Famous Hauntings

On this page you will be able to find places around the USA that are haunted. If you have a place that you want to add to this page please contact us.

Rockford Illinois

• Bloods Point – If you live in the Rockford area you know about this place. It is an active site. But has been unactive recently. It is located in Cherry Valley area. Legend has it an old lady named Witch Beula got mad one day and decided to hang each of her children from the nearby bridge. She took them down there and hung each one of them one by one. If you visit the bridge nowadays you may possibly see the children hanging from the bridge, and also if you put car in neutral you will be pushed off the bridge by the children (or if you stop your car at the end of the bridge and try to start it again it will not). (There are several stories of Witch Beula, the one posted above is one of many legends/stories of her)

If you visit the Bloods Point Graveyard you may see the old man in overalls with a pitchfork that mysteriously disappears. Or see a zombie rise from the graves to only vanish. Maybe you might hear the screams and moans of the ghosts that have died so suddenly. As of now only pics of orbs are the only evidence. No pics of apparitions or no EVP’s. Visitors of the old cemetery get chased by a ghost truck which will follow you with no headlights then suddenly flip them on and chase you then disappear.

• Rest stop at 173 and Mitchel Road – Legend has it a bus full of kids slammed into the tree at the rest stop years ago and many have passed away. If you go to the rest stop and sit there and take a little rest you may hear the kids laughing and then your car may shake violently and when you try to get away from it your car will not start. As of right now no pics are known of this place. Feel free to go hunt and take a few pics and see what you may find.
• Church located at Beloit Road and 173 – Legend has it at that church many years ago they would hang local witches from the bell tower. Not much is known about this place besides that. No pics or EVP’s are known of this place. If you have any pics or anything else of interest please feel free to email me.
• Rock Cut State Park – I don’t know the local legend behind this, but i do know that if walk in the willow creek area on the bike path at night you will see dark figures following you in the woods.They even chase you ! No pics are known of this yet but many upon many stories.

Also there is a mountain lion in that same area. Many stories are told of seeing it. I myself did a little research on it and talked to local rangers and they said there is a mountain lion but didn’t want to try to catch it because of security reasons. The mountain lion has chased a few people and pinned down one person in the past. So this may be what the local ghost legend might be?

• Tunnels under Swedish American Hospital – Legend is there is underground slave tunnels under the hospital. Only people that have access to it is Swedish American Hospital employees. I have talked to a few employees and they all describe scary noises that follow you through the tunnels while you walk through it. Also been told that a white apparition appears on occasion in front of you in the tunnel. Only people who have access is the employees so not much is known beside employee personal experiences. If anyone has any stories or pics please email me.
• Twin Sisters – Twin sisters park, on Charles St. A few kids died there accidently, and there is an old hanging tree with some odd carvings on it. Legend says it is still there and there are some ghostly things that going on there. If you walk by the willow tree it is said that you have a strange desire to go into the woods. I have a few photos I could show you if you like. There have been reports of a little girl, running around the wooded area there.
• Bell School Rd – corn field – sightings of white orbs, a strange man who disappears once you leave the corn field, off of bell school rd close to the new condos just built
• Blackhawk – it is said that in this house down the road a black man was shot in the basement and now the people that live in that house have seen a black shadow wander around their house during the night.
• Cherryvalle Mall – It is said that several stores in this mall are to be haunted. Several mall employees have reported being followed through the mall by unseen forces after mall hours, things moving on their own, hangers swinging around, clothes mysteriously falling off racks, strange voices, bathroom doors being held shut when no one was there, and occasionally a store would be rather messy the next morning when it was cleaned quite well the night before.
• East High School – It is said that an old theater lover that worked for the school died many years ago. An old employee of the school saw the figure of a woman walking on the auditoriums balcony. He later identified the woman as Addy (or Haddy as the thespians called her) the woman who had died. To this day people have heard footsteps in an empty auditorium, exit lights flashing when the wiring had been check several times, faint singing after school hours were closed, doors slamming shut, things being moved around, and several other strange occurrences
• Jefferson High School – a girl fell off of ladder on stage by props balcony. You hear her cries and moans only when a show is on. Sometimes the tech theater students see her shadow trying to get up off of the ground!
• Rockford Board of Education Building – An interesting place is our Rockford Board of Education building at 201 S Madison St in Rockford. The head custodian there has for many years told stories of the evening shift custodians and the basement. The building was at first built as Rockford Central High School near the turn of the 20th century.?It has two buildings attached to?it and an underground hallway that my mother (deceased) used as a student and they called that passage “rat alley”. The hallway connected the first building to the second building. The basement of the “haunted” area used to be the “shop” area and housed small machines for the male students to practice machine skills. It is not clear what happened down there, but the custodians DON’T like to go down there at night, the lights will turn on after being turned OFF. Many a morning the head custodian will arrive for his day shift and find all the lights on in the basement. The lights seem to have a will of their own. A former secretary thought it was strange to hear grown men sound afraid of the basement. They hear noises down there, voices, all kinds of things.
• Rockford College – Adams’ Arch – the only surviving remnant of Rockford Colleges’ original campus, is reported to echo with the laughter of young women late at night.
• Rockford College – Burpee Building – Students and staff members working late in the basement of the Burpee building have reported seeing doors rattle violently or slam shut, hearing footsteps in the hallway, and a male voice in the old radio station rooms. – November 2003 Update: Haunting believed to be caused by a guy who committed suicide. A person reportedly was working late one night and saw a reflection of him in the window. When he turned around and looked at the sound room, there was no one there. Then the papers the guy was working on blew off his desk, and the only paper that was left on the desk was an old archive article about the guy’s death.
• Rockford College – Talcott Hall – room of a student who hung himself in the early nineties.