Location: Cuba Road west of Rt. 59, Barrington, Illinois 60010
Hauntings: There are many folk
legends associated with
A Palatine schoolteacher started the story about the
one-armed man back in the early 1960's and in 1971 some grade school kids
knocked over a stone near the main gate. The
ground was soft so the caretaker stood it up again.
A few days later the kids returned and knocked it over again.
This went on for several days and soon the story started to circulate
about the headstone that stood up by itself.
local legend is that Mary Worth was supposedly buried here.
The Mary Worth phenomena is a legend native to the Chicagoland area and
from the Barrington Area Library staff indicate other possible hauntings
occurring here. “There is a
foundation of a house on
house was still standing there up a hill about ten years ago.
It was a beautiful house but it was finally torn down.
Kids used to drive up there before the road was closed and neck and drink
beer. It’s no wonder drivers
thought they saw people run in front of them on the road with all those kids
fooling around there,” said Dorothy.
have been multiple witnesses to strange ghost lights often described as red to
white in color hovering or drifting into and out of the cemetery after dusk.
Legend says that a woman was also killed on horseback and that her ghost
can be seen, horse and all. Animals
in the form of ghostly cows have been reported along
house that most people remember in the area burnt to the ground many years ago
however residents and passing motorists have reportedly seen a phantom house
sometimes engulfed in flames, other times simply sending off waves and waves of
heat indicating some extreme temperature difference.
Halloween amateur ghost hunters and vandals overrun the cemetery.
According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, “It’s a standard
thing every year about this time,” says a former Captain.
The police get calls from adults who see “things” going over the
fence into the cemetery and cars that appear and then disappear beside the
cemetery. The police figure that its
prankish teenagers, but they haven’t caught any yet.
fascinating account describes two apparitions seen walking hand in hand along
The Ghost Research Society investigated White Cemetery on
December 11, 1993. Team
members included: Tom Baker, Stan Suho, Lucy Solis, Greg and Illona Nykaza,
Dan Susnara and Dale Kaczmarek
Equipment setup: No actual equipment was set up. The group took pictures, videos and tried recorded sessions on cassette tape recorders. It was a cold but sunny day in December and we didn't stay for very long.
Evidence collected: No evidence was collected during our investigation of White Cemetery.
To watch a video on Cuba Road and White Cemetery shot by the Barrington Patch on October 2011, Click here!
To watch a video on the legend of Rainbow Road shot by the Barrington Patch on October 2011, Click here!
Conclusions: Since our group did not have the sophisticated equipment that we have today, we used what was available at the time, which was minimal. Besides all the spooky tales that have been told in the past, White Cemetery was a calm and peaceful place the day we visited it. I often wonder just how many of the old tales are actually true or have been fabricated by people in the past to simply enhance the aura of this place when visiting it in the evening hours.
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