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Quincy, IL Hauntings
Greenwood Cemetery:
There are lights in the back corner of the cemetery at nighttime. When you walk forwards you can see something hanging in a tree and if you blink it will disappear. Up in front of the mausoleum, you can see and hear little children playing, and when you walk towards them and smile they will smile back at you, and wave and disappear.
Madison School:
In the early 1900's, a house stood in the place where the school is today. A woman, living alone was murdered, and the killers were never found. It is told that she was dragged down the large staircase, then stabbed until her screams stopped. They then hid her body in the closet at the base of the stairs. The bloodstains could never be removed completely. Finally, the house was torn down. The school that was built on the site is also believed to be currently haunted and some claim that a mysterious fire that broke out here in 1982, almost destroying the school, was paranormal in origin.
"Ghost Hollow”, located south of Quincy:
This eerie graveyard is supposedly surrounded by a high stonewall and is filled with crumbling stone crypts. In the center of the burial ground is a black tomb that bears a one-word inscription in Latin. Few are believed to know the exact location of this cemetery and my inquiries into the site were mostly met with silence. The few who did speak about it claimed that “you could hear the sound of whispers and singing” in the place at night.
Burton Cave:
It is said that on a day back in the 1880's, a group of picnickers spotted a strange and mysterious figure near the mouth of the cave. This person was wearing a long robe with it's hands hidden within the folds and a hood over it s head. The figure vanished but the picnickers moved deeper into the cavern and discovered a woman in a white dress lying prone on a makeshift altar, ritual candles lying all around her.
Quincy Junior High:
The school was built over forty years ago. A student had lost their girlfriend and hung himself in the bathroom over the loss. Most students now were never told about this incident, so they wouldn’t get any ideas. Teachers and staff hear the boy after school crying faintly and they hear footsteps to the bathroom, mumbling and then it all stops. It replays on the day the kid died. Teachers had tried to figure out natural causes but whenever they went to check for something that was within a short distance from the haunting, it would stop.
Quincy University - Padua Hall:
A former student that committed suicide by jumping out of the
window haunts the fourth floor of Padua Hall. The floor was eventually
closed down, but reopened earlier this year. People have reported
hearing the boy screaming.