Comments on: Village Hall/Police Department

By: dozer

dozer — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:35:32 +0000

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.

By: jiajia

jiajia — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:13:03 +0000

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.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:07:35 +0000

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.

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:41:28 +0000

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.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:50:14 +0000

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.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:11:00 +0000

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.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:23:26 +0000

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.

By: kitty~kat

kitty~kat — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:30:41 +0000

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.

By: RWM

RWM — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:44:47 +0000

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.

By: Sharon K

Sharon K — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:24:03 +0000

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.