Haunted Folklore

The theater offers the popular Boo’ze and Spirits flashlight tour on Jan. 19 and 26.

If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who’re you going to call? If your neighborhood is in the Joliet area, you might want to call Blood Moon Paranormal, Joliet’s own paranormal investigation team.

Lauren Purcell, a psychic medium who leads tours in locations in and around McHenry County where there is believed to be spirit activity, said the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest the closer to Halloween.

Psychic medium Loren Purcell describes the Dole Mansion to have multiple layers of spirits and energies from the different lives it has housed over its over 150 years of existence.

Downtown Geneva may be rife with ghosts – just what you want to learn about during the Geneva History Museum's annual Ghost Walk on Oct. 28.

When it comes to ghostly goings-on, Lee County has tales of a ghost of a druggist, spooky children and a Bible salesman’s bloody murder.

If you enter Moon Point Cemetery during a full moon, according to local lore, you may come across an ax-wielding woman, believed by some to be protecting her child’s grave after their untimely death.

According to local lore, the former F.S. Shaver home at 608 Morgan St. in Joliet has a history of paranormal activity.

For the uninitiated, Elvira is a ghost who, according to legend, resides at the Woodstock Opera House. Legend has it that Elvira jumped from the building. But that’s not the only story about her.

The Lithuanian Liberty Cemetery outside of Spring Valley is home to the Massock Mausoleum and, some say, a ghostly “Hatchet Man” and something that resembles a vampire.

Read chilling accounts of St. Charles’ tallest haunted tales.

Thousands of souls have been guests at the Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb since it opened in almost 100 years ago, and some say a few still roam the building to this day.

A local paranormal expert investigated Runyon Cemetery and Runyon Preserve in Lockport.

On a Friday morning in June 2019, I stashed a bag of snacks, a change of clothes and a 101 Dalmations sleeping bag (the only sleeping bag I could find in my house) into the back of my friend Cathleen’s SUV. I was ready.

Local author and paranormal investigator Dale Kaczmarek discusses the story of Resurrection Mary.