Search Results for "McHenry, Illinois"
Searching near: McHenry County, Illinois, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 169 haunted location(s)
Woodstock Opera House
A ghost sits in same seat in balcony and is never occupied. it is always left empty for the ghost during any performance. The ghost is seen walking halls and in the upper windows periodically...
Ryders Woods
It is a creepy looking woods in woodstock. It is said that a man in black used to rape children and then murder them and throw them in the pond. He then went mad and killed himself. Now if you go...
Stickney Mansion
This house 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...
The Bull Valley Police Station (Stickney Mansion)
This home was built in the mid 1800's by a couple who were into spiritualism and frequently held séances in their isolated palace in Bull Valley (Bull Valley is said to be one of the closest...
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...
Lake view cemetery
The Lake View Cemetery is said to be haunted by the spirit of a women who set her self on fire here.
Park in Covered Bridge Trails
There is a stream behind the park that has some odd activity around it. Strange shadows have been seen there and a ball of light.
McHenry County
YMCA - Rumor is that there was a farmer that lived behind the parking lot in the woods. He killed his family in a barn. Rumor is screams have been heard.
McHenry East High School
Their is a guy who walks around the cafeteria at 3:45 P.M. and every year, on the last day of school, there are over 50 spirits of jail breakers who never got caught walking all over the school....
Palmer House
Palmer was a man who ran an orphanage. He beat and tortured and murdered these kids over the years you can hear cries from in the house if you put your ear to the door you hear kids scratching at...
The Fountains of Crystal Lake
On the upper floor 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 she disappears. Also on the upper floor, there is...
Square Barn Road
2 kids run in front of cars, usually at midnight, running from 3 nasty killers. 2 boys 1 girl.
Old Cary Oaks Retirement Home
On cary-algonquin road across the street from fox trails are the foundations of an old burnt down retirement home. with over 6 deaths when the building fell in the late 80's, many find this spot...
Victorian rose bed & breakfast
Used to be a church on Main St. in Ventura. Emperor's bedroom is the most haunted room. It used to be a choir loft. Many years ago, a lady in the choir fell from the loft and unfortunately didn't...
Walworth Grade School
It is said a janitor that fell down the steps to the boiler room haunts the school. He doesn't harm anyone, but doesn't know how to leave the school.
Larkdale
There is a pond over in Larkdale where it is said that a little boy drowned. If you drive by the pond past midnight, you will see the little boy standing next to a 'no swimming' sign near the pond.
Wauconda Cemetery
Highway 59 - Cemetery is haunted by the spirit of a man who lost a limb trying to catch a train when he fell under the wheels. Many years ago Wauconda did have a train that ran from Wauconda to...
Tyrell Road Cemetery
This cemetery, with headstones dating back to the late seventeen hundreds, has been the site of many strange happenings. This old Irish farmhouse and barn has been the scene of many ghostly sites....
Cuba Road
White mysterious orb follows passing cars on the metal gate of the old cemetery.
St. Killians
St. Killians is a graveyard/church. The church was burnt down 10-20 years ago because of a priest haunting it. It is off of Townline Rd. There have been many ghost sightings there including odd...
White Cemetery
Glowing orbs are seen from the road, and a phantom black car can be seen driving from the entrance of the cemetery then disappearing a few blocks down. Also, when pictures are taken of the...
Barrington High School
There is a white apparition of a ghost throughout the building legend has it his name was Cisco and he killed himself because he was not getting fed enough food.
Illinois Park School
The school was about 100 years old. People have said that they hear little children crying or laughing by the k.g. area. Down in the basement people said that they hear noise of someone hamming...
Antioch Movie Theatre
This old theatre has been around since the 40's. It used to be an old theatre house, where plays were held.There has been many stories about the old theatre. Like a girl had hung herself from the...
Beef Villa
The resturant employees have claimed of seeing orbs of light and feeling cold spots, as well as the lights and ovens turning on and off in many different occasions. Some of the people who have...
Randall Rd & Route 72
There has been more than one haunting reported here. On one occasion the basement of a house on Jamestowne Rd was said to be haunted with the dead twin of the only girl that was in the family. She...
Elms road
As the legend goes there was a man that used to Live on elms road he was a butcher and was the butcher for that town one night he had went crazy and chopped his family up one by one in the local...
Old Gail Borden Library and City Office Building
No reports of deaths in this area yet doors open and close, lights turn on and off on their own and reports from employees of phone calls that tell them exactly were they are and what they are...
Blood's Point Cemetery
Sightings of white orbs, mists, and leaves manifesting into human forms. Electrical malfunctions such as flashlights turning off and cameras turning off, that function normally outside the...
The Pizza Factory
It has been said that a very tall boy lurks around the pizza factory at night. He disappears if you approach him. There's an apartment complex across the street where supposedly a boy fitting his...
Elgin-U46 School District Central Office
Once known as the Old Elgin High School, the building was erected in the late 1800s. After a fire broke out in the first 50 years the school moved down the road and the District boarded the place...
Hoffman Estates
Shoe Factory Road - first driving down the road there is a forest where you can see little children running though the woods mostly around where the lake is it is said that there had been deaths...
Channing Memorial Elementary School
Everything from cold spots, to apparitions, to footsteps from the upper floor (when you are "alone" in the building)has been reported here. When an addition was built on to the building, over 13...
Ellis Middle School
The auditorium is supposedly haunted by a woman in a white lace dress, and can only be seen in the Hallways backstage. - August, 2005 Update: Believed to be a hoax created by 8th grade students to...
Elgin Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery
Documentation of patients being tortured in the turn of the century era before science understood insanity. They then were buried five in a grave with the name of the body on top marking that...
Shoe Factory Road
Abandoned House - This 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...
Elgin State Mental Hospital
Elgin State was a relic of the 1950s era of using pain for mental treatment. Electroshock and cold therapy were some of the ghastly methods used on patients. Many died and as the years went on,...
Bloods Point
Visitors of the old cemetery get chased by a ghost truck which will follow you with no headlights then suddenly flip them on and chase you then disappear. An old bridge where three women were hung...
Carmel High School
About 40 years ago in the rooms of this school the old monks and priests use to perform exorcisms here. Most of the time they were fake and nothing happened. But once a young boy was having an...
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.
Burlington Public Cemetery
When walking by at any time of night you get a horrible feeling of being watched and followed there used to even be some report along a small path there leads to another small cemetery where...
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...
Smith and Route14
Shopping Center - Right on the northeast corner of this intersection, in front of the shopping center, once stood the old Browns Chicken & Pasta restaurant, site of the infamous Brown's Chicken...
Bloods Point Road
There is a bridge down this road with a train track running under it. At one time, a school bus full of children ran off the bridge, causing everyone to die. If you put your car in neutral in the...
Blood point Road
Possible Urban Legend - A ghost car will come out of no where and chase you and run you off the road. Off of blood point road there is Sweeney road where there is a spot to pull over by a...
Big bear lake
There’s a girl who was killed and thrown in the lake and you can find baby hands in the lake because she was having a baby at the time and now she haunts everyone
Bell School Rd
corn field - sightings of white orbs, a strange man who disappears once you leave the corn field, off of bell school rd close to the new condos just built
Sycamore Theater
Reports of cries and moans coming from the downstairs.
The Gate
January 2007 Has been removed. False submission.
Palatine
Fremd High School Pool - In the 1970's a girl drowned in the deep end of the pool. There has been reports of a swim suit floating in the water, and when people go in to retrieve it, the water is...
Cherryvalle Mall
It is said that several stores in this mall are to be haunted. Several mall employees have reported being followed through the mall by unseen forces after mall hours, things moving on their own,...
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...
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Heavy satanic activity. Was a house, barn, and animal shelter through the woods. Story is that a witch killed her husband and Burnt the house down. The barn and "kennel"(?) stood for some years...
Honeybaked Ham
The back office door opens and shuts by itself and the light in that office turns on and off by itself. A girl has been heard screaming and seen on security cameras when nobody is there. Things...
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...
Peck station rd.
Reports of a train whistle sounding off when there is no train.
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....
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....
Machesney Park Mall
People just recently reported that when they were in the bathroom by themselves at the mall they could hear doors slamming, toilets flushing, and water running and the person said she looked under...
Rockford College
Adams' Arch - the only surviving remnant of Rockford Colleges' original campus, is reported to echo with the laughter of young women late at night.
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...
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...
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...
Haines Middle School
Haunted by different teachers said to roam the halls in the early morning hours.
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. 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....
The Manor
People have reported loud crashing noises coming from the building. People have reported seeing an old woman looking out the window. People have reported that a little girl has been seen floating...
Twin Sisters Park Woods
If you walk by the willow tree it is said that you have a strange desire to go into the woods. There is an old hanging tree with some odd carvings on it. A little girl is said to be seen walking...
East High School
It is said that an old theater lover that worked for the school died many years ago. An old employee of the school saw the figure of a woman walking on the auditoriums balcony. He later identified...
Jefferson High School
a girl fell off of ladder on stage by props balcony. you hear he cries and moans only when a show is on. sometimes the tech theatre students see her shadow trying to get up off of the ground!
Pleasant Prairie
Paupers Cemetery across from the police station on highway H. - The ground is giving way because the wood coffins that are unknown are buried in are rotting away. At night you can hear the moans...
Blackhawk
it is said that in this house down the road a black man was shot in the basement and now the people that live in that house have seen a black shadow wander around their house during the night.
Recruit Training Command
Recruit training command AKA boot camp for the navy is haunted my many spirits. In ship 12 you can hear a woman's scream loudly and fade within seconds. In ship 13, you sometimes will see a figure...
Beloit Turner School
In this building late at night when everyone has left the building, you will hear screams and people yelling at each other. But during the day and when people are present in the building, there...
Cobblestone Bar
The cobblestone was originally built to be a hotel. It was constructed in the early 1800's and at one time president Lincoln even stayed there. One day the owners just up and disappeared and were...
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,...
Rockford Board of Education Building
An interesting place is our Rockford Board of Education building at 201 S Madison St in Rockford. The head custodian there has for many years told stories of the evening shift custodians and the...
Grant Hospital
A Witness working there in 1988 reports On the OB unit several people working have had unusual experiences. Cold sports, strange moaning sounds, bad feelings have all been reported as well.
Faust Hotel
It is said that many areas of the old Faust Hotel are haunted. Many service/repair men go to the basement area which includes an old bar and bowling alley that haven't been functional since the...
St. Mary's Cemetery
In the far back corner of the 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....
Wagon Wheel Lodge
this old resort which is said to be haunted by a bell hop who mysteriously disappeared one night and of a man who was a guest in lodge who hanged himself in his room. The wagon wheel has since...
Rock River School
Witnesses have seen an apparition of a male figure in a white shirt and sweater standing in the stairway of the gym area watching them. Many teachers would not go near that area of the building...
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...
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...
Barat College
The school is going to be 100 years old this year 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...
McNeel Middle School
In the backroom of the stage where all of the costumes are kept and sometimes students gather to discuss or do homework during free time there is said to be a man who used to live on that spot...
Zion Moose Club #667
The land that the Moose now stands on was the previous site of a home, which burned down in the 1940's. A young girl 8 years old died in the house fire -- patrons of the Moose have repeatedly seen...
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...
Highland Park High School
Many years ago, a small boy was crossing the street directly across from the high school and was hit by a truck. He died instantly. Just a few years ago, there was a janitor walking around the...
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...
Tichigan Lake Inn
This bar/restaurant is located in a resort lake area and is know to be haunted. Long time residents have been telling us about ghostly happenings since we bought this establishment seven years...
Rainbow Springs golf course
The previous owner was building a resort but was short a sum of money right before it was finished, the man vowed that no one would be able to run the place. He died and haunts the whole golf course.
Holy Rosary Catholic School
During the night, there are noises in the pipes in all the bathrooms, hot and cold spots, wierd smells down by the cafeteria that are on and off, a hearing of footsteps has been heard late at...
Durkee Mansion / Kemper Hall
Sightings of nuns peering out from behind the windows. In the late 1800 and early 1900 this was used as a school for girls - which was run by the nuns.
Rhode Opera House
There are reports of noises and voices and other occurrences, accompanied by an apparition of a man.
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...
University of Wisconsin
Rock County Theater - There have been the sound of doors opening and closing, lights going on or off, the sound of someone "whispering" in the theater. Witnesses have heard the doors open and...
Inn The Olden Days (recently changed to "Fork in the Road")
It is a restaurant that used to be a tavern. Employees have heard foot steps, and the sound of pool balls hitting and rolling across the floor. Also, in the storerooms, there have been clouds of...
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.
Olde Towne Mall
A local merchant was staying late one night to complete some work. He describes hearing the doors to back door of his business shake uncontrollably. When he went to investigate, the same thing...
Single track train track
reports of an apparition of a man with a lantern walking on the tracks and disappears.
University of Wisconsin
Whitewater - Center of the Arts - Lots of strange occurrences after hours reported. Those I have heard have included hammering in the metals lab when no one is present within, reappearing ghosts,...
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Delta Zeta House- Witnesses who have lived there have heard a presence creaking as walking down the large front staircase.
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...
Heaven City Restaurant
This restaurant sits on an Indian Burial Ground. The employees said that they saw glasses crashing to the ground after hours. They saw ghostly mages wandering through the restaurant. One time a...
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...
Oak Hill Cemetery
Reports of a lady in White & many white figments float through the air. - June 2008 Investigation: The reports of a woman in white is easily dismissed because of the very lifelike statue that is...
Westlawn cemetery
we went to roam around in our car about 12;30am and there was always talk of the place but we went inside saw a old cop car vanish car did on us and low whispers were in the far east corner...
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.
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...
Milton High School
In rooms 145-148 there are two ghostly figures of old teachers that are seen. They died when the school caught fire in the 60's. If you sit in any desks one of the women will walk past you and...
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.
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...
Microtel Inn and Suites
February 2008 Update: Removed by request of owner. It was investigated and debunked.
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.
Pritchard Park
A man in all black will approach you. A very pale face and black eyes pierce through you. He will let out an evil growl. Then he will just fade out of sight and then you hear evil laughter. - June...
Elmwood Plaza
Specifically in the store (front east) that was once "Planet Video" and is now "Eye on Video". Along the back store wall at times you will feel and eerie sensation, the doorway which leads to 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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Dekoven Center
Reports of a strange figure being seen.
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...
SC Johnson Wax Building
Reported sightings of little girls playing and laughing have been sighted by janitors in a SC Johnson Wax building, which was formally the old St. Mary’s Hospital.
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...
The Racine Country Club
After closing, employees have heard noises, walked through cold spots, and seen shadows. The attic contains rooms that in the 20's & 30's were used as a brothel. Local legend has it that several...
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 Junction
The Junction is an insane asylum in the Allegan Woods. This place is said to be haunted by the ghosts of former patients of the asylum.
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...
Lexington Elementary school
It is said that late at night the lights in the school flash and that loud screeches can be heard.
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...
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...
Northside Pick n' Save
sometimes at night when the store is dead carts will move from were you put them , can goods will be stacked 10 high , lights flick on and off - June 2008 Investigated and debunked: The faculty...
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...
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...
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.
Oak Creek
Bridge on Boarder - In the 1970's when the bridge was being built and littl boy was walking through the woods and drowned in the creek below. It is said that late at night you can still see the...
Whitnall Park
Reports of an apparition of a pale woman with no feet that seemed to float toward them saying, "go away and leave my baby alone!" Then hearing a baby crying.
Whitnall Park
Pale woman in white dress has been seen crossing the same path night after night holding what appears to be an infant child. The woman does not respond to any interaction and disappears into the woods.
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...
Memorial Community Hospital
For years, second and third shift workers occasionally see a former nurse in the older part of the hospital "checking" on patients. Many believe it is the spirit of an R.N. who died in the hospital.
Whittier Elementary School
At this school sightings have been seen clocks stop and odors in libraries and classrooms swing open and water fountains spray water onto the floor. People have seen a little girl about 8 years...
South High School
A tall column of darkness has been seen to follow individuals around in the theatre. Strange occurrences reported also, especially at night or when the lights have been turned out.
Fitzsimmons Road
This is sort of covered with the Bender Park Story. It is also evident that Fitzsimmons Road was used for drag races and such back in the day. People went off the cliff at the end of the road and...
Webster's Wine Bar
apparition has been seen at the second floor bar
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...
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...
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...
Paradise Road
Witnesses report feeling an eerie presence. They have heard inhuman screams, seen short, robed shapes in the woods, and have even seen a raccoon, decapitated, with blood glistening in the...
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...
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...
Hell's Playground
At night, when the wind is still, you can hear children playing and the swings will be swinging. Sometimes a growl will be heard from out of nowhere. The story is, is that 2 children and an adult...
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...
Bender Park
story has it about 80 years ago. A farmer went crazy and killed his family and neighbors with an ax. Since then all of the houses in that area have been removed but when you walk down the road and...
Carolville
Peter Cooper Glue Factory - this abandon factory is haunted by as many as 30 ghost of people who have been murdered here. - NO TRESPASSING March 2008 Correction: No massacre ever took place here....
Tabernacle Cemetery
People have seen a person standing next to a tree in the cemetery. Also, bright flashes of light have been known to be seen by the fence that surrounds the right side of the cemetery.
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...
Potter's Field
A mass of unmarked graves can be found in the Milwaukee County Grounds next to the soccer field. These graves belonged to the victims of TB and the residents of the "poor farm" the county ran in...
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.
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...
Reynolds Cemetery
In the rear of the cemetery there is the small grave of a baby boy. The baby was abandoned and found weeks later and the mother was never caught. On a full moon at exactly midnight you can feel...
St. Coletta's College
Serra Hall - St. Coletta's is a giant campus of buildings, houses, and dormitories that serves people with disabilities. one of the dormitories known as "Serra Hall" has had several occurrences...
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.