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.