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Maryknoll Seminary

Glen Ellyn, Il 60137

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Has been knocked down It was said that this Maryknoll Seminary is haunted by the ghost of a dead monk who hung himself in the bell tower. The monastery is huge, with hundreds of rooms and no electricity turned on as the place is boarded up and the bell tower sealed off. Reports of fresh blood "bleeding" from the exterior of the bell tower and strange noises are not uncommon, and the place is still used as a secret gathering place for various cults and possibly Satanists, as there are satanic markings and words from ancient languages on some walls. Unfortunately, this seminary has been torn down so it can no longer be seen. There are subdivisions and houses going up in that area now.

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	Karma [Neutral] Like Dislike Comment# 2350 1/5/2007 12:00:00 AM Edit Reply
Bizarcane Last Seen: 3/10/2008 2:11:55 PM	I and a group of my friends "visited" (read: dodged the police and crept into) the Maryknoll Seminary in the late 90s after it was condemned and let me tell you, it was easily one of the strangest, most intense experiences of my life. It`s true, there`s all kinds of pseudo—satanic graffiti and neo—nazi scrawlings on the walls — par for the course in an enormous, empty building. Not very surprising. What WAS surprising was the following: — the altar rested in the center of the octagonal and it was HUGE: a massive green—stone monolith with Bible verses engraved on the side. It had some pigeon dung on it, but other than that, no graffiti. — the kitchen, which was in the basement, still had most of its equipment (stoves: giant, bakery—sized mixer: pot racks) and it was all in great condition. I don`t think many people made it that far into the building. As you descended deeper into the basement, you would discover it to be flooded. We attempted to cross one flooded area of the basement, but the water was so murky we were unable to determine how deep the water was and being underequiped for being submerged, we had to turn back. — every so often, we would hear the screams of a man coming from various parts of the building but without any sighting, there`s no way of knowing if he was homeless, deranged, or a ghost. Still frightening, though. — we climbed all the way to the roof (keep in mind — this place is enormous) and then climbed the bell—tower. No sign of "blood" oozing down the sides, or anything of the sort. All in all, it was fantastic to be there. With so many rooms to explore, and danger seemingly around every corner, it made a great adventure. It was a shame to see it torn down: I wanted to go back.

	Like Dislike Comment# 52479 ReplyTo# 2350 5/26/2010 10:45:00 PM Edit
AnonymousVisiter	I used to live around there when I was a kid. A bunch of my buddies and I went in there once. I had a couple film cameras one reg. 35mm and the other with infrared film with filter but didn't get anything out of the ordinary. But, when we all started to make our way up through the levels via a set of stairs right before we got to the top where a set of windowed doors were one slammed shut. My friends bolted but I stayed to see if some grounds keeper was trying to scare us, but no one was behind the glass of the door. That's when I bolted. Didn't get a chance to go back before they demolished it. I did see all that so called satanic graffiti but I just think it was goth kids trying to be witchy. I do remember the story was about some priest hanging himself there and some people were said to have had their faces gently touched by some unseen hand. Didn't get touched but the door slamming on its own did scare the sh*t out of us. I miss our Goonie adventures.
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	Karma [Neutral] Like Dislike Comment# 2351 1/5/2007 12:00:00 AM Edit Reply
matrix Online Now!	wow, that sounds really cool.... Wish I was able to see it too

	Karma [Neutral] Like Dislike Comment# 5524 9/28/2007 1:20:00 PM Edit Reply
Lolo0114 Last Seen: 1/16/2008 8:06:28 PM	I used to live in Maryknoll right across from the seminary. I never wanted to walk by it i always got a creepy feeling. When they tore it down i started to get that creepy feeling in my house of someone following me. Some of my neighbors would get the same feeling. Also i had always been told the monk hung himself in the church not the bell tower. There is now a mini-golf course, baseball fields and tennis courts.

	Like Dislike Comment# 8867 1/28/2008 3:00:00 AM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter H US	When I was in high school, from '94 to about '97, my friends and I spent many nights in the seminary. We combed every inch of that place, from it's flooded basement and creepy bomb shelter(we found barrels of crackers, matches and cigarettes, of all things) to it's dangerous but manageable bell tower and roof. I spent the 4th of July, one year, in the bell tower and saw fireworks for miles around. It was truly an amazing place for a bunch of young, bored kids to scare the crap out of themselves in. The place was huge. We never vandalized the place, (it was vandalized beyond belief by the time we started going there) just explored and creeped ourselves inside of it; ran from teh police once, got caught and kicked out once. I even went into the place by myself one afternoon to take pictures for a photography class. Even during the day, the place was extremely scary and ominous. I took many shots with a long exposure, hoping to catch an apparition.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 48819 ReplyTo# 8867 2/23/2010 4:03:00 PM Edit
AnonymousVisiter ** US	i would like to see those pictures. ive spent alot of time in there but never took any pics. seems like i can't find any from the 70's to present
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	Like Dislike Comment# 10351 3/5/2008 8:58:00 AM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter ** US	Bizarcane, I too visited Maryknoll in the late 90's during my high school days right before it was knocked down. Is there anyway for you to post the pictures you have of the place? I would be really interested in seeing them.
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	Karma [Neutral] Like Dislike Comment# 10535 3/10/2008 4:13:00 PM Edit Reply
Bizarcane Last Seen: 3/10/2008 2:11:55 PM	Unfortunately, I wasn't the one taking the pictures. Wish I had some. Spuh-ooky!

	Like Dislike Comment# 12797 5/10/2008 7:51:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter M US	I was a seminarian there, way back in 1962. Monk? Where the heck would a monk have come from? There were no monks in the seminary.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 57721 ReplyTo# 12797 9/7/2010 12:35:00 PM Edit
AnonymousVisiter ** US	I used to work at this MaryKnoll building when it was Lewis University college of law back in the late 70's through to the year 1982 I believe. It was a stately building well build and solid. It was kept every clean by the cleaning people every day and the floors were waxed often. I worked in the Deans office and then the library for a short time and then transferred to the admissions office. I remember the fine people I worked with and miss them now. I also relieved the switchboard operator in the front lobby, during some lunch times too. I was young back then about 22 years old and am 53 now. I did recall once going down to a sub basement with the security people to look at old pews they were going to auction off, and to my astonishment there were these huge gigantic dead spiders all over the floor that were frightening all curled up and hairy about 2 to 3 inched in length curled up! I remember this building having no central air as it was humid in the summer in the halls. I remember the sanctuary still having this lovely Jesus in the center and still had some blessed garments in drawers. My time there was nice and it is a shame that the building was abused by folks and ruined even though it was being torn down, just to think of folks spray painting it makes me so sad. Oh yes there were always ants in the building if you left food out, LOL. Love to all I worked with at the Law School. Blessings.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 16645 8/5/2008 11:51:00 AM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter N US	I wish it was still there. I visited the place in the late 90s too. We heard somebody screaming on the inside, I ran like hell. I wonder if some of the people on here are the people I went with. And wasn't the entire building shaped like a giant '6' ?
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	Like Dislike Comment# 72070 ReplyTo# 16645 7/5/2011 9:13:00 PM Edit
AnonymousVisiter * HU	It's spooky how clveer some ppl are. Thanks!
89.135.83.116	It's spooky how clveer some ppl are. Thanks!

	Like Dislike Comment# 19790 9/29/2008 6:13:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter ** -	I got the pleaseure of exploring this insanely creepy place back in the mid 90's. probobly about a year or 2 before it was torn down. i live in PA, but my brother went to Wheaton College. We got there around 10pm, parked a couple blocks away, and tried to keep to the shadows, so the rent-a-cops wouldn't bust us. i had to be about 15 at the time. we explored that place inside and out, but was way too big for us to get the "grand tour" As you walked into the main entrance the walls were covered with graffitti. everything was broken and thrown around. the paint was litteraly peeling off every wall. i remember entering the "worship room" of some sort. it was a circular type room with latin words all around on the walls. and in the center was a giant pillar. we got down into the flooded basement and found huge metal doors that lead you from room to room. some of the doors were attatched to chain pulley systems that when opened and closed, big weights would move up and down on a wall. We took pictures upon pictures of the place and i believe my brother still has them in a cigar box. at one point we got to the top floor and found a way to the roof and bell tower, no oozing goin on there, but we had to climb up through large pipes and a maze of metal. while doing this my brother was attacked by several birds, and almost fell a good 20 feet to the floor. as we got on top, there were hundreds of dead birds everywhere. that was a bit creepy, but later we dug around a bit and found documents of some sort of pesticide being put on the roof, so that explained it. after that we had enough and decided to venture back to Wheaton College, and i do have to say, that was an extremely exciting fun night in a "i almost crapped my pants" sort of way. I'll try a find the pics, and also that nite we mapped out the "worship room" with all the latin sayings...and other hallways and such, but the place got torn down before the mapping was anywhere near complete.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 21103 10/17/2008 7:55:00 AM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter V -	I actually did my first year of college in the place in 1964. While it was huge, it was certainly not creepy then and there was nothing "cult" about it. There were about 600 or more students, all college age, working on a liberal arts degree. It used to be a country club prior to its purchase by Maryknoll. There was still a 9 hole golf course on the grounds when I was there.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 64950 ReplyTo# 21103 1/3/2011 1:46:00 PM Edit
AnonymousVisiter ** US	me and my friends also had a chance to explore this extremely creepy place in high school. we got so stoned before going in and my one friend was freaking outthe whole time ..group of pretty girls...we totally got busted after spending 20 min or so inside we cam out and the cops let us go.thank god ..yea that was a crazy day.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 22304 10/29/2008 8:27:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter N US	I really dont know how this place started but I was there in the 90s and what a trip. My friend and I walk through out the main building. Many wierd things happened cold breeze,shadows, even white lights or objects. Nothing even compaired until we went to the alter I cant really explain what happened but it was like I could not get out fast enough. What a blast. As far as you old students alot happens in time you just have to have an open mind.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 32917 5/24/2009 6:49:00 AM Edit Reply
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	Like Dislike Comment# 36803 7/30/2009 1:43:00 AM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter ** US	I was at Maryknoll from 1958-1961. Fr. Fleckenstein was Dean of Discipline. Many of us both feared and loved the man at the same time. He later drowned, saving a friend. He died as he lived, serving others. I recall Fr. Malone as spiritual director, forget the name of the asst dean of discipline who was also in charge of Gregorian Chant and the LIBER USALIS. Wow- haven't used that word in 50 years. Father Eugene Kennedy and Paul D'Arcy with their superb counseling helped me survive those three years a thousand miles from home. The two left Maryknoll, married, and remain two of my best models for ministry. God bless all who selflessly served us during all the years of Maryknoll. Fond memories- some spent as person in charge of the darkroom where we developed many pics that i WISH I had saved. Fellow classman Chris Brickley entertained us with marvelous stories in the recreation room. Would love a reunion with New England guys. Bob Gallagher
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	Like Dislike Comment# 48794 2/23/2010 9:22:00 AM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter ILLINOIS US	I went their back in '00 before it was tore down. You could see it from 355. Besides the Old Elgin Mental Home, before it was torn down, this was the creepyist place i've been to. My brother was arrested by the G.E. PD in '98, for criminal tresspass to property, after jumping the gate. Very scary place. When you go in, by the huge stair case, you could hear the bell tower ring, yet the bell was detatched from the bell tower. When they tore the place down and pumped the basement, they expected to find some bodies, instead just found a few dead animals.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 51814 5/13/2010 4:19:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter	If anyplace was haunted in this world, the Maryknoll Seminary was one of them for sure.I too explored the building in the 90's and went so much I knew the building like the back of my hand.I wasn't scared to go in there but the octangular confession room with the stalls and the latin writing made me feel multiple presences in there. like you could feel the sins confessed there. The chapel was also messeup and the room past the kitchen gave me a horrible bad vibe. there was always ice on the boiler room floor and it would be stifeling hot in the summer. i found an open room with 15 suitcases lined up in a row kicked them around the room and came back the next day to find them in a perfect row again. there also was a gravestone in the outside courtyards that had jesus on it and written in Latin. Too heavy for me and friends to pick up but would be spotted at different spots all over the property. The priest who hung himself had a plaque in honor of him on a door near the woodshop. his name was "Bruno" and a friend took the plaque against our advice and is probably cursed to this day. the Glen ellyn police trained shepards in there to sniff out drugs. Some nights you could hear them bark and run around. Not a good night to go in there. rumor has it cultists cut a bunch of the dogs heads off in there and a cop said it was true probably to scare us from going in there.None the less satanists were supposed to hang out there and there was demonic writing all over the walls. It is a damn shame they demolished this place and the land there probably isn't fit for building on.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 56151 8/4/2010 3:40:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter	I live in maryknoll estates now. There is now a mini golf coarse in the place of the seminary. Although I was not around for when the seminary was there, I heard all the legends about the monk who hung himself in the tower... But I must say that there are some creepy stuff that happends at night. Even when I'm alone at home I feel like something is watching me but I'm sure that happends to everyone but I really haven't had any sort of paranormal activity. Like I said there are little things that scare me.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 61800 10/31/2010 2:46:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter ** US	i was at Maryknoll from 1958 to 1962. Like Bob Gallagher I too have only great memories of my 4 years at Glen Ellyn. Fr Malone particularly remains in my memory. Vincent C.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 63910 12/9/2010 6:33:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter ** US	I went to school at Maryknoll College the last year before it closed, when it opened up to non-seminarians. There wasn't anything scary there, just wonderful people. It was a real time of turmoil because of the Viet Nam war and the social changes at that time. The students and faculty were people who wanted to make the world a better place. They were savvy,smart articulate people, most with a sharp wit and good sense of humor. I wish we had stayed in better touch with the guys there. (My husband went to school there as well). Perhaps some of the nonsense stories and vandalism stem from the anti-Catholic atmosphere of Glen Ellyn. (A la KKK, a cross was burned on the lawn of the Catholic Church, Saint Petronella's when it was first built.) But probably just a rite of passage for adolescents to trespass onto a haunted site.
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	Karma [Neutral] Like Dislike Comment# 74350 10/21/2011 8:32:00 AM Edit Reply
namrig Last Seen: 10/21/2011 8:31:08 AM	As a child in the late 80's and early 90's I grew up in Maryknoll and the Seminary was in my back yard. We used to play baseball/football back on the grounds. Whenever we chased the foul balls that got hit into the overgrown evergreens next to the building the hair on your neck would stand up. As kids we explored every nook and cranny of this building...cmon it was in my back yard. There was a Vietnamese family who lived in the building and the man was a caretaker. I never understood how they lived in a building with no heat or running water. Our family got to be good friends with the grounds keeper George. In fact, he hired me to work there when I was in HS. We mostly repaired broken windows, cut grass, and swept up the peeling paint and fallen ceiling tiles. Let me tell you...I hated when it was raining outside because we were always doing busy work inside the building. More often than not George would separate us...HS kids...so we didn't horse around versus working. My stomach would be in knots while I swept or repaired a broken window...the sounds, cool breezes, feeling that somebody was in the room with you was so surreal. More than likely my imagination getting the best of me. There were several instances where unusual creepy things occurred while working there. In fact many times these "happenings" would occur while we were all together. One story in particular occurred when we were in the basement waiting on our boss to return with the giant pump used when the basement flooded. Me and my two co-workers were standing at the bottom of the steep metal staircase waiting on George. It was dark as anything and the only light we had was a cheapy flashlight. We were standing in a small room just next to the staircase which was adjacent to the stairwell to the electrical crypts. We sat there waiting on George smoking cigarettes. Finally we hear the distinct sound of him climbing down the steep metal stairs with the fire hose we used when the crypts would flood. We waited and waited...and figured he went back up to the office because he forgot something. Finally after a little while longer we heard him again coming down the stairs. As he drops the fire hose one of the guys I worked with asked George if he forgot something and what took so long. George told us he has been up in the front building on the telephone. All three of us looked at one another and instantly got creeped out. I could go on and on about stories from this place.

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AnonymousVisiter KANSAS US	I attended college at Maryknoll in Glen Ellyn from 1969 to 1971 (when it was officially closed). It was a very large and accommodating facility - and yes took a long time to walk from one end to the other. My work-study job was to wash and wax floors, and usually had to do it in the middle of the night so no one walked on the fresh wax. Never once heard any strange noises, or saw any ghosts - although there were always rumors of some hanging out in the attics. We used the belltower to watch the first Pan-Am B-747 approach O'Hare airport for its inaugural flight back in 69 i believe it was. With binoculars you had a great view. It was well used, and could accommodate nearly 1000 students, but the enrollment was only in the hundreds. The decision was made to close the college. But up to the very end, it was well-maintained as a Catholic College. Students from all over the country were enrolled there, many who continued their theological studies New York. Rest assured there were never any satanic rituals - quite the contrary - you would always find someone in prayer in the main chapel. What happened after it was sold was disappointing - could have been turned into first-class apartments for the elderly.
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