Bachelor's Grove
An Orb Picture Taken In Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
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Second Orb Photographed in Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Take Cicero Avenue to the Midlothian Turnpike and go west to the Rubio Woods. It is located on the edge of the Rubio Woods Forest Preserve, near the suburb of Midlothian, Illinois. This ramshackle burial ground is said to be infested with ghosts and more than 100 different reports of strange phenomena have been collected about the place, including actual apparitions, anomalous recordings, unexplained sights and sounds, inexplicable lights and voices, glowing balls of light and even sightings of unbelievable creatures.
It is believed that satanic and occultist groups perform ceremonies here, sometimes leaving the ghastly remains of their rituals behind. Vandals have left few of the graves still standing and many tombstones have been stolen, and sometimes returned to the grounds, giving rise to legends that the grave stones sometimes move by themselves.
Access to the cemetery is gained by way of a narrow gravel trail. Along this old road, many visitors to the area have reported seeing a phantom farmhouse that seems to appear and disappear at random. The house is always described in the same way, as a white house with porch pillars, a swing and a soft light burning in the window, but it is never reported in the same place. As witnesses approach the house, it always disappears. A number of completely independent witnesses have reported the house, not realizing that it was unnatural until it vanished and all of them have pointed to different locations when they spotted it. The house has been reported during both daylight hours and at night but historical files show no record of a house ever existing here!
Just past the fence surrounding the cemetery is a small lagoon that borders the nearby turnpike. The legends say this pond was once a favorite dumping ground for Chicago gangsters during the years of Prohibition. A number of bodies were said to have been found floating here in the past. One ghost linked to the lagoon is said to be a two-headed creature that has been reported on several occasions. An old farmer was pulled into the water by his plow horse in the 1870's. The horse was drowned by the weight of the plow, taking the farmer with it. Two forest rangers spotted the farmer guiding the horse and plow more than 100 years later.
The cemetery ghosts range from the image of people dressed in monk's robes to the spirit of a glowing yellow man seen in 1984. Many of these ghosts have been captured on film, like the image of a woman seated on a tombstone that was taken with infrared film. This spirit is known as the "White Lady" or the "Madonna of Bachelor's Grove". She is said to be the ghost of a woman buried in the cemetery next to her young son. She has been seen on nights of the full moon, wandering the cemetery with a baby in her arms.
The strange lights on the trail are said to be red in color and move so fast that they leave a streak behind them in the air. The blue balls of light in the cemetery itself seem to have an intelligence, dancing just out of reach of those who pursue them.
Even the turnpike near Bachelor's Grove is said to be haunted. For a number of years, witnesses have reported phantom cars that disappear along this road. One couple even had an auto accident with a car that vanished before their eyes, leaving their own vehicle untouched, despite the sounds of bending metal and breaking glass.