Bachelor's Grove

Chicago's most haunted.....

The surrounding area was given it's name "Bachelor's Grove" due to the number of unmarried men living in the vacinity. It was also a well know dumping ground for murder victems who had been taken for a ride by 1920's gangsters. The first person to be buried in the cemetery was in 1844 and the last was in 1989. The burial grounds have not been in use since. There is a river that runs behind the cemetery that has been dubbed the "Al Capone River" because it is said that mobsters also dumped bodies here. There is said to be a number of apperitions that can be seen amerging from  it including a farmer his horse and plow which in 1870, the farmer was plowing around the lagoon when his horse bolted suddenly into the water drowning both man and horse. A two headed man has also been seen who suddenly emerges from the water and walks the grounds. In the surroundng forest there is said to be a phantom farm house that appears and dissapears in different location and it is said anyone who tries to apprach the house shrinks and vanishes, it is also said anyone who makes it into the house will never return from the location. Though there is no record of a farm house ever existing in the area the reports date back to the early 1950's. The most famous ghost of the grove is the "white lady" also known as the "Madonna" and the "latter" is seen on a full moon carrying a baby, sometimes she is seen without the child, that is when she is said to be looking for her lost baby. She is buried in the cemetery next to her child.

Here is a picture of the river which flows behind the cemetery, that ghostly figures have been seen emerging from.

Here is an old picture of a couple of graves in the grove before vandles struck the cemetery.

~Ghost Photos from the Grove~