Comments on: Original Contadine Tomato Paste Factory

By: mark pamp

mark pamp — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:05:27 +0000

aug 1974 at around 4pm is the day i remember the most about that big stone building. on the field in the front is where all the kids in the neighbohood would gather to play baseball , i was 14 at the time. we use to hit the baseballs in thru the windows called a homerun. if you hit it in you go in and get it. for me it was a real problem to enter the building. everytime i went to the boarded up doorway in previous years i was always stopped by a feeling that i now look back on and can remember as a cold, dark, uneasy feeling. i never made mentioned of this to the other kids. i felt the uneasiness of the building whether it was in passsing or playing ball. while riding my bike up the big hill past the building the other kids were already starting to gather for the game. when i got closer i saw that my friend teddy was just standing in the middle of the field staring up at second floor window. i will never forget this till the day i die. not asking him what he was looking at knew by the look on his face, thats when he turned to me and said ( you know they are watching us today ,there seems to be more of them… ). i almost fell down…..

By: Ravenessa

Ravenessa — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:47:10 +0000

In response to Aaron, ghosts don’t have to be mean and evil, energy can also manifest positively….I’d rather an experience that brought me nostalgic pleasantries than something that made my hair turn white.

By: Calire

Calire — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:21:11 +0000

Isn’t the correct spelling “Contadina?”

By: Highlandhauntedhouse.com

Highlandhauntedhouse.com — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:42:20 +0000

There is an awesome urban legend that are haunted house is centered around in Highland Illinois and that is the hook man there is an old story that teens friends or sweethearts would go to party or hang out in the woods near where the highland gun club is currently located and near an old covered bridge that by my account the last time I was out that way is old and broken. It is reported that they would be frightened by something, someone or see a crazy old farmer with a hay hook running at them to scare them off of his land! I have also heard rumor that they would nearly miss getting tangled with him only to find a hook in the side of their car or in the trunk and frantic seeing only to pull it out the next morning! I am not sure of the rumor being true but as I have interviewed several people who live in the area they seem to believe it and people stopped hanging out in that area!

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:13:18 +0000

guys this is just fake. My wife has been there and she said that it was full of people who were very happy. They just put this on because this city is probably soo boring

By: grneyedlady

grneyedlady — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:32:07 +0000

Whether it be retained Memories or a genuine Haunting – I can attest for the validity of the happenings at this site. I lived on that very property from 1979 – 1985… my husband was the caretaker. I have personally been in the building many times and my family and friends have seen and heard numerous “activities” everything from the murmur of voices to the sound of old cars putt putting up the long driveway behind the bulding… phantom lights in the windows… and full body apparitions on the property and in the building.
A Parapsychologist from SUNY New Paltz (NY) even investigated it back in 1982… he was convinced.

By: mariano

mariano — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:54:50 +0000

this might be a fake because they can’t based a haunting in just one simple evidence in fact there is no evidence

By: Destiny

Destiny — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:11:03 +0000

That’s not a “haunting”. All that is is memories repeting themselves. Kind of a reminder of what the past was like.