The Old Slave House, Illinois

July 9, 2009 in North America

The Old Slave House in Illinois is just one of the most visited places. These weird and haunted places are often toured by adventurous visitors or by students who want to conduct several kinds of research studies. This house is better known as Hickory Hill and is located in Southern Illinois. This house is just a few miles away from the Harrisburg in Illinois and is very close to Equality and Junction. This place is indeed an interesting one for most of the visitors who love to adventure. It is not only so that if your visit this place you will be able to see strange activities but you can also gain the historical knowledge that the house still whispers into the ears of most of the people. This house was closed for a long period of time but it has been opened for public view and visits since 2006. It is now owned by the government of the state and is maintained by the same as well.

This house was built by John Hart Crenshaw who was a cruel man of that time. He was so much hungry about money that the desire to become rich and richer turned him into a criminal. During those days it was illegal to keep slaves. But this man used to hire blacks and make them work into the brutal salt mines that used to earn him loads of profit. This person, in the urge of earning more, began to purchase more slaves from other states and made them work inhumanly. The female slaves were used to produce children as much as they can so that those children could also be sold as slaves to other parts of the country. This way he began to earn in huge amounts and become a rich person overnight. This house has blood of several innocents and the pains of so many mothers. After the death of this man the house turned into a haunted place.

After his death the Old Slave House was opened for tourist visits as people used to say that many strange things happened in the house. People use to report strange noise, voices and whispers could be heard form this house. After a deadly event in the year 1920, the house was closed down and researchers and scholars where no more permitted to get in. There were various legends saying that the house has a tunnel that was connected to the basement into the Saline River. It was in this river that the slaves were exchanged in the night. The house as said to have another passageway that used to contain a wagon. This was meant to passage the vehicles to enter into the house. The house was no wonder a grand creation but the purpose it served was all wrong and evil. So much of unethical and inhuman activities are there, that have been conducted in this house and now it stands open for tourist visit where the primary aim is to research.

Also don’t forget to check out the The Amityville House