Alton Odyssey Tours Market St. Mysterious Mineral Springs E. Broadway Alton, Illinois This website uses cookies to manage your visitor experience. Terms of Use. All Blogs. That isn't an unusual sight in downtown Alton.
Get a glimpse of the shades, shadows and souls that reportedly walk the historic streets and haunted the ancestral buildings of the region. Experience Haunted Alton for yourself! That's for you to decide on one of our Haunted Tours.
Most Haunted House. First Unitarian Church -- could it be haunted? Milton School The Milton School House was built in and was up and running successfully until it's official close in Find out for yourself on a tour of Alton's most haunted school. Is that a ghost caught on film? Haunted Tour Providers In order to truly experience Haunted Alton, we would invite you to contact our various haunted tour providers to take you in the trenches with stories and hunts for Alton's hauntings.
Alton Haunted Odyssey These tours are currently unavailable. One of the haunted stops you may encounter Confederate Prison Old Alton Prison During the Civil War, the facility imprisoned thousands of Confederate soldiers and over 1, died due to a smallpox outbreak. Elijah Lovejoy Monument This monument is dedicated to the man who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in First Unitarian Church One of its former pastors is known to haunt this historic church and is also the beginning site of haunted tours by Alton Haunted Tours company.
Jacoby Arts Center This building is said to be haunted since the basement used to be a mortuary. Mineral Springs Mall Once an elegant hotel and spa, its history is filled with tragedy, murders, suicides, natural and accidental deaths. Piasa Bird This dragon-like bird is known to have terrorized and devoured the native inhabitants of the area.
When just about any native of the Alton area thinks of a haunted house, normally one name comes to mind - the infamous McPike Mansion. Begin your holiday celebration when you experience the enchantment of Christmas at the "Christmas Wo Created with a vision inspired by the World's Fair, the General Store in Alton takes guest Find one-of-a-kind items while experiencing the thrill of thrifting at the Alton Antique Center. Whether you're looking for short-term or extended stays, treat yourself with these upscale lofts off Alton Landing offers all types of marine canvas fabrication, frame fabrication, interior fabric desi Alton Little Theater is the oldest live continuous theater in Illinois.
The Theater is currently in The finest Marina on the upper Mississippi River with exceptional hospitality and the added convenie The exhibits share My Favorites 0 Search Search. Details Visit Website. Information Authentic haunted tours at the well known McPike Mansion. Event Details Apr 27 to Sep 28, pm. What's Happening Near Alton. Christmas Wonderland 26 Nov. You might also like…. Alton Antique Center. Alton Exchange Mall. Alton Landing. I've been touched in the cellar, felt someone put their hand on my cheek, on my shoulder another time, a couple of unnerving things.
I do believe the spirits are good spirits; they like when people come by, they enjoy that. Work is currently being done on the home to restore it, with plans to turn the home into a bed and breakfast on the second floor with the first floor being used for special events when restorations are complete. Taylor said he's had experiences with the ghost of the former pastor at First Unitarian Church, phantom footsteps at Mineral Springs, and has seen the cellar door of the McPike Mansion open by itself.
He said he believes the spirits of Alton stick around for a number of reasons. The British devised a theory in the s that suggested that porous stone — like their castles and like our limestone — must absorb events that occur and play them back as hauntings.
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