Ive lived in McHenry almost sence the day I was born. I went to both of those houses plenty of times in high school and nothing ever happened and I never saw nething. Ill admit the stories might be true but from experiance the tales might not be. To be honest dont you think if there was truth that could be justified the oprah would have done the story while she was living not a block away from the house with no corners? I listened to the stroies for years and thats what made me go there in high school..I even walked down the driveway once…Il admit I was scared so as soon as I saw the porch I ran the other way…but nothing happened…as a matter of fact aside from the light on in the house thats all I saw.

wtf oooooooooh strage noises. would anybody care to leave a real story? i admit there were a few good ones on here though.

My aunt took me and my sister to drive past this place to try to creep us out. It worked when we were little, but my grandmother told me that a lot of the things you hear are just stories that the “well off” people told so that working class folks wouldn’t move into their area. The house with no corners is true, the owners were into seances and held parties there. The devil house, not so much. Some are stories, some may be real.

A few things. The house with no corners is the Stickney Mansion and is now the Bull Valley Police Department. If you are looking for corroboration on your stories about it being haunted, talk to the police chief, Norb Sauers and he will verify it. Cold spots, lights coming on and off and footsteps where none should be. My husband actually had one of the balusters from the rail off the second floor balcony and I refused to have it in my house. I actually burned it because it made me feel so uncomfortable. As far as the devil house, I personally knew the man who lived there, Fred Boger. Fred built that house himself and he was an architect, not a devil worshiper. He was a very private person and erected the gate to protect his privacy…not to set booby traps for unsuspecting trespassers. The little huts that someone mentioned were actually little pagoda’s in his garden by the pond. I have been in his house and never once saw anything to lead me to suspect that he was anything other than what he was…an eccentric old man who liked his privacy. Fred passed away several years ago and the house was torn down and the land subdivided. The acreage is now called Boger’s Bog and is a nature trail. The gates were not gates to his property…the actual driveway was off of Cold Springs Rd. In the late 70′s or early 80′s, vandals did throw Molotov cocktails onto his gates on Halloween and burned them. If I am not mistaken, the vandals were caught.

Sharon K is exactly right, I also knew Fred as a kid and as an aduld use to spend winter over at that place cutting firewood for him. I have been in his “house” which was more like a glorified lean to. the house had caught fire and Fred was placed in an old folks home a few years back, he died there and yes the county had taken over the property “Bogers Bog”, I find it so silly when I hear the “devil Worshiper: stories, but I just laugh a little on the inside and brush it off, I have actually taken friends over to the house to meet Fred when we were kids….He really thought nothing of it.

all the people that say this ain’t true about the house with no corners and the devil worshipers house ya’ll dont know what you be talking about because its true. A family member of mine has lived there her whole life and she has told me and yes i live in a southern state.

Hubby and I visited the Stickney Mansion a couple of years ago just to check it out. We weren’t allowed to go upstairs, but I didn’t get a creepy feeling at all. It was just very old and interesting. However, if the original owners were into seances, there’s no doubt that they opened doors that they shouldn’t have, and yes, that can cause stuff to happen.

I first visited the Stickney house in the early 1970s , stuff for teenagers. The house emitted this strange feelings that you were not welcome a second time. Of course, the house sat on the bluff overlooking the valley at that time. Andoddly, one first basement window on the left as you were looking at the house, had bars on the basement window. The only window in the entire house to have bars on it. At that time, it was run down however , it was still a magnificent house with a 180 degree bowed in entry door.
Sadly to say, with the house now sitting on the floor of the valley, it has a neglected appearance due to lack of upkeep. It is no longer foreboding. Perhaps it was the land on which it originally built that emitted the unwelcome feeling, a sense of terror.

I used to live in bull valley and drive past the stickney house all the time, it really isn’t that scary looking. My friend’s dad did work on it while they were changing it to the police station and grown men ran out of the basement bc they heard footsteps and I know for a fact that the cops won’t stay there past a certain time. The stories that go around are crazy, I heard more than 1 story. And also the devil’s gate is right down the road, I used to babysit next door.

My friends and I went to the house with no corners back in the mid 1990′s on Halloween. We drove around the back of the house and it was creepy. We then turned right and went down the road to another house that was kind of at the end of the road of to the side. Not sure if that is the other house people keep mentioning, but we got our car stuck and a spotlight flashed on us and it was crazy. Nobody ever came out of the house, we just got unstuck and left.

The house you are all referring to is the Stickney Mansion. It was built in the 1800s and there are reports that the original owner was deep into spiritualism and made sure there were no 90 degree angles because supposedly spirits can enter through the corners and hide in them. There are reports as well that two of the owners and their families of the Stickney Mansion committed suicide. I have only found one of these claims to be confirmed. Also, the master bedroom is not the room with the corner, it is the room that is holding the water heater. I have been in the home several times and it is the most uncomfortable place I have ever been. Things move or disappear, it feels as though you are being followed or watched, strange noises and shadows… You must get permission from the Bull Valley police department to investigate which is not an easy task. Unless you arent afraid of things that go bump in the night, stay clear.

Haha … I just surf around and see these comments. I can not believe there is still

so much fascination. For the production of this article, thanks.

You know whats scary, is the reputation of the Bull Valley Police department. They issue tickets left and right. Thats the one place I would never speed. Ask anybody local from there. theres a back route to McHENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE through there.