Thursday, May 27, 2010

Bloody Mary

Join me, the Gravestomper, on an adventure through one of Illinois' most haunted cemeteries, old St. Patrick near Wadsworth, IL.  The site is famous for a haunting legend known by school children all over the country, and this legend, plus some other rumors I've heard about the place have some very interesting lessons to teach about getting out there and living life to the fullest!  My thanks to Richie D  for his story about his experiences with the infant's tombstone.


18 comments:

  1. Love Old St Pat's. It's a great graveyard. I with the kids would stop pushing over the gravestones like it proves they are such brave people. Plan to visit there this weekend.

    The Mary Worth story as I heard it had her buried at RoseHill. You looked in the mirroe with a candle burning and repeated "I believe in Mary Worth" and you would see her burned face in the mirror. Woooooooo.

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  2. One of the things I find most interesting about these stories is how we all have a version "as we heard it".... :) It makes things interesting.

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  3. AWESOME VIDEO! Gosh brings back many memories of my childhood. Next time I go back there I am going to take a picture of the little child's tomb that causes your hand to bleed. That's a promise to you and myself.

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  4. Thanks, richie. That would be uber cool!!!!

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  5. Tonight is gonna be my first time going to the cemetery and i've seen your video, which i thought it was amazing. Could you help me in anyway you can with my first night?

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  6. I will tell you this, Jose: the cops are very active there especially at this time of year and especially at night. Maybe you'd rather check it out during it's daytime open hours?

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  7. I've been in the woods, in fact, I was just there the other day. There are indeed cars behind there. Many. My favorite is a large very old van. Another place in there, there's a set of muscle cars, side by side. One has a tree smashed on top. The other had inside of it an old style baby bottle. I saw the infants grave but I didn't touch it but it was very sad. The passed two times I've gone, there has been a horrible order followed by human footstep. Last time I went, we were stalked all the way out. There was indeed a fire, a tree right outside of the foundation (all that's left of the house) is completely chard. It was indubitably there when the fire occurred. None of the other surrounding tree's look the same. We went inside the pool, during the day, and you just get quite the awful feeling. There was a collapsed tent and blankets and what not near the van. Probably been there for about 2 months. This means someone went to camp back there and something happened resulting in them to high-tail it out of there and never come back. There's things back there dating back to the 1930's, like a mirror I found. It really is a neat place. During the day anyway. DON'T GO THERE AT NIGHT.

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  8. I went there many of times. One was I went with a few friends we walked all around we found a rabbits foot on one of the tombstones.. Which freaked me out. on the same night, we a creepy shadow figure next to a tombstone watching us. The next time I went during the day we went through the woods, and I tell ya... I was kind of scared for being a average build guy lol while going through the woods, I kept hearing footsteps behind me.. I lost my friends in the process, I found my self by the Boy scout camp.. then decided to head back alone... then I heard a women scream, so I called my friends phone making sure she was alright. even though it wasn't her, she found the devils pool. and claimed to see and heard something growling in the pool. And tonight me and my buddy just went tonight. Just the 2 of us. and I swear.... I was getting Goosebumps. My heart was raising... me and my buddy walked around and then we step on a stick that snapped. and heard a grunt... turned to the right, there was this scary shadow figure that did not look like a human or an animal that I know off with glowing yellow eyes... me and him just got the HELL out of there. It was really freaking creepy... Oh and the fact I heard a loud disembodied scream... yeah I am not going there for a while lol

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  9. when I was 10 years old I was home alone decided do the ritual in the mirror with the lights off turned three times with my eyes closed.when I open my eyes there was a huge apparitionthat was outlined by very bright lights almost neon like outlines around a cape like figured woman. the apparition had long finger nails,I'm talking foot long red nails. I had such an overwhelming fear that I was perfectly standing still unable to move almost in a trance while I watched her long hand and fingernails come out through the mirror and slowly she touched the top of my cheek and just lightly dragged her nails downward softly to the bottom of my face,she then she retracted her hand at that point I was able to free myself from my paralysis and flipped the light on and ran out.I'm not sure if she was there with good intentions or just observing me.I have practiced Wicca and I'm very in touch with vibrations and senses. my parents conception of me was also very bizarre and I have had other examples of psychic abilities,for this reason I do believe I am A indigo child. because of this I do beleive I was in touch with the spirit of Mary when I summoned her that night. I have never repeated it but I have had interesting experiences with mirrors since then, anybody have some advice on what the meaning of some of that may have been

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  10. I live 30 minutes from there. I advise you people to stay away...not bc of ghosts but the cults that DO go there at night dont mess around. Ask any cop...beheaded dogs and childrens clothing found there. I went 2 times at 2-3 am didnt see anything but you just get that feeling


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  11. Kinda of a late post but im from the lake county area and have been here plenty of times to know theres something in the woods behind the cemetary. Somethings dont make sense... the model and year of the cars are later than the smallest surrounding tree by a long shot... howd they get there? For some reason there is no evidence or history of a house or school or any kind of info about it anywhere. Also I consider myself to be more intuned to ghosts and have felt plenty of strange vibes from these woods. Any links or info will be much appreciated

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  12. I am also from lake county. Growing up in Antioch you always hear the stories about st. Pats. Ive been there numerous times and I will tell you there is something not right about that place. The vail is extremely thin there. The reason for not finding records on st. Pats or the house is due to a fire that burned down the old Wadsworth townhall. All the records were lost due to the fact that there were no computers at the time

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  13. Ive been to devils pool a couple of times but only ever in the grave yard until last night. Im not afraid of ghosts or anything, but the thing that scares me about trying to get to the actual pool at night is the fact that devil worshippers and statanists go there to perform sacrifices and burn animals. Me and my friends were trying to get back to the pool last night until we started to get close and smelled something burning, but not the kind of burning that you smell from food or tires. We left and decided to come back again at a later date because we had found out about the blood moon occurance that was happenening at the time we were walking around in the woods.

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  14. Idk all of this talk about devil worshippers and sacrifices I've been back there many times at night and never once encountered anything of that sort of nature and i mean enough that i would have seen this if it was the case

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  15. Idk all of this talk about devil worshippers and sacrifices I've been back there many times at night and never once encountered anything of that sort of nature and i mean enough that i would have seen this if it was the case

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  16. I've been there a lot of times and nothing happens . I stepped all over the cemetery today and nothing happened. I haven't seen no cars or Devils pool YET because my friends are scared to go in the woods so I haven't seen the house , cars, or pool.
    Post pictures please . I have pictures and videos .

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  17. I've been there a lot of times and nothing happens . I stepped all over the cemetery today and nothing happened. I haven't seen no cars or Devils pool YET because my friends are scared to go in the woods so I haven't seen the house , cars, or pool.
    Post pictures please . I have pictures and videos .

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    1. Do you happen to know the location of the Worth farm? Is it in the woods just north east of the cemetery? Historic ariels show a farm out there up until about the 90s when it was completely taken over by forest. Thanks.

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