Search Results for "Pekin, Illinois"
Searching near: Pekin, IL 61554, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 33 haunted location(s)
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...
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.
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...
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...
Mt. Hope Cemetery
It is said that one of the large, stone covered graves there houses the remains of a church organist with her organ. At night, if you put your ear to the stone, you can hear muffled organ music as...
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...
Bradley University Theatre
An apparition of a man in a brown suit has been seen, companied with the smell of cigar smoke and cologne.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Old Morton High School
Sometime you can hear a basketball bouncing in the old gym or sometimes you can hear a panio playing in the music room.
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...
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.
Big Grove cemetery
is also known as rocking chair or Hiawatha is outside Mason City Illinois some people say that late at night a tombstone that is shaped like a chair will rock back and forth even thought it is...
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...
Lincoln College
Olin Sang - the oldest dorm on campus there is a ghost that likes to pull pranks. It shuts doors and turns on TV’s when no one is in the rooms. It unplugged one girls computer speakers and plugged...
Friendship Manor
Smell cigar smoke at times(no smoking allowed) This is a women’s shelter. History there that a man hung himself there .
Illinois State University
Atkin Hall - Atkin-Colby Hall is 10 stories tall plus penthouses--what we call the eleventh floors. The building opened in the fall of 1962. The elevators only go up to the tenth floor; you have...
Illinois Weslyan University
International House - The International House is a huge mansion-sized house on the Illinois Weslyan Campus in Bloomington, IL. Since it's first days as a private residence it has since been...
Blooming Grove Academy
Old Junior High School - Some sort of haunt on the 3rd floor that likes to rattle doors and play music loudly. Can be heard only at night. Upon further inspection of the room that the music has...
Soldiers and Sailor's Home
Used to be where from what i understand, soldiers and sailors left children in times of war.. Though some of the buildings have been renovated for offices, the theatre and select buildings still...
El Paso Health Care Center
Mental health facility that has call lights going off when no one is in the room. Doors slamming with no wind also occur. There is a presence on at least two of the halls and no one who works...
Elkhart Cemetery
the cemetery where Governor Ogelsby is buried. The ghost of his wife visits his tomb. She will be seen sitting outside his tomb for a few minutes when a group of Indian ghosts come up and chase...
Baughman Cemetery
Located on the back roads between Minonk and Elpaso. Strange lights and shadows of numerous people seen in the cemetery. Man always seen smoking by a tree in the middle of the cemetery. Strange...
New Salem
Reports of seeing Abraham Lincoln’s ghost walking around at night.
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...
Grain Silos on S. Marion St
Once in the 1930's a worker fell into the silo full of corn and got buried, and suffocated. His body was never found. Now his ghost haunts the silos. There have been reports of screaming and...
Cumberland Cemetery
One of the oldest cemeteries in the area, it has had a hundred ghost stories surrounding it, including that of a "headless woman" whose jealous husband cut her head off on a stump in the cemetery...
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...
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...
Putnam County
The owners of the Putnam County Junior High John Swaney and Sarah haunt the school. Lockers in the P.E changing rooms at games have been known to open and shut. When people stay after school...