The Frank Shaver Allen house

Illinois · United States · House

A Joliet family lived with the events for over a decade before letting psychics and a local newspaperwoman investigate. The press covered it in the late.

The house at the corner of Morgan and Dewey Streets in Joliet, Illinois was built in the latter half of the nineteenth century for Frank Shaver Allen, a wealthy man whose name it still carries.

What separates this from most private house hauntings is the documentation. In the late 1970s a team of psychics and a newspaperwoman from Joliet investigated the property, and the local press covered it in some detail.

The family living there at the time cooperated with the investigation. They had by then been experiencing what the accounts call dramatic events for more than ten years, which is a long time to live with something before inviting anyone in to look at it.

Several presences were reported. Allen himself is believed to be one. An elderly woman is another, thought to be someone who died in the house.

This is a private residence and is listed here for the record. What makes it worth keeping is the paper trail: a decade of experiences by one household, followed by an investigation that a newspaper was willing to put its name to.

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Where is The Frank Shaver Allen house located?

The Frank Shaver Allen house is in Illinois, United States.