To follow up on the Lake Club story, we now call attention to the Sangamon Valley Ghost Research Group. This intrepid set of ghost-busters has collected a long list of Haunted Locations in central Illinois, from Vandalia and Havana to Decatur and Elkhart.
Springfield has many haunted locations: the Dana House, Oak Ridge Cemetery, the Governor's Mansion, the Theatre Center, the Lincoln Home and Tomb, and the Old State Capitol.
SHS also makes the list, because the school site at Lewis and Adams Streets was formerly Hutchinson's Cemetery. Although workers moved all the old tomb stones, rumors linger that some graves remain and that a ghostly little girl named Rachel still wanders the halls.
The picture above is of SHS viewed from the top of the Illinois State Capitol building. It comes from a Community Atlas Project built by students in 2003-04.
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