Jan. 30, 2024
156. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Today, CJ guides us on his first ever solo documentary episode here on the Infinite Rabbit Hole when he breaks down the history, haunts, and lore of one of America's most haunted Cemeteries. Today we travel to Midlothian, Illinois to the Bachelor's Grove Cemetery. Welcome Back to Infinite Rabbit Hole!
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As you step through the wrought
iron gates, the unlubricated
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hinges squeaking from years of
neglect, you feel a chill wind
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gently kiss your cheeks.
Toppled headstones litter to the
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ground in higher numbers than
the standing monuments you bend
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over to check one out.
There's a crispness in the air
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that seems somewhat familiar but
unplaceable.
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You look up as a blue light
streaks past you.
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You track it, turning your body
to follow in its direction,
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losing sight of it.
As you turn, you see a young
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woman walking with a baby
amongst the graves, desperately
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searching for something.
As you stare, you hear a growl
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from behind.
You whirl around and through
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some bushes.
You think you see a large black
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dog retreating.
The only thing you can be sure
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of seeing are a pair of bright
red, infernal eyes.
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You turn tail and see a house in
the distance.
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You Sprint in that direction.
Somehow it never seems to get
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closer.
Suddenly you hear a loud
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spinning in place, nearly
falling over.
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You come face to face with a
haggard 1 armed man.
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He growls, pointing a Lantern in
a direction.
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You stammer out an apology and
turn back around.
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The house is gone.
You're in Bachelor's Grove
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Cemetery and coincidentally here
with us.
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Welcome back.
For everyone else.
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Situated about 20 miles
southwest of Chicago, known by
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many names such as Bachelor,
Batch Elder, Berzel Petzel,
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Bachelor and Batchel Bachelors,
Grove Cemetery sits on one acre
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of land among several strands of
timber named for the families
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that settled them.
The Batch Elder family so there
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in 1845 and is commonly referred
to as the origin of the name.
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However, there are some
conflicting stories.
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According to Stephen H Rexford,
who settled there between 1933
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and 1934, the Grove was named
after four bachelors who had
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also settled there.
This is backed up by Ferdinand
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Shapers.
Manuscript from 1917.
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The Grove sits across from the
Rubio Woods Forest Preserve and
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contains a pond, cemetery and
walking trails, all open and
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available to use of the public.
Legend has it that mobsters in
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the 30s dumped bodies here.
There is also a bunker that can
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be explored if you know where to
find it.
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A guide to its location can be
found on the YouTube channel
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Grim Life Collective.
The first recorded burial was
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William B.
Nobles in 1838, and the last
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person buried here was Robert E
Shields in 1989.
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In that time, the graveyard has
undergone several phases of
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popularity as sort of a lover's
lane, and in the 60s and 70s
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talk of satanic rituals taking
place here permeated the
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surrounding area.
What was left behind from that
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period were several records of
grave robbing and tomb opening.
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The paranormal stories for the
place really took off in the
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1950s and were comprehensively
compiled by P Crapia, founder of
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the Bachelors Grove Cemetery and
Settlement Research Center.
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The first of our legends is the
blue light.
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The Midlothian Turnpike, which
is now close to vehicle traffic,
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is a road that moves alongside
the cemetery.
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Along this road and among the
headstones, a blue light the
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size of a basketball can be seen
moving about rapidly blinking in
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and out every 10 to 20 seconds.
The first report of this dates
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back to 1963, when three boys
became lost in the property and
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spent several weeks in the
woods.
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On their recovery.
All they could talk about was a
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blue light they had seen in the
fall of that year.
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It chased 5 men as they drove in
their car until they crashed
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into a corn field and stalled.
The light hovered over there now
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deceased vehicle, eventually
drifting off.
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The sightings of the light,
however, did not pick up in
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popularity until the 70s when
Jack Hermansky reported seeing
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it.
Several more stories came to
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light in this period, eventually
fading into obscurity until the
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year 2000, when a woman named
Brittany and her friend walking
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in the cemetery encountered it,
followed by a man who saw it as
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he drove over a bridge heading
east on 140 3rd St.
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What we do know about this light
is that it never has direct
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contact with people, and if you
approach it, it will vanish and
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reappear behind you.
Its behavior seems to be
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intelligent and is one of the
most common phenomena seen on
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the property.
Madonna of the Bachelor's Grove,
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AKA White Lady.
A photo in 1979 shows a hooded
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figure holding a baby standing
alongside a fence.
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However, it wouldn't be until
1982 that the legend would be
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born.
According to the legend, a woman
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in white walks among the
headstones while holding a baby,
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appearing to be desperately
searching for something.
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Another photo would be captured
in 1991 by Jude Felts of the
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woman sitting on a headstone.
Locals refer to her as Missus
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Rogers as there is a gravestone
for Luella Rodgers and Daniel
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Rodgers.
Right next to them is a small
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headstone labeled Infant
Daughter.
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Records indicate though that
this is a headstone to replace
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Emma Fulton's which went
missing.
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However, this headstone was
misplaced on the West side when
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it should have been placed on
the east.
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Our third tale is of the phantom
dog.
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A large black dog with glowing
red eyes is said to roam the
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cemetery, scaring people who are
there exploring the property.
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The first known sighting was in
the 1980s, when two men began
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investigating some lights they
saw flickering.
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At one point they turned about
and that's when they saw the dog
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fading into nothing.
After that, reports of a large
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black dog hanging around near
the entrance to the road that
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vanishes when it's approached
became to come in.
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On occasion it's even said that
the dog will approach people but
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will never make physical
contact, disappearing before
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it's even possible to touch it.
Another popular tale here is the
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farmer and the horse.
This phenomenon was first
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reported in 1982 during an NBCJ
broadcast.
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As the story goes, in 1870, a
farmer was out plowing his field
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one night when something spooked
his horse.
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It took off at breakneck speed,
eventually crashing into the
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pond, drowning boat.
A sighting was reported by two
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Cook County Forest Preserve
Rangers in the 70s, which people
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say corroborates the existence
of the spirit.
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However, other people say that
it's not even possible as the
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quarry didn't exist until 1900,
so there's no possible way for
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the pond to have even been
there.
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In the 1st place Caretaker,
located to the West of the roped
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off main entrance to the
cemetery stood a house.
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Legend states that the caretaker
of the cemetery lived inside the
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house with his family.
On one cold night he went crazy
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and walked through the house,
killing every single one of
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them, then ending with himself.
Sort of sounds like Amityville.
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Stories of encountering this
ghostly apparition are common
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and vary between him carrying a
shotgun or an oil Lantern.
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The earliest tale state that he
will merely tell you to leave
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the property.
The most notable story is of two
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college kids hanging out at
Bachelor's Grove as they moved
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about the property.
They eventually bump into an old
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man who tells them to leave.
They tell him they are there to
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see the blue lights and the
legendary disappearing house.
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The man tells them that the blue
lights aren't real, but the
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house is.
It was his and they should
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definitely go see it.
As they walk, the man is behind
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them when suddenly the light
goes out.
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They turn around and he's gone.
Last but not least is the
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Grove's most popular legend.
There is a house that people
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claim to see, but that it also
seems to disappear as you
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approach it.
It will appear to shrink into
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nothing.
Other times it will be spotted
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in one place on an initial visit
and be completely gone on the
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next.
At a distance, it's reported to
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manifest as a two-story 1880s to
1890s vintage Victorian home.
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Slight variances are reported
between individuals, such as a
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light being on on the 2nd floor,
having a porch swing,
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occasionally white pillars near
the porch, or a small picket
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fence.
Several homes once existed on
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the entirety of Bachelor's
Grove, but were either bulldozed
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or control burned.
There is a speculation that none
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of the homes ever actually
existed near enough the cemetery
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to make sense of the sightings.
However, a 1951 aerial photo
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shows that there could be a
rectangular foundation in the
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area most commonly noted for
sightings.
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Also, maps from 19 O One and
Nineteen O 4 show four homes
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within the vicinity of the
cemetery.
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This is by far not the only
legend of a disappearing house,
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though that has an accompanying
spirit from around the world.
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One of the most famous of these
tales is the common boogeyman
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story told the children of the
Baba Yaga, a witch whose house
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stands on chicken legs that will
take them if they wander too
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close.
Now there are two other tales
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which don't track as closely as
these other ones.
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One is of the Yellow Hat Man.
So the stories go that there
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will be red orbs, sort of like
the blue light.
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And when following these orbs,
suddenly you will see a man in a
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yellow suit and hat appear in
front of you and then he'll just
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vanish.
These stories are very few and
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mostly unsubstantiated.
The claims are hazy at best.
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So I didn't really dedicate an
entire section to this because
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it would have been three
sentences long and honestly, not
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all that interesting.
Now I didn't even bring it up
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during the episode.
But there is a legend of the man
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with a hook hand, which is just
like every other campfire tale
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that we've heard is ghost
stories.
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I the first time I heard that
story, I was a kid of those like
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four or five.
My aunt told it to us around a
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campfire trying to scare us.
She was successful and gave us
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all nightmares.
But, but the idea is that if you
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park your car and you're there
doing inappropriate things in
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public with a with another
person, that there's this guy
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with a hook for a hand and he'll
come mess your car up and
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scratch in potentially even
cause physical harm to you.
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This story is so common in so
many locations that it doesn't
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even bear weight.
It just sounds like somebody
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took a story and applied it to a
spot.
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You know people believe that
there's enough ghost stories
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here, so thoughts on all the
stories revolving around
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Bachelor's Grove.
For those of us interested in
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the paranormal, this place is an
extremely interesting aspect of
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study.
A number of the stories are
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believable when it comes to the
lore of hauntings, some of it
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less so.
So the woman in white is one
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that I really like to focus on.
So there's this idea that she's
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holding a baby, and it looks
like she's searching for the
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baby's grave to put it back.
There is the fact, though, that
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the child that she's holding
might not be hers at all, as the
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infant daughter's headstone was
placed incorrectly after it was
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stolen.
See the The cemetery itself has
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been vandalized on numerous
occasions, especially back
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during the Satanic Panic and
when teenagers were frequently
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in the place as a lover's lane.
So they tried to replace this
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headstone.
And it's my personal opinion
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that it's not her baby that
she's holding.
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I think what she's looking for
is the correct grave.
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Like she's trying to return the
baby to the right spot to it's
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rightful parents and she's sort
of in this indefinite search for
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that spot.
The other one that I like is the
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black dog story.
It really kind of clicks home
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with a lot of black dog lore,
you know, things like the Black
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Shuck and Hell Hounds and things
like that.
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It follows that pretty well.
The other thing that doesn't
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really track with me, honestly,
is the most popular legend, the
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disappearing house.
Given how hauntings themselves
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go, if we were to see a haunting
where it's just a repeat on
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replay of an incident, it
wouldn't be like the house
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disappearing.
You would be able to find the
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house and you would be able to
witness the spirits inside going
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through whatever horrendous
scene took place.
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You wouldn't be able to see it
and like try to get to it.
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It was just really, it's not
really how those sort of
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hauntings work, but it does kind
of correspond with legends
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throughout the world of various
disappearing houses.
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And you know, I did see a lot of
them for like Eastern Lauren
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mythology when it comes to
haunting and and as well as in
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places like England.
So I don't know, it doesn't
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really track with me just
because of what I know of how
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hauntings are and how they're
supposed to work.
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But maybe the other one that I
do like though is the caretaker
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that that sort of ghost who has
this unfinished business, you
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could say, where he's protecting
the cemetery and watching over
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and chasing vandals out.
Now that sort of does track with
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how certain hauntings work.
There's specifically an
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intelligent haunting where the
specter is able to interact and
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converse and respond to
individuals in a conscious
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manner.
So at the end of the day, the
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ghost stories I would say I
would believe and would expect
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to see if I were to visit there
would be like the blue orb, the
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black dog, the lady in white and
the caretaker.
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I don't know if I would really
put too much weight behind the
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other ones, especially like the
one with the farmer who fell
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into the pond that didn't exist
at the time the farmer was
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there.
I don't know how you could
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possibly fall and drown into a
pond that hasn't been dug yet,
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but you know, if you ever go
fishing there, which you are
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allowed to do, if you ever pull
up a horse and bug in some bones
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of a farmer, you know,
definitely reach out to us and
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let us know.
I'd definitely be interested in
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hearing about that.
But as as far as that goes and
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everything, that's that's really
where we're at with Bachelors
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Grove Cemetery.
If you guys like this and you'd
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At the next fork in the path of
the infinite rabbit hole, this
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1985.
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Future Past prior to this point
in time, somewhere in the past
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the timeline into this gadget
creating an alternate 1985
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alternate near Einstein.
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As you step through the wrought
iron gates, the unlubricated
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hinges squeaking from years of
neglect, you feel a chill wind
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gently kiss your cheeks.
Toppled headstones litter to the
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ground in higher numbers than
the standing monuments you bend
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over to check one out.
There's a crispness in the air
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that seems somewhat familiar but
unplaceable.
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You look up as a blue light
streaks past you.
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You track it, turning your body
to follow in its direction,
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losing sight of it.
As you turn, you see a young
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woman walking with a baby
amongst the graves, desperately
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searching for something.
As you stare, you hear a growl
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from behind.
You whirl around and through
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some bushes.
You think you see a large black
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dog retreating.
The only thing you can be sure
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of seeing are a pair of bright
red, infernal eyes.
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You turn tail and see a house in
the distance.
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You Sprint in that direction.
Somehow it never seems to get
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closer.
Suddenly you hear a loud
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spinning in place, nearly
falling over.
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You come face to face with a
haggard 1 armed man.
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He growls, pointing a Lantern in
a direction.
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You stammer out an apology and
turn back around.
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The house is gone.
You're in Bachelor's Grove
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Cemetery and coincidentally here
with us.
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Welcome back.
For everyone else.
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Situated about 20 miles
southwest of Chicago, known by
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many names such as Bachelor,
Batch Elder, Berzel Petzel,
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Bachelor and Batchel Bachelors,
Grove Cemetery sits on one acre
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of land among several strands of
timber named for the families
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that settled them.
The Batch Elder family so there
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in 1845 and is commonly referred
to as the origin of the name.
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However, there are some
conflicting stories.
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According to Stephen H Rexford,
who settled there between 1933
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and 1934, the Grove was named
after four bachelors who had
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also settled there.
This is backed up by Ferdinand
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Shapers.
Manuscript from 1917.
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The Grove sits across from the
Rubio Woods Forest Preserve and
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contains a pond, cemetery and
walking trails, all open and
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available to use of the public.
Legend has it that mobsters in
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the 30s dumped bodies here.
There is also a bunker that can
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be explored if you know where to
find it.
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A guide to its location can be
found on the YouTube channel
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Grim Life Collective.
The first recorded burial was
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William B.
Nobles in 1838, and the last
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person buried here was Robert E
Shields in 1989.
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In that time, the graveyard has
undergone several phases of
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popularity as sort of a lover's
lane, and in the 60s and 70s
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talk of satanic rituals taking
place here permeated the
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surrounding area.
What was left behind from that
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period were several records of
grave robbing and tomb opening.
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The paranormal stories for the
place really took off in the
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1950s and were comprehensively
compiled by P Crapia, founder of
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the Bachelors Grove Cemetery and
Settlement Research Center.
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The first of our legends is the
blue light.
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The Midlothian Turnpike, which
is now close to vehicle traffic,
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is a road that moves alongside
the cemetery.
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Along this road and among the
headstones, a blue light the
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size of a basketball can be seen
moving about rapidly blinking in
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and out every 10 to 20 seconds.
The first report of this dates
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back to 1963, when three boys
became lost in the property and
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spent several weeks in the
woods.
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On their recovery.
All they could talk about was a
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blue light they had seen in the
fall of that year.
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It chased 5 men as they drove in
their car until they crashed
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into a corn field and stalled.
The light hovered over there now
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deceased vehicle, eventually
drifting off.
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The sightings of the light,
however, did not pick up in
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popularity until the 70s when
Jack Hermansky reported seeing
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it.
Several more stories came to
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light in this period, eventually
fading into obscurity until the
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year 2000, when a woman named
Brittany and her friend walking
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in the cemetery encountered it,
followed by a man who saw it as
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he drove over a bridge heading
east on 140 3rd St.
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What we do know about this light
is that it never has direct
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contact with people, and if you
approach it, it will vanish and
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reappear behind you.
Its behavior seems to be
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intelligent and is one of the
most common phenomena seen on
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the property.
Madonna of the Bachelor's Grove,
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AKA White Lady.
A photo in 1979 shows a hooded
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figure holding a baby standing
alongside a fence.
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However, it wouldn't be until
1982 that the legend would be
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born.
According to the legend, a woman
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in white walks among the
headstones while holding a baby,
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appearing to be desperately
searching for something.
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Another photo would be captured
in 1991 by Jude Felts of the
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woman sitting on a headstone.
Locals refer to her as Missus
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Rogers as there is a gravestone
for Luella Rodgers and Daniel
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Rodgers.
Right next to them is a small
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headstone labeled Infant
Daughter.
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Records indicate though that
this is a headstone to replace
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Emma Fulton's which went
missing.
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However, this headstone was
misplaced on the West side when
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it should have been placed on
the east.
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Our third tale is of the phantom
dog.
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A large black dog with glowing
red eyes is said to roam the
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cemetery, scaring people who are
there exploring the property.
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The first known sighting was in
the 1980s, when two men began
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investigating some lights they
saw flickering.
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At one point they turned about
and that's when they saw the dog
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fading into nothing.
After that, reports of a large
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black dog hanging around near
the entrance to the road that
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vanishes when it's approached
became to come in.
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On occasion it's even said that
the dog will approach people but
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will never make physical
contact, disappearing before
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it's even possible to touch it.
Another popular tale here is the
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farmer and the horse.
This phenomenon was first
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reported in 1982 during an NBCJ
broadcast.
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As the story goes, in 1870, a
farmer was out plowing his field
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one night when something spooked
his horse.
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It took off at breakneck speed,
eventually crashing into the
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pond, drowning boat.
A sighting was reported by two
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Cook County Forest Preserve
Rangers in the 70s, which people
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say corroborates the existence
of the spirit.
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However, other people say that
it's not even possible as the
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quarry didn't exist until 1900,
so there's no possible way for
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the pond to have even been
there.
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In the 1st place Caretaker,
located to the West of the roped
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off main entrance to the
cemetery stood a house.
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Legend states that the caretaker
of the cemetery lived inside the
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house with his family.
On one cold night he went crazy
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and walked through the house,
killing every single one of
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them, then ending with himself.
Sort of sounds like Amityville.
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Stories of encountering this
ghostly apparition are common
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and vary between him carrying a
shotgun or an oil Lantern.
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The earliest tale state that he
will merely tell you to leave
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the property.
The most notable story is of two
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college kids hanging out at
Bachelor's Grove as they moved
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about the property.
They eventually bump into an old
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man who tells them to leave.
They tell him they are there to
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see the blue lights and the
legendary disappearing house.
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The man tells them that the blue
lights aren't real, but the
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house is.
It was his and they should
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definitely go see it.
As they walk, the man is behind
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them when suddenly the light
goes out.
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They turn around and he's gone.
Last but not least is the
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Grove's most popular legend.
There is a house that people
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claim to see, but that it also
seems to disappear as you
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approach it.
It will appear to shrink into
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nothing.
Other times it will be spotted
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in one place on an initial visit
and be completely gone on the
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next.
At a distance, it's reported to
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manifest as a two-story 1880s to
1890s vintage Victorian home.
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Slight variances are reported
between individuals, such as a
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light being on on the 2nd floor,
having a porch swing,
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occasionally white pillars near
the porch, or a small picket
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fence.
Several homes once existed on
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the entirety of Bachelor's
Grove, but were either bulldozed
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or control burned.
There is a speculation that none
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of the homes ever actually
existed near enough the cemetery
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to make sense of the sightings.
However, a 1951 aerial photo
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shows that there could be a
rectangular foundation in the
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area most commonly noted for
sightings.
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Also, maps from 19 O One and
Nineteen O 4 show four homes
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within the vicinity of the
cemetery.
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This is by far not the only
legend of a disappearing house,
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though that has an accompanying
spirit from around the world.
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One of the most famous of these
tales is the common boogeyman
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story told the children of the
Baba Yaga, a witch whose house
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stands on chicken legs that will
take them if they wander too
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close.
Now there are two other tales
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which don't track as closely as
these other ones.
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One is of the Yellow Hat Man.
So the stories go that there
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will be red orbs, sort of like
the blue light.
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And when following these orbs,
suddenly you will see a man in a
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yellow suit and hat appear in
front of you and then he'll just
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vanish.
These stories are very few and
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mostly unsubstantiated.
The claims are hazy at best.
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So I didn't really dedicate an
entire section to this because
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it would have been three
sentences long and honestly, not
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all that interesting.
Now I didn't even bring it up
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during the episode.
But there is a legend of the man
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with a hook hand, which is just
like every other campfire tale
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that we've heard is ghost
stories.
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I the first time I heard that
story, I was a kid of those like
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four or five.
My aunt told it to us around a
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campfire trying to scare us.
She was successful and gave us
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all nightmares.
But, but the idea is that if you
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park your car and you're there
doing inappropriate things in
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public with a with another
person, that there's this guy
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with a hook for a hand and he'll
come mess your car up and
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scratch in potentially even
cause physical harm to you.
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This story is so common in so
many locations that it doesn't
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even bear weight.
It just sounds like somebody
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took a story and applied it to a
spot.
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You know people believe that
there's enough ghost stories
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here, so thoughts on all the
stories revolving around
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Bachelor's Grove.
For those of us interested in
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the paranormal, this place is an
extremely interesting aspect of
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study.
A number of the stories are
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believable when it comes to the
lore of hauntings, some of it
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less so.
So the woman in white is one
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that I really like to focus on.
So there's this idea that she's
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holding a baby, and it looks
like she's searching for the
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baby's grave to put it back.
There is the fact, though, that
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the child that she's holding
might not be hers at all, as the
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infant daughter's headstone was
placed incorrectly after it was
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stolen.
See the The cemetery itself has
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been vandalized on numerous
occasions, especially back
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during the Satanic Panic and
when teenagers were frequently
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in the place as a lover's lane.
So they tried to replace this
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headstone.
And it's my personal opinion
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that it's not her baby that
she's holding.
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I think what she's looking for
is the correct grave.
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Like she's trying to return the
baby to the right spot to it's
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rightful parents and she's sort
of in this indefinite search for
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that spot.
The other one that I like is the
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black dog story.
It really kind of clicks home
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with a lot of black dog lore,
you know, things like the Black
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Shuck and Hell Hounds and things
like that.
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It follows that pretty well.
The other thing that doesn't
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really track with me, honestly,
is the most popular legend, the
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disappearing house.
Given how hauntings themselves
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go, if we were to see a haunting
where it's just a repeat on
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replay of an incident, it
wouldn't be like the house
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disappearing.
You would be able to find the
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house and you would be able to
witness the spirits inside going
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through whatever horrendous
scene took place.
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You wouldn't be able to see it
and like try to get to it.
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It was just really, it's not
really how those sort of
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hauntings work, but it does kind
of correspond with legends
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throughout the world of various
disappearing houses.
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And you know, I did see a lot of
them for like Eastern Lauren
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mythology when it comes to
haunting and and as well as in
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places like England.
So I don't know, it doesn't
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really track with me just
because of what I know of how
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hauntings are and how they're
supposed to work.
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But maybe the other one that I
do like though is the caretaker
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that that sort of ghost who has
this unfinished business, you
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could say, where he's protecting
the cemetery and watching over
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and chasing vandals out.
Now that sort of does track with
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how certain hauntings work.
There's specifically an
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intelligent haunting where the
specter is able to interact and
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converse and respond to
individuals in a conscious
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manner.
So at the end of the day, the
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ghost stories I would say I
would believe and would expect
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to see if I were to visit there
would be like the blue orb, the
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black dog, the lady in white and
the caretaker.
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I don't know if I would really
put too much weight behind the
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other ones, especially like the
one with the farmer who fell
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into the pond that didn't exist
at the time the farmer was
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there.
I don't know how you could
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possibly fall and drown into a
pond that hasn't been dug yet,
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but you know, if you ever go
fishing there, which you are
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allowed to do, if you ever pull
up a horse and bug in some bones
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of a farmer, you know,
definitely reach out to us and
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let us know.
I'd definitely be interested in
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hearing about that.
But as as far as that goes and
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everything, that's that's really
where we're at with Bachelors
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Grove Cemetery.
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personally very interested in
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