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A academy apprentice continuing in the alley of an old billet in Waukegan feels addition abaft her, breath on her neck. She turns around. No one is there. Suddenly addition pushes her bottomward the stairs.

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It gets scarier.

On a ablaze night, several teenagers flash a flashlight on an old board aboideau forth River Road in Libertyville. In the light, they see the active of several decapitated accouchement on the aboideau posts.

All over Lake County, these belief are told, abnormally at this time of year.

They're true, at atomic according to the bodies who acquaint them.

True or not, these belief accomplish you wonder: Could there be adorable alcohol ambuscade in cemeteries, old buildings, alike your own home?

Ron Dolski, who owns Something Fishy Pets in Fox Lake, said he already was a nonbeliever — but not anymore.

"I was absolutely the better agnostic in the world," Dolski said.

But letters of hauntings in Northern Illinois absorbed him, and he began researching them. He founded a Fox Lake based accumulation in 2006 alleged Something Ghostly Paranormal.

Over the years, he's advised accessible buildings, clandestine homes, hospitals, batty asylums and added places in the canton and about the nation, and he believes some of these places accept been visited by alcohol from addition world.

There's the apparitional baby in someone's home — the owners say she moves limbs at will, and he's apparent it himself. He afresh advised a alehouse in Fox Lake area he, a bartender and added workers heard aberrant choir afterwards closing hours.

If that doesn't argue you, how about Dolski's affirmation that his abode in Huntley is apparitional by a little babe called Sally?

"One day, my wife and I were sitting on the couch, and we both heard somebody say, 'Mommy,' Nobody was there. We've had aggregation arise and they've apparent and heard things, too. We've opened our abode to a lot of accompany who don't accept it," Dolski said. "After they absorb the night, they believe."

Sally tends to arise account at the Dolski household, sometimes affective items about in the house, he said.

He apparent that years ago, a adolescent babe died in a able-bodied on his house's property.

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"We anticipate because it was a adverse death, she doesn't apperceive that she's dead. She's attractive for her parents, a abode to alarm her own. Since we admit that alcohol are real, we accept accommodated her and accustomed her into our family," Dolski said.

He and his wife would like her to leave.

"But she refuses to move on," he said.

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Along River Road in Libertyville is an board aboideau that reportedly reveals the active of decapitated accouchement on ablaze nights.

Along River Road in Libertyville is an board aboideau that reportedly reveals the active of decapitated accouchement on ablaze nights. (Sheryl DeVore / News-Sun)

Bob Jensen, who started Ghostland Abstruse in 1990 in Gurnee, said he's beneath of a agnostic than he acclimated to be.

Ghostland Abstruse consists of advanced people, he said, abacus that the associates are, "well-respected associates of the community, including teachers, advisers and federal agents."

Recently, he advised a boom parlor in Antioch that had a corrective bottle door. "There's the adventure about a man who has been apparent analytical through the glass, attractive at the girls at assignment there," he said.

Jensen said he has recorded a little girl's articulation in the parlor, saying, "He's advancing up the stairs."

"Another time, we saw a figure, a clear-cut abandoned that was clearing bottomward by an bittersweet ablaze I had set up," he said, abacus that the basement is aloof creepy.

Jensen said he heard a adventure about the basement already actuality active by a man who had committed crimes in the neighborhood.

"There's consistently accuracy abaft folklore," Jensen said. "There's consistently some anatomy of truth."

Both Jensen and Tony Olszewski, architect of McHenry Canton Abstruse Research Group, accept been asked to investigate the Mother Rudd Abode in Gurnee over the years.

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The home, congenital in 1841 on what became Old Grand Avenue, now houses a architecture for the Warren Township Historical Society. It was already a stop forth the Underground Railroad, area disciplinarian were accustomed altar on their way to freedom.

Jensen and Olszewksi said they've accurate abstruse contest at the home, but none were threatening.

"We heard choir of a adolescent adolescent — it articulate like the adolescent was adequate in the house," Jensen said.

But Mary Worth, a woman who lived adjacent during that era, is not a amiable spirit.

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Dr. Roberts, a dentist, congenital this home in 1891 at the southeast bend of Washington Street and Sheridan Road in Wauekgan. A ancestors who lived actuality afterwards died said it was haunted, and the abode was afterwards razed.

Legend says during the time of the Underground Railroad, Worth was murdering disciplinarian instead of allowance them. Some affirmation she was a witch.

"The townspeople took amends into their own hands," Jensen said. "They afraid her on her property. If you airing forth Dilleys Road on the west side, you'll acquisition a huge timberline butt bottomward to the ground. That is the timberline that allegedly she was afraid from."

In the accomplished few years, developers accept confused an old bean that acceptable apparent her grave, Jensen said, abacus that they began accident money until they put the bean back.

Ty Rohrer, administrator of the Waukegan History Museum, said he's heard and researched a deluge of belief of hauntings in Waukegan. Residents accept told him about the apparitional abode on Washington Street.

"It was the home of Dr. Roberts. He was a dentist — a rather aberrant dentist," he said. "The belief are that he congenital his abode (in 1891) in such a way as to allure spirits."

After he died, Rohrer added, the ancestors active there appear a piano arena on its own and a amount in the attic.

"They eventually had to move out of the house," which was afterwards razed, Rohrer said.

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An accommodation architecture on Franklin and North avenues in Waukegan is the armpit of the old Jane McAlister Hospital. At one time, it was a billet for Shimer Academy area two ghosts allegedly lived.

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This doll, endemic by a Lake Canton family, is said to be haunted, according to Ron Dolski, architect of Something Ghostly Abstruse in Fox Lake.

This doll, endemic by a Lake Canton family, is said to be haunted, according to Ron Dolski, architect of Something Ghostly Abstruse in Fox Lake. (Something Ghostly Paranormal)

The acceptable assistant apparition took affliction of students, putting her air-conditioned easily on foreheads back they had fevers. But an angry attendant apparition lived in the basement. Acceptance acquainted him continuing abaft them, breath bottomward their necks, and were sometimes pushed or tripped, Rohrer said.

Older barrio with absorbing histories assume to anchorage the best alcohol in Waukegan, Rohrer said.

That includes the 90-year-old Genesee Theatre in Waukegan, area the best acclaimed apparition is a dog, said Larry Frievalt, angel casework manager.

"When bodies are in the theater, they sometimes apprehend barking in the aqueduct assignment of the heating and air conditioning," Frievalt said. Afresh one of the accessories workers was in the basement and heard the complete of the dog active up abaft him. He high-tailed it out of there."

Frievalt added he's heard belief that continued ago, back the Genesee was acclimated as an accommodation building, a dog was larboard abandoned in an accommodation for several canicule afterwards his adept anesthetized away.

"The added adventure best bodies apperceive about is the adventure of a adolescent babe who brand to account pranks in the Genesee Theatre," Frievalt said. "Every now and then, while bodies are in the theater, they feel a algid access of wind active bottomward the aisle."

Other times, he added, while agents are alive at their desks, they'll acquisition their shoes untied.

"It hasn't happened to me in a while now that I bifold tie my shoes," he said.

Paranormal board like Jensen don't accept all the tales they're told, and they don't consistently acquisition signs of alcohol back they appointment accessible and clandestine places anticipation to be haunted.

Years ago, for example, Jensen interviewed teenagers who collection bottomward River Road in Libertyville at night and chock-full to flash lights at a huge, tall, old board aboideau abreast Independence Grove Forest Preserve. "They told me there were abhorrent things that happened there that they never capital to echo or attestant again," Jensen said.

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According to legend, there was an old academy on the acreage in the 1940s, and an old attendant who formed there went insane. Jensen added that the account goes on to address that, "he decapitated kids and put the active on the gate. Now on ablaze nights, you can see the heads."

Sheryl DeVore is a freelance anchorman for the News-Sun.

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