Elgin Haunted Houses
I was disappointed that the Haunted Elgin website has disappeared, because it had some great stories, very creepy photos and listings of all the “haunted” places in Elgin. I did find a website called the Shadowlands Haunted Places Index, which lists the following haunted places in Elgin, Illinois:
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 the 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.
Elgin-U46 School District Central Office: Once known as the Old Elgin High School, the building was erected in the late 1800s. After a fire broke out in the first 50 years the school moved down the road and the District boarded the place up. No human deaths occurred however it is said that pets of the Science Faculty and classroom pets of most other departments were victims. The building has long since been gutted though many rooms still remain boarded up and the building no serves as the storage facility of all the district paperwork and offices of the central employees of the district. Lights will go on and off and in rooms that the windows are boarded up occasionally employees have still seen the rooms sunlight as if the windows were not boarded up.
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.
Read the rest of the descriptions on the Shadowlands website.
Their list doesn’t seem to mention any actual houses, but I’m sure a lot of Elgin houses have reputations for spookiness. Do you know of any? Elgin Paranormal Investigators would like to know.
I should probably file a report with them, because someone said she saw a 19th century soldier in the woods of John Duerr forest preserve on Sunday. Two soldiers of Winfield Scott’s army, from the days of the Black Hawk War, are buried there.
Elgin Turners is hosting a haunted house on Friday, October 31st.
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There are ghosts everywhere in Elgin. My house is especially haunted!
Has anyone been on Adams St.? There is a big white house across from the Mental place. I used to live there. There is a little blonde ghost there and a big man with a long coat and a beard. I STILL have nightmares. I only lived there when I was 4, but I was always the one with a spiritual energy. That place is MAAAJOR haunted…
I am staying in Elgin, and I had a dream about this man last night…I was looking around to find if there was a similar ghost story, and you hit it on the head! There was a big white house in my dream, and this guy in a long coat and dark beard killed his family because he thought there was some sort of invasion happening….it was in the turn on the century, and I remember a bathtub filling up with water….
What is adress of house on adams. If you don’t respond to comen on page please write me a letter with regular mailing adress rebecca
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Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene
What part of old elgin high is boarded up? I live across the street and it is very much a school. Not only are the offices totally functioning, but three different schooling programs are going on there. It’s referred to as ‘central high’. Basically it’s all BD/ED students.
I believe that they are talking about the white stone school building a block or two to the west.
The old Elgin High on Chicago Street.
What part of the forest preserve did she see this soldier? I am interested in more information about this 19th century soldier sighting.
Also, if anyone believe their home in haunted (or knows someone) and would like their house to be investigated, you may contact me for more information as well.
i am an 8th grader in ellis middle school and their is also a secret tunel araund the whole school and their is a boardede up part in our scinece class and Mr. Defrain our 80 year old teacher said their was a pool but was closed because a girl drowned and died.
ya in the back of the girls locker room thers a dooor itzz creepy
im a 7th grader at ellis middle school in everyone at school talks about the lady that drowed in the pool.but a coulpe days ago we couldnt go down in the locker room cause a girl said that she saw a old lady walkin down there.so the gym teacher told us not 2 go down there cause the officer was lookin for her
I go to ellis as a 7th grader
and yea I heard about the pool thing!
I was like “wtf?there’s a pool?”
but yea today my friend Miguel told me that in reading in Ms.Swaback’s class the lights went off and the computer screen was like with all the lines and stuff and she said “Mary Lou is here” or something like that
But yea…They say we’re gonna have to swim in that pool >.<
m in blue core n i hve to go behind the auditorium evry daay! n ya if yu go to the back of the girls locker room theeers a door to the poool! we aint gna swiiim in it though
I just remembered!
I used to go to channing all my life!
I would go in the elevators and I would feel like someone’s breathing down my neck
but either than that nothing has scared me
Except that in 4th grade in the girl’s bathroom there was like blood on the floor.. and they still have the old principal’s tombstone there :D
wow thas just not normal lol i didnt go there bt i heard…
Oh my god! yeah i went to that school too. And i saw it! but i thought it was a teachers tomb??
No i was told by an elgin historian that it was a man who choked on a blueberrie at his honeymoon and that his tombstone was the only one they didnt get remove when it was a cemetery.
Yea I live on Adams street and I have seenthat lady walking around tha house at midnight.!!!
i herd dat if you go down villa road and u scream mary lou 3 times n close your eyes ull hear a little girl laughing and then you´ll feel as if sumone has pushed you when you open your eyes youll see a little girl with 2 ponytails and shell say tag your it…
try it yourself!
omg is that really true???
Does anyone know something about a house on enterprise st,idont remember the house # but its like the 3rd or 4rth house on the left going towards jewell(crossing liberty)my dad used to own it n he said that he would hered foot steps n voices,and at one point he was working down in the bassement n the foot steps started n later “something” said “woo” in he’s ear n he just rann out of there like hell,he didn’t closeed the door.he sold it ,n who ever bought it lost it n got sold again n got lost again! Its a yellowish house.
i got to channing one day ther was a chair next to some black cabint in the hall and i saw a old lady in a purpul night gown
cool that is agreat story if you no what im saying booooo
No, we don’t know what you’re saying!!!!
No, we don’t know what you’re saying!!!! (Janel)
I was a student at Channing Elementry.
One day i was in class and i really had to use the restroom. so i went to the closest. which was a restroom,, with little light. As i got up to button my pants, i saw a shadow or it seemed to be ashadow or black fuzzy hands reaching out. i jumped to the side and ran out as fast as i could. i didnt even have time for anything. that whole yesr i was traumatized!!!
your not alone.
All the stuf about ellis isn’t true i went there someboddy did drown in that pool thouqh some quys qot in trouble for snekkinq in lol.theres a secret tunnel its pretty freaky.
channinq is a pretty scary school i was always freaked out to qo in there.
There are alot of haunted houses in and around Elgin, I grew up in one on channing street, went to channing School and walked the park, which is a cementary, there are spirits there. There are haunted tours that you can go on in elgin. Books at Sunset is hosting one
this year on Oct 31. I am told that they will have a spiritualist
medium there as well. I haave been on Judi’s tours and they are
darn good.
Yeah I lived on laurel Court, off of laurel st. 153 laurel court. it was most deff haunted. I too went to Ellis Middle school in 2001, and I remember something about the pool that was shut off to the kids there…oh and i had MS SWABACK for reading too. LOL!
its still a tombstone in the very back of channing field where the track is.
Is it really true dat Ellis School is Hunted hard 2 blieve
I dont think its haunted because i went there in 2001-2003 and i went back stage everyday and our teacher took us to the attic but we never saw anything scary. I think that just because someone died in it that doesn’t mean its haunted… Until there is real proof I’ll believe it.
I live on Sherman Ave and I want to know if there are houses that are haunted around this area… Does anyone know?