Oak Brook, Mayslake Peabody was buried in a suspended glass box filled with oil to prevent decomposition. His tomb is reported to be haunted. Mayslake is located on Rt83 and 31st street in Oak Brook.

Lake Bluff, Cloe�s Brickyard A worker was killed accidentally during a fight with another worker. The killer hid the body in part of the factory by bricking it up inside a wall. Catherine Cloe was puzzled by the sobbing that seemed to come from the walls of the factory.

Forest Park's Woodlawn Cemetery 86 circus performers were killed during a train wreck/accident in which an empty troop train ran full speed into a stopped circus train. Their bodies were interred at Forest Park's Woodlawn Cemetery. Five stone elephants mark the plots boundaries. Neighbors began to report hearing the cries of animals emanating from the cemetery. Legend states that elephants helped pull away the burning wreckage from the train wreck to save lives.

Woodstock, Woodstock Opera House A young actress committed suicide here on the turn of the century. Reports of Elvira throwing herself from the belfry 6 floors to the sidewalk are often heard. She is also said to comment on rehearsals. She sits in seat DD-113 and either gives a thumbs up or down. Sometimes she is heard banging her seat or booing. She is a tall beautiful blonde woman. Honda once did a commercial about this ghost. The Woodstock Opera House at 121 Van Buren Street.

Joliet, Rialto Square Theater This theater is haunted by a famous female spirit.

Lake Forest, Schweppe Mansion
This stone mansion with 20 rooms was unoccupied for half a century after the man who owned it committed suicide. He was mourning the loss of his wife Laura Schweppe. The halls are haunted by the ghosts of servants. The ghost of the former owners is seen in the bedrooms. There is one window in the master bedroom that, despite all the other windows being filthy, never needs cleaning.

Chudahey, La Llorona
This vanishing lady hitches a ride and says she is searching for her children. Then she vanishes. She is a Mexican woman with long black hair and long fingernails. She wanders the streets looking for her children. She hitches a ride to Calumet harbor and when they arrive she is no longer in the car. She is often seen along Cline and Fifth Avenue.

Gary, Dunes State Park
The Indiana dunes near Gary are haunted by the naked ghost of Diana of the Dunes. She has been reported many times here. She is the ghost of an eccentric artist who lived in a shack near Lake Michigan. She died from blows inflicted by her boyfriend Paul Wilson. Alice is buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery in a potter's plot.

Forest Park Hauntings
A phantom flapper begs a ride from the local ballroom to Jewish Waldheim Cemetery. There she disappears. She is said to be a brunette with a bob style hairdo.
The Old Lobstein House
People report hearing loud bangs and strange noises. Cold spots move through the house. There is the sound of children running upstairs in the hallway. A ghost peers out the attic window at the neighbors. The haunting is particularly bad on Nov 6. Two children named Charlie and Addie are said to be ghosts here. They are the children of John Lobstein who built the house.

Berwyn
The Moline House is haunted by a dark shadow figure. Objects end up missing or moving on their own. The Moline House is a private residence. It is located in Berwyn west of Cicero on Wesley Ave. Crystal Lake
The Stickney Mansion
The Stickney Mansion is haunted by the ghost of the man who built it. George Stickney built this house in 1849. His spirit was detected by several owners. It is located at 1904 Cherry Valley Road. Cicero
Morton College
A fog like vapor is seen wandering through the classrooms. Students and custodians have reported seeing it and hearing footsteps in empty corridors. It is located at 3801 South Central Avenue.

Barrington, White Cemetery
This cemetery has reports of ghost lights and phantom black cars and a vanishing house. Records indicate a house once stood nearby that burned down.
A witness who saw the black car
From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001
It was a full moon. There was a car, black in color, with no lights and no noise. It looked like a black Cadillac.

Arcola
At the train depot, by the tracks appears an apparition of a man swinging a lantern

Buffalo Grove, St. Mary's
There are reports of shapeless forms floating near the fence and phantom cars. St Mary's Church is located at 75 N. Buffalo Grove Road, Buffalo Grove IL Aurora
Devil's Cave
A young Indian brave was banished for stealing and tried to take his revenge by haunting the tribe. He would cover himself with a glowing fungus and then a blanket. He would appear on dark nights as a fake ghost to scare the tribe. One day they found footprints and decided that it was a prankster. They were waiting for him when he next appeared. He ran from the men chasing him and hid in devil's cave. They smoked him out and then he jumped in the river and drowned. The cave is easily accessible from the trail at the Red Oak Nature Center.

Yorkville, Cannonball Trail
The ghost of a white lady appears beside the road in Yorkville. She is somehow connected to the Oaklawn cemetery located on Cannonball Trail.

Abingdon - Abingdon Middle School - A teacher 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 sightings of the woman and child together. There has also been blood stains found on the walls of every room and above the steps and on the steps of were she hung herself and the child fell down the stairs.

Algonquin - Algonquin cemetery - on Rt.31 And Cary / Algonquin Rd
The side that touches 31 is where the spirits are. The other side has a rapist that has been bound to his grave spot by a high priestess. A little bit further down the cemetery is a murderers spirit who has also been bound to his grave. When you find the rapist grave towards the back of the cemetery if you stand in one spot you will fell his bad energy and you will hear him running back and forth through the woods. A little boy has also been seen by this area watching the rapist and trying to protect visitors from harm.

Allenton Park - Allenton Mansion - There have been reports of a mysterious lady in white. She has been seen walking along the pond in the back of the mansion, and in "her" room putting on hats and gloves. She's been heard coming down the stairs and pacing the hall in front of "her" room.

Alsip - Cemeterys - Alsip was once a huge brickyard for Chicago, as well as a planned cemetery. It was dubbed The City of Chicago Cemetery. Many of the older houses have pre-dug graves within. Alsip has Illinois' largest cemetery count. There have been cases of ghosts, poltergeist activity (objects moved around homes), voices, etc. Alsip borders several famous cemeteries such as Holy Sepulcher.

Altamont - Devil's Peak - It has a rock shaped like the Devil's horns out of the hill and it is said that the devil roams down there. It is in the valley.

Alton
Lovejoy Monument cemetery - In the cemetery is buried a little girl that died suddenly from a mysterious illness and she walks around the cemetery and darts behind the gravestones like she is playing hide and seek. You can also see the ghost of Elijah P. Lovejoy walking around his monument. If you go into the cemetery at night you will constantly walk into chill spots and it could be 90 degrees out.
Lovejoy School - There are many reports of ghosts walking, doors opening and closing on their own, lights going on and off, and objects being projected across the floors. It is believed that the school is partially located on Indian burial grounds. There have also been ghostly sightings and the scent of strong perfume.
Mineral Springs Hotel - The Lavender Lady is a woman who loved the smell of lavender. She had an affair and her husband chased her down some steps and killed her. A woman drowned in the basement pool because of a man.
There is a fee to see the hotel

Amboy - Franklin Blacktop - There is a house that sits catty-corner from the 4-H Center, and in the 1800's a man was murdered in his home and buried 500 feet from the upstairs bathroom window. If you go into the master bedroom upstairs, (known as the warm room) the room feels heated, even in winter. If you are looking into the lower level of the house from the outside you can see a small light appear from room to room.

Anna - Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center - There are reports of apparitions of people running and people standing in the windows as you drive by. A man once walked in the tunnels and felt a hand on his back.
Union County Hospital & Nursing home - On the second floor of the hospital there is a little boy who died in the 50's and at night you see him. In the nursing home there are many people who were once residents and every now and then you can catch a glimpse of them.

Arcola - The depot by the rail road tracks - a ghosts is seen holding and swinging a lantern.

Arlington , Park Ridge, Haunted Stable
From Steve Flint, Laboratory Technician
It was around 1980 when this story took place. Steve was working late at night as a veterinary assistant at Arlington Park Race Track in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He was in one of the stables, which housed pregnant horses. As Steve stood by a stall, nearer to one end of the building, he heard the entrance door on the far end open, and then slam shut, as if someone had entered the building. There was no one there. The slamming of the door had caught the attention of most of the horses, and after the door slammed, the horses slowly turned their heads and eyes in unison in a straight line away from the far end of the building, as if watching some invisible being moving from the door that had just slammed toward the near end of the building. As their views finally reached the near end of the building, the door on the near end opened by itself and slammed shut, just as the first door had done only moments earlier. But no one entered. It was discovered that the body of a murdered Barrington, Illinois youth had been buried in a shallow grave on the Arlington Park property, only a short distance away from where this event had occurred.

Ashley - abandoned candy factory - A ghost inhabits the factory. She is said to have been killed at work. The roof has caved in and covered the spot where she was supposedly killed. When circled, it is possible to see a face or silhouette of the woman in a doorway of window. At night you can hear her cries just before she died.

Ashmore - St. Omer cemetery - A large gravestone with a crystal ball said to be that of witch, the date of death on the tombstone is Feb 31, 18??. Many have tried to take pictures but they never turn out. Sometimes there is strange glow coming from the tombstone.

Aurora
Baymont Inn and Suites - A former employee and guest heard people talking in an empty room late at night. When the door was opened voices stopped and no one was there.
Room #208 An employee reported a guest coming downstairs and wanting out of room #208 because he woke up and felt someone strangling him.
The Lobby - There was an incident in the lobby and office with a guest on the phone nearby. They both witnessed a white ball of light shoot from behind the office and out into the lobby then vanish. This happened on St Patricks day 2001 at approximately 2am.
Leland Tower Hotel - The Leland Tower has 21 stories and is the tallest building in Aurora. It is said to be haunted. Numerous suicides have taken place by guests jumping from upper floors into the Fox River. At night bad smells come from the elevator banks and the elevators seem to moan.
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.

Barrington

Bartelso - Old Carlyle Road - If you sit out on the road with your lights off you will see a car coming towards you. It goes below a hill and disappears. It is the ghost of a girl who was raped and killed.

Bartlett - Bartlett High School - The power goes out on important dates, music won't play during pep rallies when the dance team is up to perform, and the school has never gone an entire year without experiencing a death of a student or staff member.

Bartonville - State Hospital - The residents of the Bartonville State Hospital haunt the grounds and can be seen at various times. hospital
More info http://theshadowlands.net/famous/bartonville.htm

Belleville - Lincoln Theatre - There are seven ghosts that haunt this theatre. One haunts the projection booth, one haunts the stage in the main theatre, one lurks downstairs in the basement. It is located on E. Main street couple of blocks away from the square. A guy was putting new tile in, in the projection booth and he went to get something. When came back and the tile that still needed to be laid was already done.
Pasta House - Haunted by a family that was killed when it was a hotel. You can hear a woman and child scream.
The ghost tracks are the resting place of a young boy killed by a train. It is said that if you roll over the tracks and stop just after you cross them and put your car in neutral, the boy will push the car back over the tracks, and up a hill to save you from his fate. If you put baby powder on your bumper, you will see his fingerprints.

Belvedere - Blood's Point Cemetery - There are sightings of white orbs, mists, and leaves manifesting into human forms. There have been electrical malfunctions such as flashlights and cameras turning off, then functioning normally outside the cemetery. There have been peculiar cries, whistles and whispers, and an occasional growling from around the shed area.

Bishop Township - King's Cemetery - Pictures have been taken at night, and mysterious orbs are seen in the pictures, as well as silhouettes jumping out of the person, though not moving.

Bloomington - Illinois Weslyan University -International House
There was an old elevator that used to be in service in the house and has since been sealed up. There was a young man who was stuck in the elevator and died when it fell. People still claim to hear the squeals of the elevator gears as it falls. There is the spirit of a young girl who walks around the third floor. She was the niece of the President of the University. She died in the house and still wanders the halls. The boys who live on the top floor can sometimes hear the laugh of the little girl.
Old Federal Prison on Market - a young boy looks out of the attic window. He was killed with a hatchet.
The old Mennonite hospital (now Eureka) - There is one room on the third floor at the end of the hallway where a woman died a very painful death from cancer. After she passed away, the call light would always go on and off, there would be the smell of death in the room. There are strange noises that come out of the room.

Buckner - Harrison Cemetery - There are two ghosts that guard the cemetery late at night. They are a man and a woman. There is also a piano that plays at midnight. The man shows up as an orange glow in a field beside the cemetery. The woman is a whitish glow. She shows up near a group of pine trees in a far corner of the cemetery. That corner is where the piano plays.

Bullvalley - The House With No Corners - 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 downstairs and outer perimeter had no corners so that ghosts and spirits would have no place to hide. Late at night, in the dark of the upstairs windows, figures can be seen moving about. Sounds of steps can be heard faintly. On the second floor is the door to nowhere that is up on the house leading to no deck nor any stairway.

Carpentersville - Big Boy's restaurant - in Carpentersville on rte 25 and Lake Marion Roads this building is occupied by five ghosts.

Cary - Cary Road - St. Barnabas - This place was torn down in October 1997. Witnesses have heard heavy boot steps and young female voices calling their names. They were the only ones there. The police are reluctant to tell anyone what the place was and they patrol the area to keep the curious away.

Central City - Central City Cemetery - Late at night in the southeastern part of the grave yard there is a statue of a girl playing the violin which you can hear clearly but faintly on calm nights. She is know throughout the small town as violin Annie.

Centralia - Centralia cemetery - A young girl was murdered here by her father with her violin. There is a statue of her where she was buried holding a violin and at night, on certain days, you can hear her play the instrument.

Centralia - Foundation Park - Stover�s Hill is a popular place where children go to sled when it snows. At the bottom of the hill there is a marry-go-round. Witnesses report receiving an image of a family in a picture taken there.

Champaign - Church St. YMCA - There are cold spots, lights turning off and on by themselves, feelings of being watched, balls rolling down stairs by themselves, strange noises, shadows moving. doors on third floor opening and closing by themselves.
Urbana - The University of Illinois - The English building is haunted. It was once a girl's dormitory, and a girl killed herself there. Her spirit haunts the building.

Charles Munger Road - Wayne St. - A haunted road were many car lights have been seen and then disappeared. There is an old insane asylum which is haunted.

Charleston - Eastern Illinois University - Pemberton Hall is where a young college girl was brutally murdered, before winter break, by a psychotic janitor. Clocks turn back in time, voices are heard in the halls and doors mysteriously lock after the young girls enter. Wet or bloody footprints appear on the floor. The floor where she was killed is closed off but mysterious music still plays from a piano she once played on. The murder took place on the fourth floor, which is now boarded up.

Cherry Valley - Bloods Point Road - There is a bridge down this road with a train track running under it. A school bus full of children ran off the bridge and everyone died. If you put your car in neutral in the middle of the bridge, you will be guided to safety on the other side. There is a traffic light that keeps moving, never staying in the same place.
A ghost car will come out of nowhere and chase you and run you off the road. On Sweeney road there is a spot to pull over by a stonewall. Over the wall is a field with paths that lead to the woods where red floating orbs have been seen. In the woods is the foundation of church of some kind. No flashlight will work, but will turn off one step into the woods. An old farmer will came running through the woods with a shotgun and then disappear outside the woods. At the end of Sweeney road at the stop sign where it turns in to Pool Rd. a phantom black big rig will come out of nowhere. You will be chased by the ghost car until you leave the area.

Cicero
Morton College - This school is haunted by the spirit of a girl named Emily who was murdered. Before the school was built, her body was found on the site after being killed on Laramie Bridge. She has been spotted on the roof at night by security guards. She is rarely seen by the students. Emily has been heard in the theater. She usually appears during plays that involve violence and murder.
Warren Park - Inside the Warren Park administration building on the top floor people have heard (after hours) what sounds like moaning and footsteps and there�s been a sighting of a misty apparition, and doors opening and once a glass window shattered.

Clarendon Hills - The Country House restaurant - It is said that a young women with her child came into the bar one night upset and alone. A few miles down the road, the women and her child were found dead in a car accident. Many people, mainly the employees, have felt or seen the ghost. She haunts the upstairs storage area where the lockers and dry supplies are. She has locked people inside the room, flickered lights on and off, and broken many dishes and glasses.

Colchester - Vishnu Springs - Vishnu is an old abandoned township located just west of Colchester. There are feelings of being watched and shadow-like beings are viewed in darkened corners.

Collinsville
Cahokia Mounds - There are the ghost of Indians and strange shadows and balls of light.
Old First Baptist Church - A German janitor was locked in the basement and the building was set afire. The church was rebuilt on the original basement. It is now used as a haunted house during October. Workers and patrons have experienced cold spots, uneasiness, footsteps, shadow figures, and seen images of both a hell hound and a hooded figure walking around. Seven spirits inhabit the building, and one is referred to as the demon. This demon is responsible for hiding objects and grabbing people and leaving bruises.
Keeblerrd Mansion - There are slaves walking and eerie sounds. At night when you would drive by the house, you could see candles moving from window to window. Slave women could be seen walking from the house to the old cemetery right down the road with baskets of clothes on their heads. Strange noises could be heard at different times, especially at night. A child and her father witnessed the slave auction area themselves. Several years ago, the house mysteriously burned down, and the old cemetery now goes unnoticed.
Lebanon Rd. - Gates of Hell - On Lebanon road there are a series of concrete tunnels. If you drive out there and park under any of them and turn out your lights, the spirits will send hellhounds out to bring back your soul. If you drive through all of the gates without driving through one twice, at the stroke of midnight as you drive through the last gate, you will be plucked out of the night and taken to hell.

Colona - Kauzlarich House - There have been shadows in the halls and things turning on and off without being touched.

Cook - Palatine - Fremd High School Pool - In the 1970's a girl drowned in the deep end of the pool. There have been reports of a swim suit floating in the water, and when people go in to retrieve it, the water is freezing cold where the suit is. The lockers in the Girls Locker room are also known to open and close.

Crete - Ax-Man's House - In the 1970's a man murdered his wife and children along with two police officers, with an ax. After killing them he hung them from hooks in the meat shed in the back of the property. He was shot and killed near the road by the police. Upon entering the grounds a strange feeling of being watched is felt, and if you go around to the back of the house you can still see the blood splattered in the meat shed. In the house you will find a staircase that leads into the ceiling. If you go into one of the upstairs bedrooms you will find women�s shoes all over the floor and if you look out the window you will see what looks like a woman hanging from a rope in the tree. You can also see the path that the ax man ran down to try to avoid the police. He is said to still haunt the bridge near where he died.

Crestwood - Bachelors Woods - the trees in the Bachelors Woods seem to hold you back from going in. All of the deer and mice stay away from where the old house was and the graveyard makes you feel like your being looked at but no one is there. If you go there during the day you will feel something. At night you can see a whole house that is not there anymore and a women with a baby. There are no deer tracks by where the old house was or in the graveyard.

Crystal Lake
Barnes & Noble bookstore - Employees have witnessed book carts moving by themselves, and have reported items being moved around. Some claim to have seen the old lady who used to own the property in the back storeroom.
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 disappears. On the upper floor there is an area with checkerboards to play checkers on. The checker chips move by themselves. In the basement, right when you get on the basement floor, you get the sensation of being watched. If you walk down the long dark hall, you will hear footsteps follow you.
Lake view cemetery - Said to be haunted by the spirit of a women who set herself on fire there.
McHenry County - YMCA - There was a farmer that lived behind the parking lot in the woods who killed his family in a barn. Screams have been heard.
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 mass of green mist, which sometimes engulfs the graveyard. Motorists passing this cemetery at night have often seen balls of light floating towards the road.
Palmer House - Palmer was a man who ran an orphanage. He beat and tortured and murdered the kids. You can hear cries from in the house. If you put your ear to the door you�ll hear kids scratching at it. Palmer will stomp on the floor or hit the door. Sometimes you see figures in the basement windows.
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.

Danville
Hungry Hollow If you drive down this street you can see dark apparitions, people running, an energy line in the ground and other anomalies.
Night Breed was and still is a clan of people form the ages of 15-40 who worship Satan under a bridge in Elsworth Park. People are seen sitting in trees watching the area. People are seen hanging animals from trees, then the people who hang them pray to some sort of god. Night Breed was headed by a man who had worshipped Satan since he was 12 years of age. He believed the devil was in us all and that the devil will soon come to earth and rule. So he decided to gather a group of followers and try to make the earth as vile and terrible as he could to get it ready for Satan's arrival.
Cornfield Cemetery (Niccum) - A very old cemetery in the middle of a cornfield that has reported apparitions and very eerie feelings. It�s off of Long Rd.
New Holland Apt. Building - the building is now empty, but in the basement you can feel cold spots and the chains from the lights will swing with no one touching them. Several pictures taken in the basement have had orbs. A man was found dead in the basement, possibly from a drug overdose or murder.
The 13 Sided Church
People have been seen standing out there at 1:00 a.m. staring at traffic. Some people say it is a satanic church, some people say because it has 13 sides its haunted by evil.
A woman died in the church, and supposedly haunts it.
Drive around the church 13 times and a hurse will chase after you from the grave yard next to the church.
Drive around it 13 times and a flash of light will fly through your car, and you will be cursed.
Glowing eyes have been seen in the lower basement are window.

Decatur
Avon Theater - The ghost of the original owner has been seen by many people roaming the old theater.
The Bleeding Wall
During World War II bodies of the unidentified where buried in mass graves along where the road Shangra-La now runs. The wall was built when they started clearing the land for road. Later a cemetery was built on the land above the wall. One year the wall crumbled, letting bodies, coffins, etc. fall out. The wall was quickly rebuilt and bodies and coffins were put back. Whenever it rains blood from the bodies seeps out of the cracks in the walls.
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 prisoners who died from yellow fever. Their bodies were buried in unmarked graves. Many say that these soldiers still walk the hills of Greenwood Cemetery and will even confront you. A host of other spirits prowl the confines of this large graveyard. Ghost lights have been reported on the southern edge of the graveyard.
Lincoln Theater- A ghost called One-Armed Red is seen and heard here.
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 things will be well.
Pecs Cemetery - Glowing dots have been seen floating in mid air, wolfs howling, and sounds of feet running have been heard and when you look there isn't anything there.

Des Plaines - Galaxy Club - Late at night, near the juice bar of the club, you can hear people calling your name. There is an air hockey game in the back of the club and when nobody is playing it you can hear the puck move across the board and hitting the paddles. After the club closes and all the lights are off, you can hear loud crashing noises, but when you go to look, nothing has fallen. You even can see orbs of light moving fast through the darkness of the club.

Des Plaines - 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 skirts, and the sound of the rosary beads clicking, but the nun herself was invisible.

DeSoto - Desoto Grade School - In 1925 when the tri-state tornado ripped through this community it leveled the two story brick building, killing many children. At night you can still hear children laughing and playing through the halls and on the playground.

Dogtown - Pleasant Grove Cemetery - To get to this cemetery, you have to take dirt roads about a mile back in a field. The cemetery is surrounded by forest. Once in the cemetery, different creepy sounds can be heard. Some figures have also been viewed here.

Douglas County - Airtight Road - Witnesses say specters can be seen along the road at night. If you stop and shut off your car, it is almost impossible to restart your car without the aid of another.
The Lost Forties - In a large area of land northwest of Oakland and southeast of Tuscola a girl runs out in front of cars and gets hit. Everyone in the car feels the impact, but when they stop the car and try to find the girl she is gone.

Eastern Illinois University
Haunted by a woman named Mary who was killed in the music room on the fourth floor. She sometimes opens locked doors in the night.

East St. Louis - state street abandoned building - There are reports of hearing a faint scream. A figure that looked like a woman appeared from nowhere with its hand reaching out.

Edwardsville - Three Mile House - An inn and tavern established in 1858, Springfield stage coach route has various reports of hauntings, including those of slaves, children, and various adults. You can read more about it at:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/threemile.html

Effingham - Ramsey Cemetery - This old cemetery has haunted caves. A werewolf and a man in a black cloak with red eyes has been seen there. Many weird things have happened.

Elgin - Channing Memorial Elementary School - There has been everything from cold spots, to apparitions, to footsteps from the upper floor when you are alone in the building. When an addition was built onto the building, over 13 skeletons were found in the ground under which the school was built. Most of them were estimated to be children ages ranging from 10 to 17. If you enter this building after dark you will hear voices whispering in your ear, as well and screaming from the upper floor, where the action seems to center. Doors open and close by themselves, and an elevator operates itself. Many night custodians have fled the building in the middle of their shift, leaving personal belongings, scared to death, refusing to tell what they saw, or heard and refusing to ever enter the building again.
Elgin Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery � There has been documentation of patients being tortured. They were buried five in a grave with the name of the body on top. All kinds of supernatural activity has occurred here ranging from orbs to apparitions.
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, and the cemetery ran out of room, the bodies were incinerated in the basement. The campus is shut down, and is closed down. Visitors have to hop a fence and run from the security guards to avoid being fined $5,000. Reports include tapings, screams, shadows, lights inside, cold fields, and fog. Inside, visitors claim to see blood stained walls, and smell the scent of decay. Many consider it the most haunted place in Chicago land.
Ellis Middle School - The auditorium is haunted by a woman in a white lace dress, who can only be seen in the hallways backstage.

Elkhart - Elkhart Cemetery - This is 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 her off across the bridge leading over the road by the cemetery. On a path over the fence, at the back of the cemetery, going up the hill you can hear voices and footsteps through the woods and you can see black apparitions watching you. At the top of the hill the path branches and you have to pick which way to go but you have to pick correctly or you don't come back.

Elmhurst - Single track train track - There are reports of an apparition of a man with a lantern walking on the tracks and disappearing.

Evanston - The First Methodist Church of Evanston - The sanctuary is haunted by the ghost of a man in a black business suit. He walks down the side aisle in the sanctuary, coming out from behind one pillar and walking behind the next, but if you look behind the pillar, no one will be there. There are no doors or windows that he could have gone through, and no one in a black business suit was in the room.

Evansville, The Willard Library is said to be haunted by the ghost of Louise Carpenter, the daughter of the library's founder. The ghost has been spotted on several occasions, prompting the library to set up a ghostcam to help capture an image of the specter. One of the images captured shows an anomalous glowing object by the bookshelves.

Chicago

A little creek by the name of No Bussiness runs along the Crawford and Jasper county line on the west side of the county. The Red Lanterns were balls of light that would travel in the area along the creek and when approached they just vanish into thin air, sometimes chasing people.

Decatur
Investigator Cheri Mohr Drake, of the American Ghost Society, undertook an investigation of the Harrold House in Decatur, Illinois, while attending the recent Ghost Conference there. The house is located at 746 West Wood Street in Decatur. It belongs to Amy and Tim Patrick, who live there with their two small children. There are three known ghosts: a small boy, a woman who stands on the front porch, and a middle-aged man. The man is most likely Frank Harrold, who was involved in a scandal centering around a missing $25,000 from the local bank he worked for. After the money was discovered missing, Frank was found shot to death the next day at his farm in nearby Clinton, Illinois. The year was 1925. The case was ruled a suicide, but many suspected it was a murder. Amy Patrick thinks it is Frank's ghost trying to tell her he was murdered and had nothing to do with stealing the money. The investigation of the premises yielded several unexplainable photographs.
More information on this case is available at http://www.prairieghosts.com/harrold.html

Dogtown
Many things can be heard and seen at this place. There are human looking spirits walking across bridges, and deep cold chills.
Grandma Pattons WoodsAround the hours of 11pm - 3am. Voices have been heard from within this small forested area. Un-explained light activity has been seen within the forest, sometimes out in the road even. If you sit anywhere dark inside Dogtown in your car, and shut off the lights, then turn them back on, there are supposed to be spiritual looking orbs of light shaped as dogs that surround your car for a brief moment

Evergreen Park - Evergreen Cemetery - 87th St.& Kedzie Ave.
A young girl, 12 to 14 years of age, haunts one of the CTA bus stops along 87th St. She will board a bus at night and go immediately go to the back of the bus, without paying the fare. When the driver turns around to tell her to pay, the bus is empty. Some drivers of cars on 87th St. have reported seeing "heads" floating above gravestones and people sitting on some of the stone benches in the cemetery at night.
The Boundaries of the cemetery are 87th St. to the north, 91st St. to the south, Kedzie Ave. to the B & O Railroad tracks to the west. On the other side of the tracks is a separate cemetery, St. Mary's.

Fort LaMotte was said to be located in Palestine and was constructed during the war of 1812 to protect the early settlers in Crawford County from Indian attacks. A large Native American village that dates as far back as 300 AD was found. Many strange noises and lights have been seen in this area.

Galesburg, Hope Cemetery Located in a quiet rural area, the cemetery does have a local reputation for being haunted.

Near Heathsville is the Gravesite of Elizabeth "Betsey" Reed. She was the first woman ever publicly executed and the only woman executed by hanging in Illinois. Convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic laced sassafras tea, she was put to death on May 23, 1845. It is said that she rode to her execution site right beside her casket singing. Elizabeth some how started a fire in her cell that burned down the Palestine jail where she was being held at with absolutely nothing in the cell to start a fire with. Her grave site and the cemetery it is located in is now a very haunted location. Manystrange events happen there and scientific data from equipment has indicated something paranormal was taking place.
South of Heathsville along the Wabash River is the site of the only Naval battle fought on the Wabash during the Revolution. The Hutsonville Ferry went into operation in 1854, and was the only route across the Wabash. A woman from Graysville tried to cross the ferry and her auto rolled back into the river drowning her. It is said that her spirit still roams the banks of the Wabash trying to get across.

Hutsonville The Hutson Massacre took place within the county in 1812. Isacc Hutson's wife, his five children, and neighbor were massacred. The massacre took place while Hutson was away at Fort LaMotte in Palestine. When Isacc arrived back home he found his house in flames and his family murdered. The family had been decapitated and the heads of his family were placed on posts around the cabin. He then joined the army and was later killed himself by the Indians. Some say the Hutson's are not at rest and their spirits still wonder the site of the reconstructed 1812 settler village.

Lilly Lake, House Haunting
There are strange lights that are naturally explainable.
Household items were found moved about or in disarray.
There was an apparent and uncalled for suspicion by neighbors.
A full apparition was seen in the backyard.

Mount Prospect, House Haunting Battery-operated equipment began functioning without power source Sights such as rustling/movement out of corner of eye A near-physical appearing hand seen from around corner Children report speaking with strangers that are visible to them in the home

Woodford County, St. Mary's Cemetery - The boundaries of this cemetery are the B & O railroad tracks which cross 87th St. on the east side, Pulaski Rd. on the west, 87th St. on the north, and 91st St. on the south. St. Mary's has a fence going completely around it, with the main gate on 87th St. and a smaller gate on 91st St. located between Homan and Trumbull Avenues. Late night drivers on 91st St. have reported seeing someone leaning against a fence post along the fence bordering the railroad tracks, with his arms folding across his chest. One driver reported that the figure seemed to react to his driving by, by placing his hands on his knees and crouching down, as if to look at him from under the branches of the tree between them, after which the figure disappeared. Several deaths, all violent, have happened in and around the cemetery. The first death was in 1927 at a restaurant/speakeasy located along the tracks. At that time many funerals came to the cemetery by train, where the party would have the funeral, then have the after funeral lunch at the restaurant while waiting for the return train. At this restaurant, known as "Vinegar Hill", one of the Westside O'Bannion Brothers was murdered by the Capone Mob. The next death happened in 1933, on the tracks, about 30 yards south of 91st. At this spot occurred the last daylight Train Robbery in the U.S. One of the robbers was killed during the robbery and never identified, the other robber was never caught, and the money never recovered.