the Bachelors wood's and the tree's seem to hold you back from going in. all of the deer and mice stay away from where the old house's was and the grave yard makes you...
Intersection 173 Ave and Holtz Road
When you are driving East on 173rd there are two big hills. When you top either hill you can see the intersection at Holtz Road. When you top the first hill, on occasion you will see a bunch of...
Diverseatech
The mental institution was were many people died because of the sick test the doctors tried on them and when they got caught they had to shut it down. The most scary buildings have tunnels that...
Manteno State Hospital
State Mental Institution well known for its experiments consist of a huge complex of multiple buildings connected together via under ground tunnels. The state run facility had been abandoned years...
Manteno Insane Asylum
Manteno is an abandoned insane asylum that was opened in 1929 and closed in 1985. most of the buildings are still there. There was electro shock therapy, cold water treatment, and even lobotomies....
Riverside Rehab Center
A long time ago this building use to be a morgue. On the top floor in the nursery, a crazed nurse hanged her self in the shower by the shower head. For many years to this day that tub has been...
Cemetery(s )
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....
Robertsdale
Circus Train - In the 1920's or 1930's the big top circus was traveling through town. The train was involved in a crash and all the animals aboard the train burned to death. The animals' remains...
The Givins Castle
In the small town of Beverly located in Chicago's Southside, there is a castle that an Irish man named Givins built for his wife while she still resided in Ireland. She died before she got to live...
Holy Sepulcher Cemetery
a grave sight of a young girl that omits the smell of roses even though there are no rose bushes to be found anywhere near the grave sight. The grave sight is said to have supernatural powers of...
Wahaula Beach
If you go there at night, there is a small patch of woods that overlook the beach. There you can see ghostly outlines of old sail boats and people dressed in old time bathing suits swimming and in...
Gypsy's Grave Yard
You enter the graveyard though the front entrance. If you walk to the back fence there will be voices of gypsy's! If you walk on top of certain graves they will appear to be sinking in. If you...
Messenger Woods Forest Preserve
Strange, uneasy feelings occur to people as they drive pass this place. Some even say they've heard screams and have seen unexplainable shadow-like objects pass in front of their vehicles as they...
Clinton Road
April 2008 Removd Private Property. Tresspassers will be prosecuted.
River Forest Junior High
noises heard in the gym where it is said a little boy died.
Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery, 87th St.& Kedzie Ave., A young girl, 12 to 14 years of age, is said to haunt one of the CTA bus stops along 87th St. It is said that she will board a bus, at night, and go...
St. Mary's Cemetery
St. Mary's Cemetery, The boundaries of this cemetery are, The B & O railroad tracks which cross 87th St. on the east side, Pulaski Rd. on the west, 87th St. on the north, and 91st St. on the...
Gougar and rt. 6
some have said to have seen a headless ghost walking on the north side of Gougar Rd. the story has it that the man lived in the farmhouse on Gougar Rd., he committed suicide in the barn by hanging.
St. Louis De Montfort
In one photograph at the altar, a white orb is spotted in photo, but wasn't visible at altar.
Lake Station
New Chicago - Hobart Township - River Forest Junior and Senior High Schools- The River Forest Junior and Senior High Schools are connected. Outside of the school there are tennis courts, before...
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 stop sign at the intersection. The image is said only to last a few...
old gas station house
pounding on the walls walking in he kitchen and up the stairs talking images of people walking loud buzzing noise only herd in the living room and bright flashes of light
Archer Woods Cemetery
The cemetery gates are never locked, so entry is easily accessible. As you walk into the Cemetery You follow a path that leads around in a circle. As you leave the cemetery it is said that a white...
Mount Carmel
Spirit of Julia Buccola Petta is said to wander the cemetery grounds. On one occasion when a young boy was left behind in the cemetery, the family saw the boy take the hand of a lady in a white...
Monks Castle
Suppose to be a religious order that if you try to get onto their land, they will chase you. One particular story was about a bunch of kids going in at night and sneaking around (around 1983 -...
St. James Sag Cemetery
Also known as "Monk's Castle," an old cemetery where monks, a phantom carriage and Lady in white have been seen.
Hubbard High School
In the basement of Hubbard High School you can see and hear a teenage girl crying and sometimes screaming for help.
Resurrection Cemetery
Home of Resurrection Mary, Chicago's most famous ghost. Young woman in white dress hitchhikes along Archer Avenue before vanishing.
Lockport High School Central Campus
In the auditorium of the high school 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...
Ludwig Elementary School
In the boys locker room next to the gymnasium, students have seen showers turning on by themselves. Also some people have heard screams and have seen ghosts of what appears to be mice. People...
Runyon Park
it 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...
St. Turibius School
Rumors say that that the ghost of Fr.Lechert a former priest who has passed away a long time ago, can sometimes be seen roaming the Church. By the tabernacle, near the a candle there, is said to...
Hebron High School
in one of the high school girls bathrooms a girl had hung herself. Now some teachers claim to hear voices coming from that bathroom when they stay late after school hours.
Old Quarry Jr. High School
Believed to be curse by souls that where buried there.
Joliet Arsenal
Old army ammunition plant. Ghost cars(are heard but not seen or seen but not heard)far enough from main road where you cannot hear or see those cars, footsteps in empty buildings, strange noises...
Old Porter Road
Late at night often during the winter months shadow-like figures has been seen along the train tracks in between Portage and Burns Harbor that line Old Porter Road. This lonely strip of road has...
Indian Head Park
About a half block into the woods off the side of German Church Road. The old gravel driveway can barely be seen now that most of it is covered with dirt and grass. You find yourself walking up a...
Moody's Road
If you go to Moody's road at night, flash your brights 3 times a light will appear and if you shut off your car it will not restart.
Lourdes High School
It is claimed that nuns that have died over many years haunt the school. On the third floor you can hear someone walking down the hallway. In Stritch hall shadows have been seen. - May 2004...
Pershing Rd.
It is known that a group of children (not sure what kind or how many) were murdered in the preserve. Almost every time entered, the unsettled spirits make some kind of contact.
Joseph E. Gary Elementary School
there is an statue of an owl nearly on the roof. Sometimes the owl changes location from being near a window to being completely on the roof.
St. Ann School
IN 1964 there were to people going down the schools elevator and when they were going down the elevator stopped and got stuck they were in there for over 2 hours then it finally started to move...
Chodl Auditorium
A teacher\director is said to haunt the 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...
Park Jr. High
The 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...
The Country House restaurant
It is said that a young women with her child came into the bar one night upset and alone. She became angry when she asked the bartender if she could leave the baby in his care while she went out...
Holy Family Church
parishioners have seen a white apparition here.
Jane Addams Hull House
Now a museum, said to have been the home of a devil baby. Sightings are still reported, as well as sightings of ghosts and Monks. Update - A fellow ghost hunter recently visited the Hull House...
The Congress Hotel
Numerous cold spots all over the old hotel and TV's going on and off for no reason at night. Things moved in the night. Lots of bizarre occurrences as well as doors closing and odd feelings...
Options Exchange Building
In 1979 two traders had a disagreement over a trade. They decided to settle the matter outside by the horse statue/fountain. One of the men was so badly injured that he died before the paramedics...
Firehouse at Central & Lake St
Firehouse located on central and lake st, it is one block west of central on lake, it is been told and seen by many that there is ghost walking around and protecting the firehouse from crime and...
Warren Park
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, plus doors...
Evangelical Church Cemetery
In a small town called Oakbrook behind the old Graue Mill underground railroad station there lies a church. Behind this church lies the most haunted cemetery in the entire world. It has been...
The Dome Room
A nightclub that is believed to be haunted. It was built during the ballroom days of the 20's, so who knows what is haunting it. Before it was a ballroom, it was a warehouse, but no known history...
Valparaiso University
Alumni Hall - two young children run up and down the halls at about 2:00 in the morning- they talk to some of the residents and say that they are playing tag. They are 8 or 9 years old and wearing...
Jewish Waldheim Cemetery
Possible Urban Legend - Sounds like Ressurection Mary, if you know the true history, please email us at Haunted Places - A beautiful young spirit with brunette hair is said to hang out at the...
The House of Blues
there ones was a little girl that died of an illness. There has been rumors that you can here her in the room. There will be imprints in the bed sheets and ones there was a little boy came to stay...
Michigan City
Devils Bridge - Laporte border - It is said that in the early 1920s the mob used this area to bury bodies that have never been found. Currently it is a known devil worshipping spot. Orbs, images,...
Porter County
Historical Society of Porter County Old Jail Museum - has had paranormal activity recorded and when open for Halloween haunted houses many orbs and strange things have been seen and people have...
Baums Bridge Inn
there is a old inn. There is a window that is not boarded that you can look in. If you go there around midnight there is a man in the distance with a very dim light around him. If you look long...
Lexington Elementary school
It is said that late at night the lights in the school flash and that loud screeches can be heard.
Peabody Masnion
Right off of 83 there is this massive gothic looking structure, thats quite creepy, this massive structure is peabodys mansion, peabody repordetly died of a heart attack and shortly after that his...
Queen of Heaven Cemetery
Our Lady of Angels School in Chicago. It caught on fire 12/1/1958 and claimed 87 children and 3 Nuns in one day. By the way they did rebuild a new school over the burned out school - but no...
St. Johns Methodist Church
it's an old church with many rooms upstairs. People have seen an old lady in the basement area. They have a pool table in the basement. Some people were playing pool once, when one of them sank a...
S-M-C Cartage Company
On Valentine's Day in 1929, Al Capone sent some of his men to leave a tragic message to Bugs Moran at one of his buildings. The building was called the S-M-C Cartage Company and was a red, brick...
Diana Of The Dunes
Around 1915, the area that is now the Dunes State Park in northern Indiana was mostly uninhabited wilderness. The stories spread around the vicinity of Chesterton, Indiana that fishermen who were...
McGee's Tavern: Point Pleasant
At the bar there is a presence of a ghost that haunts the owner ever night ... once a Hotel in the 1800's as well as a former nursing home and housing for slaves - Lewis Carter (reportedly a...
Webster House Company #3
Strange sounds have been heard. Feelings of not being alone. A grandfather clock that dates back many years will start to chime every 15 minutes. Chains being dragged across an upstairs floor, as...
Biograph Theater
the ghost of John Dillinger is seen running in the alley behind this building where he was killed.
Red Lion Pub
It is right across the street from the Biograph Theater. - Just ask some of the "regulars" of the noises, footsteps and voices they hear there on a regular basis.
Benidictine University
There have been sightings of a little boy running around campus in a blue tee-shirt and a pair of shorts no matter what the weather, then just disappears. In one of the dorm buildings there is a...
Benedictine University
Benedictine Hall - 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...
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...
Dresden Cemetery
This is the oldest cemetery in the area. It's believed that the ground is spoiled and the graves did not want to be there. So the cemetery was moved to the current St. Mary's cemetery in Minooka....
Webster's Wine Bar
apparition has been seen at the second floor bar
Kelvyn Park Highschool
about 5 years ago 3 teachers died but no students knew how or why. Reports of hearing voices, footsteps and feeling cold drafts.
Shimer College
It's a small school and the classes are held in old historic houses. Some of the students giving the tour explained their personal encounter with some of the spirits in the houses.
Baymont Inn and Suites
A former employee and guest heard people talking in an empty room late at night none was registered in room and when door was opened voices stopped and none was in there.
Graceland Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's oldest graveyards and boasts several hauntings. The most famous is the spirit of Inez Clark. Inez was just shy of seven years old when she was struck by...
7-11 Convince Store
A new 711 is built on an old cemetery, the workers there report hearing chains rattle and people talking real late at night when no one is there.
Maryknoll Seminary
Has been knocked down -It was said that this Maryknoll Seminary is haunted by the ghost of a dead monk who hung himself in the bell tower. The monastery is huge, with hundreds of rooms and no...
Pleasanthill's Cemetery
At night, if you go all the way back to the small creek, you here bells, and the sound of a gate opening and closing. There is a spirit there that haunts the cemetery more than others. The name of...
Maryville Center For Medically Complex Children
The Maryville Center For Medically Complex children was an institute for drug addicted, handicapped, insane, and foster children. It was mysteriously shut down, and boarded up for reason related...
The Lost Forties
Legend is a large area of land northwest of Oakland and southeast of Tuscola of a girl who runs out in front of cars and gets hit. Everyone in the car felt the impact, but when they stop the car...
One 20 Ocean Place
this restaurant use to be a funeral Chapel, & now it’s a restaurant. The lights towards the back of the restaurant on the right side of the kitchen tend to dim down all by themselves. When someone...
Aux Sable Cemetery
Aux Sable is located in the countryside between Morris and Minooka. Paranormal activity includes the locking of car doors, fogging up of windows, and the entrance being blocked while attempting to...
Single track train track
reports of an apparition of a man with a lantern walking on the tracks and disappears.
Cherry Rd.
A long time ago, there was a girl and her boyfriend driving down the road after prom. Towards the end of the road, there is a sharp curve and at night you can't really see it. Supposedly they went...
Robinson Woods
Reports have been made that you can see black shadows, red, or white orbs, scents of violet, or lavender at times. Pictures of ectoplasm mist can be seen through photography.
old Chicago road
out in the pines its like porter county and LaPorte county combined. Old Chicago is out there by devils bridge.
Loyola University Chicago
Urban legend has it that long ago, a Jesuit priest and a nun had an affair. The nun found out that she was pregnant, and wanted the priest to runaway with her, so they could raise the child. The...
O'Hare airport
dead passengers and flight attendants pilots. An American airlines flight crashed into an airfield near the airport. The crash ignited a huge fireball all passengers and crew died in the disaster.
50 North
When you go past the white house on 5o north off of U.S.421 sometimes you can hear moans and the house at times is not there. There was a guy who killed his family at this house there his family...
Sheraton Gateway Suites Hotel
The hotel is an atrium style hotel with 11 floors, and several people have killed themselves jumping off the balcony. There have also been drug overdose deaths in two of the rooms and in the...
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Women in 1950's clothing are seen in the cemetery standing by a 1958 Lincoln Continental. They seem to melt and fade away.
Memory Gardens
This is a cemetary that has a statue of a saint in the back. it is said that if you go there at night and walk by the statue, it will move. It will move as if it was following or staring at you....
Leland Tower Hotel
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...
The First Methodist Church of Evanston
The sanctuary is haunted by the ghost of a man in a black business suit. He has the way of not being involved with anyone in the room that all ghosts have. He walks down the side aisle in the...
Morris Community High School
IS located above coal mines, and students have spent the night their to investigate. They heard voices in the hallway and they believe that it is a librarian or someone of that sort. IN the boiler...
Morris
Aux Sable Cemetery - It is said that if you go into the cemetery and go down the path a ways you can see a little girl sitting staring at you and it feels like you can not move but you really can....
Yorkville Middle School
Back in 1978 There was a janitor who was trapped in the elevator when the power went off for the summer for a whole week of summer vacation. He was reported missing a week later he was never found...
Twin Cemeteries
on a road just out of Rensselaer, there are two cemeteries, on each side of the road. Legend has it, that there was a young couple whose families didn't get along. They decided to kill themselves...
St. Joseph's College
There is said to be a spirit in the chapel of St. Joseph's College. Sometimes at night, there is a light that is visible at the very top of the chapel. The light is only seen by lovers who are...
The Fox River Front
At the Fox River Front there is a dam. Many people think that since it is small they can get their canoes, boats, ext. over it. Well, you can't. Therefore they drown. There have been several...
Nettle Creek
The seventh grade teacher took a picture of the volleyball players in the gym and there was an orb above them crystal clear. they still have the picture. The classroom doors open and close. Nobody...
The Batavia Inn
Bed and Breakfast - reports of visitors feeling a ghost running it's fingers through her hair and it would get freezing cold until she could see her breathe. This was sometime in the summer. She...
Loyola Academy High School Theatre
There has been a legend that a blue light appears in the "little theatre" of Loyola Academy high school when all the lights are @ut. It is said that a young male student died in the theatre from...
Maryville Academy
Back in the 1930's when the Academy was used as a Catholic orphanage, there was evidence that the girls' dormitory was haunted by the spirit of a nun. There were sounds of footsteps, swishing of...
Mrs. P & Me Restaurant
The shadow of a very tall man makes occasional appearances. Things go flying off the kitchen counters when no one is near by. The hangers on the coat rack have been known to spin and fly off the...
Sunrise Park
There was a man in his mid 40s where he had a house by the trees and was right next to a school. People have weird tingling in there back and when they turn around it gets very hard to breathe....
Girls' School Cemetery
shallow graves - Once an industrial school for girls, there is now a little subdivision. Although the school is gone the graveyard for it is still around. A graveyard that’s about a hundred years...
Wayne
Munger Road. - A haunted road were many car lights have been seen and then disappeared. Also old insane asylum which is haunted. December Update 2003: the insane asylum has been knocked down....
South Middle School
Other than the fact that it's a Middle School, this place is known to have a gateway to Hell or something of the like in it's lower floor. Strange noises have been heard there by several kids who...
St. Charles East High School
This submission is most likely a hoax due to no validation through newspapers or locals. - Before the St. Charles High School split into East and North, there was a Freshman Arab girl practicing...
La Porte Medical Building
Doors have been known to open and shut, and a figure of an Indian maiden has been seen. This was the site of one of the old Indian burial grounds.
Arcada Theatre
There can be voices heard coming from the balcony & thought the building. A strange smell along with coldness sometimes floats through various parts of the theatre.
Hotel Baker
Various interpretations have been given for the mysterious moans and noises coming from the hotel's sixth floor. Once serving as the employee dorm, it is now a large storage area. Some say that...
Algrims Funeral Home
Located off of Golf Road, Many are said to have seen mysterious lights are seen in the area at night, Close neighbors of the area claim to this day that they see a black horse enter the parking...
La Porte High School
Well in the girls restroom on hallway one, toilets will flush and water will run without there being anyone in there. Outside by a pillar there are cold spots and odd smells. Odd things like the...
Haines Middle School
Haunted by different teachers said to roam the halls in the early morning hours.
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....
Downtown
'I' and 10th Street Clinic - Was on route for Trail of Tears where the Indians had stopped and made camp. It is said that a young girl died in the winter during their stay. Now it's a Clinic up...
Brookwood condos- playground
There have been many events leading to paranormal activity in this complex. When the buildings were first built many years ago, a construction worker brought his two children to the job site and...
Hanover Countryside Elementary School
This small school is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of several teachers that have passed away in the years. Sounds have been heard ranging from bells to chains, to voices. Also Lights seem to...
Youth Detention Center
a long time ago it was a monastery used by monks who slept in the attic (4th floor) and a couple of monks hung them selves and now on stormy nights the phone rings on the control desk and is from...
Streamwood High School
The auditorium is supposedly haunted by a girl who died there many years ago. This reporter is a skeptic, but there have been numerous sightings of this spirit by a few reliable sources.