Mt. Pleasant Cemetery – Claremont, IL
By Michael Kleen
“Olney – Mt. Pleasant Cemetery – An old church stands at the front of the cemetery. This church is said to be haunted. When the front door is knocked on sounds are heard within the church, sometimes choirs, footsteps and strange lights. On some nights funeral sessions are seen at the church. Although no funerals have taken place there since the 50’s.”
You come across this entry in the Shadowlands Haunted Places Index. How do you proceed from there?
Firstly, you know nothing if you don’t know exactly where the cemetery is located. The entry says it’s located in Olney, but do you know that for sure? Before you get into your car and go on a wild goose chase, you need to check the Internet. There are several GPS sites that allow you to locate place names. You will discover that Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is not located in Olney, but is in fact several miles southeast of there.
Print out the map. Take it with you when you go there (you’d be surprised how many people forget this essential step).
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I have been to this cemetery a few mns ago mysister and I and friend went there and we didnot see anything or see anything,we was there for about one hr looking for familey
Two friends, my wife and I visited this cemetery one night a few weeks ago. We detected several different odors in the air, photographed a lot of orbs, mists, etc. The atmosphere here fits that of a spooky place and is an interesting visit. We didn’t knock on the church door, instead entered the building. We picked up some whispering on our audio device but was unable to clear it up enough to understand what was said.
This place isn’t really anything to be afraid of, but haunting nevertheless.
My wife and I have been there twice. We too got some interesting photos and detected a lot of odors in the air, some not very pleasant. Here is a good one for you. Have you ever heard of Knight’s Prairie church east of Mcleansboro? We got some very good activity there.
Please read my comment below, I think we may have experienced almost the exact same thing… If you are interested in investigating further, please contact me on Facebook or Yahoo!.
I was born and raised in Olney, and I have been to Mt. Pleasant Church looking for strange activity a few times. The first time, I found nothing, I didn’t have any equipment with me. But, the last time I went with my two best friends, Todd Hall and Chance Salyers, all from Olney. We felt an odd presence near the back of the graveyard, as if someone were spying on us from somewhere, and smelled a strange odor of sulfur throughout the cemetery. When Chance and I went inside the church, we saw an arrangement of candles in a pentagram in the middle of the church floor, all had burnt wicks, but looked brand new. Very strange. As we were leaving the church, Chance witnessed a shadow of another person in the room, aside from him and myself. He said the shadow resembled the Mad Hatter, from Alice In Wonderland, he had a top hat with hair poking out of the sides. He also said the ‘person’ was holding a staff that almost resembled the scythe that the Grim Reaper would hold, but it was a straight blade, almost like a spear, and the staff was made of gnarled and twisted wood. He said the shadow whispered, but it was inside his head, and it kept repeating one word, that was not derived from any language we have researched. He became very scared, so we left right away. I would like to take a team with us next time we go, with a night-vision camera and a voice recorder. Todd, Chance and I are set on finding out what, or who this person is, we have even discussed taking an Ouija board to try and communicate with this spirit. If anyone is interested in tagging along, or would like to talk about this, you can contact me on Facebook or Yahoo! My name is Tyler Wilkins, and I am 18 years old. My e-mail and Facebook URL can be found below…
E-mail; The_Rated_R_Superstar_Enigma@yahoo.com
Facebook URL; facebook.com/stupidpplpissmeoff >> Name: Patrick-Tyler Deshann Wilkins
We were here shortly after these candles were used. They were still warm to the touch. We found NO particular arrangement with them. They were randomly scattered throughout the area of the stage where the pulpit used to be. We saw NO pentagram arrangement of the candles. As I said, they were still warm to the touch. Whoever it was had been there shortly before we came. It was about two am.
On my facebook page for MYSTERY AMATEUR PARANORMAL SOCIETY, I have a photo of the inside of the church and the arrangement of the candles on the floor.