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Historic haunted places in Decatur, IL. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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Students say a teenage girl known as the Rail Girl haunts the upper railing of the auditorium, where she is seen or heard crying and running. Candy is left backstage before every s…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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In October 1998, about fifteen people in different parts of this movie palace said they saw shadowy figures cross the balcony at the same moment, an event written up by ghost autho…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Neighborhood tradition says skull fragments were dug up when this 1888 Queen Anne mansion was built, and one researcher writes that Mrs. Culver was terrified into hysterics by some…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Witnesses over several decades describe small lights floating along the southern edge of Greenwood near the Confederate prisoner section. Visitors also report a weeping woman in wh…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Long-time workers at this 1916 theater talk about 'Red', a stagehand whose story varies: some say he worked here for years and died on site, and others describe a one-armed man who…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Troy Taylor collected the story of a shopkeeper in this old depot, now an antique mall, who looked up to see a man standing in a doorway who then disappeared. The ghost is called J…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.