Abingdon
Abingdon Middle School - There have been stories of a teacher who 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 again. 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 there are two sides. The side that touches 31 is more of a good side in terms of the way the spirits are. The other side has a rapist that has been bound to his grave spot by a high priestess. Do not enter this circle or you will be at the mercy of his anger. A little bit further down the cemetery is a murderers spirit he 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 watching you trying to protect you from harm. The only way to be safe is to stay on the trail until you know where they are.
Square Barn Road - 2 kids run in front of cars, usually at midnight, running from 3 nasty killers. 2 boys 1 girl.
Allerton Park
Allerton Mansion - There have been reports of a mysterious lady in white. She, according to witnesses and old photos of people that use to go there as guest of Mr. Robert Allerton, is a guest that frequently visited there. 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. This is all I know, I've been to the house many times and I've always noticed a strange feeling in the air. BTW the gardens there are wonderful.
Alsip
Cemetery(s ) - Alsip was once a huge brickyard for Chicago, as well as a planned cemetery. A really large one, supposedly dubbed The City of Chicago Cemetery. Many of the older houses have pre-dug graves within. Since not all of Alsip was used as a cemetery, the plan was debunked. However, Alsip has Illinois' largest cemetery count. There have been cases of ghosts, poltergeist activity (objects moved around homes), voices, etc. Besides its own graveyards, Alsip also borders several famous ones such as Holy Sepulcher.
Altamont
Devil's Peak- It has a rock shaped like the Devil's horns out of the hill you can see it really well and it is said that the devil roams down there, it is in the valley, don't know if the one talking about St. Elmo-valley is talking about the same one.
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 - Many reports of ghostly 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.
McPike Mansion - The owners have an outside annual Halloween bonfire. The house is extremely creepy looking, the owners are trying to restore the mansion. It is now condemned by the city of Alton, so you cannot go inside the mansion. There is a lot of history and unexplained things that go on here. Presences felt, perfume smelled, apparitions, and strange electrical phenomena. Check out the Main Page of the house. McPike Homepage
Mineral Springs Hotel - The Lavender-Lady is one about a woman who loved the lavender smell. She had an affair and her husband found out. He chased her down some steps and nobody really knows the rest of the story except that he killed her. There is also a story about the pool area at the basement level. A woman drowned in the pool and it was because of a man. WARNING: There is a fee to see the hotel
St. Anthony's hospital - this is a very haunted hospital. there is at least three ghosts there. on is a small boy on the third floor in the administration area. another is said to be on the second floor near the endoscopes dept. the third is on the first floor in the sterile processing dept. this ghost is said to be one of the nuns from the order that is in residence at the hospital.
Amboy
Franklin Blacktop - There is a house that sits catty-corner from the 4-H Center, it is reported that 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) no matter if it is the middle of winter the room feels heated. It is also reported that 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 - Reports of apparitions of people running, people standing in the windows as you drive by, also reported a man that walked in the tunnels and felt a hand on his back. It is reported that there are faces in the buildings and the uppers and lowers the cottages are also EXTREMELY haunted by nurses and prior residents. There is also reports of a "devil dog" attacking a resident and when lights in the room were turned on there was nothing just scratches all over the persons body. There are several accounts of choate being haunted but it is mostly under choate in the tunnels where all of the activity happens because the old buildings burned and all that was left was the original basements which is now the tunnels that run all under choate and some even run out of Choate.
Union County Hospital& Nursing home - On the second floor of the hospital there is a little boy who died in the 50's and when you go there in the night you see him. In the nursing home there are many people who were once residents there and every now and then you catch a glimpse of them.
Antioch
Antioch Movie Theatre - This old theatre has been around since the 40's. It used to be an old theatre house, where plays were held. There has been many stories about the old theatre. Like a girl had hung herself from the balcony, and that Al Capone had tunnels dug underneath the theatre leading towards Fox Lake. If those are true or not employees have reported that flood lights have come on out of nowhere and turned off by themselves. Also reported hearing things after hours like noises, bangs, and people on the stairs. Some employees report having a sence that there is something else in the room, when they are really alone.
Arcola
The depot by the rail road tracks - There is a ghosts seen holding and swinging a lantern.
Ashley
Abandoned candy factory - A ghost inhabits the factory. She is said to have been killed during a normal day 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 it is also possible to 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.
Ashmore Estates - South of Ashmore - Ashmore estates was an old insane asylum, legend has it that the government stopped the funding and all the employees left the patients. With no where to go and the inability it help themselves. The patients all died of starvation and dehydration. Illegal as it may be, when people venture into the building, strange voices are heard, and when leaving people have reported loud banging noises, and when looking back they saw the trunk of their car dent in and out as if being pounded on.
Argyle
Old Church at 173 & Beloit Rd - Legend has it witch's were hung there along time ago. People who have witnessed a lady in black sitting in the window by the bell late at night then disappear. The church painted the window black recently. Several people have witnessed the "lady".
Arlington Heights
South Middle School - Other than the fact that it's a Middle School, this place is known to have a gateway to Hell or something of the like in it's lower floor. Strange noises have been heard there by several kids who want to be daring.
St. Viator High School - Rumor has it that one night a janitor was cleaning in the auditorium while it was dark. While cleaning the stage he bumped into something...when he looked up he saw a boy hanging from a rope. people say you can hear strange voices and see odd things.
Aurora
Baymont Inn and Suites - A former employee and guest heard people talking in an empty room late at night none was registered in room and when door was opened voices stopped and none was in there. Another employee reports a guest coming downstairs and wanting out of room #208 because he woke up and felt someone strangling him with none there. There was also an incident in the lobby and office with a guest on the phone nearby we both witnessed a white ball of light shoot from behind the office and out into the lobby then vanished the guest was very disturbed this happened on St Patrick's day 2001 at approximately 2am.
Leland Tower Hotel - The Leland Tower, 21 stories and the tallest building in Aurora 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
Cuba Road - White mysterious orb follows passing cars on the metal gate of the old cemetery. There is also a disappearing house on Cuba Road. If you go out on the road during a full moon and turn off your headlights you can see the house. If you enter the house and stay until the sun comes up you will disappear with the house forever.
The haunted Silo - there is a haunted farm house with a silo. The legend is a man went crazy because he thought his wife was cheating on him, so he murdered her and his kids. He killed himself as well. There is also a five-point star located about 20 yards away from where he buried his family. The star has a dead tree at each point of the star. Apparently you can still hear noises and see something moving around in the house late at night. Even if it is 80 degrees outside you can feel a bitter uninviting chill. It is located in Barrington Illinois on shoe factory road.
Shoe Factory Road - first driving down the road there is a forest where you can see little children running though the woods mostly around where the lake is it is said that there had been deaths there when Hoffman was a farm town if you go a lot father you can then see a barn on the right side and it is said that seventeen years ago that a man escaped from the psycho ward and was staying in the barn but when the owners of the house found out and tried to get rid of him he killed the family and they were found hanging in the barn you can see lights on in the barn sometimes little more down you see an abandoned house on the left where a child killed his parents five years ago because they treated him like a child if you drive pass the house there are roses on the street sometimes and you can see a child playing on the steps with a knife.
White Cemetery - Glowing orbs are seen from the road, and a phantom black car can be seen driving from the entrance of the cemetery then disappearing a few blocks down. Also, when pictures are taken of the cemetery the pictures do not develop or the camera is lost.
Bartelso
Old Carlyle Road - If you sit out on the road for a little bit with your lights off you will see a car coming towards you and then it goes below a hill and disappears. It is said to be the ghost of a girl who was raped and killed. NOTE: There's a road over a field that appears to be coming straight at you, only it goes down a little hill and then turns left, so the lights appear to disappear, but really, the car has turned.
Bartlett
Munger road - They say if you park your car on the tracks and put it in neutral and put baby powder on the trunk, you will see fingerprints of a boy who got killed on those very tracks.
Sunrise Park - There was a man in his mid 40s where he had a house by the trees and was right next to a school. People have weird tingling in there back and when they turn around it gets very hard to breathe. PLUS THERE HAS BEEN SCREAMING IN THE WOODS OF THE PARK. Later then his house had to be destroyed because of complaints from the parents. So then he got revenge on the children by killing them every day from the mid 1800s to now. then he would leave the bones in this little area surrounded by wood.. That is why Bartlett is so lightly populated today.
Bartonville
Bartonville Insane Asylum - The Bartonville Insane Asylum has been closed for many years. Patients in the Asylum where given cruel treatments such as water submersion, shock therapy, and many other forms that would be considered inhuman today. Many people who have ventured into the run down Asylum have heard strange noises and have even seen apparitions. It is a 3 story stone building on Fiefer Road. Many of the other buildings used for recreation at the Asylum have been renovated, but the main housing facility still stands and looks the same as it did years ago. There is a grave yard across the street from the Asylum at the end of the road on the left down a long dirt lane. Many of the headstones have only numbers on them because they did not know the names of the patients. Other headstones have names and dates. If you at the dates you will find that someone died at the Asylum every single day. - Warning: Police will arrest anyone trying to get inside the Asylum, or the cemetery.
State Hospital - They say the residents of the Bartonville State Hospital haunt the grounds and can be seen at various times. Bartonville-old Illinois State hospital - More info here: http://theshadowlands.net/famous/bartonville.htm
Batavia
The Batavia Inn - Bed and Breakfast - reports of visitors feeling a ghost running it's fingers through her hair and it would get freezing cold until she could see her breathe. This was sometime in the summer. She yelled out, "There's a ghost in here and I know it and I'm going to take your picture!" She took a picture and she reports right where the cold spot was and it was a large black spot that looked like it had hundreds of screaming faces in it.
Belleville
Belleville West - The Auditorium - of the old Belleville West campus, now Lindenwood University campus, is haunted by a former teacher that died before the production of her play. Props move after practices, she is friendly.
Lincoln Theatre - There Are 7 Ghosts that haunt this theatre. 3 of them are as follows. 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. One time a guy told me he was putting new tile in, in the projection booth and he went to get something came back and the tile that still needed to be laid was already done.
Pasta House - It is said to be haunted by a family that was killed when it was a hotel many years ago. If you are there late enough you can hear a woman and child scream.
The Ghost Tracks - Possible Urban Legend - The ghost tracks are the alleged resting place of a young boy killed by a train on the tracks. 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, up a hill, to save you from his fate. If you put baby powder on your bumper, after he pushes you, you can see his fingerprints. - September Update: the tracks have since been removed.
Belvedere
Blood's Point Cemetery - Sightings of white orbs, mists, and leaves manifesting into human forms. Electrical malfunctions such as flashlights turning off and cameras turning off, that function normally outside the cemetery, Also heard, peculiar cries, whistles and whispers, and an occasional growling from around the shed area.
Bishop Township
Kings Cemetery - Pictures have been taken at night, and mysterious orbs are seen in the pictures, And silhouettes jumping out of the person, though not moving....At least 5 different cameras used and different kinds of film. It's in the Middle of Nowhere, no houses, just trees.
Bloomington
Blooming Grove Academy - Old Junior High School - Some sort of haunt on the 3rd floor that likes to rattle doors and play music loudly. Can be heard only at night. Upon further inspection of the room that the music has been heard in nothing was found to show that there was anyone in there. Could possibly be the spirit of a basketball player who choked on his own vomit trying not to be embarrassed.
Illinois Weslyan University -International House - The International House is a huge mansion-sized house on the Illinois Weslyan Campus in Bloomington, IL. Since it's first days as a private residence it has since been converted into co-ed dormitories. There was an old elevator that used to be in service in the house and has since been sealed up. Apparently 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 also rumored to be the spirit of a young girl who walks around the 3rd floor. She was supposed to be 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 - stories of young boy looking out the attic window. Boy said to be hatchet to death.
The old Mennonite hospital (now Eureka) - There is this one room on the 3rd floor at the end of the hallway where a lady passed away a very painful death from cancer. After she passed the call light would always go on and off, there would be the smell of death in the room, that no matter how hard they tried it couldn't be removed. There were always strange noises coming out of the room. That room was never used again.
Buckner
Harrison Cemetery - In this cemetery are 2 ghosts. They are supposedly guarding the cemetery. If you go there late at night, you can see them. However, some nights they do not show themselves. They are supposedly a man and a woman. There is also a piano that only plays at exactly 12:00 midnight. The man usually shows up as an orange glow in a field beside the cemetery. The woman is usually a whitish glow. She usually shows up near a group of pine trees in a far corner of the cemetery. That corner is usually where the piano plays.
Buffalo Grove
Dead Man's Creek - This is the woodsy area behind Prairie Elementary School. The lunch ladies yell at any kid who steps off the playground and into Dead Man's Creek. This is because about a decade ago there was a red barn in the woodsy area where Dead Man's Creek now stands. There was an old who lived all alone inside this barn. One day the barn burnt down and he burnt down along with the barn. He now haunts the area behind the elementary school looking to kill little hopeless children so that the children can suffer the same painful death that he suffered.
The Intersection of Buffalo Grove Rd and Half Day Road (Rt 22) - This is a very dangerous intersection. There is an accident there at least once a week. It is said that these accidents are caused because the victims of past accidents, who are now dead, want to see other people suffer. They haunt the intersection.
Bullvalley
Stickney Mansion - 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 reason for the downstairs and outer perimeter not having corners was for the purpose of ghosts and spirits to 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 also 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. one of the stories is that one of the Stickney children hung himself in an upstairs room. They say anyone is welcome to visit the station. Yet, a visitor to the house recently was told they'd get back in touch with her to give her more information. they never did. Beware you may get to go inside and get some stories, but not much else. - October 2004 update: It has now been remodeled into a police station.
Cambridge
Death Curve - In 1907 there was a women and her husband living in a house in the country. They had seven children. Her husband was a farmer. She was a stay at home mom with her kids. One day her husband came down with a very bad cold. A few weeks after getting the cold, He died of unknown reasons. She however could not take care of her seven children alone with no income. So one day she took her kids lined them up in a line in the front yard. And she decapitated each one. When she realized what she had done she set her house on fire and shot herself in the head. So at night if you go and sit on the curve where the house used to be at the time she killed herself at 10:27 pm you can see a women in all white sitting on this post out in front of what used to be her house. They say the reason she did all of this was because she was temporarily insane. And when she saw what she did she couldn't take it. And Her and her Seven children are buried in the Cambridge Roseville Cemetery.
Canton
Baby Cry Bridge - On black jack road the first bridge u get to you are supposed to stop and turn your car off, roll up the windows, and lock the doors, Don't go alone, and don't get out of your car. If you listen you will here a baby crying, the story goes that a young mother had drowned her baby in the creek.
Carpentersville
Instant Replay Sports Bar - formerly Big Boy's restaurant - in Carpentersville on rte 25 and Lake Marion Roads now closed! resold threes x over but the same building is occupied. Five ghosts linger there. No facts on record except for my experiences and its history!
Cary
Cary Road - St. Barnabas - This place was torn down in October 1997. Whatever this "place" was abandoned and in sad shape probably dating back to the 1960s or 70's at the least. What's left if it is still forest but it all once stood across the street. A silo still stands as well. There was an old house (originally built in the late 1880s at first guess) overlooking Cary Rd and behind that was to us what was a "ski lodge" and further down from that were remnants of an old park district -- complete with tennis courts, a concession/locker room building and a huge in ground pool. None of this made any sense from a common-sense point of view. And all of this was in the confines of a huge forest. No old roads, no parking lots, nothing that should have been there was there. Witnesses have clearly heard heavy boot steps and young female voices calling their names. Cleary nobody else was within three-football fields distance from them and they were the only ones there. what the place was or what its functions were is not known and the police are really reluctant to tell anyone what the place once was and patrol the area to keep the curious away.
Central City
Central City Cemetery - Late at night when all is quiet in the southeastern part of the grave yard there is a statue of a girl playing the violin which you can heard clearly but faintly on calm nights. She is know throughout the small town as violin Annie.
Centralia
Centralia cemetery - It is said in an old cemetery in this town that a young girl was murdered by her father with her very own violin. There is a statue of her where she was buried holding a violin and at night on certain days if you listen closely you can hear her play the instrument.
Centralia cemetery - There is a statue of her where she was buried holding a violin and at night on certain days if you listen closely you can hear her play the instrument. - September 2004 update /correction: Annie ( Harriet Anne Marshall) was the daughter of a wealthy doctor. She took ill while on a family trip with her parents. She died of diphtheria. Her mother was so distraught that she eventually lost her mind. She did not beat the child to death. Annie was an accomplished violinist. Her grieving father had the statue done as a monument. It was based on a painting of Annie with her violin standing next to her father at the piano. This painting was at one time owned by an antique dealer in Centralia. Everyone growing up had head the story of Annie playing her violin at night. The Marshall family has tried to maintain the statue but it has been attacked vandals several times. Her violin bow is broken off.
Foundation Park - Stover's Hill a popular place where children go to sled when it snows. At the bottom of Stover's hill there is a marry-go-round, witnesses report getting an image of a family in a picture taken there.
Champaign
Church St. YMCA - 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.
The University of Illinois - The English building - is supposed to be haunted. The story is that it was once a girl's dormitory, and a girl killed herself there. Supposedly her spirit haunts the building.
Charleston
Eastern Illinois University - Pemberton Hall - where a young college girl was allegedly 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 footprints on the floor or bloody footprints. The floor where she was killed is closed off but mysterious music still plays from a piano she once played on. The murder supposedly 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. At one time, a school bus full of children ran off the bridge, causing everyone to die. 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 also a traffic light that keeps moving, never staying in the same place. A ghost car will come out of no where and chase you and run you off the road. Off of blood point road there is Sweeney road where there is a spot to pull over by a stonewall. Over the wall is a field with paths that lead to the woods were red floating orbs have been seen. In the woods is the foundation of church of some kind. No flashlight will work it will turn off one step into the woods. an old farmer will came running through the woods with a shotgun then once outside the woods he disappears. At the end of Sweeney road at the stop sign it turns in to Pool rd. proceed with caution as a phantom black big rig will come out of no where. And on your way out you will be chased by the ghost car until you leave the area.
Chicago
Archer Woods Cemetery - The cemetery gates are never locked, so entry is easily accessible. As you walk into the Cemetery You follow a path that leads around in a circle. As you leave the cemetery it is said that a white filmy form floats among the trees near the gates. She is called the sobbing woman and you can also hear her sobs and wails. The strange part is that you only see her as you exit never when you enter.
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery - Over the years people claim to have spotted glowing lights, phantom cars, and over 100 ghosts. The Ghost Research Society had seen a young woman dressed in old-fashioned clothes and perched on a tombstone on August 10,1991. But even though she seemed to be almost transparent, a camera caught her image pretty clearly. If she was a ghost that picture will prove that ghost are real to people don't believe in them.
Biograph Theater - the ghost of John Dillinger is seen running in the alley behind this building where he was killed.
The Dome Room - A nightclub that is believed to be haunted. It was built during the ballroom days of the 20's, so who knows what is haunting it. Before it was a ballroom, it was a warehouse, but no known history of warehouse stands out.
Garet Durson mental Hospital - Numerous flash lights going off and not working at the same time, hear people screaming , and a woman in a white robe running down the stairs.
The Givins Castle - In the small town of Beverly located in Chicago's Southside, there is a castle that an Irish man named Givins built for his wife while she still resided in Ireland. She died before she got to live in her castle. She lives there now and can sometimes be seen walking up the hill that leads to the castle door.
Graceland Cemetery - Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's oldest graveyards and boasts several hauntings. The most famous is the spirit of Inez Clark. Inez was just shy of seven years old when she was struck by lightening at a family picnic. Her parents, distraught over the loss, had a life-size statue of the child erected at her grave site. The statue is enclosed in glass, protecting it from the elements. On rainy nights, when thunder is rolling, the statue reportedly disappears from the glass box, and a young girl can be seen roaming the cemetery grounds.
Harpo Inc. - Haunted by victims of the Great Chicago Fire. It is now Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Inc. main studios. People refuse to stay in the building after dark for fear of the ghosts.
Holy Family Church - parishioners have seen a white apparition here.
The House of Blues - there ones was a little girl that died of an illness. There has been rumors that you can here her in the room. There will be imprints in the bed sheets and ones there was a little boy came to stay with his mother and at night a little girl was playing with his toys saying "want to play with me" so the little boy screamed and it went away
Hubbard High School - In the basement of Hubbard High School you can see and hear a teenage girl crying and sometimes screaming for help.
Jane Addams Hull House - Now a museum, said to have been the home of a devil baby. Sightings are still reported, as well as sightings of ghosts and Monks. Update - A fellow ghost hunter recently visited the Hull House stating, "if your there to experience anything to do with ghost forget it, you can't take camera's, video's or anything in there. You can't go upstairs, the tour consist of four small rooms. Ghost hunters don�t waste your time. We talk to one of staff who works there and she said it's not true about the devil baby, they just let the legend go on."
Kelvyn Park Highschool - about 5 years ago 3 teachers died but no students knew how or why. Reports of hearing voices, footsteps and feeling cold drafts.
Lourdes High School - It is claimed that nuns that have died over many years haunt the school. On the third floor you can hear someone walking down the hallway. In Stritch hall shadows have been seen. - May 2004 Update: About two years ago (2002) it became John Hancock High School. Reports say the ghost is still there.
Loyola University Chicago - Urban legend has it that long ago, a Jesuit priest and a nun had an affair. The nun found out that she was pregnant, and wanted the priest to runaway with her, so they could raise the child. The priest refused. The nun hung herself on the 13th floor of the Skyscraper building, the priest found the body, and jumped out of the window. The top floors of the building have long been vacant, but the light in the room where she killed herself can be seen lit from the outside. Also, those that have ventured up there have seen the nun and priest walking hand-in-hand. The story here is just a legend, as to why there is a phenomena, it is unknown at this time. If you have the true story, please email Haunted Places
Maryville Center For Medically Complex Children - The Maryville Center For Medically Complex children was an institute for drug addicted, handicapped, insane, and foster children. It was mysteriously shut down, and boarded up for reason related to asbestos. Located at Oak Park Rd. and Forest Preserve Rd. (Montrose ave.) in Chicago, you must park about a mile away and make the trip to the entrance on foot. Once inside you must pass numerous buildings marked: A, B, C, etc. Follow the main concrete path and follow it off to the left until you see a run down playground once used by the children who lived at the center. Go past the swing set and the 2nd slide you see and go between the two building before you. All but one of the windows around you will be boarded up. The one window that is not boarded up leads into the indoor pool. A main hallway can be reached through a room called the 'pool office'. From there you will find numerous stairwells that provide access to about 75% of the entire center. There are many reports of people hearing the sounds of children laughing, and in some instances even seeing people in white robes walking around. Lots of paranormal activity takes place in this abandoned asylum.
Monks Castle - Suppose to be a religious order that if you try to get onto their land, they will chase you. One particular story was about a bunch of kids going in at night and sneaking around (around 1983 - 1985), they said they saw something in the woods that had glowing red eyes that started to chase them. They made it across the gate, as one of the girls sat down on the curb by the street light, a monk grabbed her, and she was never heard from again.
Mount Carmel - Spirit of Julia Buccola Petta is said to wander the cemetery grounds. On one occasion when a young boy was left behind in the cemetery, the family saw the boy take the hand of a lady in a white gown upon their return to retrieve the boy. When they got closer the lady disappeared.
O'Hare airport - dead passengers and flight attendants pilots. An American airlines flight crashed into an airfield near the airport. The crash ignited a huge fireball all passengers and crew died in the disaster.
S-M-C Cartage Company - On Valentine's Day in 1929, Al Capone sent some of his men to leave a tragic message to Bugs Moran at one of his buildings. The building was called the S-M-C Cartage Company and was a red, brick structure on Clark Street. Seven men were lined up and mowed down with machine gun fire, leaving the wall splattered with blood and full of bullet holes. After hearing the news, Bugs was heard to exclaim, "Only Capone kills guys like that!" In 1972, a man bought the factory and transformed it into a 20's themed club. The brick wall the massacre took place on was dismantled and the factory was torn down. People still hear gunfire and screams coming from the area. Supposedly, before it was torn down, seven shadowy figures were seen lined up on the wall and the viewer would be filled with fear.
Options Exchange Building - In 1979 two traders had a disagreement over a trade. They decided to settle the matter outside by the horse statue/fountain. One of the men was so badly injured that he died before the paramedics could save him. To this day, janitors say they can hear what sounds like two men arguing after everyone has left.
Red Lion Pub - It is right across the street from the Biograph Theater. - Just ask some of the "regulars" of the noises, footsteps and voices they hear there on a regular basis.
Robinson Woods - Reports have been made that you can see black shadows, red, or white orbs, scents of violet, or lavender at times. Pictures of ectoplasm mist can be seen through photography.
The Congress Hotel - Numerous cold spots all over the old hotel and TV's going on and off for no reason at night. Things moved in the night. Lots of bizarre occurrences as well as doors closing and odd feelings walking down some hallways
Webster's Wine Bar - apparition has been seen at the second floor bar
St. Turibius School - Rumors say that that the ghost of Fr.Lechert a former priest who has passed away a long time ago, can sometimes be seen roaming the Church. By the tabernacle, near the a candle there, is said to be a black shadow lurking there. Sometimes late at night you can hear the organ playing. Some say it's a ghost. Others say it's just nun or someone else practicing playing.
Christian
Anderson Cemetery - There are a lot of orbs that are seen by many. And on certain nights there are dark shadows with red eyes there. Also not far from this cemetery there is also a stone cabin that has figures that appear in it. It was said that a man, wife and there kids lived in the cabin. One day the man killed his family then hung himself on the bridge near by.
Cicero
Chodl Auditorium - A teacher\director is said to haunt the theater. According to legend he died of a heart attack the opening night of West Side Story and never got to see the production. Students have claimed to see and feel a presence in the theatre especially later at night after long rehearsals . West Side Story hasn't been put on out of respect but once since his death.
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, however. 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 an actual sighting of a misty apparition, plus doors opening and once a glass window being totally 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. She became angry when she asked the bartender if she could leave the baby in his care while she went out do some things. He refused, fearing that she was going to abandon her child. She then stormed out of the restaurant and sped away in her car. A few miles down the road, the women and her child were found dead in a car accident. Nobody knows whether she intentionally rammed her car into the tree, or is was just an 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 broke many dishes and glasses.
Colchester
Vishnu Springs - Vishnu is an old abandoned township located just west of Colchester. There are feelings of being watched, viewed shadow like beings in darkened corners.
Collinsville
Cahokia Mounds - Ghost of Indians and strange shadows and balls of light.
Old First Baptist Church - The story goes that a German janitor was locked into the basement and then the building set afire. This occurred during WWI when tensions were high against German-Americans. The church was rebuilt on the original basement. Ironically, it is now used as a haunted house during October. Workers and patrons alike have experienced cold spots, uneasiness, footsteps, shadow figures, and images of both a hell hound and a hooded figure walking around. After some investigation it was found that seven spirits inhabit the building, and one referred to as the demon. This demon is responsible for hiding objects and grabbing people to the point of leaving bruises. - April 2004 Update: The Old First Baptist Church in Collinsville, Illinois, burned to the ground overnight just before Halloween this past October, 2003. Nothing is left.
Keeblerrd Mansion - walking slaves, eerie sounds - This old mansion used to stand on the curved Keebler Rd. It had at one time a stage like place in the basement with leg irons still in the concrete walls where they used to auction off slaves. At night when you would drive by the house, you could see like candles moving from window to window. Rumors about how sometimes 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 friend visited their as a child with her father, and they witnessed the slave auction area themselves. Several years ago, the house mysteriously burned down, and the old cemetery now goes unnoticed, but the old-timers remember it and where the house and cemetery were located.
Lebanon Rd. - Gates of Hell - On a lonely road called Lebanon road there are a series of concrete tunnels (gates). 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. Legend around here says that 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.
Miner's Theater - Located on Main Street, Miner's Theater is supposedly haunted by three ghosts. The first two are supposedly brothers, and one killed the other for ownership of the Theater. The murderer is supposedly hostile, and the actors who frequently act at Miner's always tell the new people to leave the murderer and his brother alone, and to never call on them. The third is the spirit of a young woman. She is a mischievous ghost, and harmless. Often, actors will find make up or costumes missing, only to find them after they looked everywhere they could possibly be. One time, a young actress was putting on make up, and couldn't find her mascara, so she went on to put on something else, when suddenly, the missing mascara rolled off the vanity, and rolled in the opposite direction the floor slated to.
Colona
Kauzlarich House - There had been shadows in the halls and things turning on and off without being touched.
Crete
Ax-Man's House - In the 1970's a man murders 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 then chased through the woods near his home by the police until he was finally shot and killed near the road. 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 still 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.
Monee Road - Upon driving over the railroad tracks late at night, one experiences a body chill and hears a girl scream. Once in a while one can even see a girl standing on the road side in a white outfit.
Sangamon Road - Sightings of a woman and child standing together in the middle of the road are seen from a distance, but they disappears when you get closer. Often on rainy nights.
Crestwood
Bachelors Woods - you walk in to the woods in the Bachelors wood's and the tree's seem to hold you back from going in. all of the deer and mice stay away from where the old house's was and the grave yard makes you feel like your being looked at but no one is there. the trees seen to be moving in on you as you go to the grave yard. in the day time if you go there you feel some thing. And at night some times you see stuff. A hole house that is not there anymore. And a women with a baby. as you go in the woods you see deer tracks all over the place but not one by the where the old house's was or in the grave yard. And once there you feel like some one is always there but one is there.
Crystal Lake
Barnes & Noble bookstore - An old woman who died had willed her property to a church, specifying that the property was to used for a school. Barnes & Noble (along with a couple other stores) now occupies this property. Employees have witnessed book carts moving by themselves, and have reported items being moved around. Some claim to have seen the old lady 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 she disappears. Also 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 hear footsteps follow you.
Lake view cemetery - The Lake View Cemetery is said to be haunted by the spirit of a women who set her self on fire here.
McHenry County - YMCA - Rumor is that there was a farmer that lived behind the parking lot in the woods. He killed his family in a barn. Rumor is 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 these kids over the years you can hear cries from in the house if you put your ear to the door you hear kids scratching at the door. Then you hear palmer 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
Cornfield Cemetery (Niccum) - very old cemetery in the middle of a cornfield. reported apparitions seen and very eerie feelings. Off of long rd.
Hungry hallow rd. - the road is haunted by little kids that has starved to death during the great depression times. it is really freaky you can go to the road and sit on this road and hear kids say, food, or say please food please. the kids that starved there lived in little shacks. they got snowed in where they or their parents could not get to town for a while so they starved.
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 has orbs. it is said that a man was found dead in the basement. not known if it was drug overdose or murder.
Decatur
Avon Theater - The ghost of the original owner has been seen by many people roaming this old theater.
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. and a host of other spirits who prowl the confines of this large graveyard. For decades 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.
Des Plaines
Galaxy Club - Late at night near the juice bar of the club, you can hear over the loud music people calling your name. There is a 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 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.
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 at night. If you stop and shut off your car, it is almost impossible to restart your car w/ out the aid of another.
The Lost Forties - Legend is a large area of land northwest of Oakland and southeast of Tuscola of a girl who runs out in front of cars and gets hit. Everyone in the car felt the impact, but when they stop the car and try to find the girl she is gone.
East Peoria
Cole Hollow Road - Cole Hollow Road was the site of "Cohomo" (Cole Hollow Road Monster) in the 60's. There were tons of sightings of this monster back then, but there has not been any sightings since then, but strange phenomena such as rocks flying out of nowhere at your car and lights in the woods have been seen.
East St. Louis
State street abandoned building - 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, became quite a popular destination along the St. Louis - Springfield stage coach route. Various reports of hauntings including those of slaves, children, various adults. Have been reported.. You can read more about it at: http://www.prairieghosts.com/threemile.html
Effingham
Ramsey Cemetery - Old cemetery that has haunted caves. A werewolf and a man in a black cloak with red eyes is said to be seen there. Many weird things have happened here.
El Paso
El Paso Health Care Center - Mental health facility that has call lights going off when no one is in the room. Doors slamming with no wind also occur. There is a presence on at least two of the halls and no one who works there now will go down one of these halls without the light on.
Elgin
Beef Villa - The restaurant employees have claimed of seeing orbs of light and feeling cold spots, as well as the lights and ovens turning on and off in many different occasions. Some of the people who have eaten there say they have felt as if someone was standing behind them whispering, when nobody was there. There have been stories of a young teenage boy having been shot and killed in front of the restaurant, in the 1980's sometime. It is said that it is his angry and depressed spirt that plagues this location with the paranormal.
Channing Memorial Elementary School - Everything from cold spots, to apparitions, to footsteps from the upper floor (when you are "alone" in the building)has been reported here. When an addition was built on to the building, over 13 skeletons were found in the ground under which the school was built. Most of them estimated to be children ages ranging 10 to 17 years of age. if you enter this building after dark, be prepared to hear voices whispering in your ear, as well as screaming from the upper floor (it all seems to be centered around the upper floor) doors that open and close by themselves, and an elevator that operates itself! Many night custodians have fled Phe 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 - Documentation of patients being tortured in the turn of the century era before science understood insanity. They then were buried five in a grave with the name of the body on top marking that grave. All kinds of supernatural activity 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. - September 2004 update: Reported as still being open today.
Ellis Middle School - The auditorium is supposedly haunted by a woman in a white lace dress, and can only be seen in the Hallways backstage.
Illinois Park School - The school was about 100 years old. People have said that they hear little children crying or laughing by the k.g. area. Down in the basement people said that they hear noise of someone hamming some type of metal. Teachers seem to stick together when going to their class room. During night time people have said that weird things happen in the building. Few years back the school had a vote to build a new school or to remodel the old building, students and staff voted for a new school. The school no longer stands and place where it once stood is now a parking lot for the new school.
Elkhart
Elkhart Cemetery - 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. The woods at the back of the cemetery there's a fence that separates them with a step stool and sign next to fence. The sign say's, grounds keepers don't wander back here neither should ladies and gents. Well it's a path over the fence going up the hill didn't explore to far up but u can hear voices footsteps through the woods and you can see black apparitions like there watching you. Urban Legend is that at the top of the hill the path branches you have to pick which way to go but you have to pick correctly or you don't come back.
Elmhurst
Abandoned Ovaltine Factory - In the late 70's early 80"s this building was used as a teenage party spot...it was also used by the homeless and for satanic rituals. Several of the homeless people who tried to stay there as well as some of the party goers in later days, have reported that this place is full of strange occurrences and cold spots, drafts, etc. The feeling of being followed and watched is also present.
Single track train track - reports of an apparition of a man with a lantern walking on the tracks and disappears.
The old Stone Cottage Pizzaria - At one time it was also called Spaso Speakeasy, not sure what it is now,...but originally it was a lovely stone manor. Directions to follow the story...It is said that long ago the woman that owned it hung herself in the attic/which has been converted to the office/storage space for whatever business inhabits the building. The small basement has been used as a liquor/storage room. The building has several dining areas with fireplaces in each one that have been converted to gas. Employees of then Spaso Speakeasy were almost asphyxiated by gas fumes when setting up before opening one day, everybody began to get sick...it was later discovered that the gas for the fireplaces had been turned on but not lit. For years employees have complained that the pull chain light switch at the top of the basement stairs, gets pulled and the light goes out, forcing you to either try maneuvering the stairs in the dark or leave the lower light on...if you walk up the stairs and turn it on and go back down to finish what you are doing, the light chain gets pulled ain, and the light goes out. There are secret panels and rooms behind the walls, that very few people are aware of, their purpose is unknown at this time. One in particular is between the front entranceway and the kitchen, along the wall to the left. The bar area is particularly active, and things disappear and reappear, such as a cork screw that disappeared. After exhaustive searching, the manager went out and purchased another one...a few hours later, the missing corkscrew was simply sitting out in plain sight on the bar, in the open. The ghost has been called Mrs. Murphy...although, it is not known if that was/is the true name, and is more like a trickster than a specter. Just an odd note...a Halloween party was held in the year 1989,(then Spaso Speakeasy) a raffle was given for door prizes and the first ticket drawn was *0666...No one held that ticket and it was not in sequence with the role of tickets being used. Most/all businesses in this building have failed...it is/was near the corner of North Avenue and Route 83...If you start out at the intersection of North and York...travel toward Route 83...it is on the right side...one business from the corner...a Peppers Waterbed Store used to be the business just past it. It is within visual distance of the Golden Pheasant restaurant which is across 83, and on the left.
Equality
The Old Slave House - !!!WARNING!!! Was once a tourist attraction for history buffs and ghost hunters alike. The house was sold to new owners in 1994 and they do not give tours. They do not want guest and they do not want anyone near the property. they will call the police on trespassers. - the story of the Slave house is, the owner built the house to breed slaves and sell them down south. He had many studs, his most famous was named Big Jim. All of the Slaves, including Big Jim were kept chained in little rooms in the attic. Slavery was Illegal in IL, so the owner has a side entrance built on to the house that a wagon could pull up to and a person or persons could be taken into the house and up to attic without being seen. Some of his victims were free blacks that he kidnapped and held captured until they were sold down south when was done breading them. To this day the attic still has the little stalls with the chains on the wall and floor. You can hear the moaning and crying of the slaves. Some reported seeing Big Jim in the Attic and other places in the house. There is a lot of activity in the house. The owners would give tours and even let people spend the night in the attic. It is said no one has ever been able to stay till dawn in that attic. A few TV crews, ghost hunters and psychics have tried and failed.
Evanston
The First Methodist Church of Evanston - The sanctuary is haunted by the ghost of a man in a black business suit. He has the way of not being involved with anyone in the room that all ghosts have. 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. It is unknown who he is or why he is haunting the church.
Evergreen Park
Evergreen Cemetery - Evergreen Cemetery, 87th St.& Kedzie Ave., A young girl, 12 to 14 years of age, is said to haunt one of the CTA bus stops along 87th St. It is said that 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,( or late night "visitors" peeking from behind?) and people sitting on some of the stone benches in cemetery at night. As this cemetery has no fence a more mundane explanation could fit. The Writer has seen vehicles drive right off of Kedzie, over the curb, and into the cemetery at night. This was before this section of the cemetery along Kedzie was sold to the village of Evergreen Park, which built a firehouse, and a skating rink on the site. The Boundaries of the cemetery are 87th St. to the north, 91st St. to the south, Kedzie Ave to the east (actually behind the above mentioned firehouse, but visible from the street), and the B & O Railroad tracks to the west. On the other side of the tracks, is a separate cemetery, St. Mary's, more on that cemetery to follow.
St. Mary's Cemetery - 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. Unlike Evergreen Cemetery to the east, 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. That St. Mary's has not had more reports is somewhat surprising, as several deaths, all violent, have happened in and around the cemetery over the years. 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. During Prohibition, this restaurant( known as "Vinegar Hill") was used as a speakeasy after dark, in 1927 one of the Westside O'Bannion Brothers was murdered there, 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. Two men stopped the train at this point and stole $50,000. from the mail car. One of the robbers was killed during the robbery and never identified, the other robber was never caught, and the money never recovered. Finally, in the 1990's two men where shot once each in the heart, around 2:00a.m. While "visiting" the grave of a rival street gang member, on the anniversary of his death, this murder is unsolved. Trespassing is not only not allowed, but unnecessary, as the only reports of ghostly activity have all been observed from outside the cemeteries, (Evergreen Cemetery, and St. Mary's).
Fairmount
Fairmount cemetery - Really cold and eerie feelings when you walk in to it or drive by. you also feel like your being watched.
Falmouth
Haunted Hill - There is a hill with a cemetery on top, by Love Ford Bridge. The river runs under the bridge with the cemetery overlooks it. Some have died due to high waters and parties at the bridge. Reports of seeing a light on top of the hill that can never be reached, & cold spots.
Fl