Timestamps: 00:00 Bachelors Grove Intro 00:47 The Grove's Settlement History 1:54 Cemetery Burial History 2:49 The Haunting of Bachelors Grove 3:17 The Madonna of Bachelors Grove Cemetery 5:13 Floating Orbs Sightings 5:56 The Phantom Farmhouse 6:42 Legends of Bachelors Grove Pond 7:55 The Desecration of Bachelors Grove Cemetery 8:52 Tragic Events at the Grove 9:41 My Paranormal Experience

I grew up in Chicago and have gone to Bachelors Grove. There is a group that helps take care of the cemetery. It was fun going there. But we we're respectful of the cemetery.

I live 15 minutes away from Bachelor's Grove. Across the Midlothian Turnpike, there's a nice trail that I like to frequent that's part of Rubio Woods. There's certainly something creepy yet special about that graveyard, and I've been to a LOT of creepy places! You ALWAYS feel watched there. I agreed so much when you mentioned how the walk down the old road is scarier than the graveyard itself! Everything, even the birds and the rustling of the trees in the wind, goes dead silent. You always want to keep checking your back, just to make sure nothing is stalking you. There's certain areas of the graveyard that are unnaturally cold, even on the hottest summer days. That pond is terrifying. It's a mosquito breeding ground and it has this very specific, pungent odor that makes you feel dizzy. I remember going there with a friend one Halloween (its our tradition) and the pond would sometimes bubble and make these gurgling sounds, like something or someone was drowning. That same day, we also encountered a doe that walked right in front of us, STARED at us for an entire minute, and jumped into the underbrush. Believe it or not, it's scarier to EXIT the graveyard than enter it. I dunno if it was just my friend and I, but we always brisk out of the graveyard because you almost feel like you're being chased by something you cannot see. When my friend and I left, he became SUPER nauseous and we both got massive migraines despite feeling fine beforehand. I also think the Turnpike is haunted - I remember one night while driving past Bachelor's Grove, my highbeams kept flickering, and I don't have automatic highbeams on my car. My friend was sitting shotgun and recording what was happening for their Instagram, and their phone went from like 90 percent to almost 30 percent! The video also never developed correctly, it was super fuzzy and glitchy. Also, ALWAYS leave something for the Infant Daughter! It's a bit of a tradition. Anyways, I love your channel, and how you cover so many Illinois paranormal spots! As a Chicagoan myself, I feel so seen! Illinois definitely has a lot of cool, creepy spots that often go unnoticed!

That was nice. Thank you 😊 for posting this. I think it's an absolute disgrace, as well as disgusting, that someone would desecrate a cemetery like that. To tear down, kick over, spray paint a tombstone, that someone put up to commemorate a deceased loved one is pure hateful and gutless. I've heard stories of this happening over time, and, too me, it's just inconceivable that someone would do this. Especially with tombstones dating back to the early to mid 1800s. Why would anyone in their right mind want to do this, let alone steal a headstone? Sorry 😐, but I can't fathom it. As for your encounter, I don't know what to say. I'm just glad you 3 weren't harmed in any way. I look forward to your next video 😊. 1/17/24.

I visited the cemetery on a ghost tour one October night some years ago. The visit was rather mundane-until we all witnessed some bluish lights flitting amongst the trees. We had no idea what they could be, certainly not vehicle lights or fireflies. We quickly got on the bus and headed for the next stop, Resurrection Cemetery, which was yet another experience.

Man I used to live near that area about 20 years ago! In Tinley Park at 179 in oak park ave! I used to ride my bicycle through the trails in that area all the way through Midlothian! And pass through that cemetery! I always throw caution to the wind when riding through there! My hair from my back stands up! Eerie and creepy vibes! Never roamed alone through the cemetery though! My nephew sometimes used to accompany me. And that was during the day time! I never dared going at night! Now that I live in Tucson Arizona, I miss my old town! Someday I’ll go back and visit! Miss the food, my family and friends! Great video!♥️😎👍I forgot to mention that that place also used to be a mob hit dump ground way back in the 20s and through the 30s.

I have been to Bachelors Grove a few times back in the 90's. Something special about that cemetary. I always found it so strange no birds sounds inside the fence but you heard as you walked up. Also, there was a spot in the trail leading to the cemetary that had a big tree root sticking out of the ground. Once you crossed over the tree root there was a chill in the air. I even straddled the root and had arms extended out on both sides and felt the difference on my arms. It was summertime and in the mid 80's temp wise. You need to check out Resurrection Cemetary also. I have a great picture of the gates. Glad I found your channel.

Just found your channel n subscribed. I will never understand why anyone would vandalize a grave. It is a disgusting thing to do n utterly disrespectful. Thank you for sharing this remarkable video n looking forward to your next upload. 💖 From Australia

I think old cemeteries are fascinating as well...but whenever I leave, I tell the "residents" they are not allowed to leave with me. I tell them to stay there and rest in peace because the world is a really crazy place right now!

Whoever desecrated it really brought some dark energy on themselves (good)

About 1972 we were there a lot at night, I was 12 and we'd explore it. Some people had dug up a couple coffins and were too afraid to open them so they floated them in the lagoon. You could see part of them above the water and one had a hole broken into it on the top side. Even a long time after pieces of wood from the coffins were still along the banks. It was dangerous back there because of the crazy people who hung around. The lagoon was the WORST. The cops did night patrols but usually just at the gate. Locals cleaned it up and removed tons of junk 10 years ago.

I know this place! One of my dad's friends went there when the grave robbery was huge and he said the scariest thing he experienced was when he was walking through and he wasn't looking and he fell... into a dug up grave. He said if anyone heard him scream that day, they'd sure as hell think it was haunted.

When I was a teenager we would ride our horses up through the woods to an old graveyard on the side of a hill, we had been told people would see a little girl on a headstone. We are always scaring ourselves but nothing was there. But I wish there were ghosts because my dad could visit me.

As a truck driver I always seemed to be going through Illinois very cool state especially he rural areas.

I believe that the whole forest is haunted, I had an experience as a kid in cub scouts at Camp Sullivan (it's a part of bachelor's grove). I stayed the night there and had horrible nightmares, and during the day, we went on a hike through the woods, and I swear someone or something was following us. Also, when we were playing by the woods, it looked like there was a shadowy figure watching us.

We live very close to the cemetery..and used to walk our dog thru the surrounding woods all the time. Just once my husband walked the trail, and ended up at the cemetery. (He is not one that believes in the paranormal.) He said as he got closer to the cemetery our dog who was very calm normally, started acting strange. Stopping frequently, head twisting like he was trying to understand something, then ran back to my husband, as to say, protect me daddy. *He was the worst dog ever as far as watch dogs go.* That's when my husband felt "something" .... at first he thought it his imagination, but as this odd feeling continued to intensify he could only describe it as a full blown panic attack. Something he does not ever have. He said with that he got the heck out of there and has never gone back. He has no explanation for what occurred but he just says he has NEVER felt what he felt that afternoon before or after that day. And has absolutely no desire to go back

Been there many times. It’s peaceful and not even a little scary. It actually looks a bit cleaner than last.

I have been to Bachelors Grove many times. It’s definitely an interesting place. There were stories about groups of people doing rituals and animal sacrifices. One time when we were there a team of paranormal investigators were there with a lot of equipment. We did witness a 10 degree temperature decrease on their one machine. I never did see anything else but lots of strange things have been reported there. Great video !

I remember that photo of the woman in white. Nice video on the history of this cemetery. ❤️👻👏🏻

awesome video! thanks for telling about this cemetery! it's a shame idiots have almost destroyed this historic place ✌️

Greetings from Kim from Nottingham, England, such a interesting article x

Growing up in Oak Lawn, I visited numerous times back in the 1990's. Other than an odd feeling whenever we were there, we only saw light anomalies over the pond. Our time there was minimal, Police patrolled frequently especially around Halloween. Btw, Great content. Enjoying your channel. 👍👍

I lived in Norwood park loved Chicago greeting from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪

The last professional paranormal investigation that I heard about Bachelor's Grove was from Richard Crowe. Yours is on that level! Great work!

Your channel is one of the better paranormal sites that I have come across! Thank you for doing a very good job!

I would love to go here and catch "The Madonna of Bachelor's Grove". Thank you for the awesome story! 😊 Love the stories and channel!❤

Love these videos my man, i grew up in Oak Lawn & used to go to all these spots

Great video, your history is spot on with the research I've done on this place. I grew up by the grove, and have some really odd stories, some of which, I'm still trying to process in my head from years ago. I believe the woods and the road leading up to the cemetery are more haunted than the cemetery itself. My most recent experiences there, less than 2 years ago, happened in the afternoon and happened just on the side of the road leading to the cemetery.

I've been there about 3 or 4 times. One time, in the late Eighties, we went there quite late on a Summer night. There was a not quite full moon. It was kind of hot, and, no wind. In one spot inside the cemetery, there was a cold spot. I was the first one to notice it. I told my two friends to stand there, and, they both said, that, in that one spot, it was as it were twenty degrees cooler. We saw white and blue orbs. The blue ones were over the pond. The white ones were in the woods on the far side of the cemetery. We saw a two story house, kind of deep in the woods. It was white or some kind of lighter color. It's hard to say exactly which color, because it was much darker in the woods.

3 of us went on a friday the 13th (not saying that amplified the experience, just kind of funny how the timing worked out) and while we did not find the moving house we did hear this door slam shut several times. it was like every 5 minutes for about 20 minutes before we said nope and left lol

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Great content! More frightening stories please!! ☠️ 🐕 ❤️

Great video. I like your personal story and the extra work you put in to look up old newspaper articles and records relating to the stories. 👍

This is the 2nd video of yours that I've watched now. The thing I especially like is your walking-around videography (oh, and the driving-there too) as this takes me right slap-bang there to experience the place for myself. Then, your clear and convincing voice wraps things up perfectly. Thanks a lot; you have me hooked; please keep them coming! 👏🏻👏🏻

I love that you have footage along with your narration. Not many people do! You seem to be based in the Midwest, I’d love to see some Minnesota hauntings if you ever happen to be that far North!

Wow, they really cleaned that cemetery up. Nice to see

I went there a few times over 25 years ago. My friends told me lots of stories. That picture was in the newspaper and we saved it. There’s a pond right there by the graves like a cove and the road goes right over it and it is said that right there where the pond is by the graves back in the day the mob dumped hundreds of bodies of people they killed there. We had to climb through a tear in the fence back then and it was small. A lot of tales about that place. I also briefly lived by resurrection cemetery where famous Mary is said to roam.

Any cemetary at is so creepy. Your right, your senses are on high alert. We have a big cemetary here in Kingston. Beautiful to walk through in daytime, but night, forget it. Lol Keep up the great stories.😊

You are absolutely right. It IS the woods, not the cemetery. There is something malevolent in those woods.

I know this place.. My Gramps said it was creepy in 1930s! In the 80s when I was in H.S. people would call this make-out point. Because it was secluded, and a good place to hang out, and get High. Someone Dared me that I wouldn't walk through the Cemetary on Halloween night! It was the creepiest and weirdest place I've ever been to in my life. I didn't stay long enough to see any thing! I took off running, and hopped back in my BF car! There was a rumor that people were going there for Satanic worship. That's when the police started patroling more often and locked it up at night. Thanks for a great video. You brought back a lot of memories, of my long lost youth. 😁

Cemetery's are sacred ground, it's were we go to RIP, spirits are in every cemetery.

I love hearing about the history of old cemeteries. Thank You ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

Three years ago i was immediate need of a public amenities building, and being in a regional area it was looking desperate, when from the road i saw a door open on the mourners building in the local cemetery on its own , the toilet hadnt been in use for over a decade and usually locked tight and its usually un manned . I am very grateful for the guardians and residents to this day .

I'm from CA and visited family in Illinois back in 2018 and visited Bachelor's Grove. it was beautiful. But this was during the daytime.

Take a look at the old settlers cemetery in Bensenville, Il. It's off Church street, North of Grand Ave and has an old school house next to it.

I live about 30 miles away. I'm going there in April

Man you are brave. Walking in woods. So scary. 🇨🇦

Excellent episode. It makes me wonder what you all saw were wood sprites? The knocks, the orbs. As you said, not associated with the cemetery but the woods. So cool!

Such a terrifying forest in the daylight ... can't imagine visiting in the dark!!!

I’ve seen the light, red and orange. We were going to go in on a Halloween night years ago, but after seeing the orbs, changed our minds. I would love to investigate here at night.

keep making videos, they are awesome.

The vanishing house is a classic residual haunting. That house stood in those woods probably pre - Civil War. Now it appears to those with the perception to connect with the past as an after image.

You know I believe there’s a special place in hell for people that do grave desecration. There’s no sense in it. Blows my mind how senseless people are

Fascinating video...very sad of the desecration to the graves 😢

I’m happy and bummed that I found this channel.. happy because it’s great content and bummed because now I get to be freaked out when I’m home alone. Thaaaaaaanks….

I'm so glad youtube put you in my algorithm. ❤

Bachelor’s Grove gave me the creeps visiting there during daylight hours and with a group of friends in the late 70s. When they decided to go back at night, I made up an excuse for having to go home. No thanks! Another commenter mentioned Resurrection Cemetery. I don’t remember the whole Resurrection Mary story, but the girl in the white dress legend lives on. Thanks for these interesting videos. Red Gate Woods, Maple Lake, etc., no shortage of material to cover. I’m hitting Subscribe!

Skeptics are terrified of things existing beyond their thimble sized box. Bachelors Grove is on my bucket list.

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What sick people would steal someone’s grave stone? Thats really really insane!

Im from Villa Park, Illinois. I like your videos about Illinois. Please do Indiana, I live there now. Thank you🌽

The video was amazing I appreciate it brother🙏 I’ve came to this cemetery a couple of times with my friends at night and honestly it is a little scary sometimes you feel like you hear something and there’s so many trails that lead to different places it’s weird.. I have the videos on my channel for anyone wondering but yea man for sure haunted!

My Aunt, father and grandmother had a story about them finding and taking a bone from the grounds. They had some bad luck and tried to get rid of it but it kept reappearing. They would throw it in a trash can outside and the next day it would be on top of the lid. Eventually, my grandmother found out and made them take it back. My dad was too afraid to go into the grounds and just ended up throwing it from the car or something.

I know a lot of people who have seen orbs. People who have no interest in or fascination with the paranormal.

Been there seen the phantom houses, weeping mothers grave was ice cold this place is legit as it gets

I went there 3 times, I didn’t see any ghosts except my friend had a pic with a ghost in it, we think. The only place to park is across the street in the parking lot for the Rubio woods forest preserve and there is a trail that has a chain across it, that’s the trail into into the woods that leads to the cemetery, i remember walking past a house that’s near the entrance next to the trail, my co worker tried to tell me there is no house there, i don’t think it was a ghost house , it’s near the street , I walked passed it all three times I’ve been there, I remember thinking who lives here.

The orbs thing I find it fascinating people are so alarmed. My grandfather farm had the orbs in Treeline behind the pasture. My grandfather would say leave them alone he couldn't tell you what they were. But said they were harmless. I grew up seeing them and not being afraid or concerned about them. Now grandfather had farm in North Carolina. We lived in Michigan, but we would go visit our grandparents on the major holidays xmas Thanksgiving Easter.

This was a great video, thanks for sharing it.

Majority of roads that go on an angle (northwest south east southwest northeast) in the chicagoland are known as Indian trails. Archer ave. State road in Burbank and southwest Highway. Alot others.

Thanks for doing this video, the long walk through the surrounding woods, paths, and additional tid-bits about the place. (Also all the other Chicago area places!) I didn't get much past the cemetery entrance on the main path, when we went about 15 years ago. I sure felt drawn further down that path to look for foundations, etc. That access path gives it a unique feeling over other ways to get into cemeteries. The pond was one green slime pit. It was daytime and nothing paranormal happened. We had a digital recorder and multiple cameras taking the same shots. There were a lot of the ubiquitous orange day lilies covering one section of the cemetery, near the area where the white lady photo was taken. We each took our turn sitting on the same headstone base that she was on and having our photos taken. I knew the professional photographer who was able to examine the original photo/negative. It was legit. No messing around with it. It struck me as profoundly sad, rather than scary, to see headstones tossed all over the place, broken, or missing. Bachelor's Grove is the worst of the worst. I don't know how they would be able to reconstruct the cemetery to what and where things should be. Not sure if people were maintaining it at that time. I noted a large "crater" in front of a headstone, so people were still digging around graves.

Just subscribed to your channel, thank you! I love it!

I've seen white orbs in a cave on the island of Saipan. At first there were six, but after I bowed to them and spoke in Japanese three of them disappeared deep inside the cave while the remaining three accompanied me until I left the cave at which time I bowed and said goodbye in Japanese.

What kind of disrespectful pos would do things like to peoples resting place

I live in a rural area in eastern NC, from my home you can look into the pasture where there is a cluster of trees. There are no headstones left, not that there ever really were but it is a slave cemetery. There have been orbs seen and voices heard near the trees.

Doesn't look anywhere near as isolated as the Ghost Adventures episode would have us believe.

Just found your channel. Great content. I’m pretty sure a phantom farmhouse has been seen in this area as well. Your new subscriber in Alaska~

Just left hella scary! The energy is crazy

Seeing the desecration, it's no surprise that there is unrest.

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

I have been to the Grove. In my teens. Im now 50. I had an experience and id not like to share it with everyone. Its personal and was scary.

I went up there on Friday the 13th in October with my girlfriend and best friend. We didn’t see any orbs but we had similar experiences with weird knocks and random cracks in the woods. It was very scary. I don’t think the cops take it quite so seriously anymore. There was one waiting for us to come out but they saw that we just had flashlights and stuff and knew we weren’t doing nothing crazy.

We have a bachelors grove cemetery in Texas too

I've been by there a few times but never entered. It was spooky just driving past in the 70s and early 80s.

The cemetery sure was cleaned up compared to years ago when it was full of weeds.

This is a great channel!! There was a street in Bartlett called munger road, do you know anything about it? Now theres houses but it I drove down there when there was nothing, what’s the story there?

I know it's been told to death, but are you going to do a video on Resurrection Mary? I never did get out to Resurrection Cemetery to see the marks on the old gates before they replaced them, but I've seen pictures. There's all these great haunted locations out here (southwest Chicago suburbs) but I never seem to be able to find the time to get out to them... Other people plan to take vacations or go on a cruise when they retire. When I finally retire I'm going ghost hunting! 😂

Great video 👍🏻

It's a had a lot of work done on it since I was there a few times in the 90s. I had a few incidents there... Saw a....... half-body apparition? Just the upper half of someone walking outside the fence. It was pretty dark but could make it out clearly. Went to check and there were no footprints in the sand outside the fence were it was. Another, we placed a recorder on a headstone and went down to the swampy area. When we came back we retrieved the recorder and despite being the only people in the cemetery, you could clearly hear someone walk up to the recorder, pick it up, and set it back down on the headstone. No footsteps leaving. And lastly... we saw an "orb" of light across the cemetery down by the swamp area. It hovered for a half second or so and then did a loop in the air a couple feet in diameter and disappeared. Given the smell down there though... I have to believe that it really was swamp gas. But the other two incidents? No explanation.

R .I.P. TO EVERY SPIRITS. People need to show Respect to the those who died.

I enjoy your channel very much. I see a lot of videos about Illinois, would you consider making one about "Old Oakbrook" and the hauntings there? It's an interesting and scary place at night but very beautiful!

Been there many times. Never seen any orbs or the woman in white. 😞. My best friend told me he saw the woman in white towards the end of the trail on his way out!

I will be going here in October I can't wait

Awesome

That is a creepy cemetery to visit at night.

Interestingly, the woman in white story is the exactly the same as a story about a cemetery here in Indiana. The image of the woman is in 19-teens to 1920s clothing, so the first story wouldn't fit since it was 1944.

Cool channel. Good luck from Bridge Port-Canaryville. My neighborhood has the oldest funeral home in Chicago

I took a picture of the grave with the infant daughter. When looking at the picture on my phone, it looked like a shadowy man standing in front of the headstone. Actually looked similar to the picture of the man you showed in the beginning of the video.

Geoffrey Baer from PBS channel 11 Chicago claims that most of the people buried there are victim s of the Eastland boat disaster that Capsized in the Chicago River 90 years ago you can go on line & look that up it was pretty tragic downtown Chicago a company excursion over to some town in Michigan everyone for some reason all moved to one side of the ship and it capsized and a lot got thrown in the river and some got trapped below deck & could not be rescued in time

I've been there several times myself. The last time I was there 3 friends and myself was standing by the entrance and we heard a growl that sounded like it was from a big cat type of creature. We all turned our flashlights toward the area and nothing was there, but we decided that it was enough for one night and left.

Where I live there are so many little family cemeteries. The graveyards have high grass and some of the tombstones are turned over. It's so sad.