THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Alton City Cemetery has traditions involving a child apparition associated with Lucy Haskell, a mysterious woman in black and other unexplained figures and cold spots among its historic graves.
Alton City Cemetery contains the graves of many prominent residents and figures connected with the city's nineteenth-century history. Ghost stories associated with the cemetery include sightings of a young girl traditionally connected with Lucy Haskell, a mysterious woman dressed in black near a mausoleum and other fleeting human figures. Visitors have also reported unexplained cold spots. Elijah P. Lovejoy, the abolitionist newspaper editor murdered in Alton in 1837, is buried here, and some local accounts associate unexplained activity with the area around his monument.