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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 ...
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]
The Chimera House (also known as the "13 floor money back house") is an urban legend which consists of the usual young teens going out for a night on the town, only to stumble across a large, worn down multiple storey building where they are offered to go through a haunted attraction that consists of "real" horrors inside. In the story, the ...
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is a cemetery in Bremen Township, Cook County, Illinois, in Chicago 's southwest suburbs. The cemetery has also been called Bachelor Grove, Batchelor Grove, Batchelder's Grove, and Everden (or Everdon). This cemetery is the setting for a number of ghostlore stories.
Designated NHL. March 29, 2007. The Hegeler Carus Mansion, located at 1307 Seventh Street in La Salle, Illinois is one of the Midwest 's great Second Empire structures. Completed in 1876 for Edward C. Hegeler, a partner in the nearby Matthiessen Hegeler Zinc Company, the mansion was designed in 1874 by noted Chicago architect William W. Boyington.
The Crenshaw House (also known as the Crenshaw Mansion, Hickory Hill or, most commonly, The Old Slave House) is an historic former residence and alleged haunted house located in Equality Township, Gallatin County, Illinois. The house was constructed in the 1830s. [2] It was the main residence of John Crenshaw, his wife, and their five children ...
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.
The Haunted Attraction Association certified 50 haunted attractions across the country as "Top Haunts," and five destinations in Ohio made the list.