Chicago’s Miracle Child
Mary Alice Quinn at a young age was visited by a religious figure. From then on she decided to devote the rest of her young life to religion and Saint Theresa.
It became apparent that she had the power to heal and she used this power on sick people through out the south side of Chicago (reason for the name Miracle Child).She made it known that even after death she wanted to be able to continue to help people from beyond the grave.
She died tragically at the age of 14. But she was very determined to keep her promise as she appeared to people across the world immediately after her death in 1935 and throughout 1940’s.Soon people were visiting her grave site on a daily basis.
There have been documented cases of miracles occurring at the site of the grave. People are overwhelmed even in the dead of winter, with the smell of roses at her grave site.
This is the resting place of the Chesterville Witch. Years and years ago she was banished from the town for being a Witch and when she died she was buried here and a tree was grown on top of the grave to keep her spirit locked in the ground.
Jane Addams Hull House: Closing in Spring
This week, the Jane Addams Hull House Association announced it could no longer balance its books and planned to shut down this spring.
Addams noted upon moving in that the building had a “half skeptical reputation for a haunted attic.”[29] Over the years, numerous stories of ghosts and hauntings have surrounded Hull House, making it a stop on many of the “ghosts in Chicago” tours. Charles Hull’s wife had died in the house in 1860, and is sometimes thought to haunt it.[30] Other candidates for resident ghosts include the many people who died there of natural causes in the 1870s when it was used as a home for the aged by the Little Sisters of the Poor.[30]
In 1913, another Hull House ghost story began circulating. According to this legend, after a man claimed that he would rather have the Devil in his house than a picture of The Virgin Mary, his child was born with pointed ears, horns, scale-covered skin, and a tail. The mother was said to have taken the baby to Hull House, where Addams was said to have attempted to have it baptized and wound up locking it in the attic.[31] While initially annoyed about the story, which had no basis in fact, Addams became fascinated by the effect the episode had on old women in the neighborhood and used the episode as a basis for her book, The Long Road of Woman’s Memory.[32]
While a great many erroneous stories have circulated about the building, Addams is known to have spoken to several friends about one of the front bedrooms on the second floor being haunted - she and a friend once thought they saw a “woman in white” ghost there, and the same ghost was later seen by a group of girls when the room was used as a dressing room for the adjacent theatre. Though Addams called it “haunted,” she seems to have been more amused than frightened by it
Children and Ghosts
Many times when I am contacted by someone having a Paranormal situation I am informed that their child or children are playing with invisible friends and that they talk to things that are not there. People want to understand why their children are doing this. Are they psychic? Maybe sensitive? Yes and No, They are open. To a child, anything is possible. Everything is real. Santa still comes down the chimney ever Christmas and the Easter Bunny still comes and brings them baskets every Easter. To a child, anything and everything is possible. They do see more then most for this fact. They have not been conditioned by society yet as to what is real and what is not. Over years they will be told, “Stop playing with your pretend friend Bobby” and this helps close them off to what they experience. We have done some investigations into this and the conclusions are outstanding. On families who have always believed in the idea that there are spirits and other things out there that we can not see. These people seem to be more accepting of their children playing with invisible friends and they do not try to change the child’s ideas. It seems that more and more sensitives are being brought into this world by these people. They are being allowed to grow without being told what they saw as a child was not real so, in return being able to see these things as they did when they were children. On the other side of this are the families who do not give their children a chance. They have a closed mind and they refuse to let the child be open. In return telling the child that they should not play with something or someone who is not really there. “Billy stop playing with nothing” “Tammy there is nothing there so stop it” This is how the child stops believing in anything being possible. More sensitives come from families that have open minds then those who do not.
