The Frank Shaver Allen House, Joliet Illinois

Well hello everybody and happy Haunts to each and every one of you.

Today we are going to talk a little bit about the Frank Shaver Allen house that was built in the year 1887. The Allen house has quite a bit of paranormal activity history, and it has been documented and has made the news several years in a row especially around Halloween.

In the 1970s, a local reporter here in Joliet had investigated the property and found that there were legitimate stories connected with the house.

People who have lived there in the past and present reported seeing an elderly woman as well as another woman reportedly to be the Nanny of the house who used to care for a young boy who passed away in that house.

Now the house inside is particularly unusual it really has no particular beauty, it is just a very common old run down home. And I think because it's old, and it really has very little character except for the outside, entices people to their own imagination as to really what to know that's behind those doors behind those walls.

Some people have said that they have seen shadows past the windows on the second floor, some have seen a little boy looking out the window, and a little boy and an elderly woman next to him.

In any case we do know this much about this house, it's is marked as a haunted house for the Joliet area.

For me personally, I have lived here in the Joliet area the last five years and three families have bought and sold it not to mention several other people in the last 20 years who would buy the house try to fix it up and sell it again, or just lost the house because they couldn't make house payments.

So what does that tell us about that house? I would say that the house has some particular oddities about it that causes people to sell the property and the house. They don't stay very long, so something isn't right, and that is the great mystery. I'm not sure if it's just old and unredeemable, or it is haunted and whoever is in that house haunting people who purchase the house, they end up leaving because they can't handle the paranormal stress.

So the next time you're strolling past Morgan Street just pause for a moment and look at that house, and you tell me what is it, about this house, that draws people there, some people buy it and sell it within a couple of years, so what is the mystery?

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