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Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is just northwest of Midlothian and Oak Forest in the southwest Chicago suburbs. The cemetery is a roughly trapezoid-shaped area enclosed by the Rubio Woods forest preserve. One side is bordered by the remains of the Midlothian Turnpike, an early toll road that leads from Blue Island to points southwest. [1] [2] [3]
Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost. [1] [2] [3]
Former Chicago Historical Society Building is said to be haunted since its use as a temporary morgue for victims of the Eastland Disaster (1915). [57] Former Anna State Hospital a Kirkbride Plan hospital in Anna. [58] Crenshaw House in Equality. The house was constructed in the 1830s as a station on the Reverse Underground Railroad.
You can continue your Illinois ghost tour by traveling to Chicago to see a very haunted cemetery. Wikimedia/McPikeMansionCrew. Indiana: Nicholson-Rand House, Indianapolis.
Old Joliet Prison. Drive Time: 1 hour, 2 minutes. Kid-Friendly: Maybe. Recommended for ages 12 and up. Yelp Rating: 3 stars Set inside a real abandoned prison, the Old Joliet Prison Haunted House ...
Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. [1] [2] The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in a mass grave from when between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred.
Chicago provides a good Midwestern scare, and is notorious for its ghost tours that showcase the Iroquois Theater and the story of H.H. Holmes that embraces the city's haunted history. The Chicago ...
Eternal Silence, alternatively known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death, [1] is a monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and features a bronze sculpture of a hooded and draped figure set upon, and backdropped by, black granite.