The historic Milton School, built in 1904, operated until 1986 and then stood abandoned until the early 1990s when it re-opened as a decorative glass factory. It’s believed to be haunted by a schoolgirl nicknamed Mary who was raped and murdered at the school when she stayed late to work on a project. The crime was pinned on a school janitor, who was found hanged inside the school. Witnesses say strange things happen here, such as objects disappearing, shadowy figures, footsteps and unexplained sounds. An apparition of a little girl was seen as well, and may have left X and O patterns on a worker’s keyboard occasionally.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 1320 Milton Rd.
Alton, Illinois
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 38.89720547564474, -90.13609750436859
- County:
- Madison County, Illinois
- Nearest Towns:
- Upper Alton, IL (1.3 mi.)
East Alton, IL (1.8 mi.)
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West Alton, MO (5.2 mi.)
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Contact Information
- Web:
- http://themiltonschoolhouse.com
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This has been debunked. There is no record whatsoever regarding this girl or the janitor.
It was never debunked, and there was a little girl who was murdered in the school, and a janitor did hang himself, there’s just not a lot of records on the schoolhouse because all the files on it were thrown away after it was left abandoned, they do that with most abandoned buildings
yep she died in the school by a nife and the janitor killed her and then hanged him self with a rope
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