
Zoo Lincoln Park in Chicago offers one of the more haunted places in the city, because it is a place where thousands of people were buried in the elderly cemetery. The park and zoo were built on it and it is said that ghosts from the other bodies are haunting at night.
Lincoln Park Zoo, one of the most beloved attractions in Chicago, has a darker side about which many visitors may not know. According to legend, this place is haunted because of many thousands of people buried underground.
Zoo Lincoln Park was founded in 1868 in Lincoln Park and is one of the tiny zoo gardens that have a free introduction in which you can see penguins, gorillas, lions and tigers. And if we are to believe in rumors, ghosts.
Old Chicago cemetery
Lincoln Park is one of the oldest districts in Chicago, observing how it is formed during settlement, gang violence to the large city. In the years 1843–1859 the land in which the ZOO now stands was once the city's main cemetery at the southern end of Lincoln Park, where about 35,000 bodies live. This number is what is mainly issued, but Some historians say it is more likely from ten to twelve thousand.
Most of the remains were ultimately transferred due to fears related to cholera water pollution. The caskets were buried near water and the earth of swamps and washed ashore every time the water increased. It also contaminated drinking water.
The cemetery itself was also almost completely burned on earth during the Great Chicago Fire on the night of October 8 in 1871. After that, they decided to build a Lakefront Park over it and did not move the other people from the underground.
Bones from Graves repeated themselves from the ground, and workers collected bones from the shaman who would visit them to stop the ghosts from persecution of this place. But did it even support?
Visiting the Lincoln Park zoo
A disturbing burial areas have long been a trail of horror movies, and Lincoln Park is no exception. Since the transfer of the cemetery, countless reports about paranormal activities from the ZOO areas in Lincoln Park have arisen. The notable parapsychologist Ursula Bielski, who conducted an investigation on the site, called him “without a doubt the most active place” she has ever studied.
This reputation is strengthened by numerous observations of apparitions, murky characters and inexplicable events in a 150-year zoo history. Since 2013, a ghost concert tour took place at the zoo, which strengthened the belief that this place is indeed haunted.
People have experienced icy places, a sense of observation and strange shadow -shadow whispers. Some say that apparent characters wandering around the area, especially at night. Phantom Shapes, considered the restless souls of those whose bodies have never been moved, from time to time are noticed near the edge of the zoo, staring at the distance.
Visitation at the Lion House
One of the most notable stories from the Lincoln Park Zoo is the Spirit, which apparently remains in the women's toilet at the Lion House. The Lion house was built in 1912 in the heart of the zoo near the entrance.
Women using the bathroom still inform about the view of the ghosts of people in Victorian clothes, looking in the mirrors. When they turn around, there is no one there. There are also stories from staff members who hear voices, someone even hears the words: “Come out”.
Some ghost hunters claim that this happens because of the mirrors themselves, set on two lines directed to each other. They claim that he stops ghosts inside the mirrors.
Haunting the barn
In 1962, the Lincoln Park built a barn and kicked in the ground. Then they found the body, most likely from the cemetery. They talked exactly what to do with it, and the ZOO director Dr. Lester Fisher decided to return the body. The building did not stop and they simply built a barn on it.
According to visitors, there are also supposedly paranormal action, and paranormal hunters often examine these parts.
Suicide bridge
Lincoln Park covers something more than just a zoo, and around it there are more places that are said to be haunted. At the end of the 19th century there were also rumors about the park visiting, but not from the cemetery. Most of the reports talked about the high bridge, which was nearby in 1894–1919, the ZOO parking lot has just passed today. Initially, it was built to visit in the park, but gained a much more sinister reputation.
They called it a suicide bridge and it is said that about 50 to 100 people ended their lives from this bridge.
Ghost observations were so common that the newspapers began to publish stories about this and the cops who worked in the park at night, asked to transfer because of all terrifying paranormal experiences.
Tomb on the couch
There was also a case of a sofa mausoleum. A strange mausoleum left untouched by a fire near the Chicago History Museum. This is the grave of the IRA Couch businessman who died in 1857. But is he really inside? According to official records, the tomb has never been opened. There used to be a man who claimed that he entered him when he did some work. He claimed to be empty. Grandson Couch saw articles on this subject and claimed that there should be about seven people in the grave. Who is right? We just don't know.
In the 1880s, reports of a local legend would appear in the newspaper, which people talked about the tomb. He said that after midnight you had to face the tomb when you looked at the name Couch. You had to say three times: “The graves belong to the dead, not the living”
If you did this, the door will open, and a vast white spirit will come out of the tomb and welcome you.
Visiting Lincoln and Zoo in Chicago
Regardless of whether you watch witty animal antics or go through the park, remember that you may not be alone. The ghosts of buried a long time ago seem to be present in the zoo in Lincoln Park, which makes it not only the center of animal life, but also for paranormal activity. So the next time you visit, keep an eye on something more than just the notable lions of the zoo and tigers – there may be more eyes than you think.
References:
Wild Nights: Ghosthunting Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo
The Bridge of Wesths: Lost Suicide Bridge Chicago
1894-1919-Lincoln Park-Bridge of Westchs
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