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White Cemetery ghost lights and a vanishing pentagram

Filed Under: 4. Cuba Road, Cuba Road, Illinois, White Cemetery — scottlmarkus — 3 Comments
April 6, 2009

Story: Last summer, two friends of mine and I were bored and we decided to go to Cuba Road. We were driving there using my friends gps on her phone and right when we got on the main road, her phone shut off. Strangest thing ever! I sure as hell was freaking out! So we pulled off into one of the neighborhoods on the main road…I’ll never forget the name: Chipendale’s (haha). We parked right by the Chipendale’s sign and it was just a normal summer’s evening; no wind, no rain, no clouds. Every time my friend would turn her phone on, the bushes by the sign would start vigorously moving. Of course I was the one sitting closest to them so I locked my car door and just stared at them hoping nothing creepy would jump out of them. It could’ve been coincidence, but I don’t know…

So we finally got my friends gps to work and we were like “oh we’re right there!” So we get back on the main road and are stopped at the light as we’re about to turn left. I thought it was the opportune time to call my other friend who couldn’t come (she wanted me to call her). Reception was great, everything was crystal clear…until we got on Cuba Road. As soon as we turned on the road, it sounded like a woman was screaming in the background. So I asked my friend (she was at a Sox game) if she was sitting by a screaming woman and she had said that they were already driving home from the game. Now I was really freaking out! My phone was going crazy with this ghostly woman screaming bloody murder, so I was like “I gotta go” and hung up.

As we’re driving down the road, we spot the cemetery and I’m just staring at it and I notice these white lights floating above the gravestones and I remember thinking it was weird that they would put a light on each individual gravestone. I remember I tried to show my friends, but we had already passed it. So we turned around on Rainbow road (didn’t see a house or anything) and went past the cemetery again…no white lights. Then we turned around on another side road and as we turned we all screamed. An empty, old (I would say maybe from the 60s or 70s) jet black van was parked right near the bushes towards the cemetery. Nobody was in the car…or in the cemetery. So we quickly sped up the road to turn around. About three minutes later we were coming back down that side road to turn onto Cuba Road and the van was gone. Again, it could’ve been coincidence, but no one was in the cemetery and the doors to it that were locked before were open when we came back on Cuba Road. It was almost like someone wanted us to go in there. So we drove around the cemetery and I closely looked at the gravestones, there were no individual lights (I looked it up when I got out and found out that I had seen the orbs). My friends thought I was crazy for seeing the orbs.

After we left, we got lost again and got on the side road with the horse barn and the pentagram on the stop sign. Scary shit. The pentagram was clear as day and there was a horse outside of the barn, and we could see this from pretty far down the street. As soon as we got close to the stop sign, the horse practically came charging at our car (thank God there was a fence blocking him) and the pentagram disappeared. Weirdest thing ever. -Liz Szalay

Response from Scott Markus:  First off – what??? Pentagram on a stop sign? I’ve never heard this tale. That alone make me want to visit that area when I’m back in Illinois. Right away I’m guessing that based on the shape of stop signs and their reflective surface that (and this is probably something of a stretch) that a little warping of the sign could create some strange reflections. Do you have a photo of this sign (with or without the pentagram)? Also, what sign is it? I’m definitely going to give it a visit in a couple of weeks.

To comment on your strange cell phone experience, allow me to direct you to a not very mainstream phrase: instrumental transcommunication (or ITC). Mark Macy might be the most renowned person to specialize in that field. His web site is http://www.worlditc.org. Popularly, you see people gathering EVPs on tape recorders, but this topic is wider, using devices like television sets, radios and even phones to communicate with the other side.

Reply from Liz: Sadly, I don’t have a picture, but the good news is I will most likely be going back this coming summer. We took my one friend when we were on winter break and nothing happened, so she really wants to see some freaky stuff.

This time I’ll bring my camera and take lots of pictures…especially of the pentagram and the demon horse if he decides to charge towards my friends mini van again. I think you’re right about the stop sign though because obviously they are reflective and we were probably still freaking out about the black van that we thought it magically disappeared. And if I hear any blood curdling screams in my cell, I’ll let you know.

I looked at the website and it’s very interesting. Would a voice recorder work? If so, I’ll be sure to bring one.

Also, I Google Map’d Cuba Road and looked at the satellite view. The black van was parked on Crown Road right at the edge of the cemetery. And I want to say the pentagram stop sign is on the corner of Hart Road and Cuba Road (if the big building on that corner is the horse stable, then it is correct).

Thanks for all the advice and I’ll let you know if anything weird happens on my next trip.

Reply from Scott Markus: Yes, a tape recorder would work.   You can view a little demo that I shot with the Indiana Ghost Trackers on this YouTube video:

Can’t wait to see any pictures you get!

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A Haunted House on Cuba Road

Filed Under: 15. More Illinois, 4. Cuba Road, 5. Haunted Homes, Barrington, Cuba Road, Illinois, Rainbow Road — scottlmarkus — 4 Comments
March 4, 2008

Comment: I lived on Cuba Road for about 25 years. My family moved there from Chicago in 1970. The whole time I lived there, I never heard about a haunted house on Rainbow Road. It was always the haunted house on Cuba Road. The house was located off of Cuba Road, west of Rainbow road. The first and only time I went up there was in the summer of 1980. I was about 17. The house was still standing then and the drive way was still connected to Cuba Road. It was a big house on a small hill. It had the swamp on two sides and field and forest on the other sides. No neighbors lived close to it. The house was set on fire several times and was abandoned. No windows were left in it. I remember cutting across a field to get to it. I didn’t want to park my car on Cuba Road and have the cops tow it away. Nor did I want to drive it up the hill and get stuck. If I needed to leave quickly, I planned on running for my life. I didn’t want to be fumbling for my car keys.

As I was walking up to the house, I suddenly noticed a man standing out in front of it. Just standing there smiling at me. It scared the crap out me. He was up there checking things out like I was. He just said good bye and took off down the drive way. I gave him a wide berth and checked out the house. There was a small pond in front of the house, where a car had been pushed into it. All you could see was the roof of the car sticking out of the water. The rest of the house was empty. But very creepy.

During the 70′s, Cuba Road was not yet developed. Some days you would only see one car drive up or down it. But every Halloween, there would be cars bumper to bumper, filled with high school kids, driving from the Haunted house on one end to the haunted graveyard, White Cemetery, on the other.

I didn’t know Cuba Road was haunted till I went to high school. I was sitting in class one day, when someone mentioned how scary Cuba Road was. I asked him what did he mean and he told name all the scary stories he had heard. I told him I lived on Cuba Road and no one believed me, until I showed them my drivers license. That impressed the hell out of them. Then, they wanted me to tell them scary stories.

At first, I told them that they were just stories, but they wouldn’t believe me, so then I started repeating the stories my older brothers had told me. About the drug dealing son and his “Mason” like gang he hung out with. The father had passed away and the Mom tried to keep the son in line, but eventually had a nervous breakdown and was taken away to a mental institution. Once the Mom was gone, the son ran wild with his hippie friends and started having black masses in the house. Late at night they would run through the fields and swamps with torches. One party got out of hand and they started the house on fire. The house was totaled, but the son and his friends would sneak back there at times for their secret get-togethers and bon fires. All the druggies and burnouts in Barringtion would flock to the house for parties. Finally, the Village had enough and decided to remove the drive way to the house. It was dug up and removed. A berm was made to stop cars from trying to four wheel up to the house. I don’t know if they razed the house at the same time, but I bet they did. The Fire and the Police Departments were getting tired of driving out there every Saturday night.

Things seemed to have settled down. People still drove up and down Cuba Road on Halloween. Over time, people wanted to go to the haunted house. So suddenly, the haunted house was now on Rainbow Road. A house where people could still drive up to and get out of there cars and look around. This happened over the last 15 years, because I never heard of a Rainbow Road haunted house till after I left Barrington and started reading books about haunted places. I was confused why they would talk about the haunted house on Rainbow Road Road, they never got the story right. I guess I should call it the original haunted house on Cuba Road. If you ask anyone in Barrington over 40 where the Haunted house is, they would not say Rainbow Road. They would tell you it was off of Cuba Road.

That is all for now. I do have other stories, about the animals getting killed in the Langendorf Park petting zoo.

About the memorial plaque that is located behind the McDonalds Restaurant, in the Langendorf Park parking lot, where Baby Face Nelson had a shoot out with two FBI agents. –Martin

Response from Slim Pictures: Martin, the most exciting part of your eMail is your mention of Baby Face Nelson. Just recently I decided to look into possible hauntings surrounding the infamous gangster, especially considering his violent life and death. PLEASE do tell me everything you’ve heard!

I am very fascinated by your accounts of a hunted house on Cuba Rd. If you were to look on google Earth or Google Maps today, do you think you’d be able to locate where this ‘original’ haunted house was. It seems like some of the tales of this house have migrated to the Krilich house on Rainbow Rd. I have heard plenty of what I consider legitimate stories about a haunted house on Rainbow Road, so I’m inclined to think that both of these locations are haunted though there have definitely been some blurring between the locations over the years.  It’s a very astute observation to presume that when the ‘original’ haunted house of the area went away, they needed a new base to call home.  I love hearing how the original stories morph into urban legends over time and I thank you for informing all of us Cuba Road ‘newbies’ about where some of these tales might have started.

Are there ghost stories related the the petting zoo? Thanks a million, Scott

Do any readers out there know anything about an abandoned haunted home on Cuba Road (not Rainbow Road) in the ’80s and before?

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A ghost family at Rainbow Road?

Filed Under: 14. Northside & Beyond, 4. Cuba Road, Illinois, Rainbow Road, Stickney House — scottlmarkus — Comments Off
August 8, 2005

Story: I am 18 years old, and I reside in Waukegan, Illinois. I used to live in Park Ridge until last March, when me and my family moved out here to Waukegan. I am e-mailing you because I would like to share with you my experiences at the house on Rainbow Road, and give you a little update about that “glass house” that someone talked about in a post on your website.

About a year or so ago, (I can’t give you an exact date because I don’t remember, but it was during my Junior year of high school around winter time) my uncle who lives in Barrington, told me about the house on Rainbow Road, and how it is haunted. So of course, curiosity killed my cat and I got some friends to come with me to check it out. What I saw there, absolutely freaked me out. What’s interesting is none of my friends saw it. I was the only one that experienced it.

As you know, you go over the gate and walk down a long road that eventually leads to a fork. It takes you to what I remember to be a silo to the left, and another road to the right. You keep walking down that road to the right and there is the mansion. We had seen boarded up windows that had “keep out, police order” spray-painted on there. The door had been chained, so we could not get in that way. On the side of the house, there was a window that had no glass or wooden board covering it. We entered through there, and what I saw next scared the crap out of me. There was a wooden table in the corner, and two chairs. There was nothing there for a second, and when I reached into my pocket to look at my phone to see what time it was, my phone had shut off, which I thought was odd considering I had it on the car charger the whole ride over there. When I looked up, I saw two figures sitting at the table, what appeared to be a mother and a daughter. They were looking at each ot her, not saying anything. They then turned and looked at me, and just stared at me. And it wasn’t a friendly stare. It was a cold, hateful stare, like a “get away from us” kind of stare. I turned to my friends, and told them that it was freaking me out. My buddy asked me what I was talking about, because they didn’t see anything. I was like, “DO YOU NOT SEE THESE TWO PEOPLE STARING AT US?!” That’s when it happened. I felt behind me, what felt like some kind of pressure. Then, a ghostly figure walked right through me, and it from what it seemed like, he was the father. He lit up the whole room with his glow, and once again, my friends didn’t experience any of this. He then turned around, looked at me, and in an evil, deranged voice, stared at me and said, “get out.” I grabbed my friends and told them to jump out the window and run. We hauled out of there, and as we ran, I heard screaming. A loud, painful screaming from the room that we were in. We hopped the gate and went back to my car. As I sped off and out of there I told my friends what I saw, and they said they didn’t see any of it. I reached into my pocket and took out my cell phone, which was no longer turned off, but back on with a full battery. I did not turn it back on. We went home, and I said I would never go back there again.

What happened that night has never happened to me before, and I’ve never had a supernatural experience since. But I will tell you this, what I saw that night was ghosts. They were ghosts that were very deranged and cruel. They looked just like human people, but very lightly transparent, and they were glowing. But by the way they stared, I could feel the hatred. The man who told me to get out said it in such a deep, deranged voice, it seemed as if it was satanic. And the painful, ear jarring screams I heard when I ran away, it was almost unreal.

Can you explain to me what happened? Have you ever heard any stories like this at Rainbow Road? What I experienced there does not match the story behind that house, about the mafia or whatever. I would just like to know what I experienced, and if I am in any danger for telling you this story. –Alex Gratys

P.S. ~ About that glass house, it is not haunted. My cousin’s (the son of my uncle that lives in the Braemar subdivision) girlfriend lives in that glass house. She says that she has never experienced anything in her house, but has seen things when walking home at night.

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Response from Scott Markus: Alex, Can you tell me about the house you went into? Is it the image shown here:
From Alex: Yes that is absolutely the one.

Response from Scott Markus: I cannot explain exactly what you saw as, as you put it, it doesn’t go along with the house’s backstory (which, so far doesn’t actually include the Mafia).    The likely scenario is that your subconscious and fears bled into letting you see something that wasn’t truely there.

However, let’s go along for the ride and find a supernatural answer/theory!  The actual mansion, which was burned as part of a fireman training exercise in the mid-to-late ’90s contained a storm cellar.  (this is all true, by the way…this isn’t the theory part).  In that storm cellar of the abandoned mansion, people broke in to be able to practice some dark arts in the privacy of the cellar.  This is according to trustworthy eye witnesses who visited and can attest to finding strange markings on the floor, burned-out candles and animal remains, presumably the result of animal sacrifice.

Perhaps, much like the story behind the Stickney House, someone  opened a ‘door’ that they didn’t know how to close.  I bring this up mainly due to your use of the word Satanic to describe the feel you had when seeing these phantoms.  I would love to see if anyone else comes forth with similar stories, but as of now, this is the first I’ve heard of anything of the sort.

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