Naperville's Official Ghost Tour™
Elgin Asylum Cemetery Ghost Tour
The Original Elgin Ghost Tour ™
Tour dates
We'll reopen in the spring!
For Reservations, Call 630.205.2664
The Original Elgin Ghost Tour ™
Tour dates
We'll reopen in the spring!
For Reservations, Call 630.205.2664
About the Official Elgin Asylum Cemetery Ghost Tour™:
ECHOES OF MADNESS™
HISTORY AND HAUNTINGS OF THE ELGIN STATE HOSPITAL
HISTORY AND HAUNTINGS OF THE ELGIN STATE HOSPITAL
When the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the insane was opened
in 1871 the Science of psychiatric medicine was still in its infancy.
Those who were unfortunate enough to be incarcerated there were often
subjected to "treatments" so inhumane that they defy belief. Of course,
you'll hear about these treatments in detail - details that will cause
an uneasy squirm in the most robust of you...
Some say that many of these lost, tortured, souls have never left,
and continue to haunt the grounds we'll explore.
...Often appearing to tour participants as mist clouds, orbs, or apparitions.
...Often appearing to tour participants as mist clouds, orbs, or apparitions.
Tour participants will go to this place where the
dead are said to walk. In years past, the grounds of the state hospital were the
most popular stop on Curt's Original Elgin Supernatural Tour™. One of the few
complaints ever made about the tour was that we did not spend enough
time at this outdoor location. This time the entire tour will focus on the grounds of the state
hospital and its cemetery. Previous tour groups in this place have
encountered cold spots, unexplainable problems with electrical equipment, the scent of
flowers not present in the location, shadow people, extraordinary EVP, and other paranormal phenomena.
This tour is not an event for the faint of heart. If you choose to attend you
will need to sign a release form at the event. We advise that you wear
comfortable walking shoes and bring a flashlight ...and your nerve.
This is a chance to investigate a genuinely creepy outdoor location that has a
truly dark and horrific past - the type of past that keeps the dead
walking the earth...
You would have to be crazy to miss this.
You would have to be crazy to miss this.
Your Hosts:
Curt Morley is man with a life long passion for exploring the unknown.
As a young boy he became interested in ghosts and hauntings after
hearing his Grandparents stories about the haunted house in Elgin Ill
they lived in during the 1920s. As a teenager he spent many hours prowling through cemeteries and abandoned buildings. He also began to compile information about the darker side of the history of his home town of Elgin Ill and the rest of the Fox River Valley as well.
He began leading ghost tours in Elgin and other locations in 2004, using his skill as a storyteller to thrill and chill his audiences. He has released two frightening spoken word CDs of Fox River Valley Ghost Stories: Fox Valley Phantoms and More Fox Valley Phantoms, the CDs are for sale at the bottom of this page. Click play to hear a sample>>>
Mr. Morley is also a certified Hypnotist and a long time member of The National Guild of Hypnotists. He has been published in Hypnosis Today and the Journal of Hypnotism, and is the Film Historian for The National Guild of Hypnotists.
Ghost Hunter and Co-host Alexander Felix. Alex Felix has been a paranormal investigator for 10 years. His ready smile and ghosthunting expertise have
allowed many tour participants to leave his tour with a new appreciation
of the ghost hunting craft and an understanding of exactly what goes into capturing
evidence that is both exciting and credible.This founder of West Chicago Paranormal has many ghost hunting feathers in his cap: Mr. Felix has co-written and taught the premier ghosthunting class C.A.S.P.E.R., he has participated in hundreds of professional investigations with such luminaries as A & E TV's PARANORMAL COPS & Biography's Chris Fleming. If you'd like to learn to ghosthunt from an ace ghosthunting teacher - Alex is your guy.
Mr. Felix has appeared on international TV as a guest on the program Voyager, as well as having his paranormal footage featured in America on Biography Channel's "My Ghost Story."
He comes to us from a military and law enforcement background.
Tour Details:
* The Elgin Cemetery Ghost Tour is an outdoor, 3-hour, walking tour.
* The cost is $30 per person. Tour is paid for in cash at the start of the tour.
* To register, call 630.205.2664. No charge card is needed to place a reservation.
* The tour group meets at the Colonial Cafe parking lot 15 minutes prior to tour's departure time.
(The address for your GPS is: 600 South McLean Blvd. Elgin, IL 60123)
* For more info., or questions, call 630.205-2664
This review was just received from an Elgin Ghost Tour participant:
A slaver who built his wealth not only by selling slaves, but by capturing runaways and freemen, trapping them in tiny cells - for eternity. Asylum inmates horribly tortured in the name of science, suffering even after their deaths. Spiritualists building fortifications against evil. Dark cults conducting rituals. A gruesome murder committed by a man thought to be a devoted husband. Footsteps in an empty room and voices from beyond.
Sound like an episode of Ghost Hunters? Well, it's not. It's all real. And it happened right in your own back yard. Some of it happened to my husband and I during the Elgin Ghost Tour, hosted by Curt Morley.
I was simply looking for a good time when we went out, hoping to learn something about local history and getting a chuckle out of the flashing lights and beeping of rigged electronic toys - the 21st century's answer to the Fox sisters toe-cracking.
What I found was something completely different. I was dropped into a world of horror with the stories of Elgin's asylum, its victims, and the so-called treatments. Then the EMF meters and ghost boxes came out. Some had been brought by the tour's special guests, and some were simple smartphone apps in the hands of amateur spook hunters. My first thought was "Yeah, right. Lots of blinking leds and a circuit board, a couple of batteries, I could build one." I wasn't counting on actually hearing the voices. Somehow, the sound of a young man pleading with you to help his sister puts a whole different spin on things. As a guest with one of the boxes approached my husband, it even called out his name.
Things only got more frightening when we went out to the cemetery.
There, one ghost box gave voice to a lady who begged us to move her casket. Several times, names just popped out of the air, perhaps of people hoping to be recognized by loved ones. A set of spirit rods twitched and swung in response to questions from the medium holding them. And there was my husband, off by himself, in the children's section of the graveyard, looking blasé about the whole thing. Or at least, he was until he got tapped on the back. It was a nice solid thump and a childish giggle, when there was no one else within about 50 feet of him. He walked over to me agape and shivering just a little. There was no way to shake off what he had experienced.
If you're going on the Elgin Ghost tour, I have a few words of advice. Bring a container of bug spray, because the cemetery is overgrown and harbors a few mosquitoes. By all means, bring along your inner skeptic. He might just enjoy himself, and you might learn some local history. Above all, come prepared for the creepiest game of tag you have ever played in your life. - D. Adams
Sound like an episode of Ghost Hunters? Well, it's not. It's all real. And it happened right in your own back yard. Some of it happened to my husband and I during the Elgin Ghost Tour, hosted by Curt Morley.
I was simply looking for a good time when we went out, hoping to learn something about local history and getting a chuckle out of the flashing lights and beeping of rigged electronic toys - the 21st century's answer to the Fox sisters toe-cracking.
What I found was something completely different. I was dropped into a world of horror with the stories of Elgin's asylum, its victims, and the so-called treatments. Then the EMF meters and ghost boxes came out. Some had been brought by the tour's special guests, and some were simple smartphone apps in the hands of amateur spook hunters. My first thought was "Yeah, right. Lots of blinking leds and a circuit board, a couple of batteries, I could build one." I wasn't counting on actually hearing the voices. Somehow, the sound of a young man pleading with you to help his sister puts a whole different spin on things. As a guest with one of the boxes approached my husband, it even called out his name.
Things only got more frightening when we went out to the cemetery.
There, one ghost box gave voice to a lady who begged us to move her casket. Several times, names just popped out of the air, perhaps of people hoping to be recognized by loved ones. A set of spirit rods twitched and swung in response to questions from the medium holding them. And there was my husband, off by himself, in the children's section of the graveyard, looking blasé about the whole thing. Or at least, he was until he got tapped on the back. It was a nice solid thump and a childish giggle, when there was no one else within about 50 feet of him. He walked over to me agape and shivering just a little. There was no way to shake off what he had experienced.
If you're going on the Elgin Ghost tour, I have a few words of advice. Bring a container of bug spray, because the cemetery is overgrown and harbors a few mosquitoes. By all means, bring along your inner skeptic. He might just enjoy himself, and you might learn some local history. Above all, come prepared for the creepiest game of tag you have ever played in your life. - D. Adams
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Curt and Alex also host the Naperville's Darkest Secrets Tour in Naperville, IL
Click HERE for info on that tour.
Click HERE for info on that tour.
