12 Illinois Cemeteries With Stories That Will Give You Chills

Few states have a richer history than Illinois and that includes the resting places of some of the earliest residents. Among those are a dozen cemeteries in the Land of Lincoln that contain bizarre stories that are provable and not urban legends.

Yes, there are some that claim many of these Illinois cemeteries are haunted or have some type of paranormal activity, but it's the real history that is the most compelling. The drama around the attempts to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln is both bizarre and real as documented by the National Park Service. That's just the tip of the iceberg for cemeteries in Illinois that have twisted histories that are stranger than fiction.