Search Results for "Oquawka, Illinois"
Searching near: Oquawka, IL 61469, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 30 haunted location(s)
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
Cry Baby Bridge
Believed that the ghosts of the bridge push your car across the bridge.
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...
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...
The Medium security Prison
This building used to be a Mental hospital and was built in the middle 1800s. It consists of an old stone center building with newer brick wings extending off the center to the east and west....
Greenwood Cemetery
If you walk down the center of the cemetery you will hear the sound of footsteps running at you but when you turn to look at the direction the noise is coming from you will see nothing. A strong...
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...
Lutheran Holmes/ Lutheran Drive
Lutheran Holmes now a nursing home use to be an orphanage. There is said to be old tunnels underneath the building but have never been seen. Workers say that on the seven hundred in one of the...
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...
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...
Old Hershey Street Hospital
Some times you will be walking past the old hospital and the curtains will flutter or you might catch a glimpse of movement through the balcony. It was present during the civil war times and the...
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.
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...
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,...
police station
Bell Tower - When the station was first built the guards used to hang prisoners in the bell tower so no one could hear or see what they were doing. If you go east behind the police station at...
Scott
City Hall - A heavyset man reportedly sits in the city council chamber. They call him Hal. The legend of Hal goes like this. Hal was a citizen who was extremely upset with city government. He ran...
Blackhawk Hotel
There has been many circumstances of seeing a lady roaming the halls wearing a red or blue evening gown. There has also been instances of pianos playing in the main ballroom misc. disturbances...
Palmer College of Chiropractic
One of the lecture halls which were built in the middle 1800's is residence to several ghosts which have been known to fly around the ceiling, causing the hanging lamps to swing back and forth....
St. Ambrose University
Ambrose Hall - When there are only a few professors left in the building late at night, they have heard strange noises. They have heard foot steps and seen lights flickering on and off. It's said...
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...
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....
Masonic Temple, Brady St.
Currently owned by Palmer College. Security reports many types of haunting phenomenon at all hours of the day.