2 Haunted Places in Illinois

Every case file on record in Illinois — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.

1. Resurrection Mary — Archer Avenue's Vanishing Hitchhiker

   A · Justice, Illinois, United States — Chicago's most famous ghost — a young woman in a white dress who dances at the ballroom, takes a ride down Archer Avenue, and steps out at the cemetery gate, leaving no footprints and no past.…

2. Alton — America's Most Haunted Small Town

   B · Alton, Madison County, Illinois, United States — The Mississippi river town that made haunting its civic brand: Alton — bluffs, penitentiary ruins, the Civil War's prison across the river and its own Confederate jail dead, a linotype manufacturing p…