3 Haunted Places Near Chicago with Scary Ghost Stories

[@StrangeandSinister1]

00:00 The Haunting of German Church Road 4:54 The Weeping Lady of Archer Woods Cemetery 9:42 The Ghost Light of Maple Lake

[@ACDC5150]

Im a Chicago guy, so glad i found this channel

[@StrangeandSinister1]

👍 I plan to make a video about haunted places in Chicago.

[@lizzymoores]

I live right by Resurrection Cemetery - apparently my late grandmother picked up Resurrection Mary with my great aunt (?) in the 80's. It'll be a fun story to tell my kids one day!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

😦 She vanished from the backseat?

[@pattireichel3197]

You are a great story teller! I have been to German Church Road back in the late 80's. There was an old abandoned house that we walked thru what was left of it, I should say. We had to leave because we kept hearing foot steps behind us no matter where we walked. Got alittle spooked. Can't wait for your next video!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. That's creepy. It's too bad the house was torn down otherwise I would have filmed it.

[@jenniferturner1000]

Omg!! I went to preschool at Trinity Lutheran Church. I lived in Willow Springs and crossed German Church Road every day. I had never heard this story. This is crazy.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Did you know about the Grimes sisters story?

[@Messerschmitt1942]

Another based video that reminds me driving down haunted roads at night.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

The area where the bodies were found is creepy at night.

[@brucemoriarty9964]

I love your stories ! Please keep them coming 👍🙂

[@StrangeandSinister1]

More to come! 😊

[@MiaAngridere]

I love your vids because you deliver info in such a straight-forward way. Been a fan since your first upload.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That's awesome, thank you!

[@AaronDanieltenni]

The most enjoyable reason that I got to follow your channel is learning that my home state is filled with ghost stories that I have yet to learn about. Thank you.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That is awesome! Thank you.

[@AaronDanieltenni]

@@StrangeandSinister1 I can’t wait to see more!

[@melanieiwasko6010]

Great work once again! This is so spooky! I have chills!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. Going into the cemetery at night was creepy!

[@infinitintaligence-fy3hn]

Excellent stories. Thank you 👍

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Glad you like them!

[@eviehammond9509]

Really love your videos!! Its refreshing to see these locations & hear the corresponding stories & the various beliefs in what people think is taking place there. I love anything connected to the paranormal, but have grown tired of the over dramatized & exaggerated videos most post as content soley for bigger followings & higher view counts. This routine has taken any progress that was made in trying to understand the possibility of the paranormal & is gradually returning it right back to the mockery it once was. Your presentations are just the opposite IMO. The locations are shown during the daylight hours along with the alleged sightings & stories that surround them. When returning to the locations during the evening hours, very little is needed to describe how creepy they are. There's no need for additional sound effects or jump scares, etc. The stories & how they are presented do it all for you. Thank you again for taking us with you to another paranormal hot spot. Its always a treat to see a new post from your channel. Its like one of those spur of the moment adventures that have the very real potential to qualify as one of those "scariest moments of my life" memories that so many of us are always up for. With the "scary" season around the corner your videos are a great way to kick off my favorite time of the year!!!❤

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you, that's great to hear! I'm more interested in telling creepy stories about the location than ghost hunting. And I love history.

[@redjar43]

Thank you for the awesome content. You have excellent storytelling skills! And bravery driving through that dark cemetery at night 😮

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! I drove through fast lol. Just long enough to film some of the graves.

[@LitaKing-e4h]

I had the privilege of living in the Chicago area for 2 years. It's such a fascinating place with so much history. Thanks for covering these stories!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Glad you enjoyed it. There are so many haunted places in the Chicago area.

[@adnanferdousleo9528]

All the three legends are very spooky .

[@StrangeandSinister1]

The cemetery was creepy.

[@Bob-dc6bo]

No surprise that you gave us another great video. I love how you just provide information and don't oversell the facts. Great job!!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you Bob. I appreciate that.

[@sandeesimons6045]

I've lived in Southern California since 1975, however I grew up in Chicago and St. Louie, so I thoroughly enjoy your videos and your accent, which reminds me of home. You're fantastic. Thanks for all your hard work!😊

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Glad you like them! Thank you!

[@kvl627]

Great video. I never heard about the Archer Woods Cemetery. I'll have to check it out.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks. Maybe you'll hear the weeping lady.

[@kvl627]

@StrangeandSinister1 If I do, I'll let you know lol 😉!

[@davidpuls7224]

Another excellent video!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@bk138gt6]

I really appreciate the contrast between the daytime and night footage of these locations

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. I plan to do more night time footage when possible.

[@otempora5799]

Wow! I grew up not that far from this area and never knew these stories! Glad I found your channel! Thanks!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you

[@melanieiwasko6010]

Awesome!❤ 👻

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you Melanie 😊

[@kevin_736]

Thanks for the upload! You did a great job on the video!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks 👍

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Thank you for the post! ✌🏼😊

[@StrangeandSinister1]

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[@yvettevitacaponigro]

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[@mikehurtuk2848]

Great video! I live right off County Line rd, right by German Church rd. I walked around the old house on the corner, and have heard many stories about that house, it was abandoned in the 60s. I believe that house is somehow linked to the Grimes sisters murder. Archer woods is highly underrepresented in the paranormal community and lives in the shadow of Bachelors Grove. IMHO, Archer woods is a younger sibling of Bachelors Grove, and will eventually get the recognition of Bachelor's Grove. I've been to Archer Woods many times, it has an abandoned, cast off feel. I have heard some moaning in Archer Woods in the area where you drive in and hang a slight right, there are a bunch of really tall oak trees with graves interwoven between there. I have a feeling that area is a hot spot among others in that cemetery.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I think the area where I filmed at night by the graves is where you heard the moaning. I didn't hear any weeping or moaning but it was creepy and I didn't stay long.

[@thehemiolds455]

I leave about 20 min away from maple lake,and archer wood cemetery. About 24 yrs ago went to maple lake in the middle of night never saw nothing but it felt uneasy weird noises.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I waited at the overlook after dark and didn't see the light.

[@JohnRosado-n8t]

I Live.....not leave....

[@thehemiolds455]

@@JohnRosado-n8t bla-bla-bla🥱😆

[@thecoolcreativebuildchanne2613]

Fantastic episode! I used to love hearing Richard Crowe's stories about Chicago's paranormal activity. You really have a great channel!🙏👻 That cemetery seems like it would be really scary and spooky!😬👻 Your episode on Resurrection Mary was really good too! For some reason I'm drawn to Chicago's ghostly activity, more than other places. I lived next to a haunted cemetery back in 1979 in Farmington, New Mexico. Alot of spooky things I personally witnessed. From a woman crying late at night outside my mom's window, to actual apparitions in daytime hours, to even a ghostly hearse disappearing through the locked gates of the cemetery late at night. It simply vanished.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! 👍 The New Mexico cemetery sounds interesting. That would be scary hearing that outside your window at night.

[@thecoolcreativebuildchanne2613]

@@StrangeandSinister1 Yeah, often too! And going outside and nobody is there?? Pretty scary! I gotta tell you some other things that happened to us as well sometime. 👍

[@KathysShadow]

Another great video! 👻

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! More to come.

[@andreajanota6258]

Thanks for sharing this I have not only been to all this places, I have connections to Archer woods (my family is buried there and I was told my great grandfather owned that property before it was purchased and established as archer woods) and had an experience there as well as did my parents and kids. My mom saw the maple lake lights, which I’m sure I had mentioned before.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That's interesting. Did you hear the weeping lady?

[@andreajanota6258]

@@StrangeandSinister1 no I haven’t but I did have an incident I could best describe as a ghost car. Because of the unique shape of the cemetery you can see all cars coming and going from the cemetery easily the fact that it pulled up behind us out of no where suddenly and it was gone by the time we got to the end of the driveway there was no one there and the only entrance to get into the other part of the cemetery was blocked by out car and we were across from the front gate there was no where it could go without us seeing it was just gone as fast as it came it was old fashioned looking. My parents had an encounter with a strange individual there who came out of no where picked up my great aunts tombstone and moved it and then walked off to where they didn’t see. Though her gravestone is frequently moved. My mom had more things happen there as her grandparents are buried there she’s been there more often.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for sharing the stories. That's scary. How did the person move the headstone? Is it really small?

[@andreajanota6258]

@@StrangeandSinister1 it’s one of those rectangular ones rather standard so I suppose it’s heavy but not impossible.

[@kerprice]

Thanks!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you so much! 👍

[@donnaduncan494]

I always watch your videos, they're very informative! I hope you don't mind my asking but is your first name Ralph, you sound kind of familiar, I live in Kenosha WI, and your voice sounds like someone who also lives in Kenosha

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for watching. And no.

[@hauntednews3790]

Aw man. This is so cool.

[@hauntednews3790]

The Ghost Light of Maple Lake really struck a cord in me. At the 13:00 mark you mention a baby at the site and reminds me of Cajun folktales (I'm originally from Louisiana). In Louisiana, we have the Feu Feuillet (Fuh Foo-Ley). Strange lights that people see in the swamps at night. In Cajun folklore, the Feu Feuillet are considered to be the souls of unbaptized babies. They are apparently considered dangerous. To avoid them, you stick a knife into a tree, where they're drawn to the reflection.

[@cornwallparanormalresearch2378]

Thumbs up Big like 👍 👌

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@melanieiwasko6010]

I was lucky enough to meet Richard Crowe. For many years I would go to Chicago on the day of John Dillinger's death and participate in Richards investigation. RIP Richard❤

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That's cool. Eventually I plan to do a video on the Dillinger death alley next to the theater and some other haunted places in Chicago.

[@melanieiwasko6010]

@@StrangeandSinister1 Looking forward to that! ☺️

[@joeapicelli8367]

Awesome video, as always. The best is no AI voice. 😂 Do you ever come to NJ? Always wanted to do a paranormal session. Thanks for all you do.

[@andreajanota6258]

I met and talked to Richard many times (He was a friend of a friend)and attended his wake and funeral. He really was a great guy. RIP

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I appreciate that, thank you. I don't, but eventually I'd like to cover some haunted places on the east coast.

[@movieedge7370]

I’m new to the channel. Have you ever done a story about bachelor Grove Cemetery by Midlothian Illinois I believe

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Yes, I made a video on Bachelors Grove Cemetery. Here's the video link if you want to watch it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5Ozc2CNi5apZ5I

[@joyous8248]

Just subbed to your channel.. looking forward to watching all your videos … perfect because I’m recovering from my spiral fracture of ankle & fibula surgery .. ty for the share my friend 🫠🙏🏽

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. Hope you have a speedy recovery.

[@joyous8248]

@@StrangeandSinister1 ty my friend.. 🙏🏽🥰

[@johnryder1713]

One weird thing found near one Native burial ground, Cahokia, was a Lei Oh Manu, a sorta hardwood dagger edged by shark teeth, favored by the Oceanian islanders thousands of miles from where it would be, half edged by Great White teeth half with chert shards.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That's really interesting. It would be cool to visit the Cahokia mounds some time.

[@johnryder1713]

@@StrangeandSinister1 I seen a docu from it once, North American pyramids people said like Aztec ones only mostly Loamy gravel

[@critterscute3642]

Another extremely well done video 👍I particularly found the Maple Lake stories of interest. In elementary school, we had an annual field trip to the Little Red School House followed by a hike at Maple Lake. Throughout the 80s and early 90s as an adult, did a lot of fishing and chilling there. Only a couple night visits by the low cement wall area. For all that, I had never heard about the light/orb sightings. Probably a good thing lol. The pic of Richard…St. Casimir is where my family is buried. A cousin worked in grounds maintenance for Catholic Cemeteries. She’s had paranormal experiences at St. Casimir and Holy Sepulchre. Mostly the latter. Next I see her I will take some notes and pass along anything worthwhile. Stellar work from you, as usual. Thank you!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you for sharing the stories. It seems like the Maple Lake light was seen more from the 50's into the 70's. I believe Anna Norkus (girl said to be Resurrection Mary) is buried in St. Casimir. If you can relay some paranormal stories about either of the two cemeteries you mentioned that would be great. I known Holy Sepulchre is where the Miracle Child is buried, as well as the Grimes Sisters. I plan to cover the Miracle Child in a future ghost stories video.

[@critterscute3642]

@@StrangeandSinister1 Absolutely and thanks for the additional info!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

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[@tinaj1779]

Please do a story on Mount Forest cemetery in Thornton Township in Illinois .. See if it’s hunted ..

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Does it have any stories?

[@michaelmcmanimen3933]

What about Bachelor Grove cemetery? 145th Street. Many stories.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I made a video on Bachelors Grove Cemetery. Here's the video link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5Ozc2CNi5apZ5I

[@michaelmcmanimen3933]

@@StrangeandSinister1 ok. Thanks strange.

[@craigegner8614]

I saw the light in 1996. Didn't know it was a ghost until I went on a ghost tour.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

How long did it last? I went to the overlook after dark and didn't see it.

[@MT-ll3tu]

I always wonder how many things like lights & weird fog Is are actually ghosts.

[@kerprice]

I did the richard Crowe tour. It was interesting but it seemed to be a lot of stopping at bars to drink. We need a new haunted tour person in Chixagoland

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Adam Selzer does a lot of Chicago tours with some haunted stuff. I've never gone on his tours but his channel is really interesting.

[@DavidSampson-tk1oz]

Oh, what a crime, what happened to the sisters Grime!

[@carolescutt2257]

New sub😊❤

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for subbing

[@coffee-co8gk]

New!

[@jimobrien84]

I’ve hiked at maple lake but never even heard of a ghost light there until this video. I’ve lived in the area for my entire 40 years and tbh I never heard any of these stories. I’ve heard about the murders of those 2 girls from the first story but never anything about ghosts. The only ghost stories I’ve heard growing up in the area are resurrection Mary, Batchelor’s grove, and monk’s castle/st James

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for the comment. The stories are older and not as well known as the places you mentioned. I made videos on the three places you mentioned.

[@heathernikki5734]

I need another video plz 😊

[@StrangeandSinister1]

No worries, I haven't abandoned the channel. I finished writing the script for the next video which will feature three haunted places like this one. I haven't been able to film it yet due to time constraints, and I had to buy new gear, but a new video will be coming.

[@johnryder1713]

My road i live on it haunted too they say, by a girl murdered by marauding soldiers, and was seen by my Grandma, who passed her in old fashioned garb, she spoke to her and never responded, but when she turned to look back at her, she wasn't there

[@StrangeandSinister1]

😦

[@kjpphotography4764]

Cool story! So did you place those white bags there?

[@StrangeandSinister1]

White bags? No I didn't place anything anywhere.

[@kjpphotography4764]

@@StrangeandSinister1 There are two white bags on the ground, one by the guardrail and one by the hedge. It's at the 43 second mark at the start of the video- when the red arrow shows up pointing at where the bodies were found. I see on you not placing them. I thought you did to mark where the bodies were.

[@beevirgil7901]

Lived in the areA all my life and NEVER heard such a ghost story asked many old timers who also never heard such stories

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for watching.

[@Sweetcorn97]

If you want to a haunted place with activity go to east Immanuel Lutheran church in amery wi. It's written about in "haunted wisconsin" and I personally made the journey there and had an experience

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds interesting. Were you able to get permission to go inside the church?

[@Sweetcorn97]

@StrangeandSinister1 I did not unfortunately, but they've granted people permission before and obviously anyone's welcome to mass. My experience went like this. I was hanging out with a girl at the time and it was about 1am on a Saturday, we both were interested in the paranormal and I had read about this place. We walked around the cemetary and didn't see anything out of the ordinary and shined a light into the basement windows that were part of the original foundation. We didn't see anything and were about to head out when I got a gut feeling to look back in one of the basement windows in the old part of the foundation. As we were looking 3 very distinct loud knocks came from the wall inside the room. No one was in the room and this was 1 am on a Saturday. We both heard it and got spooked and left fairly quickly.

[@lisalouiseangonese9134]

I had to laugh when you said all you heard were the sound of crickets 😊 That is brutally honest but here's an idea you can bring an ovulus and other ghost hunting instruments where the sounds could be amplified. I have a feeling you should be able to pick up that crying and maybe more.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

lol my friend laughed at that too. I might do that in a future video at another location but the channel is more focused on story telling than ghost hunting. I was so annoyed when I went there during the day because I really wanted to see if I could hear the crying but the landscaping noise was terrible from beginning to end. This seems to happen at every cemetery I visit. That's part of the reason I do voice overs. Without it, the audio is unusable most of the time.

[@JoleeKee]

I swear your voice sounds like Charlie Berens

[@StrangeandSinister1]

lol

[@cynthiakluck-johnson5895]

I wonder if the Jayne family had a horse farm off of German Church Road, since there was a street called Bridle Path Ln? I think they hypothesized a connection to the Schuessler Peterson murders and the boys ages are not too different from those of the murdered girls.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I'm not sure if they had a horse farm on the road but it's possible. The Werner family owned the land where the subdivision is now.

[@brazillady5119]

The Paulding Light in Michigan is just the headlights of cars driving north on U.S. 45.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Yes, I think it was debunked on a TV show a while back. I went there many years ago and saw the light.

[@brazillady5119]

@@StrangeandSinister1, yes t was. We vacation near there. It’s fun to go there and watch the people ooo and aw when they see the lights. 😜

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I might cover it in a future video but it's so dark there at night it's hard to capture video footage after dark that's usable.

[@DianeHayseGIWM]

Glad i have lived in Southern Illinois all of my sixty plus years. Yep,Southern Illinois. Not Northern Illinois.

[@chefchicky463]

I go through all these locations all the time and haven’t seen or heard anything. But I have seen lights at maple lake

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Was it just one light that you saw?

[@chefchicky463]

@@StrangeandSinister1 I actually seen 3 lights… at first I thought it was someone messing around with flashlights but it was after 11pm and the lights just disappeared.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Were they the color red and over the water?

[@chefchicky463]

@@StrangeandSinister1 they were soft white in color along the tree line but they didn’t move like sharp, jagged.. the movement was more smooth like; mesmerizing

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Interesting. It kind of reminds me of the Paulding Light in Michigan.

[@joshuahull9982]

It could be a disturbance in the earths magnetic fields.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

The ghost light?

[@movieedge7370]

I think people need to keep trying to do paranormal investigations, especially with all the new equipment that’s being invented today . Eventually, they will find who killed those sisters.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Hopefully the crime gets solved so the family can have closure.

[@chrismoore7287]

Could we explain why Chicago is so evil.

[@damarysdingui]

Love these chilling stories because Halloween it's almost around the corner..😁🎃 Thanks, Strange and Sinister..💖

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. Yes, it's right around the corner.