Nightmarks in Illinois
5 nightmarks documented
Ghosts & Hauntings
Chicago Historical Society Building — Civil War dead haunt the old morgue
Former Chicago Historical Society Building, Chicago, Illinois
Used as a morgue after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, this building still echoes with moaning and the phantom smell of smoke and burning.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery — Chicago's most haunted burial ground
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Midlothian, Illinois
A vanishing farmhouse, phantom 1940s cars, and a famous ghost photograph — this abandoned Chicago-area cemetery may be America's most haunted graveyard.
Cryptids
Mothman-Like Sightings in Chicago, Illinois (2017)
Chicago, Illinois·2017
Over fifty-five sightings of a winged, red-eyed humanoid were reported across Chicago in 2017 — including near O'Hare Airport.
UFOs/UAPs
Bright object observed over Tinley Park in south suburban Chicago (1965)
Tinley Park, Illinois·1965
A 1965 unknown over Tinley Park — decades before the same suburb would produce one of the 21st century's most witnessed cases.
UFOs/UAPs
Object observed along the Clinton, Iowa to Littleton, Illinois corridor (1964)
Clinton, Iowa–Littleton, Illinois·1964
An unknown tracked across the Mississippi River — moving between Iowa and Illinois along the great river valley.