The Place Of Scary - Haunted Places

The Oriental Theater in Chicago is one of the city's most iconic and historic landmarks. But behind its glamorous facade lies a dark and...

The 400th Avenue bridge crosses Sugar Creek just north of Pool Hill Cemetery. According to local lore, the area is a supernatural hotspot ...

For many years, a small stone cabin with a long, brick chimney stood along the road near a bridge not too far from Anderson Cemetery. It w...

The area around Love Ford Bridge is home to several notorious places, not the least of which is Happy Holler, a bar and sound stage popula...

The headless horseman of Lakey’s Creek is quite possibly one of the oldest ghost stories in Illinois. Long before a concrete bridge spanne...

The “Crybaby Bridge” is a common folklore motif in the Midwest, and although the bridges may be different, their stories are very similar....

A cornucopia of urban legends have attached themselves to this hair-raising-named rural avenue, its neighbouring bridges, and the cemetery...

Maple Lake is a man-made body of water roughly half a mile in width. With its wide, curving shores and tranquil waters, it is a deceptivel...

According to a local Iroquois County legend, in the autumn of 1859 a man named Jacob and his female companion murdered a cattle drover on ...

St. Omer Cemetery is home to an unusual family monument that some say looks like a crystal ball on top a pyre. According to local lore, Ca...

Chesterville is a small Amish and Mennonite community that consists of no more than a few dozen houses located a couple of miles away from...

Built in the early 1900s, the Inn at 835 in Springfield, Illinois first housed luxury apartments. The dream of Bell Miller, a turn of the c...

Like many historic cities, and especially one that was called home to Abraham Lincoln for years, Springfield, Illinois continues to play ho...

The ghost of a blonde, blue-eyed girl has haunted the district around this graveyard since 1939, five years after a young Polish girl was b...

This house has many active spirits. Sometimes, the sound of a heartbeat crescendoes to deafening volumes before subsiding. Clicking, tapping...

One raining day, a woman was killed as she was leaving the ceremony. Today, she hitchhikes, in her wedding dress, along 79th street. After o...

If one travels on this road toward the cemetery, he will notice a bridge just above the train tracks. Once, a school bus filled with childre...

A woman in white haunts this mansion and its grounds. She is sometimes seen putting on her hat and gloves and walking in the garden. Everyon...

The victims of both the Great Chicago Fire, and a shipwreck in Lake Michigan were brought here. Many employees and patrons of this club now ...

This stone mansion with twenty rooms was unoccupied for half a century after the man who owned it committed suicide; he was mourning the los...