Search Results for "Petersburg, Illinois"
Searching near: Petersburg, IL 62675, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 38 haunted location(s)
New Salem
Reports of seeing Abraham Lincoln’s ghost walking around at night.
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...
old Salem cemetery
old Salem is the oldest cemetery in the area. It has many stories of hauntings and strange happenings. There is said to be a grave of a young girl who died in a fire, and that it is impossible to...
Calvary Cemetery
There is a legend of an angel statue the sits on top of a grave near the park side entrance of the cemetery. Supposedly, she turns around and weeps when it is late, or on a certain date, or...
Ursuline Academy
5th Street Building - A nun died in the building and there have been sightings of door knobs turning and cold chills, and a sense of being followed and even touched by someone and them not being there.
prairie capitol convention center
strange happenings such as doors slamming and seats slamming shut. The convention center is haunted by a young boy that was killed in the convention center while watching a tractor pull. Boy was...
Theatre Center
Joe supposedly haunts the theatre! He was one of the best actors there one night when he was coming out of the building he was pulled be hind an alley and was murdered! He has haunted the theatre...
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...
Panther Creek Subdivision
Since Panther Creek was founded, reports of mysterious footprints of a large cat have been reported. Also, people have claimed to have seen a large leopard or such in the wooded area around the...
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...
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.
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...
Lake Club
1930's building that was used by the mafia. Allegedly people were killed there by Al Capone and his gang. Doors close, you can hear footsteps but see no one, there is also visions of a man and...
Friendship Manor
Smell cigar smoke at times(no smoking allowed) This is a women’s shelter. History there that a man hung himself there .
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...
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...
Haunted Hill
There is a hill with a cemetery on top, by Love Ford Bridge. The river runs under the bridge with the cemetery overlooks it. Some have died due to high waters and parties at the bridge. Reports of...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Witch's Bridge
In the 1800's a woman was hung off the side of this bridge for being a witch. Since then, it is said that if you stop on the bridge late at night you will hear footsteps. If you stay too long, it...
Witch's Bridge
In the early 1800's a family was crossing the bridge in their wagon. The wagon suddenly fell over and the baby drowned and the parents also passed away. It is said that if you stop your car on the...
Andersons Cemetery (cemetery X)
This cemetery is filled with creepy paranormal activity. There is an old part of the cemetery that in the daytime is unreachable. Only after dark will the trees part and the path appears again to...
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...
Palmer
Anderson Cemetery - There are a lot of orbs that are seen by many. And on certain nights there are dark shadows with red eyes there.
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.
Milliken University
There are a number of ghosts who hang around the 150 year old campus. In the main theater, there is a ghost called "Track girl" for whom the performers leave candy before a show to ensure that all...
Maroa Grade School
In the old Maroa grade school there have been reports by custodians late at night of a little boy that can be seen in the boiler room. He is said to be wearing very old style clothing like 1940,s....
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...
Avon Theater
The ghost of the original owner has been seen by many people roaming this old theater.
Lincoln Theater
A ghost called one-armed red is seen and heard here.
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...
Greenwood Cemetery
Arguably the most haunted cemetery in central Illinois. Greenwood is home to "the Greenwood Bride" who can be frequently seen and heard weeping. , The Civil War section is filled with Confederate...
Bradley University Theatre
An apparition of a man in a brown suit has been seen, companied with the smell of cigar smoke and cologne.
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...