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|HEARTLAND |ILLINOIS COLLEGE |MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | |

|History, Haunts & Lore of Central Illinois |Some believe this may be the most haunted |Another of the Most Haunted Colleges| |

|[pic] |university in the Midwest! |in the Midwest! | |

| |PEMBERTON HALL |UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GHOSTS | |

| |The Ghost of Mary Hawkins on the Eastern |School Spirits from Champaign-Urbana| |

| |Illinois University campus | | |

| |URBANA HIGH SCHOOL |CHESTERVILLE WITCH'S GRAVE | |

| |Is this Urbana high school really haunted? |The curious legend of this small | |

| | |town | |

|THE SPEAKEASY: BELL'S JEWELRY STORE |THE LOOMIS HOUSE |ILLINOIS' PHANTOM BLACK PANTHERS |GREENWOOD CEMETERY |

|The most actively haunted place in the city of |A Haunted Former Hotel in |Out of place panthers have |One of the Most Haunted Graveyards in |

|Decatur ! Dozens of documented reports of |Carlinville |terrorized Illinois for years, |Illinois with hundreds of documented |

|paranormal phenomena! |CLEMENTS CEMETERY |becoming especially famous around|tales of strange phenomena, ghosts, and |

| |The mysterious "Blue |Decatur |unexplained phenomena! |

| |Man"...fact or legend? | | |

|PECK CEMETERY |THE HAUNTED SITES OF ABRAHAM |THE LINCOLN HOME |THE LINCOLN THEATER |

|This vandalized cemetery is considered to be one|LINCOLN Spooky spots in |Is it really haunted? And if so, |This spooky theater is haunted by the |

|of the strangest and most frightening places in |Springfield connected to our |is the ghost that walks here one |ghost of a former stage-hand who still |

|Central Illinois, with tales of occult activity |most haunted president |of the Lincoln's? |roams the theater.... more than 70 years |

|and strange happenings. |STEALING ABRAHAM LINCOLN | |after he died! |

| |The myths and mysteries | | |

| |hauntings Abraham Lincoln's | | |

| |Tomb | | |

|HAUNTED NEW SALEM |"ACCORDING TO LEGEND..." |MURDER OF REBECCA HOULDEN |THE AVON THEATER |

|History & Hauntings of this |The Strange Case of Nathaniel |A Tale of Illinois Homicide & The|Perhaps Decatur's Most Haunted remaining |

|Lost Illinois Town |Van Noy |Ghosts It Left Behind |theater with many reports of strange |

| | | |activity, apparitions and weird |

| | | |goings-on! |

|FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S DANA HOUSE |OLD UNION CEMETERY |THE SPRINGFIELD THEATRE CENTER |WILLIAMSBURG HILL |

|The historic home of Susan Lawrence Dana, one of|A secluded Central Illinois |Home of "Joe", the city of |Cold Spring Cemetery and the strange |

|Springfield's most noted Spiritualists |cemetery with reports of ghost|Springfield's most notorious |happenings on this hill |

| |lights |ghost | |

|VOORHIES CASTLE |BIGFOOT IN ILLINOIS |THE MAD GASSER OF MATTOON |THE LAKE CLUB |

|One of the most famous haunted spots in Central |Mysterious encounters with the|One of Illinois' most enigmatic |Although the site burned down years ago, |

|Illinois |North American Ape in Illinois|creatures - was he real or merely|this remains one of Springfield's most |

| | |imagination? And Was Illinois His|famous hauntings |

| | |Second Haunt? | |

|VISHNU SPRINGS |HAUNTED CHICAGO | |

|This former town and ghostly hotel are |History, Haunts & Weird Tales of the | |

|Haunted by Spirits from the Past! |Windy City! | |

|BARTONVILLE STATE HOSPITAL |GHOSTS OF GALESBURG | |

|The classic tale of the ghost of "A. |The Old Knox County Jail, Orval's | |

|Bookbinder" and the hauntings that have |House, mysterious fires and more! | |

|followed at the old state mental hospital | | |

|THE "WATSEKA WONDER" |ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | |

|The strange case of Lurancy Vennum and |Haunted Williams Hall and the ghost of | |

|Mary Roff |Angie Milner | |

|THUNDERBIRDS OVER ILLINOIS |VIRGIN MARY SIGHTINGS IN ILLINOIS |THE WOODSTOCK OPERA |THE STICKNEY MANSION |

|Giant airborne creatures are no strangers to |Does the Holy Mother really visit |HOUSE |Ghosts and legends behind the "house with no |

|Illinois. Was that sudden darkening of the sky |Illinois? |The legend of Elvira|square corners" |

|merely a cloud above you... or something else? | | | |

|THE MACOMB POLTERGEIST |WHITE CEMETERY | | |

|The story behind the events on the Willey's Farm in |Strange tales along Cuba Road | | |

|1948 | | | |

|DARK HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS |BLOODY WILLIAMSON | |

|What violent and tragic events shaped this |This famous county saw more bloodshed, | |

|particular region of Illinois? |death and violence than any other part | |

| |of the state and was the only Illinois | |

| |county to secede from the Union during | |

| |the Civil War! | |

|WAR IN ILLINOIS: CHARLIE BIRGER & THE |THE ORIGINAL SPRINGS HOTEL | |

|SHELTON GANG |Okawville's Mysterious Mineral Springs | |

|War came to Illinois in the 1920's when |Have Left Behind a Legacy of History & | |

|violence erupted between the notorious |Haunts! | |

|Birger and Shelton gangs! | | |

|THE LEGEND OF ANNA BIXBY |THE OLD SLAVE HOUSE | |

|A mysterious healer and the cave that now |The most haunted house in southern | |

|hides her gold - and her ghost! |Illinois and listed as one of the 10 | |

| |Most Haunted Houses in America! Find | |

| |out Why! | |

|CAHOKIA MOUNDS |HARTFORD CASTLE |THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE AND DEVIL'S BAKE |THE CURSE OF KASKASKIA |

|This ancient civilization |Lost Legends of this Abandoned Place |OVEN |Learn the fate of Illinois's first state |

|mysteriously vanished hundreds of|MCMACKIN HOUSE |One of the most mysterious haunted |capital and how an Indian curse caused the|

|years ago... find out why many |A Former family mansion, turned |places along the Mississippi River |dead to rise from their graves! |

|consider this a "place of power" |restaurant, in Salem is haunted by | | |

|today. |spirits from the past! | | |

|THE OLD STATE CAPITOL |THE PHANTOM FUNERAL OF FORT DE | MINERAL SPRINGS HOTEL |

|The early capital in Vandalia is |CHARTRES |THE MCPIKE MANSION |Originally opened as a health spa, this |

|rumored to be plagued with its |This ghostly funeral brings hundreds |Many claim this dilapidated mansion is |place still retains the look of an old |

|own hauntings! |of visitors to the remains of the fort|the most haunted house in Alton... a |hotel and you can almost expect to see |

| |on a certain occasion... find out when|town that is already known as one of |guests come strolling down the |

| |it is! |the most haunted small towns in |corridors... and according to some, they |

| | |America! |still do. |

|GHOST OF THE MONTICELLO SEMINARY |THE THREE MILE HOUSE |BURROWS CAVE |THE MURPHYSBORO MUD MONSTER |

|Now known as LEWIS & CLARK |Although it burned down in a terrible |Could this secret cache in southern |One of the most famous Bigfoot "flaps" in |

|COLLEGE, ghost hunters still seek|fire in 1985, the stories of the Three|Illinois really be the remains of |Illinois history! |

|out the ghost of the school's |Mile House still linger to thrill new |ancient visitors in Illinois? Judge for|THE ENFIELD HORROR |

|former headmistress, Harriet |generations of ghost enthusiasts. |yourself! |What was this strange creature that |

|Haskell | | |frightened the southern Illinois town? |

The Mineral Springs Hotel

Forget what you may have heard! This is the true story behind the hauntings at this old Alton Hotel!

The Legend of the Piasa Bird

The Symbol of Alton and the Strange Legend that Surrounds it! Plus, a look at other Illinois Thunderbirds!

The Cracker Factory

One of Haunted Alton's Best-Kept Secrets!

The Enos Sanatorium

This former tuberculosis sanatorium and Underground Railroad Station is one of Alton's Most Active Hauntings!

The First Unitarian Church

One of Alton's Most Famous hauntings! The lingering spirit of the suicidal minister -- featured on TLC with Troy Taylor!

Milton School

Legends surround a real-life haunting at this former school

Lewis & Clark College

The ghost of Harriet Haskell, the former headmistress of a female seminary turned community college

The Mansion House

One of the oldest, and first-reported, hauntings in Alton!

The Hartford Castle

Lakeview -- A forgotten mansion turned speakeasy and it's eerie haunting

The Ghost of August Mayford

The vanishing of an Alton policeman and the strange haunting left behind

Spirits of the Civil War & Alton's Confederate Prison

The first penitentiary in the state of Illinois and the haunting left behind!

Ghosts of Hop Hollow Road

A forgotten roadway once used to transport the dead and the spirits who linger here

The Franklin House

Alton's first luxury hotel and the ghosts who still linger here today

|The Lincoln Theater |The Avon Theater |Railroad Phantoms |

|One of the Most Haunted Places in America! |Decatur's Most Haunted Movie Theater |History & Mystery of Decatur's Railroad Hauntings |

|Shellabarger Grain Tower |Danzeisen Meat Packing Plant |Pythian Children's Home |

|A Mysterious & Haunted Spots from Decatur's Past |What Strange Secrets Once Lurked in this Building? |Although Vanished Many Years Ago, Haunted Memories|

| | |Remain |

|Ghosts of Millikin |Powers Mansion |The Harrold House |

|The History & Hauntings of Millikin University |The Ghostly Past of One of Decatur's Most Legendary |Unfinished Business from the 1920s Haunts a |

| |Homes |Decatur Home |

|The Culver Mansion |The Race Mansion |Spirits of the Speakeasy |

|Was this Home Cursed by the Indian Burial Ground it was Built|Once Regarded as the Most Haunted House in Decatur! |The History & Hauntings of the Secret Rooms Above |

|on? | |Downtown Decatur |

|Peck Cemetery |Common Burial Grounds |Greenwood Cemetery |

|The Mysterious Forbidden Cemetery located near Decatur |The Lingering Hauntings of Decatur's Original Cemetery|One of the Most Haunted Graveyards in America! |

|CHICAGO'S HAUNTED PLACES |

|RESURRECTION MARY | |

|The elusive ghost of Archer Avenue and Chicago's favorite Spirit -- A multi-part | |

|section on one of America's Greatest Ghost Stories! | |

| |BACHELOR'S GROVE CEMETERY |

| |The Most Haunted Place in Chicagoland --- There are more ghost stories and eerie legends told about this small, abandoned cemetery|

| |than any other place in the Chicago area. Ask any ghost chaser where to go to find a hauntings and chances are, this cemetery will|

| |be very high on the list! |

| |JANE ADDAM'S HULL HOUSE | | |

| |According to stories, this legendary house was once | | |

| |home to a "Devil Baby".. but real ghosts may have | | |

| |walked here as well! | | |

| |THE RED LION PUB |THAT STEAK JOYNT |OLD ST. ANDREWS INN |THE COUNTRY HOUSE RESTAURANT |

| |Perhaps Chicago's Most Haunted|This now vanished |The Ole St. Andrew's Inn has been |This Suburban Restaurant plays host |

| |Tavern! |restaurant was once one|haunted through several incarnations |to a phantom customer from the past |

| | |of Chicago's most | | |

| | |documented haunted | | |

| | |spots | | |

| |THE IRISH CASTLE |

| |This unusual building is located in the Chicago neighborhood of Beverly and was built by Robert Givens in 1866 to serve as his |

| |home, a reminder of the castles of his ancestors in Ireland. Heartbreak and tragedy shortened the owner's stay in the house and it|

| |has since become a girl's school and now a church. It has played host to many occupants over the years -- including some ghosts! |

| |GRACELAND CEMETERY |

| |One of the garden cemeteries created by the removal of the graveyard where present-day Lincoln Park is now located, Graceland |

| |became known as one of the most beautiful and most legendary burial grounds in the city. Home to a few mysterious tales -- it's |

| |also home to the story of Inez Clarke, a ghost story that seems too good to be true --- because it is! |

| |MT. CARMEL CEMETERY |

| |This predominantly Italian cemetery is known for not only being the spot where you'll find the resting place of Al Capone and |

| |other assorted gangsters of the Prohibition era, but also for the grave of Julia Petta -- known in Chicago as the "Italian Bride".|

| |Discover her strange story and ghostly legacy! |

|[pic] |ST. JAMES SAG CHURCH AND CEMETERY |

| |As another ghostly spot along Chicago's famed -- and haunted -- Archer Avenue, this churchyard has gained a reputation for strange|

| |events, from a phantom hearse to mysterious spirits who looked like monks and who were chased by a police officer a number of |

| |years ago. |

| |ARCHER WOODS CEMETERY |THE GRAVE OF MARY ALICE QUINN |[pic] | |

| |This spooky and secluded |Chicago's "Miracle Child" and the Ghostly Legacy she has left | | |

| |cemetery is home to the |behind | | |

| |"Weeping Woman", a mysterious | | | |

| |woman in white who has been | | | |

| |spotted by drivers for many | | | |

| |years. | | | |

| |ROSEHILL CEMETERY |ROBINSON WOODS | |

| |Although Chicago's oldest remaining, and some say most|The Haunted Indian Burial Grounds and | |

| |beautiful cemetery has a "no ghosts" policy, it is |former home of a Chicago Legend | |

| |certainly no stranger to ghostly legends and lore! | | |

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